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Cornelis Botke (1887-1954) Botke lived in Chicago in 1906, and enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he met his wife, painter Jesse Arms. The two moved to Carmel, California in 1919 where Cornelius became an instructor at the Carmel Arts & Crafts, and exhibited at the Carmel Association of Artists, California Art Club, Foundation of Western Art, and the California Society of Etchers. In 1927, the Botkes moved to Southern California, and [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis William Bonsib (Indiana, 1892-1979) Louis Bonsib was a landscape artist born in Vincennes, Indiana. He remained active in that state as a painter and teacher, serving as president of the Fort Wayne Art School in 1948 and 1949. He earned his AB Degree from Indiana University in 1916, and in 1971 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Vincennes University. He exhibited widely including the Hoosier Salon and in Ogunquit, Maine. His paintings [...] Click here to continue reading. Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) The son of a New York doctor, Blakelock attended the Free Academy of New York where he studied music and fine art. He left after only one year to paint landscapes and traveled west, sketching various themes throughout Mexico, Panama, and eventually the West Indies. There are no clear records of Blakelock’s life or travels, but he returned to New York around 1876. Having adopted the radically new Impressionist style, [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Hamilton Blackburn, (American, 1920 to 2003) From 1957 to 1963, Blackburn served as the first master printer at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), West Islip. In most cases, he taught the artists, including Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, how to make lithographs, sharing his sensibility of the medium and his approach to the stone. He was stylisticly influenced by Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan and Larry Rivers, early practitioners at ULAE, [...] Click here to continue reading. William Verplanck Birney (1858-1909) William Birney, born in Cincinnati, was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Royal Academy in Munich and was one of only two Americans to sell paintings at the 1883 Munich International Exhibition. He painted a wide variety of subjects in venues that included Germany, Italy, France, and rural England, as well as America. His work is highly detailed and strong in color and composition. [...] Click here to continue reading. John Alexander Harrington Bird (1846-1936) John Alexander Harrington Bird was a British-born painter who moved to Montreal, Canada in 1875 and exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy. He moved back to London in 1885 and had five works exhibited at the Royal Academy. A number of prints were published after his work, including the popular The Queen’s Race Winners a series of thirteen racehorses with jockeys up. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Leon Bibel (1913 – 1995) Born in San Francisco in 1913, Leon Bibel trained at the California School of Fine Arts and under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936 Bibel moved from California to New York City to join the Works Project Administration (WPA) [...] Click here to continue reading. Dale Philip Bessire (1892-1974) Dale Bessire grew up in Indianapolis, and studied at the University of Chicago. His time in Brown County was divided between his orchard business and his art career. He became serious as a painter in the late 1920s, and was a founding member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926. He exhibited throughout the 1930s-50s at the Hoosier Salon; he also exhibited at the Chicago Gallery Association, Century [...] Click here to continue reading. Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (1874-1953) A founder of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus was born in 1874 in St. Louis, Missouri and developed an interest in art through his family’s lithography business. In 1898, he traveled for the first time into New Mexico and Arizona. This visit began a tradition of spending the winter months in St. Louis and the summers in Taos. In 1912, he joined the founding members of the Taos [...] Click here to continue reading. Aaron Berkman (1900-1991) Aaron Berkman was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1900 and began studying painting from an early age. Beginning in 1916 he attended the Connecticut League of Art Students for two years, following which he studied with Albertus E. Jones from 1919 to 1921 at the Hartford Art School. Berkman stated that he was influenced during this time by George Innes and John Singer Sargent and the old masters. Berkman received [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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