Meet The Artists

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…

  Emile Roure traveled widely, painting in Columbia, the Bahamas, Mexico, Europe and in Florida. During the Spanish American War he worked as a staff artist for the Associated Press…

Vera Scheibner, Rainbow Over Salt Creek, St. Augustine. Oil on canvas, 11 by 18 inches.   Originally from New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey, Vera Scheibner moved to St.…

  Eric F. T. Schenk, Miami. Watercolor, 20 by 24 inches, signed lower right, 1950. Eric Schenk was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1901. He immigrated to the United States…

Joe Selby was an unheralded, but important, Florida nautical painter who worked on the docks of Miami from 1920 to 1959. In 1905, at the age of twelve, Selby lost…

Frog Smith, Thomas A. Edison. Oil on wood panel, 15 1/2 by 26 inches.   “Frog” Smith was a Florida artist, raconteur, folk historian and writer for the Fort Myers…

  *Catherine Stockwell was perhaps Florida’s most prolific impressionistic artist. Her earliest art training was at Stetson University in Deland, where at age 13 she was a student of Florida…