Conrad Alfred Albrizio – American Artist

Conrad Alfred Albrizio (American, Louisiana, New Orleans, 1894 to 1973)

Conrad Albrizio was born in New York City and trained as an architectural designer, he was an accomplished muralist, working with both paint and mosaic. In 1930 he was commissioned to paint murals in the new State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Albrizio taught art at LSU from 1935 until his retirement in 1954.

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Adams, Wayman Elbridge – American Artist

Wayman Elbridge Adams (American, 1883 to 1959).

A native of Indiana, Wayman Adams spent the winters in New Orleans from 1916 to 1924, and again during the 1930s. A student of Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase, he brought the rich palette and texture of American Impressionism to the subjects he painted in New Orleans. While Adams painted portraits (including New Orleans Mayor Martin Berhman), his best work in New Orleans depicts African American [...] Click here to continue reading.

John E. Berninger – American Artist

John E. Berninger (American, Pennsylvania, 1897 to 1981)

John Berninger from Allentown, Pennsylvania, is considered to be part of the New Hope School of Pennsylvania Impressionists who were influenced by the work of Walter Emerson Baum. Berninger was a student in Baum’s first art class in 1926 and in 1932 became an art instructor himself at the Kline-Baum Art School. In 1936 he became the first curator of the Allentown Art Museum.

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Berthelsen, Johann – American Artist

Johann Berthelsen (Danish, American, 1883 to 1969

Born in Copenhagen, Berthelsen painted his favorite place- New York City, particularly Central Park. Berthelsen established himself as a pastelist, later moving to oils. He worked with small canvases and focused on executing the seasonal transformations of NYC. His masterful use of light and shadow give his work a mystical, almost atmospheric quality. He was a member Salmagundi Club, American Watercolor Society, and Allied American Artists.

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John Marin – American Artist

John Marin (American, 1870 to 1953)

John Marin is regarded as a master watercolorist, capturing the spirit of his subjects in an expressive, semi-abstract style. He had deep ties to the coast of Maine, where he visited most every summer beginning in 1914, painting the land, sea, and sky in its many moods. The work at hand dates from the early 1920s when Marin brought particular dynamism and expressive strength to his watercolors.

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Healy, George Peter Alexander – American Artist

George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894)

George Peter Alexander Healy was a highly respected and successful portrait painter in both America and Europe. Encouraged by the great portrait artist Thomas Sully, Healy traveled to France and studied with Antoine Jean Gros. By early 1840s, Healy had become internationally renowned for his portraits of the French and English royal families. In America, Healy painted portraits of well-known figures including Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Louisa May Alcott [...] Click here to continue reading.

Chase, William Merritt – American Artist

William Merritt Chase (1849 to 1916)

In 1879, William Merritt Chase returned home to America following six years of study abroad in Munich where he had trained largely in the traditions of French realism and the Barbizon School. He returned to an American public not wholly unaware of his work; the paintings he had sent back for exhibitions during his absence had earned him both critical and popular recognition. The Art Students League in [...] Click here to continue reading.

Bent Family Collection – Provenance – Skinner July 2013

Bent Family Collection Provenance Note

Designed and furnished in the Mediterranean Revival Style, Quattro Venti is the last great private residence in Annisquam Village, a small fishing hamlet near Gloucester, Massachusetts. Quincy Bent, vice president in charge of production at Bethlehem Steel at the turn of the last century, built the summer retreat around 1912. His forebears purchased quarries in West Gloucester in 1820 and originally used the property, situated on the tip of [...] Click here to continue reading.

Preciosa

Preciosa

Meaning precious or beautiful in the Spanish and Portuguese languages.

It may refer to the subject of an 1821 play, Preziosa, by the German author Pius Alexander Wolff, with overture and music by Carl Maria von Weber. The title and subject of the play is taken from a 1613 novel of the same name by Cervantes. In involves Prezoisa, the beautiful daughter of a gypsy chief who falls in love with the [...] Click here to continue reading.

Poskas, Peter – American Artist

Peter Poskas (American, born 1939)

Peter Poskas’ poetic images work with shapes, color, and light. Born in Waterbury Connecticut, Poskas is best known for his realist landscapes of Connecticut and Monhegan, Maine. He studied forestry and wildlife at the University of Connecticut before attending Paier Art School in New Haven.

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Peter Poskas is an acclaimed landscape painter who paints realist views of the towns and landscapes of Litchfield County, Connecticut. [...] Click here to continue reading.

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