Meet The Artists

  Percival Dietsch was a prominent figure in the early art history of Palm Beach and a founding member of The Society of the Four Arts. His art hung in…

  The Key West Citizen, December 29, 1945 noted native son Paul Di Negro, “Italy had its Leonardo De Vinci; Holland had Rembrandt, France her Renoir, while Key West proudly…

  In 1925, seeking a warmer climate for his daughter’s health, Mark Dixon Dodd moved from New York City to St. Petersburg, Florida. He soon became a prominent member of…

  William Staples Drown, from Providence, Rhode Island, was primarily a mural and landscape painter, known for his scenes of streets, farms, orchards, lakes, coastal views, and country cottages. Drown’s…

  Frank Duhme’s years as a park warden out on gulfcoast beaches, with constant exposure to sea and sky, resulted in his painting of many masterful Florida scenes. Eve Alsman…

  Margaret Ogden Earwood, Belle Glades. Everglades Cranes, 1944, oil on canvas, 24 by 30 inches. Exhibited, Pepsi Cola Painting of the Year. Margaret Earwood taught art at Pahokee High…

  Don J. Emery was father to the art tradition in Daytona Beach. Born and raised in Chelsea, Vermont, Emery attended the Holderness school at Plymouth, New Hampshire, and graduated from…

  Don Woodruff Emery carried on the artistic tradition brought to Daytona Beach by his father in 1922. *Emery was born in Daytona in 1925, educated at South Ridgewood Elementary…

  Daisy Erb came to Palm Beach about the same time Ben Austrian arrived at the Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1910. She purchased the Enoch Root estate on Root Trail…

  Harold Etter spent seventeen years in St. Augustine as a popular artist and art teacher working with the St. Augustine Arts Club (later the St. Augustine Art Association). From…

  Denman Fink made important contributions to art development in Florida. An illustrator and muralist, Fink was head of the art department at the University of Miami for twenty-five years.…

  Ulrich Fisher (name changed from Fischer to Fisher while living in Daytona Beach) was a marine painter and the husband of artist Irmgard Fisher. In 1937 the Fischer’s opened Fischer Studios, in…