Meet The Artists

  Franklin Townsend Morgan’s early professional career as a painter was in Philadelphia where he was associated with the Sketch Club, the Print Club, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine…

  In the early 1920’s Natalie Newell’s drawing of the Miami skyline was featured over the Miami Herald’s daily news section, Miami Beach News. The Herald February 1923 commented on…

Carl Nordell, Sarasota, Fort Myers. The Inca Tree, Landscape. Fort Myers 1941. Signed lower right. Inscribed verso, painted on the estate of Thomas A. Edison, Fort Myers, Fla. 30 by…

  In 1926 Elliot O’Hara sold a successful telephone dial manufacturing company and began a career as an artist. He was thirty-five years old and had no training in art.…

  Jean Jacques Pfister was born in 1878 in Basle, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States in 1898. Pfister studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in…

Lawrence Porth began his career as an artist during World War I when he met Norman Rockwell, who was stationed with Porth as a navy seaman training at Charleston, South…

  *Joy Postle was known in Orlando and Orange County as the “Bird Lady”. Hundreds of painters have used Florida’s bird life as their subject but Joy Postle ranks as…

During World War II, Elvira Reilly, a New Yorker, volunteered her skills as an artist at service clubs and hospital wards, making portrait sketches of servicemen. After the war, in…

  In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s Bernard Robinson was director of the art department of the Orange County Vocational School in Orlando. Robinson was known in Orlando and…

Pierre Rochard, a native of France, came to Sarasota in 1930; opening a studio in the annex of the Mira Mar Hotel. Rochard’s painting, Burial of Sara de Sota, was…