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Wolfgang Rabl (Austrian, born 1942)
Wolfgang Rabl studied art techniques at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, in 1964 and 1965. At this time Vienna was the center for the influential movement known as ‘Fantastic Realism’. Generally, Fantastic Realism combines extreme realism with either fantasy or elements of the unconscious. The movement was officially founded in 1947 by such artists as Rudolf Hausner (1914-1995), Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden. Another well known representative was [...] Click here to continue reading.
Walter Emerson Baum, ANA (1884-1956)
A son of Bucks County, Walter E. Baum was born in the town of Sellersville in 1884 and died there in 1956.
Considered by many to be “the father of art in the Lehigh Valley”, Baum was a founder of the Lehigh Art Alliance in the pre-WWII era and was director of the Allentown Museum of Art, as well as of his own Baum School of Art, and art [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Pierce Barnes (1893 to 1954)
This Philadelphia native painted in Collingsdale, Pennsylvania and studied at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. As his painting talent grew and his passion for art progressed, Barnes was given the opportunity to study abroad in Europe for two years. His work was exhibited through the PAFA and he received both the Cresson Traveling Scholarship and the Second Tappan Prize awards [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Bard (American, 1815 to 1897) – Ship Portraitist
Working in Greenwich Village, New York, James Bard and his twin brother John collaborated together in the early nineteenth century and became the preeminent maritime artists of their time. After the American Revolution and War of 1812, the young American republic experienced a burst of financial growth and national pride. Paintings of sailing ships and steamers, which depicted the speed, beauty and advancements in industry [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Herbert Baker (1878-1943)
A member of the “Indiana School” of painters in the early 20th century, George Herbert Baker was born in 1878 in Muncie, Indiana. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and earned a number of prizes for his exhibits in the Hoosier Salon, Muncie and Richmond (Indian) Art Association, and at the 1930 Indiana state fair. In addition to oils, Baker worked frequently in watercolors and pastel.
Baker was closely [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cosmo Alexander (Scottish, American, 1724 to 1772)
Alexander was the son of Scottish portraitist John Alexander. Cosmo traveled throughout Europe before coming to America in 1766. In America, he also traveled widely, from Newport south to Charleston. He is most well-known for taking a young Gilbert Stuart as an apprentice while in Newport.
Information courtesy of Garth’s Auctions, November 2010.
George Ames Aldrich
A landscape artist, George Ames Aldrich was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 3, 1872. His early art experience took place in the 1890s while living in Europe. He studied art in the Midwest, the East Coast, Paris, and throughout Europe, and worked as an illustrator for both “Punch” magazine and “The London Times” in the 1890s. In 1918, Aldrich arrived in Chicago and became involved with the South Bend art [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (British 1870-1935)
Cecil Aldin did his first set of hunting prints in 1899, The Fallowfield Hunt. This was a series of six sporting prints in which many of the backgrounds were pastiches of equine destinations that Mr. Aldin had known. He also did a series on inns that have become his best selling work to date. Aldin worked mostly in pastel or watercolor and produced a number of fine etchings [...] Click here to continue reading.
Adam Emory Albright
A Chicago area impressionist painter, Albright (1862 to 1957) specialized in scenes of his children in outdoor settings. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Hoosier Salon, and the Chicago Gallery Association.
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Josef Albers was born to a family of craftsmen in Bottrop in the Ruhr region of Germany in 1888. He studied art in Munich and Berlin from 1913 to 1920, but his most significant education took place in Weimar, Germany at the Bauhaus, an association of artists, craftsmen, and architects committed to a creed of merging craft techniques with creative aspects of fine art. In 1923 he became a teacher [...] Click here to continue reading.
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