Charles Courtney Curran

A native of Kentucky, Charles Courtney Curran moved to New York City in 1881, where he was active in the art community and established his reputation as a painter of portraits and genre scenes. Curran studied in New York and Paris; he maintained connections with American artists abroad, such as his friend John Singer Sargent. He later helped establish the artist colony at Cragsmoor in Ulster County, New York, and from 1911 to 1913 he contributed art lessons to the magazine Palette and Brush.