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Sheldon Peck (American, 1797 to 1868) Born in Cornwall, Vermont in 1797, Peck is known to have been painting portraits in Vermont in 1824. He then lived on a farm in New York around 1828. In the 1830′s he is known to have moved to Illinois where he established himself in the small village of Lombard near Chicago. Most of his Illinois work were double portraits in room settings. In these works he often [...] Click here to continue reading. Raymond S. Pease (born 1908) Raymond S. Pease was born in northern Vermont where riding, hunting, and fishing were a way of life for a boy. His early interest was captured by the adventure and romance of the West through reading and trips to his grandfather’s ranch. One of his dearest friends was the Kiowa Indian, Tahan. That he would be an artist of Western subjects seemed evident even then, for as a small [...] Click here to continue reading. Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) Born in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rembrandt Peale was the second son and pupil of Charles Willson Peale. In 1797, he and his brother Raphaelle opened a museum of art and natural history in Baltimore, and later assisted his father in unearthing and assembling the first complete skeleton of a mastodon. After a sojourn as a painter of historical scenes, he established himself as a successful portrait artist. At age 17, he [...] Click here to continue reading. Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) Edgar Payne was born in Washburn, Missouri in 1883. At the young age of fourteen he was completely on his own and traveled to Chicago where he briefly studied at the Art Institute. In 1911 he traveled west to Laguna Beach, California where he met his wife Elsie Palmer, also a painter in San Francisco. They moved to Laguna Beach in 1917, and Payne was the first president of the [...] Click here to continue reading. Edgar Samuel Paxson (1852-1919) Edgar Samuel Paxson was born in East Hamburgh, New York, the son of a sign painter. His fascination with the American West, in part inspired by the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, urged him westward, and he arrived in Montana one year after Little Big Horn. He served in the Spanish-American War, but after the war, and without any formal training, he turned to painting to earn a living. His [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Patton Paul Patton (Ohio, 1922 to 1992) grew up in Rix Mills in Muskingum County, Ohio. After a career away from his hometown, he returned in the mid-1980s to discover that the small, rural town had been practically decimated, in part due to local strip mines. He turned to painting, and executed a series entitled Rix Mills Remembered in which he portrayed his happy childhood, growing up in Rix Mills in the 1920′s [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Patkotak (1892-1980) Paul Patkotak was educated in the Catholic faith after missionaries visited his home village of Wainwright, Alaska. In 1911 he attended a seminary school in Seattle and returned home to Alaska spreading the Word of the Gospel. As a self-taught artist, Brother Paul stated in 1958, “I do not draw anymore. My eyes are getting dull.” (Lester 1995: 442) Patkotak’s work has been exhibited at the Philbrook Art Center, Alaska Native [...] Click here to continue reading. Walter Launt Palmer (1854 to 1932) The landscapes of Walter Palmer, particularly his snow scenes, were popular prizewinners throughout a long professional career that began before the artist was 20 years old. Born in 1854 in Albany, New York, the son of sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer, Walter grew up among art and artists. His first lessons, in his teens, were with portraitist Charles Elliott and Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Church. Palmer’s work was [...] Click here to continue reading. Gerald Nailor (Navaho, 1917-1952) Gerald Nailor formally trained at the U. S. Indian School in Santa Fe with Dorothy Dunn and then continued his studies with Kenneth Chapman and the Swedish muralist Olaf Nordemark. In 1937, Nailor shared a studio with Alan Houser and Pop Chalee; it was the first independent art studio and gallery in Santa Fe. In 1938, he and Houser were commissioned to paint Indian Murals for the Department of the [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Orr (1879-1961) Louis Orr was a Connecticut-born artist who studied at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1906. He later went to Paris at the request of the French government to make etchings of cathedrals that were under bombardment by the Germans in WWI. He has the distinction of being the first American artist to have his works acquired by the Louvre. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. |
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