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Jacques Lipchitz (French, American, 1891 to 1973)
Chaim Jacob Jacques Lipchitz was born in Lithuania but moved to Paris in 1909 to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien. He immersed himself in the French artistic community, befriending fellow artists such as Alexander Archipenko, Pablo Picasso, and Amedeo Modigliani. Lipchitz soon established himself as one of the leading proponents of Cubist sculpture. By the early 1930s he had dramatically shifted [...] Click here to continue reading.
Hanga, or Japanese Woodblock Prints
In Japanese, woodblock prints are called hanga; han means ‘a printing block’, and ga is ‘picture’. The colorful and varied tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking includes 17th to 19th century ‘ukiyo-e’ (the celebrated “Pictures of the Floating World”), 20th century ‘Shin hanga’ (“New Prints”) and ‘Sa ‘ saku hanga’ (“Creative Prints”) works, and Modern/Contemporary prints.
Ukiyo-e were pictures of exciting people and scenes from the entertainment districts of old [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Lipton: Dealer, Scholar, Collector
William Lipton’s first journey to Asia occurred in the early 1970′s. He was immediately seduced by the culture of the East, and arranged for a return the following year with Jim Thompson at the Thai Silk Company, where he remained for six years, ultimately as the director of design. During this period he traveled extensively throughout Asia, often accompanied and advised by the Hong Kong dealer Charlotte Horstmann.
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Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle
The following information has been provided to p4A.com by Francois Grosjean, Professor Emeritus, Neuchetel University, Switzerland, a descendent of the artist:
Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778 to 1865) was a Franco-English Victorian painter and portraitist, specialized in literary and historical subjects. For more than a 100 years, he was mistakenly given his son’s name, Henry Joseph Fradelle, who was trained as an artist but had several professions including clinic supervisor. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Francisco Zuniga (Costa Rican/Mexican, 1912 to 1998)
Francisco Zuniga was born in Costa Rica, where he began his career as a craftsman in his father’s workshop, which made religious images. It was in Mexico, however, during the great artistic movement, that he began to develop the ideas that would permeate his work for the rest of his life. Zuniga once said, “All art that is valid answers first to its regional characteristics and the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eugene Galien-Laloue (French, 1854 to 1941)
Born of French/Italian parents in Montmartre, Galien-Laloue worked most of his life in his beloved Paris. He had no formal art training; his father was a set designer for a local theater, and it is believed that the elder man taught his son the rudiments of drawing and painting. Known for his captivating and vibrant street scenes of turn of the century Paris, Galien-Laloue initially began his artistic [...] Click here to continue reading.
Paul Henreid (1908 to 1992)
Paul Henreid’s sophisticated charm and continental elegance were forever immortalized in celluloid with the release of two films made in 1942 by Hal Wallis for Warner Brothers. Playing Victor Lazlo opposite Ingrid Bergman in Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca and Bette Davis’ lover, Jerry, in Irving Rappner’s Now Voyager, Henreid’s imperturable urbanity and impecable demeanor with the opposite sex became the envy of all women and the emulation of young men [...] Click here to continue reading.
Derriere le Miroir
Derriere le Miroir was an art magazine published between 1946 and 1982 (253 issues) by the French publisher and gallery owner Aime Maeght. The Galerie Maeght, in Paris since 1945, exhibited and promoted names, such as Bonnard, Matisse, Braque, Leger, Steinberg, Chagall, Bram Van Velde, Miro, Kandinsky, Giacometti, Ubac, Bazaine, Calder, Derain, Chillida, Tapies, among so many other artists. The publication Derriere le Miroir, was the outcome of the gallery owner’s [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mary Bradish Titcomb (American, 1858 to 1927)
Mary Bradish Titcomb was one of leading women painters of the Boston School. She was born in Windham, New Hampshire in 1858, and moved to Boston at age twenty-eight to join the swelling ranks of women training to be art instructors in the state’s public schools.[1] After completing her studies at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, she was employed as the director of drawing for the town [...] Click here to continue reading.
Collection of Earle and Yvonne Henderson, Charming Forge Mansion, Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania
CHARMING FORGE MANSION¦AT A GLANCE
Charming Forge Mansion, located in Berks County, Pennsylvania, is nestled atop a hill overlooking a site that once buzzed with industrial activity and the clanking of a forge hammer. The forge is closed now and many of the buildings are gone but the mansion still looks out over the Tulpehocken Creek that once powered this magnificent [...] Click here to continue reading.
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