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Benjamin Perley Poore Benjamin Perley Poore (1820 to 1887) was a significant early collector of American antiques. A writer by trade, Poore was born near Newbury, Massachusetts to parents Benjamin and Mary Perley Poore. The family estate called Indian Hill became the showcase for his eclectic assemblage of antiques. As a youth Poore was influenced by trips to Europe and was especially fascinated by the old Scottish castles and manor houses. He later sought [...] Click here to continue reading. Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905 to 1983) Ogden Minton Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was very interested in the arts, especially music and his mother was an accomplished violinist who had studied in Germany. At age 16, Pleissner was sent to a summer camp in Dubois, Wyoming. He spent two summers at with camp with a group of 15 or 20 other boys. A third summer was spent on a dude [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry Clarence Pitz (1895-1976) The following was written by Mary “Molly” Wheeler Wood Pitz, widow of the artist, Spring 1988. Henry C. Pitz was the only child of Anna Rosina (nee Steiffel) and Henry William Pitz. His mother’s close-knit family had emigrated from Lake Constance in southern Germany at mid-century; his father had trained as a bookbinder in Munich, before moving to Philadelphia in the 1880s to open his own bookbindery and leather [...] Click here to continue reading. William Preston Phelps (1848-1923) William Preston Phelps is one of a number of American painters who, despite their talents, but because of personal circumstances, have tended to disappear in the canonical account of American art. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1848, Phelps began his career as a self-taught sign painter . His obvious abilities, however, soon encouraged a group of local businessmen to sponsor his further training at the Royal Academy in Munich, where [...] Click here to continue reading. Jane Peterson (1876-1965) Jane Peterson is admired and praised for developing an individualistic style, bold color combinations, and for creatively constructing unique designs in masterfully rendered avenues of paint. Her canvases that intermingle Fauvist and Impressionist tendencies with academic drawing rank among her finest canvases and works on paper. Large canvases like “A Street In Gloucester” represent Peterson’s bold unique brushwork and unusual veracity. Peterson was named Jennie Christine upon her birth in Elgin, [...] Click here to continue reading. Martin Petersen (1866-1956) Martin Petersen was born in Denmark in 1866 and settled in New Jersey in 1884. He studied at the National Academy of Design and for fifty years supported himself as an anatomical artist for the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Despite the loss of one arm in a sugar mill accident as a boy, he produced a large body of etched work in the tradition of John Sloan [...] Click here to continue reading. Pescheret, Leon Rene – American Artist, Illustrator, Craftsman, Architect, Writer, Teacher & DesigneLeon Rene Pescheret (1892-1971) Painter, illustrator, etcher, craftsman, architect, writer, teacher, and designer, Pescheret was born in Chiswick, England on May (or March) 15, 1892 and died in 1961. Although all the research books list his death to be in 1961, a collector states that he purchased several works in 1962 and 1964 directly from the artist’s studio in Whitewater, WI and that Pescheret was alive and well in the spring of 1964. Pescheret [...] Click here to continue reading. Marie Adrien Persac (1823-1873) The multi-talented Marie Adrien Persac was born in France in 1823, immmigrated to America in the early nineteenth century and worked as an architect, civil engineer, cartographer, photographer and artist. In 1859 Persac found employment as a painter documenting real estate transactions at the Notarial Archives in New Orleans. Persac’s finest and highly prized paintings are the series of watercolors and gouaches he did of the plantation homes along [...] Click here to continue reading. Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) Lilla Perry was much associated with Claude Monet and was instrumental in bringing French Impressionism and Monet’s style to America. She had a special relationship with Monet, having lived near him in Giverny, France. Although he never took students, he often advised her. Monet told Perry that her forte was “plein air” figures out of doors. She introduced the first of Monet’s paintings to the Boston area and was [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward Penfield (1912 to 1988) We are a bit tired of the very serious nowadays, and a little frivolity is refreshing; and yet frivolity to be successful must be most thoroughly studied.” So wrote Edward Penfield near the outset of his highly influential career as an illustrator, art editor, and poster artist, a career guided by keen observation, a cosmopolitan sensibility, and a simplicity that belied his meticulously crafted efforts. In looking at [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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