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Lee Atkyns Also known as Willie Lee Atkyns Jr. (America, 1913 to 1987), Atkyns influenced many aspiring painters in central Pennsylvania and the Washington, D.C. area and studied under the muralist Auriel Bessemer. After his early artistic success with a 1941 show at New York’s #10 Gallery, Atkyns worked for the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. He left that position in 1945 to devote his time to teaching art in schools he established [...] Click here to continue reading. Clyde Aspevig A late 20th century plein-air landscape painter of enormous versatility and vision, Clyde Aspevig paints sublime impressionistic vistas of western wilderness; clouds, sky, and shimmering peaks, wild, flowing rivers and huge rock faces half-eclipsed by shadow. Born in northern Montana thirty miles south of the Canadian border his world was shaped by the land. He recounts that growing up in the shadow of five mountain ranges gave him “a sense of enormous [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Ashbrook (1867-1949) This artist was born Paul Eschenbach in New York and studied under William Merritt Chase. He took the job of head designer at the Henderson Lithographing Company in Cincinnati. While in Cincinnati, he studied with Frank Duveneck, and from 1914-1919, he taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He also served as president of the Cincinnati Art Club. In 1917, he changed his name to Paul Ashbrook. Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921 to 2006) In the years immediately following World War II, there was an explosion of fresh artistic talent in Europe, as well as in the United States. Jean Dubuffet, Asger Jorn, Antonio Tapies and Francis Bacon, to name only a few of the most prominent of these artists, consciously sought to alter the face of European art by finding new artistic syntheses among the still-swirling currents of cubism, surrealism, [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles P. Appel (1857-1928) Charles Appel was born in Brooklyn and attended the New York School of Art, studying under Francis Luis Mora and William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art, and with Frank Vincent DuMond at The Art Students League, but the major influence in his artistic career was luminist painter George Innes. He spent most of his life in East Orange, New Jersey and remained active in New York [...] Click here to continue reading. John Antrobus (1837 to 1907) John Antrobus, born in Warwickshire, England, immigrated to the United States in 1850 and settled in Philadelphia. Within three years he had relocated to Savannah, Georgia, and then he moved to Montgomery, Alabama. During this time he also traveled throughout the American West and Mexico. By 1860, he had opened a studio in New Orleans. There he planned a series of 12 large paintings of plantation life. He [...] Click here to continue reading. Carol Anthony Born in 1943 in New York City, Carol Anthony studied at the BFA Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island where she received a BFA in 1966. Anthony works primarily in craypas on gessoed masonite, rubbing and blending the colors with her fingers, images are drafted layer by layer to create an unearthly light and dreamlike quality. Carol Anthony’s paintings are the means through which she conveys her internal visions. [...] Click here to continue reading. Andy Warhol (American, 1928 to 1987) Andy Warhol, a son of an immigrant coal miner and arguably the most influential visual historian of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 where he became a successful illustrator, painter, film-maker, and author and kept the company of socialites and street people alike. In a meaningful departure from Expressionism, Warhol embraced popular culture and [...] Click here to continue reading. Ezra Ames Ezra Ames (1768 to 1836) born in Framingham, Massachusetts, lived in Albany, New York from 1795 to the end of his life. A prolific painter, his subjects included Albany’s leaders and their families. Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, Crimean, 1817 to 1900) Born in 1817 in the ancient Crimean town of Theodosia, young Ivan’s charcoal drawings drew the attention of the town mayor who helped the young man enroll in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts where he would win the gold medal. Heavily influenced by the work of Karl Briullov, Aivazovsky’s works took on a romantic flair, a style that he incorporated with his love of the [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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