Grand Canyon, Yellowstone River, Wyoming

A native of Pennsylvania, William Louis Sonntag spent his formative years as an artist in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became regarded as the city’s most eminent landscape painter. In 1853, […]

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Known for his humorous scenes of American life, Francis William Edmonds worked for three years as a New York banker before enrolling in night classes at the National Academy of […]