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Stevan Dohanos (American, 1907 to 1994) Stevan Dohanos studied at the Cleveland School of Art, and later settled in Connecticut. He is best known for his extensive number of Saturday Evening Post covers. Between 1942 and 1958, he produced 123 covers for the magazine, all of which featured scenes of everyday life in the United States during and after World War II. Dohanos’s realistic style and quotidian themes have lead to comparisons to Norman [...] Click here to continue reading. John Frederick Peto (American, 1854 to 1907) John Peto, a talented Pennsylvania Academy-trained painter from Philadelphia whose artistic career sadly ended in disappointment and obscurity. However, thanks to the research of Alfred Frankenstein, the art historian who resurrected the oeuvre of Peto and disentangled it from that of William Michael Harnett, we now know that Peto did not stop painting once he decided to stop “playing the art game.” In 1889, after a [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles A. Watson (American, 1857 to 1923) Charles A. Watson was a landscape and marine painter who spent his artistic career in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His favorite subjects were the Chesapeake and Baltimore Bays at sunrise, sunset, or at moments when they were slightly obscured by fog or mist. His works have an unassuming tranquility, and possess a refreshing, straightforward quality, notably devoid of artificially picturesque devices. Watson’s marine views are frequently [...] Click here to continue reading. Martin Grelle (American, born 1954) Growing up in Clifton, Texas, where he still resides, Martin Grelle had the opportunity at an early age to benefit from the guidance of two important figures in Western and Texas art, James Boren and Melvin Warren. Both of those artists were early inductees into the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America and both had made Clifton their home. As a teenager and aspiring artist, Grelle approached Boren for a [...] Click here to continue reading. Norman Millet Thomas (American, 1915 to 1986) Norman Thomas grew up in Portland and graduated from Portland High School in 1933. He studied at the Portland School of Fine Arts, which has become the Maine College of Art, the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the American Academy in Rome, Italy. In 1938, he was awarded a Pulitzer traveling scholarship of $1,500 for a mural of lobster fisherman on the back [...] Click here to continue reading. Helen LaFrance (American, Kentucky, born 1919) Helen LaFrance (not her real name) is a self-taught black artist, born in Western Kentucky in 1919. She prefers to paint memory images of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, always following her mother’s wisdom to “paint what you know.” LaFrance has also painted religious themes and floral studies in oil on canvas. She used to carve wooden animal sculptures and dolls and made wonderful quilts, but [...] Click here to continue reading. Dennis P. Anderson (American, Missouri, 1940 to 2005) Dennis P. Anderson grew up in Washington state and spent years exploring the rich wilderness of the region where he became fascinated with large animals. Over the years he developed skills as a wildlife artist and attended the Santa Barbara City College and the Art Center college of Design in Pasadena, California. Anderson was most widely recognized as a sculptor, but was also an accomplished painter [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Sidney Cooper, one of the most prominent mid-19th century painters, was born in Canterbury, England. He studied in Brussels with the Belgian animal painter Eugene Verboeckhoven. Upon his return to England, Cooper specialized and excelled in painting cattle and sheep. His most successful years were between 1840 and 1850 when Prince Albert and Queen Victoria commissioned him to paint their herd. Thomas Sidney Cooper became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, [...] Click here to continue reading. John Elwood Bundy (American, 1853 to 1933) John Elwood Bundy came to Indiana as a young boy from his birthplace in Guilford County, North Carolina. He was raised on a farm in Morgan County near Monrovia, where he attended Quaker schools and worked as a farmer. When he was twenty, he took art lessons in Indianapolis from portraitist Barton S. Hayes, then continued on to New York City to copy paintings at the Metropolitan [...] Click here to continue reading. Samuel S. Carr (British/American, 1837 to 1908) The English-born artist S.S. Carr made his living in the United States for almost 40 years painting cheerful green pastoral landscapes staffed with sheep and the figures who attended them. Such examples of his work have a strong kinship with those of Clinton Loveridge with whom he shared a studio from 1870 to 1907 in Brooklyn, New York. Less common within Carr’s oeuvre, but much more highly [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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