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William Henry Mander (British, 1850 to 1922)
William Henry Mander was best known for his landscape paintings. His naturalistic style used a palette of soft colors ranging from greens and browns to yellows. Rural cottages, landscapes, and figures engaged in activities such as fishing or a shepherd leading his flock were is usual subjects. He specialized in painting views of the Midlands, Birmingham, North Wales, Lincoln and Sheffield, where he lived.
Mander’s style [...] Click here to continue reading.
Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928)
Fanny Reed. Reminiscences Musical and Other. Boston: Knight and Millet, 1903. Pages 85-90.
CHAPTER VII: MADELEINE LEMAIRE.
Who that knows her does not love Madame Madeleine Lemaire, the most gracious and fascinating of women and a most brilliant star in the artistic world of Paris! At a soiree at Princess Scilla’s, some years since, my attention was attracted by a very sympathetic and intelligent face; I asked this lady’s name, and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roderick Dempster MacKenzie
Roderick MacKenzie was raised and educated in Mobile, Alabama. He studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the Chapu and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a student of Constant, Laurens, and Jules Lefebvre.
In 1913, after spending twenty years in India, MacKenzie returned to Mobile. He painted a series of pictures of the steel works at [...] Click here to continue reading.
David Maass (1929- )
An avid sportsman and ardent contributor to conservation organizations, David Maass has been actively painting game birds for more than thirty years. In the past twenty years he has designed more than thirty conservation stamps and prints, a distinction few artists can claim.
His 1982 winning canvasback painting marks the second time that a Maass design has appeared on the Federal Duck Stamp and Print. In 1974 he reached [...] Click here to continue reading.
The M. Austin & Jill R. Fine Collection Marcus Austin Fine’s passion for collecting American Folk Art played an integral role in our family life. There are so many memories. Vacations and drop-offs at summer camps and colleges always included stops off the beaten path to visit antiques dealers, auctions or shows. At an early age, my sister and I boycotted these visits, remaining in the stifling car reading teen magazines. Many years later, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Michael Lyne (1912 to 1989)
Michael Lyne was a British hands-on sporting artist who worked in oils and watercolor. His art career flourished as an illustrator for books and magazines, especially for the British Country Life magazine. He also did commission work for many horseracing notables including Paul Mellon and many other Virginia and New York families.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988)
Luigi Lucioni was born in Malnate, Italy, in 1900 and is a well-respected artist known for the photographic realism of his landscapes and still life paintings. Lucioni immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1911. He studied art at Cooper Union, and at the National Academy of Design under William Auerbach Levy.
A prolific etcher, the linear approach to this technique solidified has crisp, realistic style in painting. Lucioni [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas W. Lorimer (Born 1941)
Thomas Lorimer commonly depicts Indian camp scenes at the exact moment of sundown, with an accuracy of light and starkness of detail. Born in Indiana in 1941, Lorimer used the claim from a motorcycle accident to enroll at the Chicago American Academy of Art, and has since favored Western scenes.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., March 2007
Richard Lorenz (1858 to 1915)
A native of Voigstaedt, Weimar, Germany, Richard Lorenz is best known for his portrayals of settlers and their ensuing conflicts with the Plains Indian. As a young man, he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Weiman, and had as an instructor Heinrich Albert Brendel, a well-known painter of wildlife.
Lorenz came to the United States in 1886 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he joined a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Leota Williams Loop (American, 1893-1961)
Leota Williams Loop was an Indiana artist who painted floral still life and landscapes. She was born in Fountain City, Indiana and spent her career as an active artist in Brown County, Indiana. She began studying art at age ten from Olive Rush at the Fairmont Academy. She also studied with William Forsyth, Theodore Steele, Will Vawter and Randolph Coates, all associated with the Brown County art colony, [...] Click here to continue reading.
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