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Sacha Moldovan (1901-1982) Born in Russia, Sacha Moldovan moved with his family to New York in 1915. He attended the National Academy of Art & Design in New York. In 1919 he moved to Paris and studied at the prestigious “Academy Julian.” He met Henri Matisse in 1922 and studied and worked in his atelier. The following year he met and became a close friend of Chaim Soutine. Working with Matisse and Soutine was [...] Click here to continue reading. Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875) The son of a peasant farmer from Normandy, Millet overcame great odds to train as an artist in Paris during the 1830′s. At the outbreak of a Paris cholera epidemic in 1849, he was compelled to move to the Barbizon countryside south of the city at the advice of fellow artist Charles Jacque (who also taught Millet etching). Throughout his career, Millet never forgot his rural upbringing and produced images [...] Click here to continue reading. William Meuttman (1869-1948) William Meuttman was born to German parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. He trained under Duveneck and was a member of the Cincinnati Art Club. Like his contemporaries, Henry Farny and Joseph Henry Sharp, Meuttman traveled to the American West. The Smithsonian has records of 3 paintings he executed in Arizona between 1910 and 1920. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, March 2007 Evelyn Borchard Metzger (1911-2004) Metzger painted a variety of subjects in various styles including realism, impressionism, fauvism and cubism. She painted many urban genre scenes of New York City. In 1950, she had a major exhibition in Argentina and then exhibited in France, Mexico and the United States. Her work is in the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. Information courtesy of Charlton Hall Auctions George Joseph Mess (1898-1962) George Mess was a landscape and genre painter, as well as an illustrator and etcher. Born in Ohio, he studied at: John Herron AI, Tiffany Fnd., School of Modern Design, Columbia University, and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, France. Some of his teachers were: Otto Stark, William Forsyth, Andre Strauss, Robert Wolff, Arthur Dow, and Wayman Adams. He was the first husband of artist Evelynne Mess Daily, brother of artist Gordon Mess [...] Click here to continue reading. Emma Mendenhall (1873-1964) Emma Mendenhall was a Cincinnati artist who studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck while the city was a thriving art center. She exhibited in the United States and in Europe, and favored impressionistic landscapes and still-lifes, especially those with flowers. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Mary Blood Mellen (1817-1882) Mary Blood was born in Sterling, Massachusetts, in 1817. Following her marriage to Rev. Charles Mellen in 1840, the couple moved to Gloucester. By the end of that decade, Mellen found herself working alongside famed artist Fitz Hugh Lane, as his student and assistant. In recent years, scholars have discovered that the relationship between Lane and Mellen, which has often been presented as one of master artist and student, was [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827-1887) Joseph Meeker received a scholarship to the National Academy of Design in New York City where he studied with famed Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand. During the Civil War, he traveled down the Mississippi River, as a Union Navy paymaster. In his free time, he sketched and studied the bayous and swamps of Louisiana. Meeker probably painted “Louisiana Bayou” while living in St. Louis, Missouri. There he did [...] Click here to continue reading. Lewis Henry Meakin (1850-1917) Lewis Henry Meakin (Harry) was born in Newcastle, England in 1850, the son of an English porcelain worker and emigrated to Cinncinnati in 1863 by way of Canada. He was a landscape painter, etcher, and long-time instructor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Meakin studied extensively in Cincinnati (under Thomas S. Noble), Munich and Paris. He was a founding member of both the Cincinnati Art Club and the Society [...] Click here to continue reading. Laura Brown McMillan (1859- ? ) Laura L. Brown was born in Malone, New York on April 23, 1859. She married William McMillan in Indiana in 1882. She studied at John Herron Art Institute, Depauw University, with Edward Sitzman and George Innes Jr. She was a member of the Hoosier Salon and Indiana Art Club. Source: http: / /www.gpamericana.com Information courtesy of Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers Inc. |
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