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Josef Albers (1888-1976) Josef Albers was born to a family of craftsmen in Bottrop in the Ruhr region of Germany in 1888. He studied art in Munich and Berlin from 1913 to 1920, but his most significant education took place in Weimar, Germany at the Bauhaus, an association of artists, craftsmen, and architects committed to a creed of merging craft techniques with creative aspects of fine art. In 1923 he became a teacher [...] Click here to continue reading. The 20th Century Limited In the 1930′s when technology began to reflect the sleek, aerodynamic lines of the Art Deco movement, the new 20th Century Limited train, designed by Henry Dreyfus, was the pride of the New York Central Line, running from New York to Chicago in sixteen hours. Susan Crowder (American, 20th/21st Century) Crowder is a Charlottesville, Virginia based artist. She is one of the founders of the Science & Art Project at the University of Virginia, which facilitates collaboration between artists and scientists. Her art education included study at the Ecole du Louvre and the Art Students League. Her work is in the collections of public institutions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of [...] Click here to continue reading. Fitz Hugh (Henry) Lane (1804 to 1865) Fitz Henry Lane was one of the foremost American marine painters of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1804 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and spent much of his youth sketching the Cape Ann shore. He apprenticed with William S. Pendleton, the Boston lithography firm, in the early 1830′s, specializing in topographic views. In the 1840′s Lane probably saw the works of Robert Salmon and Washington Allston in [...] Click here to continue reading. John Francis E. Prudhomme (1817-1884) John Prudhomme was an engraver as well as a daguerreotypist who was a member of the National Academy and began work in New York City in 1850. After 1852, Prudhomme closed his New York City gallery and returned to engraving, this time for the U.S. government. William Meade Prince (1893-1951) William Meade Prince studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. He lived and worked in Connecticut in the 1920s then he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he remained. When the Dodge Motor Company asked him to create illustrations for their advertisements, he gave them an outrageous price for lack of a desire to work for them. Surprisingly, they accepted and Prince achieved financial success. [...] Click here to continue reading. Gregorio Prestopino (1907 to 1984) Prestopino, born in New York’s Little Italy and educated at the National Academy of Design, was influenced by the Ashcan painters and their depiction of urban life. In 1934 he summered at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., where he would later serve as director (in 1954). Throughout his career he taught painting, including at the Brooklyn Museum School (1946 to 1951) and he was artist-in-residence at Michigan [...] Click here to continue reading. Lucien Whiting Powell (1846-1930) Lucien Whiting Powell was born on his family’s, Levinworth Manor, in Upperville, Virginia. At age 17, he enlisted in the 11th Virginia Calvary and fought at Petersburg, Richmond, and Farmville. After the war, he headed north and studied in Philadelphia with Thomas Moran. He studied the works of J.M.W. Turner at the National Gallery in London. After returning to the United States, he lived primarily in Virginia and Washington, D.C., [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927) Edward Henry Potthast, landscape painter and illustrator, was born 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a family of German immigrant artisans. At the age of thirteen he was already attending the McMicken School of Design, and at sixteen he was working for the Strobridge Lithography Company. He maintained his interest in lithography and illustration for much of his early career. In 1892 he moved to New York. Like many residents of [...] Click here to continue reading. Rufus Porter (1792 to 1884), Rufus Porter, born in Massachusetts, began his career painting houses and signs, as well as making shoes and farming. He began painting portraits in New Haven, Connecticut where he also made fiddles. He traveled throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic painting portraits, landscapes, murals, and creating silhouettes with a camera obscura he designed himself. He established the magazine “New York Mechanic,” which would become “Scientific American.” Though untrained, he [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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