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The Japanese Meiji Period (1868-1911) In 1867/68 the Tokugawa shogunate era came to an end with the restoration of imperial power to the emperor Meiji (died, 1912) and the transfer of the government from Kyoto to Tokyo. The actual political power was transferred from the Tokugawa Bakufu into the hands of a small group of nobles and former samurai. Like other subjugated Asian nations, the Japanese were forced to sign unequal treaties with Western [...] Click here to continue reading. Jacques Lipchitz (French, American, 1891 to 1973) Chaim Jacob Jacques Lipchitz was born in Lithuania but moved to Paris in 1909 to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien. He immersed himself in the French artistic community, befriending fellow artists such as Alexander Archipenko, Pablo Picasso, and Amedeo Modigliani. Lipchitz soon established himself as one of the leading proponents of Cubist sculpture. By the early 1930s he had dramatically shifted [...] Click here to continue reading. William Lipton: Dealer, Scholar, Collector William Lipton’s first journey to Asia occurred in the early 1970′s. He was immediately seduced by the culture of the East, and arranged for a return the following year with Jim Thompson at the Thai Silk Company, where he remained for six years, ultimately as the director of design. During this period he traveled extensively throughout Asia, often accompanied and advised by the Hong Kong dealer Charlotte Horstmann. “I [...] Click here to continue reading. Francisco Zuniga (Costa Rican/Mexican, 1912 to 1998) Francisco Zuniga was born in Costa Rica, where he began his career as a craftsman in his father’s workshop, which made religious images. It was in Mexico, however, during the great artistic movement, that he began to develop the ideas that would permeate his work for the rest of his life. Zuniga once said, “All art that is valid answers first to its regional characteristics and the [...] Click here to continue reading. Adolph Alexander Weinman (German, American, 1870 to 1952) Adolph Alexander Weinman emigrated from Germany to the United States as a child. He studied in New York at Cooper Union and the Art Students League and under sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Philip Martiny. He later assisted Charles Niehaus, Olin Warner and Daniel Chester French. Both an architectural sculptor and a medalist, he is celebrated as the designer of the “Walking Liberty” fifty-cent piece and the [...] Click here to continue reading. Masood Ali Wilbert Warren (1905 – 1995) Afro-American painter and sculptor Masood Ali Warren attended classes at the Art Students League in New York during the early Thirties. A participant in the WPA artists program, he later obtained Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from NYU (1939) and Temple University (1961), respectively. Examples of his work have been exhibited at the National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society, and National Arts Club. [...] Click here to continue reading. Susse Freres Foundry Tracing its origins to 1758, the Paris foundry of Susse Brothers is most well known to collectors for their production of fine art bronze sculptures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their catalogue represented the work of many leading artists of the time, including Yevgeny Lanceray, Pierre Jules Mene and Mathurin Moreau. The firm continued its art casting work into the 1990′s and may continue in operation today. Their work was [...] Click here to continue reading. Eleanor Stillman Eleanor Stillman was born in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio and received her early education in the Shaker Heights school system. She also attended the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art) where she studied sculpture with Edris Eckhardt and Walter Sinz, both well-known American sculptors. Ms. Stillman received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 at Bennington College, where she furthered her studies in art and trained under the [...] Click here to continue reading. Clemente Spampinato (born 1912) Clemente Spampinato was born in Calabria, Italy and began his career in sculpture by depicting athletes, most notably Olympian subjects. Upon moving to New York in 1947, he developed a keen interest in Western subjects, which are often portrayed in dynamic motion. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., March 2007 John Rogers (1829-1904) John Rogers was born in Salem, Massachusetts, but spent his early life in many places in New England and the Midwest, including Cincinnati. Rogers created plaster figural groups from 1859 to 1892 on the subjects of everyday life, the theatre, Shakespeare, the Civil War and horses. He created about 80 of these humorous genre images and purportedly over 80,000 casts were made. At a time when it was in vogue [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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