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Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) Thomas Hart Benton was born April 15, 1889, in Neosho, Missouri. Named after his great-uncle, a prominent U. S. Senator, Thomas Hart Benton emerged from a political background with love for America and its back roads. As the son of a popular Missouri congressman, Benton traveled extensively with his father on the campaign trail. In 1907, he left Missouri to study at the Art Institute in Chicago and the Academie [...] Click here to continue reading. John Prentiss Benson (1865 to 1947) John Benson was a native of Salem, Massachusetts, the second son in a prominent Salem family. Both John and his brother Frank W. Benson took an early interest in artistic expression. Encouraged by the family to pursue architecture, John established his reputation by desigining homes, hospitals, schools and other public buildings. By the 1920s he put aside his drafting tools and turned to his true passion, art. In [...] Click here to continue reading. Zedekiah Belknap (1781 to 1858) Born in what is now Auburn, Massachusetts, Zedekiah Belknap became a portrait painter, subsequent to his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1807, working throughout Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. His style changed considerably in the forty-one years he was known to have painted. He ended his painting career in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1848. A total of 170 known portraits are ascribed to Belknap. Attributions for his paintings is based [...] Click here to continue reading. Abraham Jansz Begeyn (Dutch, 1637 to 1697) A precocious talent, Begeyn became a member of the Leiden painters’ guild at age 18, and practiced in his native town for a dozen years. After sojourns in Amsterdam (1672), London (circa 1674), and The Hague (1681), he became court painter in Berlin in 1688, on the accession of Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg and later King of Prussia. For the Elector he executed many views of royal [...] Click here to continue reading. Luigi Bechi Born in Florence in 1830, Luigi Bechi was a pupil of Bezzuoli and Pollastrini at the Academy of Florence, where he also later taught. Bechi began his career as a history painter, preferring Biblical subjects, but later became a key member of the Macchiaioli, a group of Italian painters who reacted against academic art and worked to emphasize painterly immediacy and freshness. Bechi received praise for his paintings during his lifetime, winning [...] Click here to continue reading. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, 1872 to 1898) Aubrey Beardsley, beloved and reviled in Britain as the most visible rebel against staid Victorian mores, began work as art editor for The Yellow Book in 1894. His decorative Art Nouveau style, considered grotesque and vulgar by many, was vastly imitated in America, and added life, spice, excitement and novelty to American poster sidings. Writing in The Poster in November 1900, Scotson-Clark pointed out that, “Until the [...] Click here to continue reading. Walter Martin Baumhofer (1904 to 1987) A versatile storyteller, Walter Baumhofer was a dominant force in the pulp magazine market and a steady, inspired mainstay of the general interest magazines. Though the time he spent illustrating pulp magazines was relatively brief, Baumhofer had an enormous impact on the genre. The prolific artist recalled in a letter to Walt Reed in 1968, “I doubt if anybody did as many pulp covers as I did in [...] Click here to continue reading. Glenn F. Bastian (American, 1890 to 1966) Glenn Bastian was a native of Gas City, Indiana. Most of Bastian’s paintings are from the 1930′s and 1940′s. He would travel to Mexico often and get bird feathers and then come back to his Gas City studio and do his paintings. He did a lot of bird and landscape paintings…His house is known locally as the Glenn Bastian Spanish House. Since he did not put a [...] Click here to continue reading. T. Bailey & Morris Hambro T. Bailey was a fictitious marine painter. Numerous paintings bearing this signature emerged from Boston and Winthrop, Massachusetts between 1910 and 1938. T. Bailey was a pseudonym invented by Morris Hambro (1860 to 1938), a London-born sign-painter and salesman who came to the U.S. in 1865 and began peddling the Bailey paintings after 1910. The typical work showed a tall ship on the high seas , its sails unfurled. [...] Click here to continue reading. Ben Austrian (1870-1921) Born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1870, Ben Austrian left school at fifteen to work in his father’s shop. To promote his father’s drygoods store, Austrian gave every client who placed an order an original painting. A self-taught artist, he struggled to escape the family business and “make a success in my art or die in the attempt.” His mother supported his vocation, allowing him to sell the business and in other [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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