Caption: The Gossips, by Horace Bonham, 1885. Bonham was a native of York County, but completed his studies in Paris with Bonnat. He is noted as a genre artist and often created the same subject in several mediums.
Historical Society of York County
Caption: China painting was a fashionable craft for women, and in 1879, Beaux took a class in the craft and began to use her talent for portraiture by painting life sized heads of children onto china plates. While lucrative work, Beaux referred to the craft as the "ignoble art of over-glaze painting," even though it actually launched her career in portraiture. She considered this work of hers, "the lowest depth I ever reached in commercial art," and hoped that they would be "dashed to pieces."
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Joseph E. Temple Fund
Caption: Slum Clearance on Ruch's Hill, Pittsburgh, by Virginia Cuthbert, 1937. Born in 1908, in West Newton, Pa., the small towns of southwestern Pennsylvania were considered home for Virginia Cuthbert and provided the subjects for many of her paintings.
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg
Gift of the Westmoreland Society, 1992.
Caption: View from the Side Boxes (Opera),by Morton Schamberg. Born in Philadelphia in 1882, Schamberg was a painter, architect, photographer, and a sculptor. His studies consisted of training at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Courtesy of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, purchased with funds from the Joseph E. Temple Fund, Mrs. Robert P. Levy, Mrs. Kenneth W. Gemmill, Frank and Betsy Goodyear.
Caption: Morton Schamberg's Landscape, 1916, [Reversal of Mechanical Abstraction]. Schamberg earned an architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1903 and continued his education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for three years.
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Caption: Sunlight and Shadow, by Walter Emerson Baum, 1925. Baum founded and directed the Allentown Museum of Art, the Kline-Baum Art School in Allentown, and the Bucks county Traveling Art Gallery.
Allentown Art Museum, Purchase: J. I. and Anna Rodale Fund, 1945
Caption: Narrows, by Walter Emerson Baum.
Courtesy of James A. Michener Art Museum archives
Caption: A Native of York, Pennsylvania and a resident of Greensburg, Pa. for most of her life, Dorothy found the community of personal exchanges intriguing, which she depicts in this painting of the city of York's Duke Street market, which is still in operation today.
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pa. Gift of Mr. Paul Davids
Caption: Formerly a star pupil at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Daniel Garber returned in 1909 as a member of the faculty and taught for forty-one years.
Courtesy of James A. Michener Art Museum archives
Caption: Samuel Rosenberg, while a professor at the Carnegie Institute (now Carnegie Mellon University), founded the art department at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement, a private philanthropic social agency in the Hill District, and at the Isaac Seder Educational Center at the YM and WHA. He also served as chairman of the art department at the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College). His former students include Philip Pearlstein, Mel Bochner, and Andy Warhol. His work can be divided into four periods: 1915-1930, Portraits (and a few still life paintings); 1930-1942, Pittsburgh's Urban Landscape and the American Scene; 1942-1952, Allegory to Abstraction; and 1949-1972, Abstract Expressionism.
Westmoreland Museum of American Art Greensburg, Gift of the William A. Coulter Fund. #1974.67
Caption: Portrait of Mrs. John Wheeler Leavitt, by Cecilia Beaux. Oil on canvas of the artist's grandmother, a woman very influential and supportive in Cecilia's life.
Westmoreland Museum of American Art Greensburg, Pa.
Caption: Woodland Glade, circa 1870, by George Hetzel.
Courtesy of the Reading Public Museum. 47.14.1
Caption: Wrestlers, by Thomas Eakins
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.