By: Samuel Murray (American 1869-1941)
Widener University, Alfred 0. Deshong Collection
The Widener University Art Collection and Alfred O. Deshong Collection, include works by 19th and 20th Century American and European painters. The Alfred O. Deshong collection also includes 18th and 19th Century Asian art. Previously displayed in the Art Gallery, the collections will be displayed in an new space soon.
The biographical sketches featured here include all the biographical information that the art gallery has collected about the artists in the permanent collection. It does not provide sketches of all the artists in the collection, mainly covering the American and European artists of paintings. (There are no biographical sketches of the artists of the Asian Art objects from the Alfred O. Deshong Collection. Some explanations of these works are provided in the Alfred O. Deshong Collection Catalog above).
Selected Sketches of Artists
Achenbach, Andreas
Adan, Louis Emile (1839-1937)
Armstrong, David (1947-1999)
Ashley, Clifford Warren (1881-1947)
Bellows, Alfred F.
Biard, Francios Auguste (1798-1882)
Bookbinder, Jack
Boutelle, DeWitt
Brandt, Josef
Butler, Mary (1865-1946)
Castiglione, Guiseppe
Cermak, Jaroslav
Chierici, Gaetano (1838-1920)
Churchill, William Worchester (1858-1926)
Clairin, Georges-Jules-Victor (1843-1919)
Cornoyer, Paul (1864-1923)
Davis, Charles Harold (1856-1933)
DeHaas, J .H. L.
Dioda, Adolph (1915-1991)
Dunn Weiss, Mili
Ewing, William O.
Farley, Richard Blossom (1876-1954)
Florczak, Robert
Gerard, Theodore
Gross, Chaim
Grundmann, Otto
Hoguet, Charles (1821-1870)
Icart, Louis (1888-1950)
Inness, George (1825-1894)
Jocomin, Alfred-Loius
Kainz, Daniel
Kaplan, Edith (1920-1996)
Kendall, William Sergeant (1869-1938)
Knight, Daniel Ridgeway (1839-1924)
Koekkek, Bernard Cornelius (1803-1862)
Konopka, Joseph
LeRoux, Hector C.
Lie, Jonas (1880-1940)
Lincoln, Charles E.
Lipman-Wulf, Peter
Moreau, Adrien
Murray, Samuel Aloysious (1869-1912)
Nicholson, George Washington (1832-1912)
Noyes, Charles Loftus (1864-1954)
Pasini, Alberto (1826-1899)
Piltz, Otto (1846-1910)
Pitz, Henry Clarence (1895-1976)
Pratere, Edmund
Preyer, Johann Wilhelm (1803-1889)
Redfield, Edward Willis
Rhoads, Eugenia Eckford (1901-1995)
Robie, Jean-Baptiste
Salmson, Hugo
Schelfhout, Andreas (1787-1870)
Schlesinger, Henri Guillaume
Sisko, Paul
Spencer, Lilly Martin (1822-1906)
Spencer, Robert (1879-1931)
Stevens, Joseph
Stuart, Alexander Charles (1831-1898)
Taylor, H. Weston (1881-1978)
Trickler, Florence
Unterberger, Franz Richard (1838-1902)
Verboeckhoven, Eugene Joseph
Verschurr, Wouter (1812-1874)
Vinea, Francesco (1845-1902)
Watson, James Dawson (1832-1902)
Wilson, Eleanor Delaney 'Siddy'
Woodbridge, Louise Deshong (1848-1925)
Woodbury, Charles (1864-1940)
Wopfner, Joseph (1843-1927)
Worms, Jules (1832-1924)
Wyeth, Newell Convers (1882-1945)