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Clark Mills (1815-1883) Clark Mills’ life story was the personification of the American dream. Born in upstate New York Onandaga County, he left home at the age of thirteen and worked at assorted jobs in cities as distant and disparate as Syracuse and New Orleans. Around 1831 to 1832, he settled in Charleston, South Carolina. By 1835, he was known in that affluent antebellum city as an ornamental plasterer of skill. Mills had also [...] Click here to continue reading. David McGary (born 1958) David McGary was born in Cody, Wyoming, leaving home at the age of 17 to study anatomy in Italy among craftsman. After returning in 1978, McGary began his career in New Mexico working in various foundries, compiling numerous awards and achievments in the realm of Western sculpture. McGary opened his own studio in 1981. He is well known for some of the largest equestrian bronzes ever produced, and his major [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Howard Manship (1885 to 1966) Paul Howard Manship was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His early studies were at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts in Philadelphia. As a student and apprentice, he worked with George Bridgman, Hermon Atkins MacNeil, Solon Borglum, Charles Grafly and Isidore Konti. In 1909 he won the Prix de Rome scholarship and began his studies at the American Academy in [...] Click here to continue reading. Man Ray (American 1890 to 1976) Man Ray, born August 27, 1890, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of medias and considered himself [...] Click here to continue reading. Peter Macchiarini (1907 to 2001) Macchiarini trained in Europe as a sculptor in the 1920s, and returned to his native state of California to work as a stone carver, sculptor and self-taught jeweler. Many of his first pieces of jewelry were made from silver and display a constructivist interest in internal structure and layering. Information courtesy of Skinner, Inc. September 2007 Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997) Born in New York City in 1923, Roy Lichtenstein grew up in a city that epitomized the ideals and machinations of modernism. He therefore gained a unique understanding of the affects of modern life on the solitary soul, the group, and the society at large. Growing up during the depression years and coming of age at the start of World War II, he was greatly influenced by the jazz [...] Click here to continue reading. Samella Lewis (born 1924) Samella Sanders Lewis was born February 27, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to the Duke University Art Library, Lewis earned her doctorate in 1951 from Ohio University, and became the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in art history and fine art. As a practicing artist, she cultivated close relationships with several other African-American artists, including Elizabeth Catlett (born 1919), her undergraduate mentor, and Romare Bearden (1914-1988) [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Laurent (1890-1970) Robert Laurent was born in France and arrived New York City in 1901. He was a talented sculptor and frame maker who trained in Paris, New York and Rome. He carved frames for many friends and artists including Childe Hassam, John LaFarge, Robert Henri, and the colector Albert Barnes. His sculpture was created from various mediums: woood, albaster, marble, stone and clay. His own collection of folk art was legendary and [...] Click here to continue reading. Bernard Langlais (1923-1977) Born in Old Town, Maine, the son of a carpenter and in an area that relied for its economy on the timber industry, Langlais studied commercial art in Washington, D.C., before enlisting in the Navy in 1942. After his military training he attended the Corcoran School of Art, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He later attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in [...] Click here to continue reading. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Lanceray The leading Russian sculptor of the 1870′s and 1880′s, Yevgeny Lanceray was known for the his skill in modeling horses and for his highly detailed models. Many of his works were cast by the St. Petersburg foundry of Felix Chopin, but the Paris foundry of Susse Brothers (Freres) offered a complete collection of Lanceray’s 123 works at the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, and featured them in their catalogues from 1902 [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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