Meet The Artists

  May Clinedinst was a Brooklyn, New York art teacher who retired to St. Petersburg. A painter of landscapes, still lifes, ship portraits, the harbors and fishermen of New England, and…

  Theodore Coe was, in his time, a well-known American impressionist, later recognized as one of the world’s foremost art experts on the identification and restoration of Old Master paintings.…

  Russell Conn lived in West Palm Beach and Boomtown, New Jersey. A member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City, Conn served as president of the Palm Beach…

  Dixie Cooley was one of the leading artists of Tarpon Springs. Taking inspiration from Florida’s jungles and swamps she produced imaginative, personal interpretations of the Florida scene. A review of…

  Ortan Copson was an English artist who made his home in the St. Petersburg subdivision of Pasadena in the 1920’s. Copson was an accomplished artist who trained in England,…

  Artist William Corbett moved to Ft. Lauderdale from Louisville, Kentucky in 1950. He began drawing at an early age and, after study at the Pittsburgh Art Institute, did signs…

  John DeGroot spent three years at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., graduating with the highest award in 1933. He then moved to New York City for study…

  Morgan Dennis had a long history in Florida, first in Key West and later in Fort Myers. Dennis was famous for his illustrations of dogs. Born in Boston, he…

  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…