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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. The Arts & Crafts Movement The principles of the Arts and Crafts movement were initially frontiered in England through the efforts of John Ruskin and William Morris. Ruskin was not a craftsman but an academic scholar at Oxford. He believed passionately that the Industrial Revolution would erode the English countryside by turning it into factory fields while relegating the skilled English craftsman to the status of a laborer. The battle cry of his movement, [...] Click here to continue reading. Andy Warhol (American, 1928 to 1987) Andy Warhol, a son of an immigrant coal miner and arguably the most influential visual historian of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 where he became a successful illustrator, painter, film-maker, and author and kept the company of socialites and street people alike. In a meaningful departure from Expressionism, Warhol embraced popular culture and [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Adolph (circa 1815-?) Charles Adolph migrated from Alsace, France, in 1843 with his brother George; the pair settled in Williamsburg, Wayne County, Indiana. He is listed in Green Township in the 1850 census. He moved to Henry County, Indiana, in the late 1850s and then to Osage County, Kansas, in 1870. A domed temple in the corner block is typical of Adolph’s work. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Tapa This cloth is made from the treated inner bark of the paper mulberry tree grown in home gardens. After one or two years, the trees are cut down; their bark stripped off and pounded flat in a fashion that spreads it out into a coarse cloth. Vegetable dyes and charcoal are used to paint intricate black and red symmetric designs on the cloth in a style reminiscent of Aboriginal art. Gary and Karen Stuffel of Washington, Indiana Gary and Karen Stuffel loved the country life, and both loved the dream of living with early American antiques. Born in Daviess County, Indiana, they chose to settle in Washington where Gary worked as a union carpenter and Karen as a Postmaster for the Edwardsport post office, and then later the Montgomery post office. Their love extended to a project of acquiring a log home originally built [...] Click here to continue reading. Herbert Bayer (Austrian/American, 1900 to 1985) Herbert Bayer was a student in the early to mid-1920s under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Though he was adept at many forms of art, he was encouraged by Gropius to specialize in graphic design.(1) He became an instructor at the Bauhaus in Dessau from the mid- to late-1920s, teaching advertising, page design, and typography. Like Gropius, Bayer immigrated to the United States after the Nazi [...] Click here to continue reading. John William Boor, M.D. (1947 to 2007) John William Boor, M.D. was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia. Dr. Boor’s love for the fine arts stemmed from his fascination with American history and his tremendous pride and respect for everything related to or originating from the great colonial city of Philadelphia. To many he was their trusted doctor, specializing in Neurology. Others knew him as a collector of Americana. He had an [...] Click here to continue reading. Jugendstil Movement In the late 19th century there was an artistic Renaissance in southern Germany, led by the artists and designers of the Jugendstil movement in the area around Munich. While Jugendstil artists like Arnold Bocklin are often thrown in with the French Art Nouveau artists of the same period, their art was stylistically original and focused on Germanic themes and mythology. The term “Jugendstil” originated in 1896, when it was published in the [...] Click here to continue reading. The LaTourette Family of Weavers Sarah LaTourette (1822-1914) was born in Germantown, Ohio, the daughter of weaver John LaTourette (1793-1849). The family moved to Fountain County, Indiana, in 1828. Sarah assisted her father, and then wove with her brother, Henry, after John died in 1849. The 1850 census lists her as a weaver, and the 1850 census of manufacturers lists her as the owner of a coverlet business. Annually, the LaTourettes wove two-hundred coverlets. [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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