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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. Gary and Karen Stuffel of Washington, Indiana Gary and Karen Stuffel loved the country life, and both loved the dream of living with early American antiques. Born in Daviess County, Indiana, they chose to settle in Washington where Gary worked as a union carpenter and Karen as a Postmaster for the Edwardsport post office, and then later the Montgomery post office. Their love extended to a project of acquiring a log home originally built [...] Click here to continue reading. Rudolf Levy (German, 1875 to 1944) Levy was the scion of a prosperous Jewish merchant family. He originally enrolled in the Grand Ducal School for Decorative and Applied Arts in Baden in 1895 to study carpentry, but left that University in 1897 when he decided to pursue painting at the various, well-lauded private art schools in Munich. In Munich, Levy studied with Nicolas Gyzis, Heinrich Knirr (1862-1944), and the noted Symbolist painter Franz von [...] Click here to continue reading. John LaFarge (American, 1835 to 1910) La Farge moved from New York to Newport in the spring of 1859 to study painting with William Morris Hunt. He nonetheless frequently visited Glen Cove, Long Island, where his family had a large summer property that had been purchased by his father sometime before 1835. The impressive Glen Cove estate, extending over some fifty acres, could be accessed directly by boat from both Hempstead Harbor and Glen [...] Click here to continue reading. David Stirling (1887-1971) David Stirling was born in 1887 in Corydon, Iowa, to a pioneering family, and his father was a newspaper publisher. He died in Longmont, Colorado, after a short illness in 1971 and was buried there in a family plot. There were 8 children in the family, of which he was the youngest, being 7 years younger than the next youngest son, and he was the first of the family to graduate [...] Click here to continue reading. Mathias Joseph Alten (1871-1938) Born in Gusenburg, Germany, near Trier, Mathias Alten is hailed as the foremost painter of Grand Rapids, Michigan and a second-generation Impressionist whose primary theme was agrarian labor. He was apprenticed to Joseph Klein, a decorative painter in Saint Wendel, Germany and worked on ceiling and wall decorations for churches and theaters. At age 17, he emigrated with his family to Grand Rapids, Michigan, which was a major manufacturing [...] Click here to continue reading. William Bradford (American, 1823 to 1892) William Bradford was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1823, and started painting in 1852. From his studio overlooking the harbor, Bradford painted portraits of the ships that were coming into New Bedford as part of the lucrative whaling business. He continued this type of painting in Boston, where he painted much larger clipper ships. In 1854, Bradford decided to focus more on marine scenes, coastal views, and [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Joseph Bahin (French/American, 1813 to 1857) Louis Joseph Bahin was born in Armentieres, France; his wife Fanny Josephine Caremantrand was from Mantua, Italy. While residing in Paris they had two sons, Gustave and Alphonse. Also while in Paris, Bahin’s portraits were exhibited at the National Museum of the Louvre in 1848 and 1850. The family immigrated to New Orleans, and about 1852 established permanent residence in Natchez, Mississippi. One of the few, French [...] Click here to continue reading. George Benjamin Luks (American, 1867 to 1933) George Luks was born in Williamsport Pennsylvania in 1867. After traveling and studying in Europe he returned to the United States in 1894 to work for the “Philadelphia Press,” doing reportorial sketches, a method that became his forte. He enrolled at Pennsylvania Academy, but his rebellious nature resisted the formal study and he withdrew after one month. In Philadelphia, he became friends with John Sloan, Robert Henri, [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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