11 Vintage Photos of Artists At Work, 1880-1921

1900: Francis David Millet at work in his studio, photographer unknown.

1907: Edward Gay Working on a Large Landscape in his Studio

ca. 1920: Sculptor Malvina Hoffman working on a sculpture

1910: Charles Webster Hawthorne sketching with his class looking on.

1887: John Quincy Adams Ward in his studio with a model of a sculpture photographed by Pach Brothers, ca. 1887

1890: Aston Knight, landscape painter, sits in front of an easel.

1890: Olive Rush with her class of 66 students at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

1891: William Rudolf O'Donovan with a completed bust of Walt Whitman

1910: Leon Dabo working in his Brooklyn studio around 1910. Painting name: The Cloud

1920: Horatio Walker seated outdoors at his easel, working on a painting. Inscription lower left: "To W. Macbeth Gallery with the compliments of Horatio Walker."

1885: Famed watercolorist John Singer Sargent in his studio in Paris

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