Dayton is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. As of the 2020 census, the city proper had a population of 137,644, making it the sixth-most populous city in Ohio. It anchors the state's fourth-largest metropolitan area, the Dayton metropolitan area, which had 814,049 residents. Dayton is located within Ohio's Miami Valley region, 50 miles (80 km) north of Cincinnati and 60 miles (97 km) west of Columbus.
Alexander Helwig Wyant was an American landscape painter. His early works belonged to the Hudson River School, with its direct pastoral narrative, but evolved into the more moody and shadowy Tonalism. After a stroke which paralysed his right arm, he taught himself to paint with his left.
Frank Duveneck was an American figure and portrait painter.
Edward Henry Potthast was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.
Robert Seldon Duncanson was a 19th-century American landscapist of European and African ancestry. Inspired by famous American landscape artists like Thomas Cole, Duncanson created renowned landscape paintings and is considered a second generation Hudson River School artist. Duncanson spent the majority of his career in Cincinnati, Ohio and helped develop the Ohio River Valley landscape tradition. As a free black man in antebellum America, Duncanson engaged the abolitionist community in America and England to support and promote his work. Duncanson is considered the first African-American artist to be internationally known. He operated in the cultural circles of Cincinnati, Detroit, Montreal, and London. The primary art historical debate centered on Duncanson concerns the role that contemporary racial issues played in his work. Some art historians, like Joseph D. Ketner, believe that Duncanson used racial metaphors in his artwork, while others, like Margaret Rose Vendryes, discourage viewers from approaching his art with a racialized perspective.
Thomas Satterwhite Noble was an American painter as well as the first head of the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Contemporary Dayton formerly known as the Dayton Visual Arts Center (DVAC), is a non-profit art gallery and artist resource that provides art for the community and a community for artists since 1991.
Kenney Mencher, is an American painter. He is Associate Professor of Art and Art History as well as the director and curator of the Louie-Meager Art Gallery at Ohlone College in Fremont, California, and he has previously taught at institutions including the University of Chicago and Texas A&M University. He is also the author of Liaisons: Readings in Art, Literature and Philosophy, a thematically-framed textbook about how the study of culture relates to students' other classes and to life in general.
Daryl Urig is an American illustrator and painter residing in Harrison, Ohio, his work has been shown all over the United States. He also owns his own business, an online media arts company.
Ealy Mays is a Paris-based African-American contemporary artist. His work has been exhibited in Mexico's Galeria Clave, Paris’ Carrousel du Louvre, Mexico's annual José Clemente Orozco Art competition, and New York's Guggenheim museum, to name a few. Legendary painter Henry O. Tanner was the first African American to exhibit at the Louvre in 1897. Mays’ 2005 “Migration of the Superheroes” exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre makes him one of the few African-American artists to date to follow Tanner's footsteps to the Louvre.
Jeff Schneider is an American artist.
Paige Williams is an American painter, drafter, educator, and the current chair of the studio program at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Jack Earl is an American ceramic artist and former teacher, known for drawing inspiration from his home state of Ohio to create rural pieces “with meticulous craftsmanship and astute details… to where you could smell the air, hear the silence and swat the flies.” Although his works hint at highly personal, intellectual, and narrative themes in an almost unsettling manner, Earl is “a self-described anti-intellectual who shuns the art world." He is known particularly for using his trademark format, the dos-a-dos : “This art form is like a book with two stories… the two seemingly incongruent images prompt the viewer to fill in the conceptual gap through poetic speculation.” His work often involves dogs or the character “Bill”, who is said to be a combination of Earl’s father-in-law, himself, and others. The titles to his pieces are typically lengthy, stream-of-consciousness narratives that suggest the folk or rural lifestyle. These are intended to add another dimension to the artwork. His work has received a notable response over his decades-long career, especially since he is regarded as “a master at reminding us that within the events we take for granted are moments of never-ending mystery and wonder.” Earl continues to live in Lakeview, Ohio with his wife, Fairlie.
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum is a non-profit park located in Hamilton, Ohio. The park includes an outdoor sculpture collection, a 'pioneer house' built in the 1820s, an Ancient Sculpture Museum, and a Museum Gallery for contemporary exhibitions. The Ancient Sculpture Museum includes pieces from ancient Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian civilizations. Opened in 2017, the design of the Ancient Sculpture Museum was inspired by houses from ancient Rome. The Museum Gallery, which opened in 2016, features a continuous rotation of exhibitions by contemporary artists. Visitors can get information about the art pieces through the app Otocast, some of them from the artists themselves.
Harry Shokler (1896–1978) was a 20th-century American artist known for his oil paintings and screen prints. Using a realist approach that produced what one critic called an "exactness of rendition", he made colorful landscapes, cityscapes, and marine scenes as well as some notable portraits. He helped pioneer silkscreen printmaking in the 1930s and wrote an influential guide explaining and demonstrating the method. He gave few solo or small group exhibitions in commercial galleries and showed his work mainly from his own studio and in non-profit venues.
David Black was an American sculptor known for both, his pioneering, avant-garde use of plastics and his monumental, aluminum, large scale public sculptures.
Daryl Myntia Daniels is an American visual artist from Cincinnati, Ohio who is known for her colorful paintings and murals. Her work often addresses themes of community, race, identity, and women's empowerment. Daniels has created murals on display in both Cincinnati and New York City. Additionally, she has exhibited work across the United States, including at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Hole Gallery, and the Kente Royal Gallery in Harlem.
Roger Brackins, also known as Gene St. Clair, is an American visual artist and painter from Cleveland, Ohio. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he is known for his colorful portraits and paintings exploring African American identity. Brackins has been involved with a number of public art and mural projects and has exhibited work across the United States, including at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Dylan Graves is an American artist and curator from Cincinnati, Ohio known for his photographs, digital collage, and print techniques such as chromogenic and lenticular printing. Graves has exhibited work across the United States, including at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Dave Scott is an American painter from Trotwood, Ohio known for his colorful paintings. Scott has exhibited work across the United States, including at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Contemporary Arts Center.
