John William Waterhouse

There were dozens of second cousins running and playing in the backyard having the time of our lives, while the first cousins and aunts and uncles caught up with each other under the shade of the two giant elms, I would routinely duck into the house to see what Uncle Charlie had been working on. He would often find me looking at his art that hung in the hall and living room and he would so articulately tell me about each of the works. Charlie was so eloquent in sharing with his visions and methods with me that he soon became my mentor in all things spiritual and artistic. I so enjoyed being around him at a young age and looked forward to seeing one painting after another. Charlie was always so caring in the way he would explained what his thoughts were about the subject and how he the painter sees regarding the light and tonality of the work. Charlie spoke of experiments with painting techniques. He spoke of weaving strokes of color tones in creating subtle overall image of the subject. I recall a painting of a young boy who appeared to be singing a popular song of the time. “Red Roses” trying to capture the essence of sound in the portrait. We listened to the song and gazed at the portrait. Yes, it worked to my young

William H. Johnson was the oldest child of Henry Johnson and Alice Smoot who all lived in a poor town in the South along with his four siblings. As the oldest of his siblings Johnson spent majority of his childhood helping out his family, but also discovering his interest in painting and being an artist. Since Johnson held a great amount of responsibility he had to put his own wants and dreams aside to ensure that his family as a collective was settled. Within his teen years he moved to New York where in the year of 1921 he enrolled at the School of the National Academy of Design (NAD). In result of him enrolling at NAD he received a mentor, Charles W.

Charles Searles was an American painter born in Philadelphia in 1937 and before his passing in 2004 he was lived in New York. The eldest Charles and his then wife Catherine Hall Searles. He second of 8 children – his siblings are Phyllis, Charles, Barbara, Frances, Rose, Catherine, Elizabeth and his only brother, Derrick. Information about Charles Searles is located in the text book on pages 124-125. More information about Searles was found on the websites; http://rogallery.com/Searles_Charles/searles-biography.html, A World of Art (7th Edition) Paperback, July 5, 2012 by Henry M. Sayre. (http://myauctionfinds.com/2015/01/30/charles-searles-sculpture-in-a-public-library/)

He started studying at the Royal Academy in London and married Esther Kenworthy in 1883 then moved to St. John’s Wood. They lived in a purpose built artistic colony .”Early in his career his works appeared similar to the the works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema” and he painted many distinctive painting and was influenced by many talented artist before him. He produced over 200 paintings during his lifetime including “The Lady of Shalott,” “Boreas,” and,“The Crystal Ball.” “ He painted many excellent portraits of women”. His paintings were rich for their color, and was neglected through most of the 20th century. He produced works of mythological and literary themes through the 1890s and 1900s. He taught at St. John’s Wood art school between 1892 and 1913. He left no diaries or journals, and died of cancer in 1917.

John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, Italy in 1849. He painted figurative and narrative pictures primarily in oil. He was interested and found inspiration in stories and legends from British literature and Classical mythology. His

Joseph W. Holley founded Albany State University in 1903, was originally built to provide elementary education for the black population. The school was also for teacher-training. Holley was inspired to start the school from reading W.E.B. DuBois’s writings in Georgia, about the poor living of blacks. He moved to Albany, Ga to start the school down in the south. The original name of the school was Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute. With Holley plans to start a school, he met Booker T. Washington who encouraged him to fall through with his plans. Into building a black school for the black community.

John L. Worden began his career in the United States Navy on January 10, 1834. He was stationed at the Naval Observatory in Washington DC, and served on many ships on the west coast during the Mexican-American War. After the war ended he served on several boats throughout the Mediterranean and Caribbean Sea. During the Civil War, Worden was sent on secret missions to ships in Florida. While trying to return to the North, Worden was captured by Confederates and keep for several months before he was exchanged and returned to the north. Once arriving home from his imprisonment, Worden was given orders to take control of the new Union ironclad ship the Monitor on January 16, 1862. On March 8, 1862, the Monitor arrived in Cape Henry, Virginia,

John J. Crittenden was the senator, born in Kentucky, who proposed the Crittenden Compromise, a proposal for a compromise between the Northern and southern States. The Crittenden Compromise proposed that there should be states that have slavery and that satisfy the southern demands but that the Missouri Compromise line should be redrawn. Although the southern states were willing to agree with this compromise, the northern states and the Republican Party were against this compromise for allowing future expansion of slavery and slave states. The Republican Party was unable to agree with this compromise since it did not solve the issue of slavery and the fugitive slave laws; the only difference this compromise provided was the reconfiguration of the Missouri Compromise line, which separated the slave and free states. John J. Crittenden was significant because his compromise was not able to be agreed upon by the South and the North; the break or the failure of this compromise further angered both sides of the United States.

Laws are made to keep a society at peace among the people. They can protect people from each other, while maintaining a functioning and productive society. However some crime victims may have laws named after them. These laws typically address legal ineffectiveness, which could have helped to find and punish the criminal in that case. Laws that have been named in honor of a crime victim, aim to protect future potential victims and lessen the chances of recurrences of previous cases.

using water colors and oils, and did excellent pen and ink drawings. He began to make a name for

Andrew had quite a vivid memory and a fantastic imagination that led to a great fascination for art. His father recognized an obvious raw talent that had to be nurtured. While his father was teaching him the basics of traditional academic drawing Andrew began painting watercolor studies of the rocky coast and the sea in Port Clyde Maine.

The first American group of painters, The Hudson School of Romantic Landscapes, was lead by Thomas Cole, who was born in 1801 in England. He went to Philadelphia and Ohio as a traveling portrait painter in 1819. In addition, he traveled to Europe where he painted many Italian subjects, and later many of the scenes in his paintings came from his European studies. He died in 1848 at the age of 47. Cole’s artwork represents the Romantic style of painting, especially in his famous work The Oxbow (Fulwider 618). In the life and time around Thomas Cole, three things stand out. The major themes in Cole’s artwork, what was romantic about the Hudson River School’s art, and why landscape was a national religious symbol for Americans.

John Henry is a legend that was taken place in the 1800's. During this time, locomotives were becoming a big part of the economy, and increasingly getting popular. His family was poor, and John Henry needed a job. With him being a large man, and the demand of locomotive tracks increasing, building tracks was the perfect job for him. He was the best at what he did, and nobody could match him

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Rene Magritte was an enigmatic and strange man who painted surrealism paintings. Little is known about his childhood except that his mother, Regine Magritte took her own life by drowning herself in the Sambre river. Young Magritte is thought to have discovered her body floating with her night garment covering her face. There is speculation that this trauma was an influence on many of Magritte’s works. When Rene Magritte took up his brushes, he created beautiful visual riddles that delight and bewilder the viewer. His clean lines and highly detailed finishes made his brush strokes nearly invisible; his paintings look as if they came from a printing press. Magritte referred to his paintings as “his labors.” He did labor over the paintings