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1830s-40s . . . William Sidney Mount, first major Long Island painter, depicts farmland and farmers around Setauket and Stony Brook.
1840s-50s . . . Currier & Ives lithographer Fanny Palmer travels from Brooklyn to capture scenes of Long Islanders in sport and play.
1869 . . . Illustrator and engraver Alonzo Chappel settles in Middle Island, where he creates historical works.
1870s . . . Notable artists such as John Frederick Kensett and Frederick Church ride the LIRR in search of subjects to paint, and the great Winslow Homer paints some Long Island scenes.

1879 . . . Thomas Moran, painter of both Yellowstone and the East End, opens a studio in East Hampton, and lives there on and off for decades.
1891 . . . William Merritt Chase opens the nation's first outdoor art school in Shinnecock Hills.
1905 . . . Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose successful glassworks is in Corona, completes Laurelton Hall, his Oyster Bay mansion.
1920 . . . Frederick Childe Hassam, the New York City Impressionist, begins to record on canvas the still-bucolic East End.
1920s . . . Abstractionist Arthur Dove and his wife, the painter Helen Torr, settle in Huntington.
1941 . . . Surrealist Max Ernst summers briefly in East Hampton, returning to Long Island three years later to work for a time in Great River.
1945 . . . Abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner set up a studio in Springs.
1947 . . . German emigre painter George Grosz moves to Huntington.