Lowell Birge Harrison
American- b. 1854 d. 1929After Lamplight. oil on canvas.
A founder of The Woodstock Colony School of Landscape Painting and The Arts Student League of New York, Harrison was a member of the Society of American Artists in 1910. This was the second painting purchased by the citizens of Spartanburg for a Fine Arts Center.
SAC 1977.2.06 - Gift of
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Robert Henri
American - b.1865 d.1929Girl with Red Hair. 1903. oil on canvas. 31" x 25".
The first public art exhibit in Spartanburg took place on April 1907, and featured more than one hundred paintings. Organized by Josephine Sibley Couper and Margaret Law, the participating artists included Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase. Margaret Law had attended Chase’s school, The New York School of Art where Chase and Robert Henri were her teachers.
The exhibit was held above the Thom McKann Shoe Store on the corner of South Church Street and Main Street. A vote by the viewers favored Henri’s painting The Girl with Red Hair as best in show, and Couper and Law raised the funds to purchase it by selling coupons that ranged from five cents to five dollars. They only raised four-hundred dollars, but thanks to the generosity of the Trakas family, recent immigrants from Greece, the painting was purchased for five-hundred dollars.
SAC 1977.2.01 - Purchased by The Spartanburg Arts and Crafts Club
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Robert Henri
American- b. 1865 d. 1929The Artist and his Model. 1923-copyright by J. B. Lippincott. pen and ink.
SAC 1999.3 - Gift of Peggy and Charles Gigniliat
Robert Henri
American- b. 1865 d. 1929Man in 19th Century Costume. 1929-copyright by J. B. Lippincott. crayon.
SAC 1999.4 - Gift of Peggy and Charles Gigniliat
Mana D. C. Hewitt
Columbia, SCTattoo You. c. 1988. oil on canvas
Mana is the gallery director and an instructor at the University of South Caorlina. Her paintings stem from “three areas of interests: the figure, the use of metallic surface as illumination, and a fascination with body decoration.”
SCAA 1988.5
Claire Miller Hopkins
Spartanburg, SCReverie. 1999. pastel.
Hopkins' paintings and drawings are widely known throughout the southeast. She is a member of the Pastel Society of America (NY) in which she has been bestowed the designation of Master Pastelist, an honor accorded to less than 150 artists.
SMA 2000.1 - Purchased by the Spartanburg County Museum of Art
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