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1819 Liverpool, England - 1905 Yonkers, New York. Known for: Animal, game and domestic fowl and hunting scene painting.
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin,... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin, with his traveling Indian gallery that he had brought to England, and Tait was impressed with Catlin's subject matter and skill. In 1850, Tait came to America to pursue his interest in wildlife and... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin, with his traveling Indian gallery that he had brought to England, and Tait was impressed with Catlin's subject matter and skill. In 1850, Tait came to America to pursue his interest in wildlife and hunting, sports that were closed to the public in aristocratic England. He worked primarily from a studio in New York City and never got west of Chicago. Becoming a skilled woodsman and marksman, he acquired excellent first-hand knowledge that he brought... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin, with his traveling Indian gallery that he had brought to England, and Tait was impressed with Catlin's subject matter and skill. In 1850, Tait came to America to pursue his interest in wildlife and hunting, sports that were closed to the public in aristocratic England. He worked primarily from a studio in New York City and never got west of Chicago. Becoming a skilled woodsman and marksman, he acquired excellent first-hand knowledge that he brought to his paintings. As a result, his realistic genre hunting scenes, with their story-telling aspects, made him one of the 19th century's most po... Read full biography
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- The Blanton Museum of Art, C.R. SmiDecember 2004Saunders, Richard HAmerican Art Review
- The History of Dogs in Sporting ArtNovember 2002Davis, TomWildlife Art
- Proud Legacy: 150 Years of WesternJanuary 1999May, StephenSouthwest Art
- Great Rewards: The Life and Art ofOctober 1998Davis, TomWildlife Art
- A Timeline of MastersFebruary 1998Abbett, Robert KWildlife Art
- Masterworks of the AdirondacksAugust 1997Welsch, Caroline MAmerican Art Review
- Paintings of the AdirondackJuly 1997Welsh, CarolineThe Magazine Antiques
- Wild ImpressionsAugust 1995Welsh, CarolineAmerican Art Review