Born on a Mennonite Farm in North Manchester, Indiana, Daniel Garber went on to become the leading landscape painter of the Pennsylvania School of Landscape, or New Hope School. In 1897 Garber enrolled at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where he studied with landscape and figure painter, Vincent Nowottny. He spent the summers of 1899 and 1900 studying at the Darby School of Art in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, and during the years between 1899 and 1905 he took night classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, one of his teachers was Thomas Anshutz, who encouraged his students to find their individual artistic styles. To support himself through school he worked as a commercial artist, boasting clients such as Harper’s Bazaar. In 1902, two of his portraits were accepted for exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1905, at the spring exhibition of Society of American Artists, Garber received the Cresson Traveling Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which sponsored his travel around Europe for two years. While in Europe he visited England, France and Italy. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1907 he moved to Lumberville, New Jersey into a house along the banks of the Delaware River that he called “Cuttalossa.” In this area there were numerous plein-air landscape painters who worked along the banks of the River. Garber’s home was located very close to rock quarries, which became a favored subject. It was after his European travels, and during his time at Cuttalossa, that his signature style emerged, characterized by vibrant blues, greens and yellows, visible brushwork (most certainly inspired by the Impressionists), yet retaining a sort of modern flat quality to them at the same time. In addition, he did not seek to capture fleeting moments in time as the Impressionists did. In addition to his career as an artist, Garber served a lengthy forty-one years as a faculty member at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Daniel Garber died at his Cuttalossa home in 1958, he won twenty-nine major awards, prizes and medals for his artworks in his lifetime.