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Charles Drew Cahoon (1861-1951) Charles D. Cahoon was born in 1861 in Harwich, Massachusetts, the son of a sea captain and amateur artist. His vast body of work spans three decades and includes between 2,500 and 3,000 paintings mostly Cape Cod landscapes and seascapes. Cahoon died in 1951 in Harwich, Massachusetts. F. Barbedienne, Fondeur The Paris foundry of Barbedienne is generally considered to be the premier nineteenth century foundry for bronze sculpture. It was founded in 1838 by Ferdinand Barbedienne and Achille Collas, who had invented a mechanism to mechanically reduce statues. At first the Barbedienne foundry made bronze reductions of Greek and Roman antique sculptures. In 1843 they added the first living artist, Francois Rude, to their clientele. Throughout its history the Barbedienne organization [...] Click here to continue reading. Lynda Benglis (American/Louisiana, born 1941) Louisiana native and Newcomb College graduate, Lynda Benglis burst onto the New York expressionist scene in the late 1960′s and 1970′s, marking poignant points in her career with shocking organic pieces representative of her contemporary focus.Information courtesy of New Orleans Auctions, May 2006. Charles Owen Perry (American, born 1929) A significant contemporary American sculptor, Perry approaches his art with a mathematical eye. His sculptures have a scientific complexity that is often obscured by the stunning elegance of his compositions. Initially trained in design (the master theorist/artist Josef Albers (German/American, 1888-1976) was his mentor at Yale), Perry was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome in architecture in 1964. This was a decisive experience and encouraged him to concentrate [...] Click here to continue reading. James Earle Fraser (American Sculptor, 1876 to 1953) James Earle Fraser spent his boyhood on the prairies of South Dakota. He studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academies Julian and Colarossi. In 1894, before he was seventeen years old, he created what is undoubtedly one of the best-known works of American sculpture, End of the Trail. It won him a $1,000 award and the [...] Click here to continue reading. Madeleine Park (1891-1960) Madeleine Fish Park was born in Mt. Kisco, New York on July 19, 1891, and the only child of Edwin Bennett Fish and Mary Elizabeth (Sutton) Fish. At an early age she often played with family pets which may account for her ease in handling and sculpting them later in life. After attending the Emily Fowler School in Mt. Kisco, Madeleine went away to Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey. [...] Click here to continue reading. Walter A. Clark (American, 1848 to 1917) Clark originally studied engineering at M.I.T., before embarking on an extensive tour of Europe, Asia, and India. Upon his return to the United States, he settled in New York where he enrolled in the National Academy of Design and the Art Student League. It was during this time that he befriended the painter George Inness, Sr. (1825 to 1894), who occupied the studio next door, and who [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Gordon Cutler (American, born 1914) Charles Cutler was the son of Massachusetts painter Carl Gordon Cutler (American, 1873 to 1945), and was primarily a sculptor. He served as the head of the sculpture department at the Cincinnati Art Academy and exhibited widely, most notably at Vose Gallery in Boston. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, February 2009. John Cavanaugh (American, 1921 to 1985) John Cavanaugh was a sculptor of extraordinary talent whose early career was wrought with poverty and emotional hardship. His experience with hammered lead was conceived at the New York Sculpture Center in Brooklyn when he cleaned the facility and fired kilns in exchanged for free studio time. Through this technique, Cavanaugh produced an enormous array of hammered lead sculptures, many life sized, and was featured in numerous solo-exhibitions [...] Click here to continue reading. Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin (Russian, American, 1881 to 1955) Nicolai Fechin was born in 1881 in the city of Kazan near the Volga River to a craftsman who gave his son his earliest instruction in drawing and sculpting. At fourteen, he enrolled at the Art School of Kazan, then studied at the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg, from which he eventually graduated in 1908. In just a few years, the young artist attained international success, [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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