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Carl Illig (American, New York, 1910 to 1987) Carl Illig was born in 1910 in East Aurora, New York. Illig studied under Arthur Kowalski and was a student and colleague of Emile Gruppe during summers spent in Gloucester. Best known for Western New York landscapes and Gloucester harbor scenes, his work carried on a long tradition of Western New York landscape painters and recalls Carl Peters, Gruppe and others. In the late 1950s, he [...] Click here to continue reading. Dulah Marie Llan Evans Krehbiel (American, 1875 to 1951) Dulah Evans Krehbiel (1875 to 1951) was born to a pioneer family in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, and did postgraduate work at the Art Students League in New York, where she won many first place awards in illustration classes under the instruction of Walter Appleton Clark. She also studied at the Charles Hawthorne School in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at [...] Click here to continue reading. Andrew Newell Wyeth (American, 1917 to 2009) Born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, in 1917, Andrew Wyeth was home-schooled by his father, the celebrated illustrator N.C. Wyeth. After learning drafting from his father, the younger Wyeth was awakened to the watercolors of Winslow Homer, whose Impressionistic style would inspire his own work in the watercolor medium. Wyeth’s first exhibition of artwork was in 1936, at the Art Alliance of Philadelphia. One year later, his first [...] Click here to continue reading. Albert Abramovitz (Russian/American, 1879 to 1963) Born in Latvia, Albert Abramovitz studied at the Academie Colorossi and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and at the Imperial Art School, Odessa, Russia. He lived and painted in Paris from 1906 to 1916 and then immigrated to the United States. Returning to Russia to document the construction of the Moscow Subway from 1933 to 1935, he then worked for the New York City FAP [...] Click here to continue reading. Ernest Tino Trova (American, 1927 to 2009) Ernest Tino Trova was born in Missouri and is known for his “Falling Man” series in abstract figural sculpture. His viewers are meant to see themselves as human beings challenged by a technological society, aware of their own mortality. He is known for his advanced use of technology in his work. Information courtesy of Skinner, Inc., September, 2007. Pat Lipsky (American, born 1941) Pat Lipsky grew up in New York City. She graduated with a BFA from Cornell University in 1963, receiving an MFA from the Graduate Program in Painting at Manhattan’s Hunter College, where she studied with the painter and sculptor Tony Smith. Raised by a painter mother and an engineer father 1, Lipsky had her first one-woman show in New York, at the Andre Emmerich Gallery2. Her work at the [...] Click here to continue reading. Niels Walseth (Danish, 1914 to 2001) Niels Walseth was born on August 12, 1914 in Kolding, Denmark. He was partly educated at the Techn. school and also took lessons from the painter Jacob Meyer. He made several study tours to mountainous European countries including Austria, Germany (especially southern parts such as Bavaria), Switzerland, and Sweden. Walseth was a typical exterior painter in the traditional Scandinavian fashion. He was inspired by the famous Peder Monsted [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Salmon (Scottish, American, 1775 to circa 1851) Robert Salmon was an important early marine painter active in America before Fitz Hugh Lane. His seascapes depend upon European compositional formulas, but possess a refreshing intimacy and immediacy. He eventually returned to his native Scotland. Information courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries, June 2009. John Frederick Peto (American, 1854 to 1907) John Peto, a talented Pennsylvania Academy-trained painter from Philadelphia whose artistic career sadly ended in disappointment and obscurity. However, thanks to the research of Alfred Frankenstein, the art historian who resurrected the oeuvre of Peto and disentangled it from that of William Michael Harnett, we now know that Peto did not stop painting once he decided to stop “playing the art game.” In 1889, after a [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles A. Watson (American, 1857 to 1923) Charles A. Watson was a landscape and marine painter who spent his artistic career in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His favorite subjects were the Chesapeake and Baltimore Bays at sunrise, sunset, or at moments when they were slightly obscured by fog or mist. His works have an unassuming tranquility, and possess a refreshing, straightforward quality, notably devoid of artificially picturesque devices. Watson’s marine views are frequently [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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