Andrew Carrick Gow (1848 - 1920)

Painter. Best known for historical and military subjects. Born in London, where he studied at art school, he first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of 21. One of his pictures was then exhibited at the RA every year until his death. Elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1881, he […]

Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1818 - 1881)

Sculptor. For many years he worked in the dry goods business but when it failed he began as a professional sculptor, though he had very little formal training in that area. His specialties included portrait busts of prominent figures such as Governor John Andrew of Massachusetts and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. Two of his best […]

Chester Gould (1900 - 1985)

Cartoonist. He is best known for creating the “Dick Tracy” cartoon strip. Born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, he spent 10 years working on various comic strips at the Chicago “Tribune”-New York “News” Syndicate under editor Joseph Medill Patterson before creating “Dick Tracy” in 1931. (Patterson shortened the first name from his original “Plainclothes Tracy” to the […]

Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923 - 2009)

Artist,  Holocaust Survivor. She spent the last 35 years of her life attempting to claim paintings that she had done to buy the lives of herself and her mother in Auschwitz. Dina Gottlieb was an art student in Prague when she was arrested by the Nazis in 1942, and sent to a concentration camp. Eventually […]

William Goscombe John (1860 - 1952)

Sculptor.

Rene Goscinny (1926 - 1977)

Cartoonist and illustrator. Born in Paris, France in 1926, to a family of Jewish immigrants from Poland, his parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, a chemical engineer from Warsaw, Poland, and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna from Chodorków, a small village near Żytomierz in the Second Polish Republic, now Ukraine.  The Gościnnys moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, two […]

Stephen Goosson (1889 - 1973)

Motion Picture Art Director/Set Designer. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Stephen was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930. He eventually was hired by Columbia Pictures, where he served as supervising art […]

Julia Goodman (1812 - 1906)

A “granddaughter” of Sir Joshua Reynolds (she studied under one of his pupils), Goodman began by copying works of the old masters, but moved on to successful portrait painting. She exhibited at Royal Academy shows for 51 years before dying at the age of 94.   Family links:  Spouse:  Louis Goodman (1811 – 1876)*  Children: […]

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869 - 1924)

Architect. He designed the West Point Chapel, Los Angeles Public Library, National Academy of Sciences Building and the Nebraska State Capitol among many others. (bio by: Mark Mitchell)

Frederick Goodall (1822 - 1904)

Painter. Born in London, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall. Two of his brothers, Edward Angelo and Walter, became well known watercolour artists, and a sister Eliza, exhibited at the Royal Academy under her married name of Wild. He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy. Frederick would spent his free […]

Manuel González Martí (1877 - 1972)

Artist. He was born in Valenica, Comunidad Valenciana. He developed a succesful career as illustrator, publisher, ceramist and essayist. He founded the magazines “Cascarrabies,” “Arte Moderno” and “Valencia Artística.” At young age, he worked as illustrator with the nickname Folchi. Later, he was a known investigator of the ceramic of Valencia, and the National Museum […]

Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962)

Painter, Theater Designer. A major figure of Russia’s pre-World War I avant-garde. Born in Negaevo, in the Tula Province, she was a descendant of poet Alexander Pushkin’s wife.  In 1898 she enrolled at the Moscow Art Academy as a sculpture student but switched to painting with the encouragement of artist Mikhail Larionov,  who became her […]

Leon Golub (1922 - 2004)

Artist who depicted war, torture and oppression in large-scale figurative paintings symbolizing the destructive nature of human ambition. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he earned a graduate degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1950; lived in Paris and then moved to New York in the 1960s. Taught at the School of Visual Arts in […]

Erno Goldfinger (1902 - 1987)

Architect. He was a key member of the architectural Modern Movement after he had moved to the United Kingdom. His name was also the inspiration for the name of ‘James Bond’s’ opponent in the 1959 book and later film “Goldfinger”. Erno Goldfinger was born in Budapest. In 1921 he moved to Paris after the collapse, […]

Stan Goldberg (1932 - 2014)

Comic Book Artist. He was legendary cartoonist best known for his “Archie” comic book character. In 1949, at age 16, he began his career as a staff colorist for Timely Comics and within two years became color department manager for Marvel Comics. With Marvel, he drew the Millie the Model titles, “Kathy”, “My Girl Pearl”, […]

Rube Goldberg (1883 - 1970)

