Meet The Artists

Frances Vosseller, Palm Beach

  Frances Vosseller was the wife of artist Harold Vosseller. The Palm Beach Daily News, March 29, 1949 in reviewing the 5th Annual Member’s Show of the Society of the Four…

S. Peter Wagner, St. Petersburg

  S. Peter Wagner, an architect and artist from Washington, D.C., was a charter member of the Art Club of St. Petersburg. Wagner made St. Petersburg his winter home for…

Everett Leslie Waid, Ft. Myers

  Everett L. Waid was president of the Art Students’ League in New York City. In 1951 he and his wife Marion were charter members of the Fort Myers Beach…

Louese Bunnell Washburn, Jacksonville

  Louese Washburn was the mother of Jacksonville artists Ruth Washburn Williams and Jeannette Washburn. Listed in Who’s Who in American Art, she was an important figure in the early…

Lillian Wells, DeLand

  Lillian Wells was born in Luxora, Arkansas in 1895 and moved with her family to DeLand in 1911. As a child it was evident that she loved music and…

Buell Whitehead, Ft. Myers

  Buell Whitehead grew up in rural Ft. Myers. He entered the University of Florida in 1938, and in 1942 was called into the U.S. Army artillery one year short…

J. Ralph Wilcox, Daytona Beach

  The following history of Ralph Wilcox and his time in Daytona Beach was done by an unknown researcher many years ago. I was given a copy of this work…

Laura Woodward, Palm Beach

  Laura Woodward first came to St. Augustine in 1891, to Studio No.5 on Artists Row, at the Ponce de Leon Hotel. The St. Augustine News, February 22, 1891, “Miss…

Martha Dewing Woodward, Miami

  *Martha Dewing Woodward was one of the pioneer artists of Florida and one of the great ladies of Florida art. The daughter of John Vanderbilt Woodward, cousin of Cornelius…

Jane Ziegler, Sarasota

  Jane Ziegler moved to Sarasota in 1947 after a successful career as an actress and music teacher. She began studying painting in 1941 and by 1955 had won many…

Meet Asa Cassidy

  It was back about 1989 that I first met Asa Cassidy. Asa had been dead forty-three years. I was walking down an isle approaching Mike Turbeville’s booth at the…

Meet Joy Postle

For over fifty years Joy Postle painted the birds of Florida. the people of Orange County called her the Bird Lady, and, with her thin sharply defined features, pretty face,…