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Jules Marcel-Lenoir (1872 – 1931) Marcel-Lenoir was born Jules Oury on May 12, 1872 in Montauban, France. Marcel-Lenoir moved to Paris in 1889 and attended l’Ecole des Arts Decoratifs for six months. He was greatly influenced by the Italian painters represented at the Louvre and works from the Middle Ages at the Cluny museum. Marcel-Lenoir’s highly stylized Symbolist works came before the turn of the 20th century. He participated in the Salons de [...] Click here to continue reading. Sir Peter Lely (British, 1618-1680) Sir Peter Lely, of Westphalian birth was a politically versatile and highly successful portrait painter. After the death of Van Dyck, he ran a large and efficient studio that was patronized successively by Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II. (When Cromwell was having his portrait painted, he famously directed Lely to “remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything, as you see me.”) Lely dominated the London art [...] Click here to continue reading. Doris Emrick Lee (1905-1983) Doris Emrick Lee was born in Aledo, IL, on Feb. 1, 1905 to a merchant banker, was the fourth of six children. Growing up her artistic influence came from a grandmother who used to whittle and carve wood and a great-grandfather that had retired from farming to paint. She was educated at Lake Forest, Illinois, and Rockford College. Upon graduation she married and traveled to Paris for five months where [...] Click here to continue reading. Lee LeBlanc (1913 to 1988) LeBlanc studied in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art School and PAFA before joining the staff at Disney Studios. He later held administrative positions at 20th Century Fox and MGM until his retirement in 1962. He then moved to Iron River, MI where he remained. In 1972 he began designing stamps for wildlife and fishing licenses and won the Federal duck stamp competition in 1973. Information courtesy of [...] Click here to continue reading. Albert LeNormand (born 1915) Born May 14, 1915 LeNormand studied at the National Academy of Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Academie Julian. He opened a school in Paris with friends, and later an Academy in Lyon. His work has been exhibited at the Salon du Mai and at a one-man show in Paris. After his first tapestry, “Les Etendards,” in 1946, he made fifteen drawings for the tapestries for “L’Ange Gardien” for [...] Click here to continue reading. Jasper Holman Lawman (1825-1906) The 19th century American landscape and portrait painter was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1825 and moved to Pittsburgh in 1846 where he died in 1906. Lawman traveled to Paris to study at the atelier of Couture, following which he returned to Pittsburgh and established a studio. In the mid-1860′s he joined an informal group of western Pennsylvania artists know as the “The Scalp Level group” who were known for [...] Click here to continue reading. Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940) Every region in America seems to cherish a favorite artist who over an extended period of time was able to capture the spirit of the people and the country they painted. For many in Alaska, that artist is Sydney Laurence. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1865, Laurence studied at the Art Students League and by the late 1880′s he exhibited at local galleries. Following studies in England, he eventually [...] Click here to continue reading. Lorenzo Palmer Latimer (American, 1857 to 1941) Latimer was the son of California pioneers and an 1882 graduate of the San Francisco School of Design. His work was hailed by his contemporaries, and selections were exhibited at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Latimer would go on to teach at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, later renamed the California School of Design. His work is increasingly sought after with the increased [...] Click here to continue reading. William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938) William Lathrop was born in Ohio in 1859. He was the founder of the New Hope, Pennsylvania, Impressionist Colony and was known as one of America’s premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His style was Tonalist, which coincided with Impressionism but was neither plein air nor focused on light, sunny colors. He was not innovative in style, but much admired for the strength and [...] Click here to continue reading. Bernard Langlais (1923-1977) Born in Old Town, Maine, the son of a carpenter and in an area that relied for its economy on the timber industry, Langlais studied commercial art in Washington, D.C., before enlisting in the Navy in 1942. After his military training he attended the Corcoran School of Art, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He later attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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