Meet The Artists

Frank Duhme, St. Petersburg

  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…

Earwood, Margaret Ogden —Belle Glade

  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, Daytona Beach

  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, Daytona Beach

  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, Palm Beach

  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, St. Augustine

  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, Miami, Coral Gables

  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.…

Harry Fluhart, DeLand

  Harry Fluhart was chairman of the art department at Stetson University in DeLand from 1914 to 1935. He also taught at Rollins College, 1921-1924; becoming well known for his…

Mulford Bateman Foster, Orlando

  Mulford Bateman Foster was an artist, horticulturist, landscape architect and naturalist, who moved to Orlando in the early 1920’s to open the Tropical Arts Nursery. Foster became an internationally…

Elise Frank, Tampa

  Elise Frank moved to Tampa from Kansas City in 1911. Her first employment was with Fishbaugh Studios doing photo coloring. When Fishbaugh sold the studio to the Burgert Brothers,…

Emmitt Fritz, St. Augustine

  Emmett Fritz came to St. Augustine in 1950 and spent the next forty-five years painting the local scene. He could be found on St. George Street displaying and selling his…