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Harrison Cady (1877-1970) W. Harrison Cady was “a man who saw things that were not there” said editor and owner of the old Life Magazine, John Ames, about this successful illustrator who depicted nature with great fidelity and imagination. Fantasy and friendly animals living in ethereal magical worlds became Cady’s trademark and thus prompted his work on hundreds of book and newspaper pages, Old Mother West Wind and Peter Rabbit by Thornton W. Burgess [...] Click here to continue reading. James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894) James Edward Buttersworth was known for marine paintings from subjects he observed in the waters off New York. His career spanned sixty years and was dedicated to portraits of all types of ships at sea such as racing clipper ships, steamers, and yachts. He was born into a family of English marine painters in Middlesex County, England, and was schooled in the tradition of English marine painting. Between 1845 [...] Click here to continue reading. Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936) Ohio-born Theodore Earl Butler began his career studying at the Art Students League in New York under William Merritt Chase. He then traveled to Paris, studied at the Academie Julian under Lefebvre, and won an honorable mention at the 1888 Salon de Paris. Butler first summered in Giverny in 1888. After several visits to the town, he settled there in 1892. In his first decade in Giverny, Butler associated [...] Click here to continue reading. Harold L. Burrows (1889 to 1965) At the age of 17, Hal Burrows came to New York to study and room with sculptor and fellow-Utahan Mahonri Young. He was also greatly influenced by his teachers George Bellows and Robert Henri, but obtained freelance work as an illustrator and cartoonist for Life and Judge magazines alongside another friend from Utah, John Held, Jr. During WWI, Burrows was a staff cartoonist on the Army newspaper Stars [...] Click here to continue reading. John Burgum (1826-1927) John Burgum is listed in “The New York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America”, page 96. He was born in Birmingham, England and came to New Hampshire in 1850. He was a portrait and carriage painter working in the Concord, New Hampshire area in the mid-19th century. Edgar Bundy, A.R.A. (British, 1862 to 1922) Edgar Bundy worked primarily in watercolor, and is best known for his historical and genre scenes. Bundy’s work was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the 1850s and 1860s such as William Morris (1834 -1896) and Sir John Millias (1829-1896). He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915 and at the Paris Salon in 1907. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Karl Albert Buehr (1866-1952) Buehr was one of seven sons born to a prosperous German family who emigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a Chicago Times Herald editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the [...] Click here to continue reading. William Henry Buck (1840 to 1888) In the late 1870′s and until his untimely death in 1888, William Henry Buck was recognized as Louisiana’s leading landscape painter. Born in Norway, Buck settled in Boston and arrived in New Orleans around 1860. For the next twenty years Buck worked as a clerk in the cotton business, and studied under Richard Clague in his spare time. By 1880 his well-received exhibitions at Seebold’s and Wagener’s galleries [...] Click here to continue reading. Francois Brunery (1849 to 1926) Francois Brunery was born in Turin, Northern Italy and studied in Paris under Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904). It was in the early 1890′s that he began to gain the reputation as the leading artist in cardinal genre paintings. At this time, Europe was experiencing an economic prosperity for the middle class and with it carried a lessening in regard for the church. The artist superbly paints the figures in a [...] Click here to continue reading. Anthony Buchta (Indiana, 1896-1967) A landscape painter, etcher and teacher, Anthony Buchta lived in Chicago where he studied at the Art Institute and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. He was also active in Indiana where he exhibited with the Hoosier Salon and painted in Brown County. Source: “Who Was Who in American Art” by Peter Falk Information courtesy of Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers Inc. |
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