Godel An American Vision

100 Thomas Lochlan Smith (1835–1884) Thomas Lochlan Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but moved to the United States at an early age. He is first recorded in 1859 in Albany, New York, where he studied with the genre and landscape painter George Henry Boughton and established a stu- dio. By 1862, he had moved to New York City, but he spent some summers in upstate New York. He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1869 and exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. Smith’s work can be found in the collections of the National Academy Museum, New York; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York; and the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Spring- field, Massachusetts. William Louis Sonntag (1822–1900) William Louis Sonntag was born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Cincinnati. It is not known whether he trained with a local artist or was self-taught, but by the early 1850s he was the leading artist in Cincinnati. After trips to Europe in 1853-54 and 1855-56, Sonntag moved to New York City in 1857. He contin- ued to travel to Europe in the 1860s and along the East Coast into the 1870s. His son, William Louis Sonntag, Jr., was also an artist. Sonntag’s work can be found in the collections of The Met- ropolitan Museum of Art, New–York Historical Society, and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Smithsonian American Art Mu- seum, Washington, D.C.; Cincinnati Art Museum, and the De- troit Institute of Arts. Edmund C. Tarbell (1862–1938) Born in West Groton, Massachusetts, Edmund Charles Tarbell apprenticed at a lithography firm as a teenager. Refusing to go to college, he instead attended the School of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1879 to 1884. After studying at the Académie Julian in Paris and traveling in Europe for two years, Tarbell returned to Boston in 1886 and enjoyed a highly successful career. Along with his friend Frank W. Benson, he was an influential instructor at the Museum School from 1890 to 1912, and he later served as principal of the Corcoran School of Art. Tarbell’s work can be found in the collections of The Metro- politan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Bos- ton; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; and the National Gallery of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Jerome Thompson (1814–1886) Jerome Thompson was born and raised in Middleborough, Mas- sachusetts, but left his disapproving parents at the age of 17 to be- come an artist. In 1835 he moved to New York City, where he first worked as a portrait painter. In the late 1840s he began to paint genre scenes and landscapes based on his travels throughout New England, and he studied in England from 1852 to 1854. Fol- lowing a trip to the Midwest in 1861, he painted frontier scenes and American Indian subjects. By the 1860s Thompson’s paint- ings were selling briskly and were widely distributed as chromo- lithographs. Late in life he retired to an estate in Glen Gardner, New Jersey, which he named “Mount Jerome.” Thompson’s work can be found in the collections ofTheMetro- politan Museum of Art, National Academy Museum, and Brook- lyn Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cincin- nati Art Museum, and the de Young Museum, San Francisco. WilliamWendt (1865–1946) William Wendt was born in Bentzen, Germany, and immigrated to Chicago in 1880. He first studied at the Art Institute of Chi- cago and received his first recognition as an artist in the 1890s. Wendt traveled to Europe in 1898 and 1903, and to California in 1894 and 1905. He moved to Los Angeles in 1906 and settled at the Laguna Beach artists’ colony in 1918. He co-founded the Cali- fornia Art Club and was an active member of the Laguna Beach Art Association. Wendt’s work can be found in the collections of the Smithso- nian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Diego Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Laguna Art Museum, California. Max Weyl (1837–1914) Max Weyl was born in Mühlen-am-Neckar, Germany, appren- ticed with a watchmaker, and immigrated to the United States in 1853, working as an itinerant watch and clock repairman. In 1861 he opened a jewelry store in Washington, D.C., and began to paint on the side. After gaining recognition for his paintings in the 1870s, he toured Europe in 1878 and established a Washing- ton studio on his return. He was an active and well-liked member of the Washington art world, and also summered in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Weyl’s work can be found in the collections of the Brook- lyn Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Smithsonian American Art Museum and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910) Born near Springfield, Ohio, Thomas Worthington Whittredge trained as a house and sign painter in Cincinnati and exhibited his first landscapes there in 1839. He traveled to Europe in 1849, visiting England, France, and Belgium before settling in Düssel- dorf, Germany. After living in Rome with Albert Bierstadt and Sanford R. Gifford from 1857 to 1859, Whittredge returned to the United States and rented a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. He was elected a National Academician in 1861 and served as president from 1874 to 1877. In 1880 he built a house called Hillcrest in Summit, New Jersey, where he lived for the rest of his life.