Bernard Perlin was an American painter. He is primarily known for creating pro-war art during World War II and magic realism paintings of urban American life

Perlin was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1918. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. At the encouragement of a high school teacher, he was enrolled in the New York School of Design. He studied there from 1934 to 1936, the National Academy of Design with Leon Kroll in 1937, and then the Arts Student League with Isabel Bishop, William Palmer, and Harry Sternberg until 1940. In 1938, he was awarded the Kosciusko Foundation Award to study in Poland.

Perlin died at the age of 95 in 2014 in his home in Ridgefield.

Philip Wilson Steer (Birkenhead 28 December 1860 – 18 March 1942 London) was a British painter of landscape and occasional portraits and figure studies. He was a leading figure in the Impressionist movement in Britain

He was born in Birkenhead, in Merseyside, near Liverpool, the son of the portraitist, Philip Steer (1810–1871).

After finding the examinations of the British Civil Service too demanding, he became an artist in 1878. He studied at the Gloucester School of Art and then from 1880 to 1881 at the South Kensington Drawing Schools. He was rejected by the Royal Academy of Art, and so studied in Paris between 1882 and 1884, firstly at the Académie Julian, and then in the École des Beaux Arts under Cabanel, where he became a follower of the Impressionist school.

Between 1883 and 1885 he exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1886 he became a founder of the New English Art Club, with whom he continued to exhibit regularly. In 1887 Steer spent some time at the Etaples art colony. His misty Impressionist style is striking in such paintings as "The Beach"^[1] and "Fisher Children". Another work for which he certainly made a preliminary study while there, "The Bridge", is now considered to have been painted in Walberswick, the English estuary town to which he next moved.

Steer is best known for his landscapes, such as the Tate Gallery's "The Beach at Walberswick" (1890)and 'Girls Running: Walberswick Pier' (1894). With Walter Sickert he became a leading British Impressionist. Besides the French Impressionists he was influenced by Whistler and such old masters as Boucher, Gainsborough, Constable and Turner. He also painted a number of portraits and figure studies (e.g. 'Portrait of Mrs. Raynes' (1922).

Between 1893 and 1930 Steer taught painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and had among his students the etcher Anna Airy. Based in Chelsea, in the summers he painted in Yorkshire, the Cotswolds and the West Country and on the south and east coasts of Britain. During World War I he was recruited by Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Information, to paint pictures of the Royal Navy.

In 1931 he was awarded the Order of Merit and died in London, 18 March 1942. His self-portrait is in the collection in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Cecilia Beaux (* 1. Mai 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; † 7. September 1942 in Gloucester, Massachusetts) war eine US-amerikanische Malerin.

Cecilia Beaux wurde 1855 in Philadelphia geboren und wuchs nach dem frühen Tod der Mutter mit ihrer Schwester bei Verwandten mütterlicherseits auf, da sich ihr französischer Vater nicht viel mit seinen Töchtern befasste. Ab 1871 erhielt Cecilia von einer Tante, die vor allem durch ihre historischen und religiösen Bilder bekannt war, ihren ersten Zeichenunterricht. Aufgrund des großen Talentes sorgte die Tante dafür, dass sie sich bald bei einem holländischen Künstler weiterbilden konnte. Cecilia Beaux wurde schließlich 1877 an der Pennsylvania Academy als Studentin zugelassen. Ihr erstes Kunstwerk mit dem Titel „Die letzten Tage der Kindheit“, das sie im Jahr 1885 in Philadelphia ausstellte, wurde sofort ein Erfolg. Zwei Jahre später wurde dieses Gemälde auch in Paris erfolgreich ausgestellt.

1888 begann sie eine Europareise, auf der sie in Paris an der Académie Julian und der Académie Colarossi sowie in England und Italien die alten Meister in den Museen studierte. Ihre Lehrer waren unter anderem die Maler Tony Robert-Fleury und William Adolphe Bouguereau. Ab 1900 lebte Cecilia Beaux fortan in New York, wo sie sich vor allem für die reiche Oberschicht als Porträtmalerin hervortat. Schließlich verkehrte in ihrem Haus die New Yorker Prominenz aus Politik, Kunst und Wirtschaft, die sich dann auch gerne von ihr porträtieren ließ. So wurden auch ihre Ausstellungen gesellschaftliche Ereignisse. Zu ihren Porträts zählen die von Georges Clemenceau, Edith Roosevelt und ihre Tochter, sowie von Sir David Beatty, 1. Earl Beatty.

Alfred Meyer-Bernburg, geb. 1872 in Bernburg/Anhalt. Schüler der Berliner und Münchner Akademie bei O. Brausewetter und C. von Marr. War tätig in München

Kate Diehn-Bitt (* 12. Februar 1900 in Schöneberg b. Berlin; † 23. Oktober 1978 in Rostock; gebürtig Käthe (Kate) Bitt) war eine deutsche Malerin.

Kate Diehn-Bitt

Alfred Mailick ( 1869 - 1946) besuchte die Kunstakademie in Dresden. Bekannt geworden ist er als Künstler und Buchillustrator im naturnahen, romantischen Stil. Von ihm wurden zahlreiche Motive für Postkarten erschaffen.

Mischa Askenazy was born on February 22, 1888 in a small town near Odessa, Russia. At the age of four, Askenazy and his family relocated to New York City, NY where he spent his childhood. Upon teenage years, Askenazy decided to pursue a career in the arts. He studied at the NAD under Jones, Volk, and Maynard. Upon winning a scholarship, Askenazy spent two years in France and Italy where he further developed his skills as a traveling artist. During the 1920′s Askenazy became well known for portraiture and spent many of those years painting the wealthy individuals of that time. In 1925 a portrait commission led him to Montecito, CA where he fell in love with the land and soon decided to settle in Los Angeles. He continued to live and work in Southern California until his death on July 13, 1961. His works mainly consist of portraits, figure studies, still lifes, landscapes, and are often noted for their influence of Cézanne.

Marie Danforth Page, born 1869 in Boston, was a popular and successful portraitist who painted, among many other sitters, six Harvard professors from 1928 to 1931, whose portraits remain in the collection of the
University. Favorite subjects for portraits were children and mothers and children.Page studied with Helen Knowlton from 1886 to 1889, and at the Boston Museum School from 1890 to 1895 with Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. Her art education continued during a trip to Europe in 1903, when she copied Velasquez's paintings in Spain, and then studied color theory back in the United States with Denman Ross at Harvard summer school. She first exhibited in 1894 at the Boston Art Club, but her initial one-person show of fifteen portraits took place in 1902.She received a bronze medal for one of three paintings in the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and the Shaw Prize in 1916 at the National Academy of Design, New York City, which made her an Associate in 1927. She exhibited at the Guild of Boston Artists, and Vose and Walter Kimball Galleries, also in Boston.