About and image rights

Art of Michigan is an independent guide to visual artists with a real connection to the state: people born here, trained here, or who did important work here. It covers painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, fiber and related media. It leaves out music and theater.

How artists are chosen

Each profile states the artist's Michigan connection and links to its sources. This group spans the 19th century to today and will grow over time. A Michigan connection can be a birthplace, an education or a career, and each profile says which.

How images are handled

Images appear here only for artists whose works are in the public domain. The artists shown died more than 70 years ago. Work by more recent artists is linked at museums, foundations and galleries unless the rights holder gives permission to show it here.

Rights holders who see an error can have an image corrected or removed through the site owner.

Image credits

• Robert S. Duncanson, Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River. Wikimedia Commons file
• Robert S. Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow. Wikimedia Commons file
• Frederick Stuart Church, The Viking's Daughter. Wikimedia Commons file
• Frederick Stuart Church, The Witch's Daughter. Wikimedia Commons file
• Julius Rolshoven, Dilettante. Wikimedia Commons file
• Gari Melchers, Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror). Wikimedia Commons file
• Gari Melchers, Vespers. Wikimedia Commons file
• Mathias J. Alten, The Gravel Pit. Wikimedia Commons file
• Frederick Carl Frieseke, Summer. Wikimedia Commons file
• Frederick Carl Frieseke, Girl in Blue Arranging Flowers. Wikimedia Commons file
• John Mix Stanley, Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies. Wikimedia Commons file
• Lewis T. Ives, Mrs. John J. Bagley. Wikimedia Commons file
• Percy Ives, Walt Whitman. Wikimedia Commons file
• Francis Petrus Paulus, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. Wikimedia Commons file
• Myron G. Barlow, Poisson rose (Pink Fish). Wikimedia Commons file