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Mildred G. Watkins (American, Ohio, 1883 to 1968) Mildred Watkins was one of the first of a generation of Ohio-based artists who, in turning their attention to the medium, elevated enameling to unprecedented levels of beauty and inventiveness. She started as a painter who sort of “fell into” enameling. She studied portraiture at the Cleveland School of Art, but was not fond of laboring over her paintings, saying that “anything she did after the [...] Click here to continue reading. Hans Andersen Brendekilde (Danish, 1857 to 1920) Hans Anderson Brendekilde was a nineteenth century Danish artist who excelled in a variety of media. He began his artistic life as a sculptor but in his maturity committed himself entirely to oils and pastel. His paintings are often on a very large scale creating delightful enveloping vistas of the beautiful Danish countryside. He painted evocative landscape paintings, harsh social realist subjects and dramatic depictions of religious [...] Click here to continue reading. John Edward Costigan (American, 1888 to 1972) John Edward Costigan was a largely self taught artist, working adeptly as a painter and printmaker in various media. He exhibited in over forty shows at the National Academy of Design between 1920 and 1950. He also received critical acclaim in his lifetime-he was named a National Academician in 1928, and was the subject of a traveling retrospective by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1968. Unlike [...] Click here to continue reading. Lamar William Dodd (American, Georgia, 1909 to 1996) Born in rural Georgia, Lamar Dodd studied locally and then at the Art Student’s League and with famed American artists George Luks and John Steuart Curry. Returning to the south in 1933, Dodd became a proponent of American regional art, calling for local artists to paint the local scenes, landscape and people. While a professor of art at the University of Georgia, Dodd exhibited regionally and [...] Click here to continue reading. Georges Braque (French, 1882 to 1963) Georges Braque played a major role in the development of what became known as Cubism. In this Braque’s work is intertwined with that of his collaborator Pablo Picasso, especially from 1908 to 1912, particularly regarding their respective contributions to the development of the collage. Picasso’s fame and notoriety often overshadowed the quiet life of Braque. Information courtesy of Hiertiage Auction Galleries, May 2009. Harvey Thomas Dunn (American, 1884 to 1952) Harvey Thomas Dunn was born in 1814 to homesteader parents in the Red Stone Valley in South Dakota. Raised in a sod house as a child he was required to work on the farm but despite these humble beginnings, Dunn desired a life as an artist. At an early age he earned his art tuition by “sod-busting” for neighboring homesteaders. By the age of 17 he left [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward G. Eisenlohr (American, 1872 to 1961) Edward Eisenlohr began his art studies with Frank Reaugh and Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. In Woodstock he studied with Birge Harrison, and also at the Art Students League in New York. In 1907 to 1908, he went to Germany to study with Gustav Schonleber. While there he also enrolled in the Granducal Academy of Fine Arts. Upon returning, Eisenlohr devoted full time to art (he had left his [...] Click here to continue reading. Julian Onderdonk (American, 1882 to 1922) Julian Onderdonk was a native of San Antonio and the son of the artist Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. In 1901, at the age of nineteen, he moved to New York City and attended several art schools. He then studied plein-air painting with William Merritt Chase at his summer school in Shinecock, New York. After returning home to Texas in 1909, he enjoyed considerable success during his lifetime. He became [...] Click here to continue reading. George Ford Morris (American, 1873 to 1960) Well known as an American equestrian artist, George Ford Morris worked as a painter, sculptor, illustrator and lithographer. Although self-taught, he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1888 and later at the Academie Julien in Paris. He is best known for his illustrations of horses and equestrians. His work can be seen in the New York Historical Society, the International Museum of the Horse [...] Click here to continue reading. Frederick Richard Lee (British, 1798 to 1879) Lee was a popular and financially successful painter who created idealized scenes of the English countryside. An accomplished artist, he combined detailed, accurate depictions of nature with rustic elements, often incorporating figures, cottages, and farms into his works. Lee’s style and subject appealed to the English upper classes, and many of his works entered private collections, where they remain to this day. Lee entered the Royal [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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