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Augustus B. Koopman (American, 1869 to 1914) Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Koopman was one of an elite group of American art students admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After his course of study, he remained in Europe, winning medals and honors on both sides of the Atlantic, including the major international expositions at Paris (1900), Buffalo (1901), and St. Louis (1904). The artist spent his winters in Paris, traveling during the [...] Click here to continue reading. Thangka A Thangka is a silk painting with embroidery, usually Tibetan. They were usually religious in nature and the subject matter would be a Buddhist Deity, a mandala, the Wheel of Life, events involving Lamas, or historical events. The Thangka was used as a teaching tool by traveling monks as they were light in weight, and easy to roll and carry. Reference note by p4A editorial staff, August, 2011. Bert Geer Phillips (American, 1868 to 1956) Bert Phillips is considered one of the founders of the Taos art colony, and enjoyed a successful career painting western illustrations using models that were half-Sioux, Spanish-American, and cowboys which he painted in western landscapes. At sixteen he left his home in Hudson, NY for five years of study at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design, and later spent several years in New [...] Click here to continue reading. Ruth & Samuel Shute Ruth W. Shute and her physician husband Dr. Samuel A. Shute were itinerant portrait painters known for their individual and collaborated watercolor portraits of individuals living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and northern New York State beginning in 1827. It appears Samuel became very ill around 1834-35 and was unable to paint. It has been discovered in recent times that several oil on canvas paintings, all executed [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry Lawrence Faulkner (American, 1924 to 1981) Henry Lawrence Faulkner was born in Falling Timber, near Egypt, Kentucky. His flamboyant lifestyle carried him from a traumatic childhood in rural Kentucky through a bohemian existence in New York, Los Angeles, Key West and Sicily. His most pronounced traits–artistry, poetry, reverence for nature, love for animals, his restlessness and disdain for social convention, shaped him from early life. Faulkner was the eccentric rebel who brought his [...] Click here to continue reading. Webb Young (1913-2005) Webb Young was born in Kentucky, raised near Chicago, and moved to New Mexico as a teenager in the 1920s. He studied under Gerald Cassidy, and also briefly in Vienna, Chicago, and in Mexico. He sold his paintings, which generally depicting southwestern-themed still lifes or southwestern landscapes, in Santa Fe, where he continued to paint until a stroke ended his career in 1995. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Edmund Yaghjian (1903 to 1999) Edmund Yaghjian, born in 1903 in Armenia, was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in Residence there. He died in Columbia, South Carolina in 1999. He was a student of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York, and his work has the same spirit as the Ashcan School of painters. The colors orange and [...] Click here to continue reading. Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836 to 1892) Born in Evans Creek, Ohio, in 1836, Alexander Wyant began his career as a topographical landscape painter along the Ohio River. After viewing the work of George Inness at an exhibition in Cincinnati, Wyant traveled to New York City to visit the artist. Inness encouraged him to travel to Europe, where Wyant was influenced by other landscape artists such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. After returning to [...] Click here to continue reading. Edmund Henry Wuerpel (1866-1958) Well known for his atmospheric landscapes, Wuerpel studied with Whistler and Gerome in Paris. He was the Dean of the St. Louis School of Fine Art and exhibited extensively and won awards at the St. Louis Expo (1904) and the Pan-Pacific Expo (1915). Ellsworth Woodward (American, 1861 to 1939) Ellsworth Woodward and his brother William were two of the most influential figures in the New Orleans art community. Ellsworth studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and later in the studios of Samuel Richards and Carl Marr in Munich, Germany. He accepted a position as a professor of art at Tulane in 1885, a year after his brother had joined the faculty. The brothers were [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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