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Franz Josef Kline (American, 1910 to 1962)
A major figure in Abstract Expressionism, Franz Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1910. Kline was a student in painting and drawing at Boston University before moving to London to study illustration and drafting at the Heatherley School of Fine Art. In 1939 he moved from London to New York City, where he exhibited interiors and cityscapes painted in a representational mode. These works were characterized [...] Click here to continue reading.
Gustave Baumann (1881-1971)
Gustave Baumann was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1881. He immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 10. As a young man, Baumann apprenticed at the Chicago’s Franklin Engraving Company and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Baumann traveled back to Germany in 1904 to enroll at Munich’s Kunstgewerbeschule. There the artist experimented with woodcut techniques and printmaking, for which he developed a true [...] Click here to continue reading.
Asahel Lynde Powers (1813-1843)
Asahel Powers was born on February 28, 1813, in Springfield, Vermont, and began his career as a portrait artist by the time he turned 18. His early works were done on wood panels, later changing to canvas as he traveled farther west. In his early works he used heavy gray shadowing, strong outlines, and boldly painted clothing with detailed accessories. He left New York some time after 1841 to join [...] Click here to continue reading.
Robert Remsen Vickrey (American, 1926 to 2011)
Robert Vickrey studied with Kenneth Hays Miller and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League before receiving his BFA at the Yale Art School in 1950. He gained early recognition with nine invitations to the Whitney Annual exhibitions, along with numerous national gold medals and awards. Often compared to Andrew Wyeth for his haunting effects, Vickrey is notable for his innovative tempera methods.
Vickrey is represented in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ernest Lawson (American, 1873 to 1939)
In 1890 Lawson began his studies at the Art Students League under John Henry Twachtman. Lawson developed his impressionist style while studying under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir at their school in Cos Cob, Connecticut. He became devoted to landscape painting, and this interest remained unchanged throughout his professional life. In 1893, he traveled to France, where he studied in Paris at the Academie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, 1854 to 1924)
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, was an American Impressionist Painter, illustrator, printmaker, designer, and watercolorist. He was born in 1859 in New Foundland, but grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. According to his brother Charles, Maurice spent every minute of his time sketching. He left school after only eight or nine years, going to work at a commercial art firm. Maurice went to Paris in 1892, and first studied under [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maurice de Vlaminck (French, 1876 to 1958)
Maurice de Vlaminck was a primarily self-taught artist, writer, and musician best known as a key player in the Fauvist movement. He began his artistic career alongside Henri Matisse and his lifelong friend Andre Derain, all of whom exhibited in the Salon des Independants and the Salon d’Automne in 1905. It was at the Salon d’Automne that critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term “Fauves” to describe these [...] Click here to continue reading.
Chinese Dynastic Chronology
Note: In general, the p4A reference database uses the Pinyin naming convention system for Chinese Terminology. Where the name varies under the Wade-Giles system p4A will present that alternative in brackets. For example: Qing [or Ch'ing] Dynasty.
Neolithic Period, circa 6500 to 1700 BC
Xia Dynasty, circa 2100 to 1600 BC
Shang Dynasty, circa 1600 to 1100 BC
Zhou [or Chou] Dynasty, circa 1100 to 256 BC Western Zhou, circa 1100 [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
Moran was both an artist and an artist-explorer in search of new landscapes. His sketches from nature are complimented by examples of his studio work and together create an intimate portrait of the artist and his belief in the inherent poetry of landscape.
Born in Bolton, England, Moran immagrated with his family in 1844 to the United States, where they settled in Philadelphia. Unlike many artists of his time, Thomas [...] Click here to continue reading.
Koekkoek Family of Dutch Painters
Hendrik Barend Koekkoek (1849 to 1909) descended from a prestigious family of painters, beginning with Hermanus Koekkoek (1815 to 1882) and spanning three generations. The Koekkoek family was an artistic dynasty in the Dutch traditions of genre, landscape and marine painting. Hendrik Barend was of the second generation; son of Hermanus, and specialized in the Dutch genre landscape tradition.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, February 2007.
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