Artists & Designers

Both as an artist and a teacher, Frank Duveneck influenced American painting and was one of the country's best known realist painters during the late 19th century. Stylistically, he was indebted to European sources, a reflection of his many years abroad. His exact observation penetrated beneath the surface and revealed the character or personality of his sitters.

Born in 1864 in Cronkbourne on the Isle of Man in the British Isles, designer Archibald Knox often returned to Manx influences in his work – to the degree that stylized Celtic motifs came to virtually define the ornamental characteristics of his entire oeuvre.

Jean Dubuffet was born in Le Havre, France in 1901. In 1918 Dubuffet attended Academie Julian for six months before he decided that he was not interested in learning art in an academic setting. It was not until the age of 41, after several abortive attempts, that Dubuffet, a wine merchant, finally decide to devote himself to painting.

Born in Decatur, Indiana in 1893, Walter Dorwin Teague moved to New York City in 1903. There, he studied at the Art Students’ League before opening a graphic design studio in 1912.

Born of English, African, and American Indian ancestry, Tanner grew up in a home that served as a locus for black culture and intellectual achievement. His father, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, was a minister (later a Bishop) of the African Methodist Church. His mother, Sarah Miller, was a former slave who escaped to freedom on the underground railroad.

Jackson Pollock was a revolutionary and influential American painter, and the leading member of the abstract expressionism movement.