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J. Garland Warren J. Garland Warren was the quintessential good ole boy, a quiet man who valued family, friends, faith and quite frankly was simply known as the man with the best burger in town. Warren is one of the most successful businessmen to ever put down roots in San Marcos, TX, but you’d never know it unless someone told you. Most days, you could find Warren in his Centerpoint Station store with his [...] Click here to continue reading. Rene Lalique Glass Lalique glass, characterized by its high quality lead crystal and frosted or enameled surface, has been made in France since the 1890′s. Rene Lalique (French 1860 to 1945) began as a jeweler making glass paste jewelry before being asked to design perfume bottles for the Coty Co. His designs were so successful and well received that he was quickly recognized as one of the country’s leading glass designers. Much of the [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820 to 1910) In 1872, Whittredge began to spend his summers in Newport, Rhode Island, his family’s ancestral home. His early views of Rhode Island, such as “A Home by the Seaside”,1872 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) centered, not on Newport, but on the rural towns of Middleton, Tiverton and Little Compton and the surrounding valleys and coasts. These panoramic scenes often feature the gable-end, shingle-sided houses that characterized [...] Click here to continue reading. Sabino Glass Sabino art glass has been made in France since approximately 1920 until the present from the designs of Marius Ernest Sabino (1878 [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Joanne and Jeffrey Klein Collectors Joanne and Jeffrey Klein enjoy the eclectic mix of American folk art, painted furniture and modern sculpture and paintings. They love the juxtaposition of modern with traditional ranging from symbolism to widely varying textured painted and weathered surfaces. Their appreciation of form, color and texture is exhibited in their collection of exceptional painted furniture, weathervanes, redware pottery, hooked rugs and wood carvings. Information courtesy of Keno Auctions, January 2013. Philip Leslie Hale (American, 1865 to 1931) American Impressionist painter Philip Leslie Hale was born in 1865, son of the prominent Bostonian Reverend Edward Everett Hale. After studying in America with Edmund Tarbell, J. Alden Weir, and Kenyon Cox, Hale first traveled to Paris in 1887 to study at the Academie Julian with Henri Doucet and Joseph Lefebvre and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. A year later he traveled to the artist’s colony [...] Click here to continue reading. Peter Rushton & Peter Maverick Originally from an English family of engravers, Peter Rushton Maverick (1755 to 1807), began as a silversmith in New York City and became an accomplished and celebrated engraver and designer, primarily of bookplates. He was the teacher of his son, Peter Maverick 91780 to 1831), who became well known as an engraver of book illustrations. Father and son were both prominent engravers, artisans and businessmen in the New York [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph Callender Joseph Callender (6 May 1751 to 10 Nov 1821) A Boston engraver and die-sinker, Joseph Callender (6 May 1751 to 10 Nov 1821) apprenticed with Paul Revere before opening his own State Street die shop, where he worked for the Massachusetts mint and designed seals for Bowdoin College (1798) and other clients. He also designed and engraved numerous bookplates and illustrations for Federal era magazines. In addition to his professional work, Callender [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward Mitchell Bannister (African, American, 1833 to 1901) Edward Bannister started painting in the 1850s in Boston. He never received any formal artistic training but was greatly influenced by the artists of the Barbizon school, especially William Morris Hunt, who frequently exhibited his works in Boston. Bannister focused mainly on painting large, tranquil landscapes, and in 1876, his painting “Under the Oaks” won first prize in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. This was the first [...] Click here to continue reading. Ernest Albert (American, 1857 to 1946) Ernest Albert was born Ernest Albert Brown in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, although he later dropped his surname for professional reasons. Albert began his career as a theatrical set designer in 1877 with Harley Merry at the Brooklyn Theater. His designs were quite poplular, and he was commissioned by theaters across the nation, including New York, Boston and Chicago and St. Louis. Beginning in 1909, he gradually [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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