Meet The Artists

  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…

  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 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 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,…

  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…

  Marie Garesche was the first professional artist to work in Clearwater. Orginally from St. Louis, she had a studio near Haughtuck, Michigan. Garesche traveled extensively in Europe, returning to…

  Elmo C. Gideon, an Army Ranger veteran of World War II, came to Miami in 1946 with decorations for valor, the GI Bill, and three hundred dollars in his…

  William Greene came to Key West in 1949. In January 1952 he began a series of lectures on art at the West Martello Gallery. The Key West Citizen reviewed…

  Kent Hagerman served in France during World War I where poison gas affected his lungs. After recovering at a veteran’s hospital in Denver, Colorado, Hagerman operated an engraving company…

  In 1927 Edith Smith Harrison was one of the artists present in Orlando for the organizational meeting of the Florida Federation of Art. During the Depression she worked for…