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Albert Leighton Rawson (American, 1829 to 1902)
Albert Leighton Rawson was born at Chester, Vermont. He traveled extensively throughout the United States, Central America, and Middle and Far East. An author, Rawson published books on the history of world religions, Central American Mound Builders, European and Middle Eastern languages, archaeology, and antiquities. He also provided illustrations and maps to magazines and to the books of other authors. A founder of the Theosophical Society in [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Ralph Raby Collection
Ralph Raby is a direct descendant of the Chicago retail shoe magnates George and Joseph Bullock. The Bullocks were typical upper-class Victorians, with a sophisticated eye for fine furniture, art and decorations who traveled extensively throughout Europe. The majority of the Raby collection was assembled by the brothers and their wives in the 1870′s and 1880′s.
Their travels and philosophy were described by Mr. Raby for a 1984 Chicago Tribune [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (British 1870-1935)
Cecil Aldin did his first set of hunting prints in 1899, The Fallowfield Hunt. This was a series of six sporting prints in which many of the backgrounds were pastiches of equine destinations that Mr. Aldin had known. He also did a series on inns that have become his best selling work to date. Aldin worked mostly in pastel or watercolor and produced a number of fine etchings [...] Click here to continue reading.
Benjamin Perley Poore
Benjamin Perley Poore (1820 to 1887) was a significant early collector of American antiques. A writer by trade, Poore was born near Newbury, Massachusetts to parents Benjamin and Mary Perley Poore. The family estate called Indian Hill became the showcase for his eclectic assemblage of antiques.
As a youth Poore was influenced by trips to Europe and was especially fascinated by the old Scottish castles and manor houses. He later sought [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edouard Henri Theophile Pingret (French 1788-1875)
The genre and portrait painter Edouard Pingret was a student of both David and Regnault. He exhibited at the Paris Salons between 1810 and 1867, and was awarded second class medals in 1824 and in 1831. Pingret was honored as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1839.
Herman Moll (1654?-1732)
Perhaps England’s greatest early 18th century map publisher, Herman Moll was a Dutch native who moved to London to work as an engraver circa 1680. Moll was one of the first mapmakers to use London as the prime meridian for longitude. The Crown used his “Map of North America” and his 1715 “A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North [...] Click here to continue reading.
Man Ray (American 1890 to 1976)
Man Ray, born August 27, 1890, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of medias and considered himself [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jane Wells Webb Loudon(1807-1858)
Jane Wells Webb, earned her living through writing after the death of her father left her in poverty at age 17. Her first book was a romantic work of science fiction called The Mummy, a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, published in 1827. John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener and publisher of horticultural and architectural books, reviewed the book, and determined to meet the author, whom he determined to be a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Aleksander Koshkin
Aleksander Koshkin is renowned for his illustrations throughout Russia and Europe. He has illustrated a two-volume set of Grimm’s fairy tales, published in Italy and Kipling’s The Jungle Book, published in Spain. He also illustrated a Russian version of the Pinocchio story, The Adventures of Buratino, which won the bronze medal at the International Children’s Book Contest in Leipzig in 1981.
A Kirkus pointer review called his work “outstanding, full of [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Born 1917, died 1963. 35th President of the United States. The youngest man (43 years old) ever to be elected President and the fourth to be assassinated, on November 22, 1963.
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