Auguste Amanat Edouart (French, 1796-1861)
Edouart was born in France in 1796. He arrived in America in 1839 and cut approximately 3,800 silhouettes here before returning to France in 1849.
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The Edo Period The Japanese Edo period is also known as the Tokugawa period. It is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1867. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. The period ended with the Meiji Restoration, the restoration of imperial rule by the 15th and last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The Edo period is [...] Click here to continue reading. E. Joy Morris was one of Philadelphia’s smaller carousel builders. He created less than two dozen carousels during his career from 1896 to 1903. He sold his carousel business to the Philadelphia Tobbogan Company in 1903. He passed away in 1929. Playful saddle decorations were popular with Morris. Earl Cunningham – Self-Taught Artist (1893-1977) The self-taught Florida artist Earl Cunningham used a rich palette of jewel-like colors and vivid imagination. Cunningham portrayed an unlikely combination of boats and ships in his paintings. In 1906, Cunningham left his family home in Edgecombe, Maine at the age of 13 and worked a variety of jobs including peddler, tinker, and crewing on sailing ships. He married Iva Moses and for many years operated a [...] Click here to continue reading. Anthony Elmer Crowell (1862 to 1951) Perhaps the best know decoy carver in the world, Anthony Elmer Crowell was born in East Harwich, Massachusetts in 1862. In his youth Mr. Crowell was a cranberry farmer and hunter. There is no evidence that Mr. Crowell ever benefited from the help and experience of an older hand, however, by 1898 he excelled at carving decoys, with his favorites being native Cape Cod ducks and shorebirds. Although [...] Click here to continue reading. Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) Andrew Clemens, born in Dubuque, Iowa, spent most of his life in nearby McGregor. He lost his hearing and voice to encephalitis at the age of five. At thirteen, his parents sent him to the Iowa Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb in Council Bluffs. After leaving the Institute, Clemens began experimenting with sand art, collecting the naturally occurring, multicolored sands from the Pictured Rocks region of Iowa. [...] Click here to continue reading. 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. Abel Lewis Inn, Bristol, Connecticut The A. Lewis Inn, opened in 1794, and is still standing in Bristol, Connecticut. The original proprietor, Abel Lewis, is buried in Bristol’s old North Cemetery located on Lewis Street. Abel Lewis was born September 16, 1749 and married Ruth Adams January 10th, 1771. The Lewis family progenitor was William Lewis (from England on the ship “Lion” to Boston in 1632). A. Lewis Inn was core part of [...] Click here to continue reading. Gary and Karen Stuffel of Washington, Indiana Gary and Karen Stuffel loved the country life, and both loved the dream of living with early American antiques. Born in Daviess County, Indiana, they chose to settle in Washington where Gary worked as a union carpenter and Karen as a Postmaster for the Edwardsport post office, and then later the Montgomery post office. Their love extended to a project of acquiring a log home originally built [...] Click here to continue reading. Water Coupe Water coupes were small pots for ornamental as well as functional use by Chinese scholars. Displayed on their desks, they were filled with water for making ink or for refilling the artist’s brush washers to clean their writing utensils. Many were delicately carved from a variety of colored jades and agates and were patterned after organic plant forms or animals. Information courtesy of Lois Thomas, p4A.com editor, April, 2009. |
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