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Paul Patkotak (1892-1980) Paul Patkotak was educated in the Catholic faith after missionaries visited his home village of Wainwright, Alaska. In 1911 he attended a seminary school in Seattle and returned home to Alaska spreading the Word of the Gospel. As a self-taught artist, Brother Paul stated in 1958, “I do not draw anymore. My eyes are getting dull.” (Lester 1995: 442) Patkotak’s work has been exhibited at the Philbrook Art Center, Alaska Native [...] Click here to continue reading. Jean Parrish (1911-2004) Jean Parrish learned from her father, artist Maxfield Parrish, one of the most famous illustrators of the 20th century. She was the only Parrish child to pursue an artistic career, and her interests are evident in some of Maxfield’s early work. She posed in his famous Daybreak, and made thematic suggestions for some of his other famous works. She lived a tumultuous life, spending her youth floating from school to [...] Click here to continue reading. Walter Launt Palmer (1854 to 1932) The landscapes of Walter Palmer, particularly his snow scenes, were popular prizewinners throughout a long professional career that began before the artist was 20 years old. Born in 1854 in Albany, New York, the son of sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer, Walter grew up among art and artists. His first lessons, in his teens, were with portraitist Charles Elliott and Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Church. Palmer’s work was [...] Click here to continue reading. John William Orth (1889-1976) Orth died in Santa Anna 1976, and he was one of the last in that area to paint in the style of the Old Masters. Late in his life, he adopted a Gothic style. His forte was portraiture of well-known persons that included Winston Churchill, Charles Laughton, and Albert Einstein. He was originally from Bavaria and emigrated to the United States in 1923. He and his wife Didi led [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Orr (1879-1961) Louis Orr was a Connecticut-born artist who studied at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1906. He later went to Paris at the request of the French government to make etchings of cathedrals that were under bombardment by the Germans in WWI. He has the distinction of being the first American artist to have his works acquired by the Louvre. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835-1907) Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Thomas Noble studied art with George Peter Alexander Healy and Kentucky artist Oliver Frazer. In 1856 he traveled to Paris to study with the historical painter Thomas Couture who pronounced the young artist as “Made for a painter.” Returning home from Europe on the eve of the Civil War, Noble joined the Confederate Army despite his opposition to slavery. After the war, he opened a studio [...] Click here to continue reading. August Norieri (New Orleans, 1860-1898) The inspired career of the August Norieri was tragically ended by his untimely death in 1898 at the age of thirty-eight. Norieri’s paintings reflect his fascination with the waterways of New Orleans and the variety of boats that traversed them. The picturesque steamboats along with the hard working tugboats of the Mississippi River, the sailing boats on Lake Ponchartrain and the steam launch pleasure boats on Bayou St. John [...] Click here to continue reading. William Edward Norton (1843-1916) William Edward Norton grew up in Boston, studied at the Lowell Institute and later with George Inness. He went to sea as a teenager (his family owned ships) and his experiences there led him to favor marine subjects throughout his career. In 1868, Norton went to Paris to continue his studies, and eventually settled in London. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and at the Paris Salon. He returned [...] Click here to continue reading. George Loftus Noyes (1864 to 1954) A Boston school artist best known for his landscapes, George Loftus Noyes plein air paintings adopted the loose brushstrokes of the French Impressionists. Born in Ontario, Noyes moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a child. He started taking painting lessons when he was fifteen from English artist George Bartlett at the Massachusetts Normal School, and had an apprenticeship at the New England Glass Company painting floral designs on glass. [...] Click here to continue reading. The Women of The Brandywine – Violet Oakley (1874-1961) The Brandywine Valley, which sweeps from southeasten Pennsylvania into northern Delaware, fostered a wealth of talent at the turn of the 20th century. Howard Pyle, known as “the Father of American Illustration” was beginning his own artistic movement and school in this rural area of the East Coast. Pyle’s romantic imagery in his work was passed on to his female students whom he taught with [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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