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Camille Hilaire (French, 1916 to 2004) Camille Hilaire was born in Metz, France in 1916. He studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in Andre Lhote’s academy. Hilaire’s work frequently used searing colors and neo-cubist forms. Information courtesy of Harlowe Powell Auction Gallery, April, 2011. Fernand Marie Eugene Legout-Gerard (French, 1856 to 1924) Though interested in art from a young age, Legout-Gerard gave in to filial pressure and entered the banking profession. Eventually attaining the prestigious position as Bank Director in his native Normandy, Legout-Gerard did not return to painting until after an 1890 visit to the Breton town of Concarneau. Enthralled by Brittany and encouraged by his artist friends, he visited the region numerous times on painting excursions. [...] Click here to continue reading. Irving Ramsey Wiles (American, 1861-1948) Irving Ramsey Wiles was born in upstate New York. He was introduced to painting by his father, artist Lemuel Wiles (1826 to 1905), but it was not until he studied at New York’s Arts Students League that he determined to make his father’s profession his own. It was here that Wiles first met his mentor, William Merritt Chase (1849 to 1916), and the two remained lifelong friends. After two [...] Click here to continue reading. Walter A. Clark (American, 1848 to 1917) Clark originally studied engineering at M.I.T., before embarking on an extensive tour of Europe, Asia, and India. Upon his return to the United States, he settled in New York where he enrolled in the National Academy of Design and the Art Student League. It was during this time that he befriended the painter George Inness, Sr. (1825 to 1894), who occupied the studio next door, and who [...] Click here to continue reading. Daniel Folger Bigelow (1823-1910) Daniel Bigelow was born in New York, but moved to Chicago in 1858, there gaining a strong reputation as a landscape painter and becoming one of the associates of G. P. A. Healy and the group of artists who founded the Chicago Academy of Design, later to be called the Art Institute. Many of his landscape subjects were taken from trip to New York and new England and were painted [...] Click here to continue reading. Constant Troyon (French, 1810 to 1865) Constant Troyon was born in Sevres and began his career as a painter of porcelain, following family tradition. By the 1830s he had abandoned this path for a life as a landscape painter, making his debut at the Salon of 1833. Troyon became one of the central artists of the Barbizon school. By 1840 he was painting with Theodore Rousseau and Jules Dupre, and in 1844 he submitted [...] Click here to continue reading. Alexandra Nechita (Romanian, American, born 1985) Born in Romania Alexandra began painting at seven years and had her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at eight. She has been labeled “The Petite Picasso” by the press and has attracted international attention. Information courtesy of Ivey-Selkirk, May 2010. Harry G. Aitken – American, New Jersey, 1867 to 1952 Harry G. Aitken, a designer and head of the decorating department for the Onondaga Pottery Company (now Syracuse China), spent forty-four years there prior to his retirement in 1946. At that time he was supervising the largest china-decorating force in the U.S. Due to his congenial nature and his willingness to share his time and knowledge of art by giving free lessons, he was [...] Click here to continue reading. David Bates – American artist born 1952 David Bates spent his childhood in Garland, Texas, where his father took him hunting and fishing, a theme that often has been incorporated into his artwork. Both his portraits and his scenes of swamps in Louisiana, Arkansas, and east Texas convey a sense of regionalism, focusing on the people, the scenery, and the local pastimes of the area of the country where Bates lives. In many [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Atwood – American Artist 1892 to 1970, Robert Atwood, a native of New Jersey, often traveled throughout the country to paint the various landscapes, including the scenery of Tennessee, Vermont, Massachusetts, and California. His brushwork progressed from signs of the Impressionist movement from the latter half of the 19th century into a more 20th century modernist technique. Most of Atwood’s works display flattened planes and brighter, slightly unnatural color schemes that reveal Post-Impressionist [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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