Albert Bierstadt was born at Solingen, near Dьsseldorf

Fernando Botero http://karaart.com/botero/works3.html

Charles Burchfield www.wga.hu

Paul Cezanne - "After fifty years of the most radical change in art from images to free abstraction, C�zanne''s painting, which looks old-fashioned today in its attachment to nature, maintains itself fresh and stimulating to young painters of our time

Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Byelorussia to a poor Hassidic family http://www.hadassah.org.il/hmo/art/chagal_CV.htm

Frederic Church went first to the tropics and volcanoes of South America. His reasons make a fascinating chapter in the history of American art and thought. http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/frederic_edwin_church_1826.htm

Francesco Clemente: Italian painter

American artist Chuck Close has been a leading figure in http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/close/

The art of Arthur Dove blended his abiding love and connection to nature and natural forces with a deep interest in ideas and philosophies of modern art and life. While he was influenced early on by French Post-Impressionists