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Carl Kauba (Austrian 1865-1922) Carl Kauba was an Austrian who specialized in sculpture of Western American subjects. Kauba was a pupil of Carl Waschmann and Stefan Schwartz in Austria. He traveled widely in the American West around the mid 1890′s. After his return to Vienna his Western bronzes were cast for the American market between 1895 and 1912. Small and medium bronzes were sometimes cold painted. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., March 2007 The Wiener Werkstatte The Austrian equivalent of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstatte [VEEN-er VEHRK-shtet-teh] (German for “Vienna Workshop”) was a direct offshoot from the fin-de-siacle Vienna Secession. Together, Josef Hoffmann (1870 to 1956) and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstatte Produktiv-Gemeinschaft von Kunsthandwerken, Wien (the Viennese Workshop and Production Cooperative of Art Works in Vienna) in 1903 as an association of artists and craftspeople working together to manufacture fashionable household [...] Click here to continue reading. Associated American Artists In 1934, Reeves Lewenthal founded Associated American Artists. Lewenthal contacted many prominent American artists with the notion of publishing their prints in editions of 250 impressions to be offered to the public. Thomas Hart Benton, Will Barnet, Rockwell kent and Grant Wood are only a few of the important artists who accepted this offer. The first gallery was located at 420 Madison Avenue in New York. Among the initial group of [...] Click here to continue reading. Curtis Jere (Circa 1960s to 1980s) Curtis Jere is actually a name created by two designers, Jerry Fels and Curtis Freiler in the 1960′s, for their designer group, Artisan House based in Los Angeles, California. They created metal and mixed media wall art, sculptures and lighting from the mid 1960s to the 1980s. reference: Centuryfinds.com & Curtisjereart.com, March 2009. Thomas Ball (American, 1819 to 1911) Thomas Ball, born in Massachusetts the son of a house and sign painter, worked at Moses Kimball’s Boston Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, where he also cut silhouettes. Beginning in 1837, he progressed to miniature, and then life-sized, portraits. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the American Art Union, and the Apollo Art Association. Beginning about 1851, however, Ball focused on sculpture, his most famous being [...] Click here to continue reading. Cheval Turc Cheval Turc No. 2 (anterieur gauche leve, terrasse carree) is a bronze sculpture of a dramatically posed horse by the French sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye. Its title translates as Turkish Horse (left leg raised). Barye sculpted the first example of this work circa 1840 and made three further models, including Numbers 2 (cast circa 1857 to 1875) and 3 (cast circa 1870 and after) These editions varied by which leg was raised off [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler Dr. Arthur M. Sackler was one of America’s most important philanthropists and ardent art collectors. His passion for objects transcended any one category or time period, describing his own interest in art as “a long journey, a spiritual pilgrimage from my roots in the Western arts, a hegira which carried me to the aesthetics of the East.” In a collection that spanned genres from European terracotta and bronze [...] Click here to continue reading. Dominick Labino-Glassmaker (1910 – 1987) “In 1963, after working for thirty-five years in the glass industry, Dominick Labino began blowing glass for the first time. He brought to his work in art glass the skills and experience he had gained in glass research and technology. His free-form designs, swirled colors, and carefully planned air sculptures constituted a unique and inventive approach to paperweight making. Born in Pennsylvania, Labino studied at the Carnegie Institute of [...] Click here to continue reading. Marianna Pineda (American 1925 to 1996) Marianna Pineda was a member of the National Academy of Design, in New York City, elected an Associate in 1982, and an Academician in 1990. She received awards, including a gold medal, from the National Academy in 1987 and 1988. She was similarly awarded gold medals and prizes in 1986, 1988 and 1991 by the National Sculpture Society, in New York City. Reference: Ask Art, courtesy of Skinner, [...] Click here to continue reading. Jules Moigniez (French 1835 to 1894) A noted “animalier” sculptor, Moigniez was born in 1835 in Senlis, France. The artist’s most plentiful subjects were game birds – inspired by his studies with Paul Comolera – but he sculpted dogs, horses and a few equestrian groups. Moigniez first exhibited his work at the age of twenty at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1855. Thereafter he exhibited regularly at the Salon in Paris until 1892. [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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