Artists by Name

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• Babbitt, Natalie Zane

  Natalie Zane Babbitt

  1932 – 2016

• Bacon, Margaret Frances (Peggy)

  Margaret Frances (Peggy) Bacon

  1895 – 1987

• Baldwin, Faith

  Faith Baldwin

  1893 – 1978

• Ballard, Frank

  Frank Ballard

  1929 – 2010

• Ballinger, Harry Russell

  Harry Russell Ballinger

  1892 – 1993

• Barbour, Harold

  Harold Barbour

  1889 – 1961

  A resident of Higganum (Haddam), Harold Barbour painted two WPA murals for the Portland high school (now Brownstone Intermediate School) as well as easel paintings for the Portland Board of Education and the Village for Families and Children in Hartford. His WPA work was in the Regionalist tradition of representational art.

• Bartlett, Paul Wayland

  Paul Wayland Bartlett

  1865 – 1925

  Bartlett was a renowned sculptor whose work adorns the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford and is installed on the Green in Waterbury.

• Batchelor, C.D.

  C.D. Batchelor

  1888 – 1977

  Batchelor was a pre-eminent political cartoonist in the mid-20th century, and his Pulitzer Prize was the first awarded to a tabloid newspaper. His graphic art medium placed the cartoon in the mainstream of journalism as political and social commentary.

• Bates, Earl Kenneth

  Earl Kenneth Bates

  1895 – 1973

  Together with his wife, sculptor Gladys Edgerly Bates, the Bates were leading members of the Mystic Art Association.

• Bates, Gladys Edgerly

  Gladys Edgerly Bates

  1896 – 2003

  The Bates bought the historic 1729 Burrows homestead on Grove Avenue, which became a gathering place for Mystic Art Association artists.

• Beals, Carleton

  Carleton Beals

  1893 – 1979

  A prominent radical literary journalist of the mid-twentieth century, Beals wrote with a progressive critical perspective on a range of subjects including the politics of fascism during the 1930s and World War II, the emerging nations of Latin America in the post war period, Cuba in the 1930s and during the Castro administration, and local history of the Connecticut shoreline.

• Bean, Caroline van Hook

  Caroline van Hook Bean

  1879 – 1980

• Bellin, Milton Rockwell

  Milton Rockwell Bellin

  1913 – 1997

  WPA artist whose murals featured male nudes, at a time when they were not considered appropriate for public buildings. Bellin painted murals for the administration building (now located in the Student Center) at the Teacher’s College of Connecticut (Central Connecticut State University).

• Benét, Steven Vincent

  Steven Vincent Benét

  1898 – 1943

  Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for ‘John Brown’s Body,’ a long narrative poem which interweaves historical and fictional characters to relate important events in the Civil War, from the raid on Harper’s Ferry to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Benét was an important judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, serving from 1933 to 1943 and enhancing the reputation of the prize.

• Berman, Saul

  Saul Berman

  1899 – 1972

• Bernstein, Leonard

  Leonard Bernstein

  1918 – 1990

• Binks, Flora

  Flora Binks

  1891 – 1977

• Blanch, Arnold

  Arnold Blanch

  1896 – 1968

  A Modernist artist, Blanch created a WPA mural for the Belden Avenue Post Office in Norwalk.

• Blume, Peter

  Peter Blume

  1906 – 1992

• Borglum, Solon Hannibal

  Solon Hannibal Borglum

  1868 – 1922

  The Silvermine Guild grew out of informal artist gatherings and critiques that began in 1907 at Borglum’s Wilton home.

• Borglum, John Gutzon de la Mothe

  John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum

  1867 – 1941

• Boring, Wayne

  Wayne Boring

  1905 – 1987

• Boronda, Lester David

  Lester David Boronda

  1885 – 1952

  Boronda made the wrought iron chandeliers that grace the Charles H. Davis Gallery at the Mystic Museum of Art.

• Bourke-White, Margaret

  Margaret Bourke-White

  1904 – 1971

  An original member of the Famous Photographers School founded in Westport in 1964 as an off-shoot of the Famous Artists School. She lived in Darien at the time.

• Boyd, Blanche McCrary

  Blanche McCrary Boyd

  1945 –

  Nationally known feminist and lesbian novelist, playwright, and teacher, whose Connecticut residence and work did not start until 1982.

• Boyle, Kaye

  Kaye Boyle

  1902 – 1992

• Brackman, Robert

  Robert Brackman

  1898 – 1980

  As a figurative painter throughout his long career, Brackman falls into the Regionalist group of 20th-century painters. He painted under the WPA program, and subsequently taught painting for many decades in New York City, Noank in the summers, and numerous other schools.

• Braguin, Simeon

  Simeon Braguin

  1907 – 1997

  A painter, photographer, and designer at Vogue magazine, Braguin exemplifies the twentieth century European emigre who moved to small towns and rural areas of Connecticut, helping to revitalize communities that were losing population.

• Branch, Anna Hempstead

  Anna Hempstead Branch

  1875 – 1937

  Poet and author of ‘Sonnets from a Lock Box,’ a 1929 collection of verse cited for its directness, Branch was also a teacher and social activist.

• Branner, Martin

  Martin Branner

  1888 – 1970

• Briggs, Austin

  Austin Briggs

  1908 – 1973

• Brinley, Daniel Putnam

  Daniel Putnam Brinley

  1879 – 1963

  Painter and muralist associated with the Cos Cob art colony, whose Impressionist style was moderated by his exposure to Modernism in Europe. An original participant in Solon Borglum’s artist gatherings that evolved into the Silvermine Guild.

• Brinley, Katherine Gordon

  Katherine Gordon Brinley

  1878 – 1966

• Brooks, Van Wyck

  Van Wyck Brooks

  1886 – 1963

• Browne, Porter Emerson

  Porter Emerson Browne

  1879 – 1934

• Browne, Matilda

  Matilda Browne

  1869 – 1947

  The only woman at the Old Lyme Colony who was taken seriously as a painter by her male colleagues, Browne was considered an important member of the Old Lyme group. In fact, Browne was asked to paint a door panel in the dining room at Miss Griswold’s, a prestigious invitation and one that clearly shows she was a part of that coterie of artists. Her work stands comparison with some of the best Impressionists of the age.

• Browning, Blanche

  Blanche Browning

  1908 – 1997

• Brubeck, Dave

  Dave Brubeck

  1920 – 2012

• Brush, Katharine Ingham

  Katharine Ingham Brush

  1900 – 1952

  Katharine Brush worked as a journalist and novelist throughout her life, both before and during marriage. She was among a small number of women in journalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Her popular fiction portrayed themes of the 20th-century, including new freedoms for women. Her novels that were made into films involved her in the phenomenon of Pre-Code Hollywood, a four-year period in early cinema, after which the Production Code imposed self-censorship by the film industry.

• Bryan, Courtlandt D. B.

  Courtlandt D. B. Bryan

  1936 – 2009

• Buckley, Frederick R.

  Frederick R. Buckley

  1896 – 1976

• Byard, John Kenneth

  John Kenneth Byard

  1886 – 1959