Meet The Artists

  In 1935 Alfonso Toran was the director of the Creative Studios of Art & Decoration in New York City. Toran painted murals in New York for the Hotels Delmonico,…

  Lois Bartlett Tracy’s paintings were well known to Sarasota art lovers. One of the first members of the Sarasota Art Association, Tracy was famous for her jungle pictures.The Tampa…

F. C. von Hausen was Palm Beach’s, and possibly Florida’s, most distinguished portrait artist. Over a span of fifty years von Hausen painted the wealthy, the famous, the beautiful and…

  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, 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 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 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 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 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…

  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 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 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…