Artists by Name

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• Abbate, Paolo S.

  Paolo S. Abbate

  1884 – 1972

• Akeley, Mary Jobe

  Mary Jobe Akeley

  1886 – 1966

  Writer on nature and conservation promoting recognition of endangered resources in Africa, and important in the conservation movement for making the transition from hunting specimens for museum display to photography. Also an educator and feminist.

• Albers, Anni

  Anni Albers

  1899 – 1994

• Albers, Josef

  Josef Albers

  1888 – 1976

  Bauhaus trained artist. Taught courses at the Bauhaus as well as at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina and at Yale University. He also practiced art with stained glass, painting, and making prints, as well as writing.

• Aldrich, Larry

  Larry Aldrich

  1906 – 2001

• Ames, Winslow

  Winslow Ames

  1907 – 1990

  Founding director of the Lyman Allyn Museum which functioned as a community resource with art classes during the Depression and exhibitions which made art available to the people of New London, he introduced modernist prefabricated houses to New London.

• Anderson, Karl

  Karl Anderson

  1874 – 1956

• Anderson, Leroy

  Leroy Anderson

  1908 – 1975

  A composer of light orchestral pieces, often performed and indeed introduced by the Boston Pops, Leroy Anderson had a gift for creating catchy melodies and novel musical effects.

• Anderson, Marian

  Marian Anderson

  1897 – 1993

  Internationally renown African American singer of arias, traditional American songs and spirituals who lived in Danbury for fifty years. The rehearsal studio built for her by her husband c.1943 is on the grounds of the Danbury Museum and Historical Society.

• Andre, Carl

  Carl Andre

  1935 –

  From the late 1960s onwards, Andre’s art became an important reference point for many subsequent artists both in North America and in Western Europe - largely because he was seen to have reduced sculpture to its essential state.

• Aparo, James (Jim)

  James (Jim) Aparo

  1932 – 2005

  Longtime illustrator at DC Comics, Aparo’s craft was more inclusive than most of his contemporary comic artists in that he did his own pencil, ink and letter work.

• Ashe, Edmund Marion

  Edmund Marion Ashe

  1867 – 1941

• Ashe Jr., Edmund Marion

  Edmund Marion Ashe Jr.

  1908 – 1986

• Austin, Arthur E. 'Chick', Jr.

  Arthur E. 'Chick', Jr. Austin

  1900 – 1957

  Art patron, museum director, promoter of mid-century Modernist arts and style.

• Austin, Wendell

  Wendell Austin

  1896 – 1966

  A resident of Milford from 1940 until his death, Austin painted a WPA mural for Central School in Winsted entitled the Gulliver’s Travel Series.

• Avery, Milton

  Milton Avery

  1885 – 1965

• Avison, George Alfred

  George Alfred Avison

  1885 – 1970

  WPA muralist and illustrator.