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Gary and Karen Stuffel of Washington, Indiana Gary and Karen Stuffel loved the country life, and both loved the dream of living with early American antiques. Born in Daviess County, Indiana, they chose to settle in Washington where Gary worked as a union carpenter and Karen as a Postmaster for the Edwardsport post office, and then later the Montgomery post office. Their love extended to a project of acquiring a log home originally built [...] Click here to continue reading. Theodore Gerard (Belgian, 1829 to 1895) Gerard was an academically trained artist who excelled at scenes of rural Belgian life. His often idyllic depictions of peasants, farmers, and other country folk are imbued with his belief in the nobility of the common man. Gerard studied at the Academy of Gand and the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. A popular and successful painter [...] Click here to continue reading. The Jane and Howard Frank Collection The unrivaled group of original artwork and fine, rare books and pulp magazines in this catalog comes to you from the renowned collection of Jane and Howard Frank, widely considered to be among the most important assemblages of fantasy and science fiction art and literature in the world. The Franks are pioneers, with a shared passion for art of the weird and fantastic, and beginning in the 1960s, [...] Click here to continue reading. Rudolf Levy (German, 1875 to 1944) Levy was the scion of a prosperous Jewish merchant family. He originally enrolled in the Grand Ducal School for Decorative and Applied Arts in Baden in 1895 to study carpentry, but left that University in 1897 when he decided to pursue painting at the various, well-lauded private art schools in Munich. In Munich, Levy studied with Nicolas Gyzis, Heinrich Knirr (1862-1944), and the noted Symbolist painter Franz von [...] Click here to continue reading. John LaFarge (American, 1835 to 1910) La Farge moved from New York to Newport in the spring of 1859 to study painting with William Morris Hunt. He nonetheless frequently visited Glen Cove, Long Island, where his family had a large summer property that had been purchased by his father sometime before 1835. The impressive Glen Cove estate, extending over some fifty acres, could be accessed directly by boat from both Hempstead Harbor and Glen [...] Click here to continue reading. David Stirling (1887-1971) David Stirling was born in 1887 in Corydon, Iowa, to a pioneering family, and his father was a newspaper publisher. He died in Longmont, Colorado, after a short illness in 1971 and was buried there in a family plot. There were 8 children in the family, of which he was the youngest, being 7 years younger than the next youngest son, and he was the first of the family to graduate [...] Click here to continue reading. Mathias Joseph Alten (1871-1938) Born in Gusenburg, Germany, near Trier, Mathias Alten is hailed as the foremost painter of Grand Rapids, Michigan and a second-generation Impressionist whose primary theme was agrarian labor. He was apprenticed to Joseph Klein, a decorative painter in Saint Wendel, Germany and worked on ceiling and wall decorations for churches and theaters. At age 17, he emigrated with his family to Grand Rapids, Michigan, which was a major manufacturing [...] Click here to continue reading. William Bradford (American, 1823 to 1892) William Bradford was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1823, and started painting in 1852. From his studio overlooking the harbor, Bradford painted portraits of the ships that were coming into New Bedford as part of the lucrative whaling business. He continued this type of painting in Boston, where he painted much larger clipper ships. In 1854, Bradford decided to focus more on marine scenes, coastal views, and [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Joseph Bahin (French/American, 1813 to 1857) Louis Joseph Bahin was born in Armentieres, France; his wife Fanny Josephine Caremantrand was from Mantua, Italy. While residing in Paris they had two sons, Gustave and Alphonse. Also while in Paris, Bahin’s portraits were exhibited at the National Museum of the Louvre in 1848 and 1850. The family immigrated to New Orleans, and about 1852 established permanent residence in Natchez, Mississippi. One of the few, French [...] Click here to continue reading. George Benjamin Luks (American, 1867 to 1933) George Luks was born in Williamsport Pennsylvania in 1867. After traveling and studying in Europe he returned to the United States in 1894 to work for the “Philadelphia Press,” doing reportorial sketches, a method that became his forte. He enrolled at Pennsylvania Academy, but his rebellious nature resisted the formal study and he withdrew after one month. In Philadelphia, he became friends with John Sloan, Robert Henri, [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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