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Mervin M. Jules (1912-1994) Mervin Jules was born in Baltimore in 1912. The son of a men’s haberdasher, Jules was encouraged by his parents to pursue a musical career. By the time he graduated from Baltimore City College in 1930, he was determined to paint and teach art. After completing a four-year course at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Art Students League in New York (under Thomas Hart Benton). [...] Click here to continue reading. Matthew Harris Jouett (American, Kentucky, 1788 to 1827) Matthew Harris Jouett, who was born in what is now Mercer County, Kentucky, has long been regarded as the most noted portrait painter in the ante-bellum South. After studying at Transylvania University, he spent four months in 1816 studying with Gilbert Stuart in Boston. Much admired by his mentor, Jouett returned to the South where he painted 300 portraits, very few with a landscape. Information courtesy [...] Click here to continue reading. Carl Jordan (1863-1946) A portrait, landscape, genre, and history painter, Carl Jordan was drawn to the visual arts at an early age, and received a thorough academic education at the arts academy in Munich, where he studied with Stahuber, Pefregger, and Loffts. In 1891, Jordan accepted a position as a Professor at the Academy des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg. Hugh Bolton Jones (1848-1927) Hugh Bolton Jones, together with his brother, Francis Coates Jones, followed the path of many late 19th century American artists and, after early art studies on the East Coast, sought further instruction at the Academie Julian in Paris, between 1876 and 1880. During his stay in France, Jones discovered both Pont-Aven and Grez-sur-Loing, but in neither case did his experiences result in any doctrinaire aesthetic. Instead, his training launched [...] Click here to continue reading. Gerald Harvey Jones (G. Harvey, American, born 1933) Gerald Harvey Jones was born in the Hill Country north of San Antonio and grew up with strong western traditions. His grandfather had been a trail boss who had pushed cattle along the Texas trails to northern rail heads. His stories of those adventurous, as well as arduous, days informed the early days of the artist and helped inspire his early artistic leanings. After graduating with [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry James Johnstone (British, 1835 to 1907) Henry Johnstone was born in Birmingham, England but spent much of his life in Australia and from 1877 to the 1890s lived in San Francisco. He was also a portrait photographer and was a partner in Johnstone, O’Shaughnessy and Company in Melbourne. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. David Claypool(e) Johnston (1798-1865) David Johnston, the first American satirical artist of note, was born in Philadelphia in 1798. He was apprenticed to Francis Kearney, a local engraver, from 1815 to 1819. Johnston may have lived in London from 1822 to 1824. Although his first caricatures date from about 1819, his career may be said to have begun when he settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1825. He made the first commercially successful American [...] Click here to continue reading. Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939) Born in Big Grove, Iowa, Frank Tenney Johnson spent his youth exploring the Missouri River in the Council Bluffs area, witnessing the spectacle of Western migration. Watching pioneers heading west in their covered wagons and stage coaches stirred a keen interest in Western life by Johnson. In this period he was greatly influenced by the artist Richard Lorenz, and became determined at an early age to make art his [...] Click here to continue reading. David Johnson, (American 1827-1908) David Johnson was born in New York City in 1827. He was known particularly for his accuracy in defining rock formations and foilage and was closely associated with the second generation of Hudson River School painters. He was influenced by the works of John F. Kensett, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and John Casilear. Between 1867 and 1874, David Johnson painted a series of views of boaters on Lake George. According [...] Click here to continue reading. John Kehrer (German. American, born 1831, died after 1900) John Kehrer was born in Wurtemburg, Germany the son of a grape farmer. A trained stone mason, he came to the United States in 1849, settling initially in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia). An 1858 tour of “the west” prompted his removal from Wheeling to Martins Ferry in Belmont County, Ohio, where he followed his father’s footsteps and began raising grapes. His cultivation of grapes [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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