An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of... Read full biography
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward... Read full biography
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward Bloomfield was adopted by the Starkweather family of Winchester, Connecticut. Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of Joaquin... Read full biography
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward Bloomfield was adopted by the Starkweather family of Winchester, Connecticut. Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of Joaquin Sorolla at the Universal Exposition. In 1901, he returned to the United States and taught at the St. George's School for Boys in New York and did illustrations for popular novels. He also studied at the Art Students League in New York City, with Kenyon... Read full biography
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward Bloomfield was adopted by the Starkweather family of Winchester, Connecticut. Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of Joaquin Sorolla at the Universal Exposition. In 1901, he returned to the United States and taught at the St. George's School for Boys in New York and did illustrations for popular novels. He also studied at the Art Students League in New York City, with Kenyon Cox, J. Carroll Beckwith and John Henry Twachtman. In 1904, he went to Spain and found Sorolla who influenced Starkweather's... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (23)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Art for the New Collector 1840-2001 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Spanierman Gallery
48 pages (color)
The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Spanierman Gallery (Editor)
120 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Peters, Lisa
111 pages (color)
110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC) (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Spanierman, Deborah (essay)
136 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Espana: American Artists and the Spanish Experience (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Boone, M Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
History of American Watercolor Society: The First Hundred Years/History (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Fabri, Ralph
90 pages (color)
The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1944
The Art Institute of Chicago
22 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index