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Elizabeth Quale O’Neill Verner (American, 1883 to 1979)
Elizabeth O’Neill was born in Charleston, South Carolina, December 21, 1883. Her artistic gifts were encouraged and developed by her maternal grandfather, Henry Franklin Baker, who had been a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, a Charleston artist. After graduating in 1900 from Ursuline College in Columbia, South Carolina, Miss O’Neill enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of [...] Click here to continue reading.
John William (Will) Vawter (1871-1941)
Vawter was born in and grew up in Greenfield, Indiana. He began his artistic career in 1893 illustrating books for James Whitcomb Riley, a successful poet, and another Greenfield resident. He married in 1906, and moved to Brown County in 1908. For the next fifteen years, Vawter received regular commissions for magazine illustrations. In 1923, he was divorced, and moved into a small apartment and studio in downtown Nashville [...] Click here to continue reading.
Boris Vassiloff (1906-2000)
Boris Vassiloff was Russian-born artist who immigrated to the United States to Long Island, New York in 1952. He studied at an art academy in Leningrad. He is known for his architectural paintings, still lifes and murals. Some of his art is held at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York and the Museum of Dance in France.
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Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chavez (1896-1982)
In 1944, Peruvian-born artist Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chavez completed 49 illustrations while working for an annual base salary of $12,000; in 1995, a single portrait by the artist sold at auction for almost three times that amount. These figures emphasize the dramatic contrast between the mediocre sums collected by the artist during his lifetime and the modern acceptance of his worth as a painstaking watercolorist and airbrush [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cornelis van Leemputten (Belgian, 1841 to 1902)
Leemputten is best known for his images of barnyard animals, especially sheep. A popular 19th century subject, these paintings evoked a sense of nostalgia and were perhaps a response to the ongoing Industrial Revolution. Although largely self-taught, Leemputteen did study at the Academy of Antwerpen. His work was influenced by the paintings of 17th century artist Paulus Potter, as well as his contemporaries such as Charles Jacques.
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Luther Emerson Van Gorder ((1861-1931)
Luther VaGorder was born in Warren, Ohio and was a well known painter of the Toledo, Ohio area. He worked for a Toledo newspaper before going to New York to study art. He went to Paris to study and stayed through the late 1890′s where he painted his well known Parisian market and street scenes.
Van Gorder was a highly respected painter in his day and his works [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sadayuki Uno (Japanese/American, 1901 to 1989),
Sadayuki Uno was born in Japan, but moved to the United States to be with his father. He attended high school in Oakland, after which he received a scholarship to the California College of Arts and Crafts. He continued to study art and worked as an interior decorator and gardener in the Bay Area through the Depression. Uno was relocated to the Fresno Assembly Center after the bombing [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Gale Tyler (1855 – 1931)
One of America’s foremost marine artists, James Gale Tyler captured on canvas a variety of ships, yachts, seamen and coastal scenes. Born in Oswego, New York in 1855, Tyler was mostly a self-taught artist, but in 1870, studied briefly with marine artist Archibald Cary Smith (1837-1911). Tyler worked in New York and Providence, Rhode Island in the mid 1880s-1890s, but it was Connecticut where he primarily worked and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Olin Travis (1888 to 1975)
Born in Dallas, Texas, Olin Travis studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and after graduation, remained with the school as an instructor. In 1923, Travis moved back to Dallas, opening a studio. Three years later, he founded the Dallas Art Institute, where he would eventually teach such Texas artists as Everrett Spruce and William Lester. Over the years, Travis exhibited in local and national shows, including the Museum [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry Edward Spernon Tozer (1864-1955)
Henry Edward Spernon Tozer, more commonly known as Henry Spernon Tozer was born on 5th December 1864 at 20 High Street, Bluetown, Sheerness. The son of Henry Edwin Tozer and his wife Mary, nee Childs. On the 4th January, 1894 he married Mary Ann Fosbery at Thursley Church. He died at The Clump, Thurlsey on 15th November 1955.
The picture is of Thursley Post Office at The Clump [...] Click here to continue reading.
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