Cartoonist.  His strips included “Boob McNutt” and “Foolish Questions”.  Best known for “Goldberg’s Inventions” – extremely roundabout ways to a simple end, using a chain of living and mechanical agents.  Won Pulitzer prize in 1948 for editorial cartooning. (bio by: Ginny M)  Family links:  Parents:  Max Goldberg (1851 – 1946)  Hannah Cohn Goldberg (1858 – […]

George Godwin (1970 - 1888)

Architect and Author. One of nine children of the architect George Godwin Sr. 1780 to 1863 and trained at his father’s architectural practice in Kensington where he set up in business with his brother Henry Godwin 1831 to 1917. Encouraged by his friend the antiquary John Britton, he pursued an interest in architectural history and […]

Albert N. “Wallpaper” Wolff (1903 - 1998)

Crime Fighter / Member of ‘The Untouchables.’ Note that the inscription on the grave marker is incorrect as the Untouchables were part of what is now the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) which is part the Treasury Department.

John William Godward (1861 - 1922)

Artist. Born of a wealthy family who disapproved of his vocation of art, Godward was shy and reclusive, so very little is known of his life. A Victorian Classicist painter, he was a member of the so-called “Marble School,” followers of Lawrence Alma-Tadema whose work concentrated almost exclusively on Classical Grecian or Roman subjects, such […]

William Wirt (1772 - 1834)

US Attorney General. As a young orphaned boy, he was educated in several classical schools, including one kept by the Reverend James Hunt of Montgomery Co. Maryland. He received the largest part of his education during a four year period in Hunt’s school. At the age of fifteen he went to reside with the Benjamin […]

Nikolai Petrovich Glushchenko (1901 - 1977)

Artist.

Margaret Bush Wilson (1919 - 2009)

Civil Rights Lawyer. She was admitted to the bar in 1943 and became the second black woman ever to practice law in the State of Missouri. As a lawyer, she gained national attention being involved in the landmark 1948 Shelley vs. Kraemer US Supreme Court Case which put an end to restrictive covenants used to […]

Helena Gleichen (1873 - 1947)

British Aristocracy,  Artist. Born Helena Emily Gleichen in London, the youngest child of Viktor, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Lanenburg and Lady Laura Seymour at which time she was granted the title of Gräfin von Gleichen. She provided some illustrations for the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet in 1904. During the First World War, in September 1917, she relinquished […]

Feodora Gleichen (1861 - 1922)

Artist. Lady Feodora Gleichen was a sculptor and first member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Also a relative of Queen Victoria. (bio by: Kieran Smith)

Bertha Wrenham Wilson (1923 - 2007)

Jurist.  The first female Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, she followed her two older brothers to the University of Aberdeen. She attained an M.A. in philosophy in 1944 and then obtained a teaching diploma. She married a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John Wilson in 1945. They emigrated to Canada […]

Sidney Glazier (1916 - 2002)

Motion Picture Producer. He is best known as the producer of the classic 1968 comedy “The Producers”. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1916, he worked in a local movie theater before serving in World War II. Later finding success as a salesman of State of Israel bonds, that job lead directly to a position as […]

William Wallace Wilshire (1830 - 1888)

Arkansas Supreme Court Justice,  Chief Justice, 1868-71; US Representative from Arkansas, 1873-74; 1875-77. His influence with President Grant brought about presidential intervention in the Brooks-Baxter War.  Family links:  Spouse:  Catherine A. Reynolds Wilshire (1832 – 1900)*  Children:  Mary Ellen Wilshire Rightsell (1851 – 1903)*  Emma Wilshire Kelsey (1857 – 1887)*  William Wallace Wilshire (1859 – […]

William Glackens (1870 - 1938)

Artist. A member of the “Ashcan School” of modern American art, he is best known for a number of realist paintings, including “East River Park” (1902) and “At Mouquin’s” (1905). He served as an European agent for millionaire art enthusiast Albert C. Barnes, and purchased for Barnes dozens of paintings that helped make up the […]

David T. Wilentz (1894 - 1988)

Lawyer. Born in Dvinsk in the Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia). He emigrated with his parents to the United States, when he was a year old, settling in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.  He graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1912. He served in the United States Army in World War I as a private […]

Alvin Gittins (1922 - 1981)

Artist. He is best remembered for being the chairman of the Art Department at the University of Utah, and was the artist-in-residence.  He was an early leader in the recently emerging trend of realism in artwork.  Born in Kidderminster, Worcester, England, he came to the United States in 1946 to study, and graduated with a […]