William Edward Scott, of Chicago, should be noted for his extraordinary
works in America and Europe. Born in Indianapolis in 1884, he graduated
from the high school in 1903. From 1904, when he entered the Chicago Art
Institute, until the present time, he has been prolific in paintings,
three of which were accepted at the Salon des Beaux Arts at Toquet, and
others elsewhere. His work may be seen in three mural paintings which
decorate the Felsenthal School in Chicago.
This field is rich in artists of the colored people:
E. M. Bannister, the first Negro in America to achieve distinction as a
painter. One of his pictures was awarded a medal at the Centennial
Exposition of 1876 (Philadelphia).
Henry O. Tanner, the son of Benjamin T. Tanner, Bishop of the A. M. E.
Church, is one of the most distinguished artists of the present day. He
resides in Paris but is a native born American. During the past three
years his paintings have been on exhibition in the leading art galleries
of the United States.
A rising young artist is to be found in Richard Lonsdale Brown, a native
of Indiana, but who spent many years of his life among the hills of West
Virginia. Not yet twenty years of age, he is on the road to fame and has
received the encomiums of artists as a young artist of rare qualities
with the precious gift of vision which indicates artistic instinct.