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Beatien Yazz (Navajo, born 1928) Beatien Yazz, born March 5, 1928 in Arizona, is also known as Little No Shirt and Jimmy Toddy, and was a Code Talker during WWII. He has received numerous commissions, honors, and awards and his works are in many museums (Lester 1995:47). Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions September 2006 Edmund Yaghjian (1903 to 1999) Edmund Yaghjian, born in 1903 in Armenia, was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in Residence there. He died in Columbia, South Carolina in 1999. He was a student of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York, and his work has the same spirit as the Ashcan School of painters. The colors orange and [...] Click here to continue reading. Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836 to 1892) Born in Evans Creek, Ohio, in 1836, Alexander Wyant began his career as a topographical landscape painter along the Ohio River. After viewing the work of George Inness at an exhibition in Cincinnati, Wyant traveled to New York City to visit the artist. Inness encouraged him to travel to Europe, where Wyant was influenced by other landscape artists such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. After returning to [...] Click here to continue reading. Ellsworth Woodward (American, 1861 to 1939) Ellsworth Woodward and his brother William were two of the most influential figures in the New Orleans art community. Ellsworth studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and later in the studios of Samuel Richards and Carl Marr in Munich, Germany. He accepted a position as a professor of art at Tulane in 1885, a year after his brother had joined the faculty. The brothers were [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Waterman Wood (1823 to 1903) Born in 1823, Thomas Waterman Wood grew up in Montpelier, Vermont. He began his career as a portrait painter, and like many other artists of his day he took extended trips to Europe to see and study the great works of art there. He studied portrait painting with Chester Harding in Boston during 1846-47, and later worked in Quebec, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore until 1858. He then decided [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Wolchonok (1898-1973) Louis Wolchonok was born in 1898 in New York City. He trained at the NAD, Cooper Union, Academie Julian in Paris, and the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Art. He worked in a variety of media including pastels, gouache, oil, watercolor and woodblock. His subjects were many and varied. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Julius Woeltz Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1911 Julius Woeltz first studied art under Wilson K. Nixon, Jose Arpa, and Xavier Gonzalez. He then traveled to Paris for study at the Academy Julian, and later the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was awarded two scholarships. Woeltz taught in San Antonio, and in 1932, he was appointed head of the art department at Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, Texas. Woeltz won [...] Click here to continue reading. John Whorf (1903-1959) John Whorf was born in Massachusetts in 1903. His initial art training came from his father who was a commercial artist and graphic designer. When he was 14 he was enrolled to study painting at the Boston Museum School and with Sherman Kidd at the St. Botolph Studio. From there he went to Provincetown and studied with Charles Hawthorne at the Cape School. Later he went to France and took training [...] Click here to continue reading. Adele Williams (1858 to 1952) The youngest of five children, Adele Williams’ artistic talents were nurtured at an early age by both her parents and siblings. Following an ambitious schooling for females of the period, William began to focus on her painting. She completed her first commission at the age of 19; a portrait of the great late Richmond business leader, Bolling Walker Haxall. Portraiture proved to be lucrative and this was only the [...] Click here to continue reading. Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883-1962) Guy Wiggins was born in Lyme, Conn., and was educated there at his father’s (John Carleton Wiggins) art school. Before he settled on a career as a painter, the younger Wiggins worked with the Foreign Service. He would paint local scenes wherever he was posted. After taking an early retirement from the job, Wiggins entered the Art Students League in New York, followed by a course of study in [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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