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Charles
Marion Russell
produced about 4,000 works in his lifetime (split
fairly even between paintings and bronze
sculptures), all of them depicting Western life
in some form or another. |
James
Hoban entered a
competition to design a presidential residence.
His design, inspired by Kildare House (now
Leinster House), then the headquarters of the
Royal Dublin Society and now of the Irish
Parliament, was chosen, and he was awarded a
prize of $500. The residence he designed is now
known as the White House. |
Winslow
Homer began his career producing
illustrations of the Civil War for Harper's
Weekly and other papers, but was at heart a
painter. His subject matter shifted from scenes
of rural and idyllic life to African-Americans,
the sea, and nature. |
The
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
is located on the Upper
East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 1071
Fifth Avenue. It houses a comprehensive
collection of European and American conceptual
and abstract art from throughout the 20th
century. |
Peter
Behrens worked as a painter and
graphic artist before turning to architecture. As
artistic consultant for a major German
manufacturing company, he not only designed the
company's logo and sales literature, but its
factories and workers' apartments as well. He
also designed a number of household electrical
appliances, china, glass objects, and patterned
linoleum flooring. |
John
White was an artist
and illustrator responsible for the earliest
visual record by an Englishman of the flora,
fauna and people of the New World. He was one of
the colonizers of Roanoke Island, and his
granddaughter, Virginia Dare, was the first
English child to be born in the New World. |
John
Singer Sargent produced over 900
oils and more than 2,000 watercolors over the
course of his career. He two U.S.
Presidents, the aristocracy of Europe, and
business tycoons from around the world, as well
as gypsies, tramps, and street children. |
Madame
Marie Tussaud began her remarkable
wax sculpting career at the age of six. Forced to
create death masks of persons executed during the
Reign of Terror, she turned that collection of
horrors into the nucleus of the most famous wax
museum in the world. |