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Dimitri Chiparus (1888 to 1950) Dimitri Chiparus (Demeter H. Chiparus) was born in Romania in 1888 and then traveled to Paris before World War I to study and develop his art. He attended school in Italy and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and he exhibited at the Salon in 1914. Chiparus was particularly adept in the technique of chryselephantine, the combination of bronze and ivory to produce dramatic, stylized sculpture. [...] Click here to continue reading. Daniel Burnap, Clockmaker One of Connecticut’s most successful clockmakers, Daniel Burnap (1759 to 1838) learned the trade under Thomas Harland (1735 to 1807) of Norwich. Burnap moved to East Windsor shortly before his marriage to Deliverence Kingsbury in June 1782. He advertised in The Connecticut Courant in March, 1791 to inform the public of his many offerings. In 1795 Burnap retired from clockmaking and purchased land in Andover, Connecticut. The Arts & Crafts Movement The principles of the Arts and Crafts movement were initially frontiered in England through the efforts of John Ruskin and William Morris. Ruskin was not a craftsman but an academic scholar at Oxford. He believed passionately that the Industrial Revolution would erode the English countryside by turning it into factory fields while relegating the skilled English craftsman to the status of a laborer. The battle cry of his movement, [...] Click here to continue reading. Isaac Brokaw (1746 to 1826) Isaac Brokaw worked first in Elizabethtown and after 1788-89 in Bridgetown, New Jersey. He continued to use the old fashioned styles as he turned out about 125 tall case clocks. F. Barbedienne, Fondeur The Paris foundry of Barbedienne is generally considered to be the premier nineteenth century foundry for bronze sculpture. It was founded in 1838 by Ferdinand Barbedienne and Achille Collas, who had invented a mechanism to mechanically reduce statues. At first the Barbedienne foundry made bronze reductions of Greek and Roman antique sculptures. In 1843 they added the first living artist, Francois Rude, to their clientele. Throughout its history the Barbedienne organization [...] Click here to continue reading. American Furniture Styles, 1610 to 1900 – An Overview In the process of defining and describing the attributes of American furniture we find both time periods and styles being used to label particular pieces and whole groupings. Such labeling can lead to significant misunderstandings and can, to the new comer, be very confusing. Furniture periods provide us with just a time frame while styles provide us with the details of design. We must be [...] Click here to continue reading. Boucheron – French Jewelers Maison Boucheron (est. 1853) grew in a relatively short period from a small workshop in the Rue Royale to a prestigious firm enjoying royal patronage and occupying a mansion on the Place Vendome. Henri Vever said that from early on, Frederic Boucheron was daring, and, with the finest materials, created jewels which “very few of his colleagues would have dared to make at the time … Yet despite their high [...] Click here to continue reading. Ernest Tino Trova (American, 1927 to 2009) Ernest Tino Trova was born in Missouri and is known for his “Falling Man” series in abstract figural sculpture. His viewers are meant to see themselves as human beings challenged by a technological society, aware of their own mortality. He is known for his advanced use of technology in his work. Information courtesy of Skinner, Inc., September, 2007. Claude Michel Clodion (French, 1738 to 1814) In 1755 Clodion went to Paris and entered the workshop of his uncle Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, and upon his uncle’s death became a pupil of the noted J. B. Pigalle. In 1759 he won the grand prize for sculpture at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, and in 1762 went to Rome. Catherine II tried to convince him to come to work for her court in [...] Click here to continue reading. John William Boor, M.D. (1947 to 2007) John William Boor, M.D. was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia. Dr. Boor’s love for the fine arts stemmed from his fascination with American history and his tremendous pride and respect for everything related to or originating from the great colonial city of Philadelphia. To many he was their trusted doctor, specializing in Neurology. Others knew him as a collector of Americana. He had an [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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