Daly, Thomas Aquinas – Trout Lillies

image of painting title "Trout Lillies" by Thomas aquinas Daly.

Trout Lillies by Thomas Aquinas Daly Thomas Aquinas Daly is an American contemporary landscape and still life painter, graphic artist and magazine illustrator of hunting and fishing genre.  Using nuances of light and atmospheriecs, Daly strives for a poetic tone in his oil and watercolor painting,s reflecting his reverence for land and nature and his […]

Inglis, John – Spring Blossoms

Painting by John Inglis of several large trees in full bloom in the springtime.

Spring Blossoms by John Inglis John Inglis, originally from Dublin, Ireland (born in 1867), studied at the Dublin Academy then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme.  At the Académie Colorossi his teachers were Raphaël Collin and Gustave Courtois. Inglis settled in Rochester, New York, where he was active in the Rochester Art Club, […]

Brown, Donald D. – Everglades

Oil painting by Donald D. Brown (b. 1947). Tall pines agains a blue sky on the left, overlooking a broad march with water and rushes in the foreground. Tall palms appear in the more distant right.

Everglades by Donald D. Brown Don Brown was a notable member of the Indian River School of Painting, an informal collective that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s in Florida. Although not a formal institution, this group primarily consisted of African-American individuals from the working class who harbored a shared passion for painting. The Indian […]

Butman, Fredrick – Triptych

Three small paintings by Frank Butman, (1820-1871) displayed side by side in matted frame.

  Fredrick Butman – Triptych Frederick Butman, born in Bangor, ME in 1820, made significant contributions as both an apothecary and an artist. Operating an apothecary shop in Gardiner, ME, he played a pivotal role in the establishment of the local gas and water company. Despite lacking formal instruction, Butman ventured into painting figure studies. […]