Born in Paris, Kentucky to Sydney, a former slave and son of Confederate Col. John H. Morgan and Eliza Reed, also a former slave, Morgan moved at the age of fourteen to Cincinnati, Ohio in search of employment. Most of his teenage years were spent working as a handyman for a wealthy Cincinnati landowner. Like many African Americans of his day, he had to quit school at a young age in order to work. However, the teen-aged Morgan was able to hire his own tutor and continued his studies while living in Cincinnati. In 1895, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked repairing sewing machines for a clothing manufacturer.
Tom Roberts. Painting 1- “holiday sketch at Coogee” Painting 2- “Sheering the Rams” Thomas Roberts was born on the 9th of March 1856 and passed away on the 14th of September 1931. Roberts was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School. Roberts was born in England, he migrated with his family to Australia in 1869. Settling in Collingwood (Melbourne, Victoria) he worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become prominent artists.
You have often heard the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words.” If you look at the pictures during the Great Depression by Walker Evans you envision yourself in that time. Walker Evans was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1903. He grew up in Chicago and New York City. He attended the Loomis Institute and Mercerburg Academy and then graduated from Phillips Academy in Massachusetts in 1922. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans) He spent a year in Paris and studied French literature then dropped out and returned to the US to NYC.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, to Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Longfellow in Portland, Maine (Calhoun). He attended his early school years at the prestigious Portland Academy and at age thirteen, he made his first poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond”, Portland Gazette (Calhoun). At age fifthteen, Longfellow enrolled at Bowdoin College. At Bowdoin College, he met a fellow great American novelist in Nathaniel Hawthorne (Arvin). In May of 1826, Longfellow embarked on his journey to Europe to study French, Italian, and Spanish (Calhoun).
During the War of 1812, Farragut served as a midshipman on Captain David Porter’s Frigate, the USS Essex. Later in the war, he was ordered to command a prize ship, the HMS Alert that was to be taken safely to port when he was only twelve years old. David married Susan Merchant who died on December 27, 1840. For his second marriage, he married Virginia Loyall on December 23, 1843 and had a son who they named Loyall on October 12, 1844. By the time the Civil war broke out, David, who thought secession was an act of treason, moved from Virginia to New York to offer his service to the union.
Richmond Barthé Introduction Richmond Barthé was born on January 28, 1901, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He was only one month old when his father, Richmond Barthé, died. His mother, Clementine Raboteau, was influential in nurturing his early artistic talent. When young Richmond was just an infant, he reportedly was intrigued with the Old English letters on the front page of the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper. His mother supplied him with paper and pencils to practice copying the letters (Bardolph, 1961).
Fernando Botero Angulo, a Colombian figurative artist was born second of three in 1932 in Medellin, Colombia. A major role was taken by an uncle of his after his father’s passing. He was influenced by Baroque style of colonial churches and the well to do life of the city, in spite of being inaccessible to art as displayed in museums and other artistic venues. His uncle enrolled him in matador school for two years while under his care. Some of his early drawings there will be taken from the experience of bull fighting.
When he was 12 his family moved to Moravia, New York, and soon after they moved again to Owego. John attended the Owego Academy. When John was 14 his famly moved again to Strongsville, Ohio. Rockefeller attended Cleveland's Central High School, he then took a ten week course in bookkeeping at Folsom's Commercial College. In September 1855, when John turned 16, he got a job as an
Armstrong had a difficult childhood. William Armstrong, his father, was a factory worker who abandoned the family soon after the boy's birth. Armstrong was brought up by his mother, Mary (Albert) Armstrong, and his maternal grandmother. He showed an early interest in music, and a junk dealer for whom he worked as a grade-school student helped him buy a cornet, which he taught himself to play. He dropped out of school at 11 to join an informal group, but on December 31, 1912, he fired a gun during a New Year's Eve celebration, for which he was sent to reform school.
HineLewis Wickes Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874. After graduating from High School, he worked at various jobs before enrolling at the University of Chicago in 1900. While at the University of Chicago, Hine met Frank E. Manny, Professor of Education at the State Normal School who had recently been appointed superintendent of the Ethical Culture School in New York. In 1901, at the invitation of Manning, Hine moved to New York City and accepted a position as an assistant teacher at the ECS. Hine began at this time to use a camera as an educational tool and to photograph school events.