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Pal Fried (Hungarian/American 1893 – 1976) Pal Fried, was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie under Professor Hugo Pohl and in Paris under Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. Under Pohl’s influence, he executed many portraits, nudes and Oriental scenes in pastel. He was also greatly influenced by the French Impressionist School of Renoir and Degas. His works are listed in the Fine Arts Book. Fried’s signature on his paintings was Fried [...] Click here to continue reading. Pierre Edouard Frere Realist painter Pierre Edouard Frere is one of the most popular genre painters of mid-19th century France. He is best known for domestic scenes with peasant children and his paintings are marked by a sentimentality and sincerity. Frere studied with academic painter Paul Delaroche before attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His tender scenes were successful in his native France as well as in England and America, and his work was touted [...] Click here to continue reading. George Frayne (born 1944) George Frayne, better known as “Commander Cody,” is by turns an artist and classic rock musician. Frayne has described himself as “an artist with an artist’s temperament” noting, “Sometimes I just feel like I’ve got to rock n’ roll. Sometimes I feel like I can’t rock n’ roll for another second, ‘Where’s my paintbrush?’ The next second it’s ‘If I see another paintbrush, I’m going to commit seppuku.” He was [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles A. Fraser (1782-1860) Charles A. Fraser, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most notable Southern portrait miniaturists of the late 18th and 19th centuries. He resided at 56 King Street his entire life, and as a result the majority of his portrait miniatures are of Charlestonians, even though he made several trips out of South Carolina. Fraser is also noted for the landscape and literary themes within his paintings. [...] Click here to continue reading. Myles Birket Foster Born in 1825, Myles Birket Foster was given a Quaker education and apprenticed to the wood engraver Ebenezer Landells until about 1850. He worked exclusively as an engraver and a black and white illustrator throughout the 1850s. Foster taught himself to paint in watercolors and began to actively exhibit after 1859. He traveled considerably on the continent starting in 1852, visiting Venice on several occasions, and was commissioned to make a [...] Click here to continue reading. Benjamin Foster (1852-1926) Born in 1852 in North Anson, Maine, Benjamin “Ben” Foster worked at a number of odd jobs before coming to painting in 1882. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City in 1882 under the direction of A. H. Thayer and with Luc Olivier Merson and Aime Morot in Paris from 1886 to 1887. Foster’s landscapes depicting scenes around his Carnwall, Connecticut home were particularly popular due to [...] Click here to continue reading. William Forsyth (1854-1935) A highly important Hoosier group painter, Forsyth (1854 to 1935) was primarily a landscape painter. He studied at the Royal Academy of Munich. He exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition (1904), the Pan-Pacific Exposition (1915), the Richmond Art Association, the Indianapolis Art Association, and the Hoosier Salon (1925 to 1935). His work is in the collections of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indiana State Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and the Herron Art [...] Click here to continue reading. James Edgar Forkner (1867-1945) Forkner was known for his landscape, city and coastal views. This biography was submitted by Richmond Art Museum. Nationally known watercolorist, Edgar Forkner was born in 1867 in Richmond, Indiana. Equally adept at painting floral still-lives and harbor scenes, Forkner exhibited over twenty years in the Hoosier Salon Exhibition winning numerous awards for best watercolor. He received his training at the Art Student League in New York studying with J. [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry Folsom The New England folk artist Henry Folsom’s life dates are given variously as 1792 to 1814 or circa 1805 to 1825. The noted twentieth century collector and scholar Nina Fletcher Little used the 1792 to 1814 dates. Henry was the son of James and Sarah Gilman Folsom. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy with the class of 1804. He went to Boston to study art [...] Click here to continue reading. John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972) Landscape painter John Folinsbee was a leading member of the New Hope School of American Impressionism, a group of artists working in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Folinsbee was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied there with Jonas Lie. By 1916 he had moved to Pennsylvania, where he began to paint landscapes of and around the Delaware River. Folinsbee is best known for his plein air winter scenes. A member of [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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