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Edmund Adler (Austrian, 1876 to 1965)
Initially trained as a lithographer, Edmund Adler later attended the Vienna Academy where he received the Kenyon Traveling Scholarship in 1903. During World War I (1914 to 1918), he was a prisoner of war in Siberia. Subsequently, he exhibited with both Austrian and Russian artists, and his genre paintings became quite popular in Vienna, Dresden, and Brunn. His realistic portrayals of peasant children are amongst the most highly [...] Click here to continue reading.
Narciso Platero Abeyta (1918 to 1998)
Narciso Platero Abeyta, also known as Ha-So-De, was born on December 15, 1918 in Canoncito, New Mexico. He spent four years in the army during WWII. When he returned home he attended the University of New Mexico, studying under Raymond Jonson. In 1961, Abeyta was published in Art in America and again in American Indian Art in 1976. He received numerous accolades during his career and participated in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Florence Ezzell Stevenson (American, 1894 to 1974)
Florence Ezzell Stevenson, born and raised in Alabama, she attended the Tuscaloosa Conservatory of Art and Music and the Art Institute of Chicago. After a decade-long departure from art (during which she raised her family), she made a triumphant return at the All-Illinois Society of the Fine Arts in 1928. One jury member proclaimed, ‘The most stimulating of the pictures in the show are a pair of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Louis M. Morgan (1814-1852)
Louis M. Morgan was a Pennsylvania-born artist who relocated to Kentucky to paint portraits. For three years he remained at the Winton estate of Dr. Robert Peter and Francis Dallam Peter (just north of Lexington) and painted all of the family members there while unsuccessfully courting Letitia Dallam. One of his most enduring works is of Simon Kenton that is now owned by the Ohio Historical Society. See Whitle, Kentucky [...] Click here to continue reading.
Florida Highwaymen Painters
The Florida Highwaymen were and are a group of African-American painters working St. Pierce, Florida. Influenced by Albert E. Backus, the “Highwaymen” included among others, James Gibson, Harold Newton, and Alfred Hair. The group would travel from town to town painting and selling their works directly from the trunks of their cars. Their vibrant Floridian landscapes highlighted the colors and life of the region.
Information courtesy of Skinner Inc., September 2007.
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Lynda Benglis (American/Louisiana, born 1941)
Louisiana native and Newcomb College graduate, Lynda Benglis burst onto the New York expressionist scene in the late 1960′s and 1970′s, marking poignant points in her career with shocking organic pieces representative of her contemporary focus.Information courtesy of New Orleans Auctions, May 2006.
Erwin J. Neusch – American Folk Artist 1892 to 1993
Artist Note: Erwin J. Neusch of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, folk artist and respected as one of the nation’s best wood carvers, Neusch’s work adorns the most beautiful churches of Philadelphia and New York. A seven-foot crucifix at Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining, New York, is his most prized work.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., October 2010
Chris Achilleos (Greek/British, born 1947)
Chris Achilleos’ career has spanned over three decades and he has painted magazine and video covers, posters, and album sleeves, as well as hundreds of stunning book covers during the seventies and eighties for the fantasy classics of such legends as Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Moorcock, and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Information courtesy of Heritage Auctions, February 2007
Hilla Anna Rebay (American, 1890 to 1967)
Grace Glueck wrote “She was an accomplished painter, a friend of great artists and a woman of strong, sometimes dogmatic views who more or less invented the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, the early version of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Yet today the German-born Hilla von Rebay is little recognized, except to art worldlings with very long memories. When she is recalled, it is as the art [...] Click here to continue reading.
W. Allan Manford, Canadian Art Collector
A number of paintings in the Sotheby’s Canadian Art Sale on June 2, 2010 are from the collection of W. Allan Manford, a Toronto art collector. His remarkable taste, insistence on quality, and determination to uncover major works reflected a passion for Canadian art that contributed to what might have been the finest private collection of paintings by the Group of Seven and their contemporaries in the country. [...] Click here to continue reading.
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