Artists by Name

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• Vaillant, Louis David

  Louis David Vaillant

  1875 – 1944

• Van Doren, Mark

  Mark Van Doren

  1894 – 1972

  Mark Van Doren was an American poet, scholar and professor of English, said to have influenced a generation of thinkers including Trappist Monk and Catholic author Thomas Merton, John Berryman of the school of confessional poets, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He did most of his writing at his Cornwall home in between academic years.

• Van Vleck, Natalie

  Natalie Van Vleck

  1901 – 1981

  Predominantly a Modernist painter, Van Vleck also expressed herself through sulpture and design such as wood carvings, picture frames and screens.

• Vassos, Ruth

  Ruth Vassos

  1896 – 1965

  Vassos is considered to be the first American female science-fiction author, exploring themes of alienation and mechanization.

• Vassos, John

  John Vassos

  1898 – 1985

  Vassos’s career as artist, industrial and graphic designer, illustrator and architect was not only rich, but evocative of his era. His output of commercial and theater art covered everything from print advertising to modernistic window displays for Macy’s, as well as murals and curtains for movie palaces.

• Vetter, Cornelia Cowles

  Cornelia Cowles Vetter

  1881 – 1959

  An important woman in the early 20th century Hartford artist colony, and later a WPA artist.

• Vidar, Frede

  Frede Vidar

  1911 – 1967

• von Ripper, Rudolf Charles (Carl)

  Rudolf Charles (Carl) von Ripper

  1905 – 1960

  Von Ripper used a barn in New Canaan as a studio from 1939 to 1942, and perhaps again when he returned to Connecticut after World War II service in 1946. His artistic output from that studio has not been documented.

• von Schmidt, Harold

  Harold von Schmidt

  1893 – 1982