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Malvina Cornell Hoffman (American, 1885 to 1966)
Malvina Hoffman began her sculpting career in Manhattan in 1909, when she created a posthumous portrait bust of her father that was accepted for the annual exhibition at the National Academy of Design. The following year she studied in Paris with Auguste Rodin and developed friendships with Henri Matisse, Anna Pavlova and Gertrude Stein.
Her works may be found in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ramstonev Cooperative Arts Project
A New Hope, Pennsylvania cooperative group of artists comprised of Louis Stone, Charles Ramsey, and Charles Evans.
Information courtesy of Alderfer Auction Company, December 2005.
Edwin Willard Deming (American, 1860 to 1942)
Edwin Willard Deming was born in Ohio and grew up in Western Illinois, where many of his playmates were children of the Winnebago tribe. He is best known as a painter of Native American life. Deming sold his possessions to travel east and train as an artist, studying at the Art Students League in New York and in Pairs at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. His work [...] Click here to continue reading.
Herbert Bayer (Austrian/American, 1900 to 1985)
Herbert Bayer was a student in the early to mid-1920s under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Though he was adept at many forms of art, he was encouraged by Gropius to specialize in graphic design.(1) He became an instructor at the Bauhaus in Dessau from the mid- to late-1920s, teaching advertising, page design, and typography.
Like Gropius, Bayer immigrated to the United States after the Nazi [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Robert Knight (American, 1874 to 1953)
Charles Robert Knight was born and educated in New York. He was a writer, scientist and artist and his book, Life Through the Ages, was first published in 1946. It defined prehistoric life in the popular imagination for decades. His paintings and drawings, regarded both for their artistry and scientific accuracy, were used as illustrations in books and magazines as as the basis for lost worlds and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Milton Clark Avery (American, 1885 to 1965)
Milton Avery was one of 20th century America’s foremost artists, known for his unique combination of color and abstraction, and his depiction of the natural world. Born in 1885 in Altmar, New York, Avery was interested in art from an early age. He studied art at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford and the Art Society of Hartford, while working various factory jobs to support [...] Click here to continue reading.
Oscar Florianus Bluemner (German, American, 1867 to 1938)
Oscar Bluemner Bluemner was born near Hanover, Germany, he studied painting and architecture at the Royal Academy of Design in Berlin in the early 1880s. He then traveled to America where he became one of the leading American Modernists and the subject of an important monographic retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from October 2005 through February 2006.
Information courtesy of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Peter Robert Keil (German, born 1942)
Peter Robert Keil is one of the leading figures in the early German Neo-Expressionist movement. Keil moved from Poland to Germany as a young boy, following the death of his father. He is best known for his dynamic use of vibrant colors, harmonius forms and vigorous lines. As a child he was intrigued by the work of Pablo Picasso, and his playful images and bright colors which offered [...] Click here to continue reading.
Fred Harman Jr. (American, 1902 to 1982)
Fred Harman was one of the five founders of the Cowboy Artists of America in 1965. Along with Joe Beeler, George Phippen, Johnny Hampton, and Charlie Dye, Harman helped shape the organization that would set the standard for contemporary art of the American West for decades to come. A rough draft of the organization’s guiding principles was developed by the founders in a bar in Sedona, Arizona. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Satish Gujral (Indian, born 1929)
Satish Gujral was born in Jhelum, a former city in West Punjab, now Pakistan. From the ages of fourteen to nineteen, he attended the Mayo School of Art, which was the first colonial art school in Punjab since its annexation to British India in 1849. Gujral continued his education between 1944 to 1947 at the venerable Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay.
In his late twenties, Gujral [...] Click here to continue reading.
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