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George Sloane (American, 1864 to 1942)
George Sloane was born in Salem, Massachusetts and trained initially at the Boston Museum School, where he met his future wife, the landscape painter Marion Parkhurst (1875 to 1955). He was strongly influenced by the exquisite cabinet paintings of Bavarian-born artist, Ignatz Marcel Gaugengigl, who achieved great fame in Boston during the last quarter of the nineteenth century when he became known as “The American Meisonnier.” Indeed, Gaugengigl [...] Click here to continue reading.
David Wojnarowicz (American, 1954 to 1992)
The art of David Wojnarowicz reflects, the harsh experiences of his youth: a difficult home life during childhood, dropping out of high school, hitch-hiking across country, living on the streets.
Despite claiming that he ‘never had what could be described as an art education’, he gleaned valuable and quite sophisticated lessons in assemblage and collage from Bay Area artists such as Jess and Bruce Connor, during a stay [...] Click here to continue reading.
Tseng Yu-Ho (Betty Ecke, Chinese/American, Hawaii, born 1924)
Born in Beijing in 1923, Tseng Yu-Ho studied the ancient art of mounting scroll paintings on a collage of various papers made of bamboo, mulberry tree bark, cotton, rice stalks, hemp or silk. In her work, the artist extended this technique to the surface of her paintings, where each sheet is colored before it is layered on another in order to attain the effect of opacity [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Theodore Elrod (American/Georgia, 1952 to 2000)
Jim was born in Atlanta, Georgia on November 30, 1952. He was the second son to Charles and Gloria Elrod. Jim was raised off Stewart Avenue and graduated from Sylvan High School in 1970. His passion was the Woodstock era and the movements that came with that style of music and flower children effect. Most of his early art, consisted of flowers and pottery paintings from that [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (French, 1838 to 1904)
An accomplished and respected marine painter of the Breton and Normandy coasts, Kuwasseg was from an artistic Austrian family; two of his uncles and his father Karl-Josef Kuwasseg (1802 to 1870) were successful artists. He received his earliest training from his father, who believed travel was essential to an artistic education. Father and son traveled extensively across Europe, South America, and England and this experience proved invaluable [...] Click here to continue reading.
Lovis Corinth (Prussian/German 1858 to 1925)
Perhaps no other artist since Rembrandt was so consumed with self portraiture as Corinth, an east Prussian (now Russia) native who studied in Paris as a history painter but spent his career in Munich and primarily Berlin as a quasi-Impressionist and German Expressionist artist. Corinth etched and lithographed no fewer than fifty self portraits, almost twice as many as Rembrandt. He suffered a major stroke in 1911 which [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henri Jacques Delpy (French, 1877 to 1957)
An artist of the Barbizon tradition, Delpy was the son and pupil of Hippolyte Camille Delpy (1842 to 1910), himself a student of the great plein aire painter Charles Francois Daubigny (1817 to 1878) and Camille Corot (1796 to 1875), the leader of the Barbizon School.
As a child, the younger Delpy would accompany his father on painting excursions into the French countryside, where they were [...] Click here to continue reading.
Deacon Robert Peckham (American, 1785 to 1877)
Born in Petersham, Massachusetts, the deacon was an artist and abolitionist active in Bolton and later Westminster, where his home, a stop on the underground railroad, still stands. Before 1828, when he was appointed Deacon of the Westminster First Congregation, he seems to have been active as a house and ornamental painter.
After 1828, he concentrated on portraiture, which, in his use of outlining and decorative patterning, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Jean Agard (French, 1866 to 1950)
Agard was admired by his contemporaries for his ability to accurately capture the energy of a scene. Early in his career he was aided by Pierre Puvis de Chevannes (1824 to 1898) who helped promote and exhibit his work. In the 1890′s Agard participated in exhibitions with Henri Lebasque (1865 to 1937) and Georges Seurat (1859 to 1891), and was considered one of the rising stars of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Bird King, (American, 1785 to 1862)
Charles Bird King studied under Samuel King, Edward Savage, Benjamin West, and Thomas Sully. Failing to achieve success in Philadelphia, he moved to Washington, DC in 1816. In 1821, Superintendent of Indian Trade Thomas McKenney commissioned King to paint the portraits of American Indians who were brought to Washington as guests of U.S. government. By 1842, he had executed over 100 portraits of some of the most [...] Click here to continue reading.
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