|
|||||||
|
Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (1788-1838) Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl was born in New York, the son of famed portraitist Ralph Earl (1751-1801). He likely learned much from his father, but early in his career, he also studied with John Trumbull and Benjamin West in England. He spent 1814-1815 in Paris where he met John Vanderlyn and studied the greats at the Louvre. Upon his return to the U.S., Earl toured the south, painting portraits. [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Eakins (1844 to 1916) Born in 1844, Thomas Eakins grew up in Philadelphia and later studied in Paris. His focus on portrait paintings grew from his appreciation of the candid humanism seen in 17th century Dutch and Spanish paintings. Instead of focusing on lavish, ornate detail aimed to impress the viewer, Eakins shows extreme but honest human emotion in his portraits. His talent and ability to create a somber yet frank tone [...] Click here to continue reading. Mabel Dwight (1876-1955) Mabel Dwight was born in Cincinnati, raised in New Orleans, and studied at the Hopkins Art School in San Francisco. A religious socialist, she often produced satirical works about life in the city. She worked in oil, lithography and printmaking. She died in Sellersville, Pennsylvania in 1955. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. William Herbert “Buck” Dunton (1878-1936) Buck Dunton was born in Augusta, Maine on August 28, 1878. Having spent much of his time in the woods of Maine with his grandfather, he developed a keen interest in the outdoors, hunting and animals that would last throughout his life. Dunton began sketching on his excursions, and by the age of twelve, he was selling illustrations to his local newspapers and to the Boston Sunday Globe. [...] Click here to continue reading. Raoul Dufy (French 1877 to 1953) In 1900 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and experimented with Impressionism admiring the works of Monet and Pissarro, but by 1904 he had adopted the Fauve style of Matisse and began to work in richer colors. He developed his own theory of coleur-lumiere, (heightened ambient color/light) and was the only Fauve whose work retained this brightness. About a year after the war, around 1919 [...] Click here to continue reading. Frank V. Dudley (1868-1957) Frank Dudley studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1918, Dudley had an exhibition of his paintings of the area at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also exhibited at the Chicago Gallery Association, Union League Club, Chicago (a painting by Dudley remains in their collection), Hoosier Salon, and the Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dudley was also a devoted supporter of the Indiana dunes area conservation movement. Victor Dubreuil (American, active circa 1880 to 1910) Dubreuil remains a rather shadowy figure in the history of trompe l’oeil still life painting, since little of his biography has been traced. He may have been the son of a French couple, Aime T. and Caroline Ferraro Dubreuil, who emigrated to New York around 1847 (Old Money: American Trompe L’Oeil Images of Currency, exhibition catalog, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1988, p. 70). His birth and [...] Click here to continue reading. Alexander John Drysdale (1870-1934) Born in Marrieta, Georgia, Alexander Drysdale took classes at the Southern Art Union when his family moved to New Orleans in 1883. From 1901 to 1903, he lived in New York City, and studied with Robert Henri, George Inness, and William Merritt Chase. He returned to New Orleans and painted primarily landscapes. In 1916 he developed a watercolor method of diluting oil paint in kerosene which he then applied with [...] Click here to continue reading. Werner Drewes (1899-1985) An important American modern painter and printmaker, Werner Drewes was born in Niederlausitz, Germany on July 27, 1899 and first came to California in 1926. He was highly influenced by the printmaking tradition of the German Expressionists, and continued his craftsmanship at the Bauhaus. He became close friends with Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer. Drewes moved to New York in 1930, met Katherine Drier, and became involved [...] Click here to continue reading. George W. Drew (1875-1968) New York native, George W. Drew was born in 1875 and is most remembered for his landscape paintings. Drew studied under the artists John Califano and Henry Pember Smith and held various exhibits at locations such as the National Academy of Design (1898), the New York State Fair, the Newark Museum, and the New York Museum of Science and Industry. He was a member of the Allied Arts of America, [...] Click here to continue reading. |
|||||||
|
Copyright p4A.com, ltd. & Internet Antique Gazette - 2025 - All Rights Reserved |
|||||||
