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June Ide Ellison Estate The Collection of June Ide Ellison includes a rich archive of letters, journals, photographs, and paintings from the Bunker and Ide families of Massachusetts. Other family names included in the collection are Macy, Starbucks and Coffin of Nantucket as well as Worth, Baxter, Draper and Goddard. Most of the primarily 19th century material relates to family members who resided in the coastal town of Nantucket but includes other areas of [...] Click here to continue reading. William Smith Jewett (American, 1812 to 1873) Jewett was active as a portrait painter in New York city from 1833 to 1849, during which time he exhibited at the American Art-Union and at the National Academy, where he was elected an Associate. He abandoned a promising career in NYC when he embarked with the “forty-niners” in May 1849, to seek his fortune in San Francisco. Though he may have intended to make his fortune [...] Click here to continue reading. George Rodrigue (American, Louisiana, 1944 to 2013) IN MEMORIAM: A native of New Iberia, Louisiana, George Rodrigue was not only an accomplished artist, he was also a savvy businessman and philanthropist. A student of the University of Louisiana and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, Rodrigue began his career in illustration, before turning to painting full time. His earliest works, steeped in the Acadian lore and Cajun history of his ancestors [...] Click here to continue reading. Eugene de Blaas (Austrian/Italian, 1843 to 1932) A noted 19th and 20th century Austrian portraitist and genre painter, Eugene de Blaas was born near Rome on July 24th 1843 into a successful artistic family. His brother Julian von Blaas was an accomplished animal and military painter, and his father Karl von Blaas was a notable history painter and teacher. Because his father was, for a time, employed as a professor of fine arts at [...] Click here to continue reading. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920 to 2012) An American heiress and philanthropist, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans was the great-granddaughter of tobacco industrialist and Duke University benefactor Washington Duke. She was born Mary Duke Biddle on February 21, 1920 to Mary Lillian Duke and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. Her father was the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland and Spain. Semans was raised in Manhattan, where she attended the Hewitt School in New [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820 to 1910) In 1872, Whittredge began to spend his summers in Newport, Rhode Island, his family’s ancestral home. His early views of Rhode Island, such as “A Home by the Seaside”,1872 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) centered, not on Newport, but on the rural towns of Middleton, Tiverton and Little Compton and the surrounding valleys and coasts. These panoramic scenes often feature the gable-end, shingle-sided houses that characterized [...] Click here to continue reading. Philip Leslie Hale (American, 1865 to 1931) American Impressionist painter Philip Leslie Hale was born in 1865, son of the prominent Bostonian Reverend Edward Everett Hale. After studying in America with Edmund Tarbell, J. Alden Weir, and Kenyon Cox, Hale first traveled to Paris in 1887 to study at the Academie Julian with Henri Doucet and Joseph Lefebvre and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. A year later he traveled to the artist’s colony [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward Mitchell Bannister (African, American, 1833 to 1901) Edward Bannister started painting in the 1850s in Boston. He never received any formal artistic training but was greatly influenced by the artists of the Barbizon school, especially William Morris Hunt, who frequently exhibited his works in Boston. Bannister focused mainly on painting large, tranquil landscapes, and in 1876, his painting “Under the Oaks” won first prize in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. This was the first [...] Click here to continue reading. Ernest Albert (American, 1857 to 1946) Ernest Albert was born Ernest Albert Brown in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, although he later dropped his surname for professional reasons. Albert began his career as a theatrical set designer in 1877 with Harley Merry at the Brooklyn Theater. His designs were quite poplular, and he was commissioned by theaters across the nation, including New York, Boston and Chicago and St. Louis. Beginning in 1909, he gradually [...] Click here to continue reading. Hans Mangelsdorf (German, American, New Orleans, 1903 to 1991) (German, American, 1903 to 1991) An accomplished New Deal artist of the 1930s and 1940s, German-born Hans Mangelsdorf received his formal art training in Germany and Vienna. In 1929, Mangelsdorf immigrated to America and settled in Louisiana, living in both Shreveport and New Orleans. While in Shreveport he worked as the Assistant Art Curator at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum where he also was enlisted [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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