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Reynolds Beal (American, 1867 to 1951) A student of naval architecture at Cornell University from 1885 to 1889, Reynolds Beal took his formal art training under William Merritt Chase in Shinnecock, New York. Beal’s first solo exhibition was at the Clauson Gallery in New York City in 1905. In 1919 he was one of only a handful of Americans invited to exhibit at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. His further distinctions included membership in [...] Click here to continue reading. Pompeo Girolamo Batoni – Italian Artist 1708 to 1787 Batoni began his career in Lucca, working as a decorator and engraver of precious metals in the workshop of his father, an eminent goldsmith in his native town. Before he turned twenty, Batoni left for Rome, where he studied classical antiquity and produced copies after antique sculpture for the Grand Tourists. He became a highly respected history painter and celebrated portraitist, with paintings of a [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Seldon Duncanson (American, 1821 to 1872) Contemporary research has established that the painter’s name was Robert Selden Duncanson, his middle name was not Scott as previously thought, according to Professor Joseph D. Ketner II of Emerson College in Boston, who has studied Duncanson for over 36 years. The definitive source for the name was discovered by Julie Aronson, a curator at the Cincinnati Museum of Art. Aronson discovered the correct name in an [...] Click here to continue reading. Mauritz Frederick Hendrick De Haas (Dutch, American, 1832 to 1895) One of the most famous 19th century marine and landscape painters, especially of Long Island, Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas was born in Rotterdam, Holland December 12, 1832, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. He also studied at The Hague as a pupil of Louis Meyer, and then specialized in watercolor in London. In 1859, at the age of twenty-seven he [...] Click here to continue reading. The Rick and Terry Ciccotelli Folk Art Collection-An Introduction Rick and Terry Ciccotelli’s love of folk art began with fraktur, the decorated manuscripts produced by Pennsylvania-German immigrants and their descendants. Because many fraktur artists were teachers, as Rick was early in his career, the Ciccotellis found themselves drawn to the material. The scriptural nature of the texts resonated particularly with Rick, as a former college professor of religious studies. Their growing interest in fraktur [...] Click here to continue reading. Jean Francois Raffaelli (French, 1850 to 1924) Jean Francois Raffaelli was born in Paris on April 20, 1850. He was accepted at the Paris Salon of 1870 despite his lack of formal training. He was known for picturesque views of quaint Paris neighborhoods and focused on scenes of middle-class life. He was associated with the Realists as well as the Impressionists, yet his work does not fall into either category. While in his earlier [...] Click here to continue reading. William Woodward (American, 1859 to 1939) William Woodward was born in Seekonk, Massachusetts and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. He taught art at Tulane University and Newcomb College in New Orleans, Louisiana and developed a life-long love of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. His passion for documenting the historic architecture of New Orleans helped fuel a preservation movement that thrives in the city to this day. Aside from New [...] Click here to continue reading. Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830 to 1902) His [Bierstadt's] parents brought him to New Bedford, Massachusetts [from Solingen, near Dusseldorf] in 1831. By age twenty, he was teaching drawing and painting and was exhibiting his own crayon landscapes. Unable to find satisfactory training in the United States, Bierstadt returned to Dusseldorf in 1853 to study at the academy, where he was imbued with the prevailing aesthetic of grandiose landscape depiction. He indulged his taste for [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Ritman (American Artist, 1889 to 1963) A critic in the “International Studio” in April 1919 referred to Ritman as “the Vermeer of the impressionist school”. This is not surprising as Louis Ritman’s work embodies all the elements of American impressionism and post-impressionism; high-keyed palette, limiting spatial depth by use of complex array of multicolors, decorative effect of profuse patterning in composition and well-modeled, anatomically accurate figures. Ritman came with his family [...] Click here to continue reading. Emma Fordyce MacRae (American Artist, 1887 to 1974) MacRae was born in Vienna Austria, but moved to the United States as a child. Her love for art started at an early age and can be credited largely to her parents’ collection of paintings from European artists. MacRae painted mainly in the Gloucester area of Massachusetts and New York City. Throughout her life, she frequently returned to Europe to study the latest trends in European [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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