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C. Bosseron Chambers (1883-1941) A St. Louis painter, Chambers (American, born 1883) studied at the Royal Academy in Berlin. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and the Salmagundi Club. His work is several public collections in St. Louis and Chicago. His specialty was figurative works painted in an illustrative manner similar to that of Louis Icart. Gaston Chaissac (French, 1910 to 1964) Chaissac’s brightly-colored primitive compositions run the line between the French academic painting tradition and what is termed ‘Outsider’ art. His paintings are closely related to the work Jean Dubuffet and are often categorized as part of Dubuffet’s ‘Art Brut.’ Chaissac, however, came to reject this categorization and the theoretical implications of the Art Brut movement; while Dubuffet strove to create ‘raw’ art, Chaissac’s eloquent figural images conveyed a [...] Click here to continue reading. Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985) Marc Chagall was a man of keen intelligence, a shrewd observer of the contemporary scene, with a great sympathy for human suffering. He was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia; his original name was Moishe Shagal (Segal), but when he became a foremost member of the Ecole de Paris, he adopted French citizenship and the French spelling of his name. Vitebsk was a good-sized Russian town of [...] Click here to continue reading. George Catlin (1796-1872) George Catlin was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania in 1796. He was the first American artist of stature to visit and depict the Plains Indians on his own and spent about eight years (1824 to 1836) traveling among the 48 North American Indian Tribes, including tribes in Alaska. His sketches and paintings are the first and most important record of land west of the Mississippi River before white settlement. His goal [...] Click here to continue reading. John William Casilear (1811-1893) An important painter of the Hudson River School, Casilear (1811 to 1893) painted extensively in upstate New York and Vermont. He studied under Asher B. Durand (1796 to 1886) in 1831 and in 1840 he traveled to Europe for three years with Durand and John F. Kensett (1816 to 1872). Casilear was originally trained as a banknote engraver, but by 1854 switched to painting full-time as his celebrity increased. From [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Mickell Burnham (American, 1818 to 1866) Raised in Boston, Thomas Burnham did a famous painting called “The Lewis and Clark Expedition,” which is at the Whitney Gallery of the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum in Cody, Wyoming. He lived in Detroit, Michigan, where he became a sign painter and also gained some success as a portraitist and painter of genre scenes and landscapes. In the mid 19th century, he returned to Boston and then [...] Click here to continue reading. Elbridge Ayer Burbank Elbridge Burbank was a tireless and prolific painter of the North American Indian, who began work in the period after the close of the frontier in the 1890′s and continued well into this century. The Indians Burbank painted nicknamed the artist “Many Brushes,” and it is estimated that he worked among as many as 125 tribes, exhibiting more than 1,200 works in his lifetime. Burbank was born and raised in Illinois, [...] Click here to continue reading. Virginia Fouche Bolton (1929-2004) An important member of South Carolina’s art community for over forty years, Virginia Fouche Bolton was a graduate of Winthrop College. In 1951 she married and settled in Mt. Pleasant. Ten years and five children later, she began teaching at the St. John the Baptist parochial school. Teaching everything from English to Science, Bolton soon went on to Moultrie and Wando High Schools where her teaching career expanded to art [...] Click here to continue reading. Alfred L. Boisseau (1823 to 1901) Alfred Boisseau was born in Paris, France, trained under Paul Delaroche and exhibited at the Paris Salon. He moved to New Orleans in the 1840s and in the following decades worked as an itinerant painter throughout the Midwest and along the East Coast. His style ranged from genre, landscape and portrait painting. While in New Orleans, Boisseau came into contact with the Choctaw Indians, who were eventually forced [...] Click here to continue reading. Aaron Bohrod (1907 – 1992) Aaron Bohrod was known for a range of work in watercolor and gouache that included realist figures in cityscapes, landscapes, Surrealism, and trompe l’oeil painting, Aaron Bohrod spent his early career in Chicago, where he was born. In 1948, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he became a long-time a member of the art faculty and satisfied the inclinations of many artists who leaned towards European-influenced modernism. In this [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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