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Gerald Laing (British, born 1936)
Gerald Laing began his career as a British Pop artist in the 1960s and has worked in many media, including paint and sculpture, in both abstract and figural styles. During the 1960′s, Laing was mainly producing shaped abstract paintings which relied on techniques used in car manufacture, including lacquering and electroplating. Three of his works from this period were included in the Jewish Museum of Art’s exhibition entitled “Primary [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sharon Kopriva (American, born 1948)
Houston artist Sharon Kopriva has gained accolades and provoked strong reactions throughout the world for her paintings and sculptures, which exhibit the influences of her Catholic background and a trip to Peru in 1981. These experiences, cultural, political, and religious, have contributed much to the development of her iconic and often humorous images of expressionistic mummy-like figures. Studying with New York painter John Alexander, as well as Texas sculptor [...] Click here to continue reading.
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908)
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer’s whimsical sculpture Puck, the mischievous boy made famous in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is an exception amongst her more stately and serious neoclassical works and has brought her international recognition. She completed this petit statue in 1854 while in Rome, and promptly sold it to the delighted Prince of Wales, who referred to it as “a laugh in marble.” Hosmer produced several copies of this model*, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845-1912)
Hartley studied in England, Paris and Rome and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the NAD, the PAFA, and the Pan-Am Expo. He was a founding member of the Salmagundi Club and his wife was the daughter of George Innes.
Information on this sculptor courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Emmanuel Hannaux
Emmanuel Hannaux (French, 1855 to 1934), sculptor, won second place at the Universelle Exposition of 1900. He was second in the Prix de Rome 1880. In 1884 he became an Associate of the Artistes des Francaise. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1886 and in 1903 he won the Medal of Honor.
Horatio Greenough (1805 -1852) – The Yankee Stonecutter
Horatio Greenough was born in Boston the son of an early real estate developer. Despite an early penchant for sculpting, his father sent him to Harvard to receive a traditional education. While there, Greenough continued in his artistic pursuits, including winning a competition to design the Bunker Hill Monument. Though Greenough’s design was chosen, it was modified and the construction was overseen by competing artist Solomon [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maurice Glickman (American, 1906 to 1981)
Maurice Glickman was a Romanian-born sculptor and teacher. He took full advantage of the public art programs under the Works Progress Administration, producing many public murals and sculptures. He was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild, he founded the School Art Studies in New York, and he published and lectured widely. He exhibited at the Salons of America, the PAFA, and the Heritage of American Art exhibit [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eugene Fleischer Collection
There are many reasons to hail the early ceramics collection of Eugene Fleischer. His talents have been legendary in amassing encyclopedic and rarities collections in the fields of historical “Old Blue” Staffordshire and other English ceramics featuring subjects of American interest. His extraordinary collection includes War of 1812 and Liverpool jugs, painted American scenery on fine porcelain, and Parian; and the list goes on. The variety of forms, many unrecorded, has [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Flaxman
John Flaxman (1755 to 1826) was an English neoclassical sculptor and draughtsman. At the age of 19 he went to work for the firm of Wedgwood and Bentley, where he made his living for the next twelve years as a modeler of classic and domestic friezes, plaques, ornamental vessels and medallion portraits. It was in these inventive jasper” and “basalt” ware compositions that the manufacturers of the age, who had conceived and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Peter M. Fillerup (born 1953 )
Peter M. Fillerup, son of noted Western painter Mel Fillerup, was born in Cody, Wyoming. He took an interest in sculpture, most notably Western subject matter. Major commissions include life-size statues commemorating Utah’s centennial.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., March 2007
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