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Etienne Maurice Falconet (French, 1716 to 1791)
Etienne Maurice Falconet belongs to the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, and enjoyed the patronage of Madame de Pompadour and Catherine the Great. Although he was born into an impoverished Parisian family, Falconet was able to escape an uncertain future through his precocious talent for modeling in clay.
His skill attracted the attention of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, who trained him personally. By 1754 he had [...] Click here to continue reading.
Wharton Harrris Esherick (1887-1970)
Living in a remote area by Valley Forge near Philadelphia, Wharton Esherick built his homestead and work place in the 1920s and left a legacy of bridging art with craftsmanship. Many of his works reflect the Art Deco style, and his distinctive furniture designs made him a pioneer of the decorative arts. He had little use for straight lines, and his structures are full of swirls and spirals, with an [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Edo Period
The Japanese Edo period is also known as the Tokugawa period. It is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1867. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. The period ended with the Meiji Restoration, the restoration of imperial rule by the 15th and last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The Edo period is [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edris Eckhardt: Pioneer Studio Glass Artist
Edris Eckhardt (1905 to 1998) enjoyed two distinguished careers, first as a highly accomplished ceramist and later as one of the first studio artists in the country to explore the exciting possibilities of glass as her chosen medium.
In the mid 1920′s, Eckhardt took classes in ceramics at the Cleveland Institute of Art and also worked at the Cleveland pottery of Guy Cowen. Then, beginning about 1930, she [...] Click here to continue reading.
Joseph F. De Yong (American, 1894 to 1975)
Joe De Yong was born in Webster Grove, Missouri. Though he earned his living as a cowboy early on, he had exposure to fame by roping with Will Rogers and making Western movies with Tom Mix. In 1916, he developed a student/teacher relationship with Charles M. Russell and after Charles’ death, Nancy Russell became one of Joe’s best promoters and escalated his career and fame to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Nat Choate (1899-1965)
An important sculptor from the Boston area, Choate studied at Harvard, Academie Julian, and the Grand Chaumiere. He was a member of the National Society of Sculptors, Century Association, Architectural League, New York Ceramic Society. Choate exhibited at the Archiectural League (New York, 1939), and his work is in the collections of Harvard, Brookgreen Gardens (South Carolina), and the US Post Office (Pitman, New Jersey).
Dimitri Chiparus (1888 to 1950)
Dimitri Chiparus (Demeter H. Chiparus) was born in Romania in 1888 and then traveled to Paris before World War I to study and develop his art. He attended school in Italy and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and he exhibited at the Salon in 1914.
Chiparus was particularly adept in the technique of chryselephantine, the combination of bronze and ivory to produce dramatic, stylized sculpture. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898-1976)
Alexander Calder was born in Pennsylvania to a family of famous artists, his grandfather being Alexander Milne Calder (1846 to 1923), a sculptor, his father was Alexander Stirling Calder (1870 to 1945), also a sculptor, and his mother Nanette Lederer Calder was a painter.
He began his studies in 1914 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, then he studied and worked in Paris for several years [...] Click here to continue reading.
Pol Bury (Belgian/French, 1922 to 2005)
Pol Bury began his career in the Surrealist movement, and participated with his countryman Magritte in the 1945 International Surrealism exhibition. In 1953, however, he discovered the work of Alexander Calder, and this altered the course of his career. He become a leading sculptor of the kinetic movement, uniting his creative genius with his technical and mathematical expertise. Bury was considered the master of slow movement and meditation. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Alexander Stirling Calder (1870 – 1945)
Alexander Stirling Calder, born January 11 1870 in Philadelphia, was an American sculptor. Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture program on the Philadelphia City Hall and in 1886 is reported to have modeled the arm of one of the figures.
In 1885 at [...] Click here to continue reading.
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