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Clarence Millet (American/Louisiana, 1897 to 1959) Clarence Millet first studied at the Arts Student League, New York, under the Paris trained painter, George Brandt Bridgeman (1864 to 1943). He was successful early on in his career; the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibited one of his paintings and his works were shown at the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Millet opened a studio in the French [...] Click here to continue reading. Gean Smith (American, 1851 to 1928) Gene Smith, born in New York, worked in both New York City and Chicago until he moved permanently to Galveston, Texas, in 1923. His passion was equestrian figures, especially portraits of champion racing horses. Occasionally Smith would place his equestrian figures in exotic or racing backgrounds. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., October 2007. James Dexter Havens (American, 1900 to 1960) James Dexter Havens was born January 13, 1900 in Rochester, New York and had a fairly unremarkable childhood until he was fourteen, at which time he was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Doctors gave him only two years to live, but he clung to life for the next forty-six years, albeit bedridden much of the time. In order to combat boredom, he turned to drawing. In the early [...] Click here to continue reading. Delbert Dana Coombs (American, 1850 to 1938) Delbert Dana Coombs was born in Lisbon Falls, Maine, on July 26, 1850. Although primarily self-taught, Coombs took painting lessons from Scott Leighton, an animal painter, and studied landscape painting with Harrison Bird Brown. Coombs painted actively for over fifty years. His subjects included portraits, landscapes, and cattle. He painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire on many occasions, particularly favoring the Jackson area. A typical [...] Click here to continue reading. Konstantin Korovin (Russian, 1861 to 1939) Born in Moscow to a family of artists, Konstantin Korovin is as well known for his theatrical designs as he is for his paintings. He entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture at the age of 14 where he was classically trained as a painter. In his early thirties, Korovin became associated with the Neo-Romanticism group Mir iskusstva. Similar in manifesto to the English Pre-Raphaelites, the [...] Click here to continue reading. Sam Gilliam (American, born 1933) Abstract Expressionist painter, Sam Gilliam, is best known for his color field images that manipulate both color and space. His bold colors work against the unprimed, unstretched canvases which serve as both a conforming geometric structure and deconstructed space. Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and grew up in Kentucky. In 1962, he moved to Washington D.C. and joined the second generation of the Washington Color School (following Morris [...] Click here to continue reading. Alice Judson (American, 1876 to 1948) Born in Beacon, New York in 1876, Alice Judson was student of John Twachtman at the Art Students League, and had a successful career in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. She also painted at Gloucester and the Hudson Highlands. Information courtesy of Charlton Hall Galleries Inc., September 2006. Lajos Markos (Hungarian/American, 1917 to 1993) Born in Budapest, Hungary, Markos earned a scholarship to the National Royal Academy of Budapest. Markos paintings hang in museums in the United States and Europe. He has international recognition for both his portraits and his western art. Markos also painted portraits of the founders of the Zigler Museum, Fred B. & Ruth B. Zigler. Information courtesy of Charlton Hall Galleries Inc., September 2006. Lucien Levy-Dhurmer (French, 1865 to 1953) Lucien Levy-Dhurmer was a painter and potter. From 1879 he studied at the Ecole Superieure de Dessin et de Sculpture in Paris. In his first exhibition at the Salon in 1882 he showed a small porcelain plaque depicting the Birth of Venus in the style of Alexandre Cabanel, and he continued to exhibit there regularly. From 1886 to 1895 he worked as a decorator of earthenware and then [...] Click here to continue reading. August Laux (American, 1847 to 1921) Born in the Rhineland area of Germany, August Laux became noted for his richly colored, precisely rendered floral still lifes and genre scenes, although early in his career his reputation was for frescoes and decorative painting. His parents were French, and relatives held high government positions in Strausburg. A cousin and one of his uncles were sculptors in Paris, and with exposure from childhood to persons creative in [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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