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Drypoint In drypoint, a copper or zinc plate serves as a canvas to which an artist directly applies a sharp pointed steel needle. There is no acid or ground. The gouge made by the artist’s needle forms a rough edge called a burr where it cuts into the plate. When prints are “pulled” from the plate, the burr produces a very soft line in the print, a primary characteristic of drypoints. As more prints [...] Click here to continue reading. The Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge is in New York City and connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. It was designed by John Augustus Roebling as a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge. Roebling was killed in an accident just before construction started in 1869. His son Washington A. Roebling who had assisted his father in the design of the Brooklyn bridge and several other projects then took over the job of chief engineer at the [...] Click here to continue reading. Elijah Warner – Cabinet & Clock maker of Lexington, Kentucky An attributed Elijah Warner tall case clock with fancy wood trim and three finial pediment. Elijah Warner was a cabinetmaker living and working in Lexington, Kentucky from 1810 to his death in 1829. He was born in 1787 at Hinsdale, in the Berkshire region of Massachusetts, to Nathan Warner, Sr. and Jerusha Webb Warner, themselves descendants of New England Puritans. By 1810, he had [...] Click here to continue reading. Jonathan Gostelow According to American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 by William C. Ketchum, Jr., Jonathan Gostelowe (1745-1795) was a well-known and highly respected Philadelphia cabinetmaker, but few marked examples of his work are known. Ketchum notes one label reads, “Jonathan Goftelowe,/CABINET AND CHAIR-MAKER/At his fhop in CHURCH ALLEY, about midway between/Second and Third-streets…/BEGS leave to inform his former cuftomers and the/Public in general, That he hath again resumed his/occupation at the above mentioned [...] Click here to continue reading. Brother Thomas Bezanson Brother Thomas Bezanson was a Canadian-born artist who is best known for his finely thrown porcelain vessels and complex glazes. After studying philosophy at the University of Ottawa, he spent twenty-five years as a Benedictine monk at Weston Priory, Vermont, before becoming the artist-in-residence at Mount Saint Benedict in Erie, Pennsylvania. Bezanson believed in art as the language of the spirit, and he approached pottery as a monk would their daily [...] Click here to continue reading. Alfred Heber Hutty Born in Grand Haven, Michigan, in 1877, Alfred Hutty went to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919 when he was in his early forties and immediately cabled his wife “Come quickly. Have found heaven.” Hutty had worked as a stained glass designer in Kansas City and at Tiffany Glass Studios in New York, but he had also begun a long association with the Woodstock, New York, art community and with Lowell Birge [...] Click here to continue reading. Logan Pottery The Logan Pottery was organized in Logan, Hocking County (in the south central region of Ohio) by the brothers Frank and Charles Adcock on 29 May 1902. The pottery began operation in January, 1903. Frank, a schoolteacher, eventually left the pottery and Charles continued to manage it until his death in 1934. The pottery continued in operation under the management of his sons Ross and Lawrence until it closed in 1964. Over [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry Louis, Ohio Potter According to A History of Coshocton County by N. N. Hill, Jr., (1881, page 574) Henry Louis produced stoneware products in New Castle, Ohio in the 1870′s. He produced stoneware on a smaller scale than other potteries in the area, but was still active in 1881. Ohio stoneware expert Professor Robert Treichler has found Lewis listing himself as “making stoneware” in the 1870 census. His widowed mother Elizabeth was a [...] Click here to continue reading. Prosper Rich Ohio potter Prosper Rich produced stoneware products at New Castle (originally named West Liberty, later Caldersburg, and then New Castle, in Coshocton County), in the late 1850′s. He moved a pottery operation to Roscoe Village (also Coshocton County) in the 1860′s. He purchased this Roscoe Village property from George Bagnall about 1869. Rich purchased additional local property in 1870 and 1871. Caroline (Kate) Rich, Prosper and Melissa Rich’s daughter, married G. A. [...] Click here to continue reading. McKenney & Hall Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785 to 1857) and James Hall worked together to compile a volume of portfolios that represented Indian life, lore and custom. As Superintendent of Indian Trade under Presidents Madison, Monroe, Adams, and Jackson, McKenney had the interest and opportunity to learn first hand the customs and beliefs of many Native American Tribes. He championed the fight to preserve some of the details of the Indian culture, which [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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