Thomas Pollock Anshutz

Born in Kentucky, Thomas Pollock Anshutz moved with his family in 1863 to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he spent his teenage years growing up amid the urban factories that dominated the banks of the Ohio River. He went on to become one of the most important art teachers in the United States, teaching for nearly three decades at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he influenced the next generation of American realist painters.