A Passion for the Arts in St. Louis

(October 7, 1904 – March 18, 1981) Guy Maccoy was an American artist known for his serigraphs. Maccoy was born on October 7, 1904 in Valley Falls, Kansas. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Art Students League of New York. For a time he worked at the Federal Art Project. He…

(October 6, 1853 – May 31, 1941) Francis Meadow (Frank) Sutcliffe was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century. His documentation of the Victorian and Edwardian periods in Whitby, led him to be labelled as the “pictorial Boswell of Whitby.

(born October 5, 1950) Mark Burns is a ceramic artist and educator who creates narrative, personal works with a pop sensibility and sardonic humor. He studied illustration at the School of the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio (BFA, 1972), before he moved to Seattle and completed his MFA under celebrated ceramicists Patti Warashina and Howard Kottler at…

(October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) Jean-Francois Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. He is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers. He can be categorized as part of the movement termed “naturalism”, but also as part of the movement of “realism”. Millet was…

(October 3, 1867 – November 6, 1934) Henry Brown Fuller is known for Portrait, allegory and figure painting, etching. The son of tonalist painter George Fuller, Henry Brown Fuller became a highly respected painter of classical and allegorical works. He was a student of Dennis Miller Bunker at the Cowles School in Boston and of…

 (October 2, 1909 – November 5, 1995) Lawrence Beall Smith was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor and lithographer. Examples of his original lithographs, paintings and sculpture are included in the permanent collections of such major galleries as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, the University of…

(October 1, 1819 – August 8, 1878) James Hamilton was born in Entrien, Ireland, and came to Philadelphia at the age of fifteen, enrolling at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Hamilton is regarded as one of the first marine painters in America. Stemming from his great regard for and inspiration from the works of…

(born September 30, 1935) Kerig Pope is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1935. Kerig Pope’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 12 USD to 945 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2019 the record price for this artist at…

(September 29, 1850 – August 2, 1913) George Hitchcock studied law at Harvard and practiced at the bar until age twenty-nine, when he turned to art. In 1879 he worked at the Académie Julian in Paris and the next year established a studio in Holland where he remained for the rest of his life. He…

(born September 28, 1953) Connie Imboden is an American photographer known for her work in nudes, using reflections in water and mirrors. Her photographs are represented in many collections including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany,…