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William Keith (American, 1838 to 1911) One of California’s most successful and prolific painters of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, William Keith found in Mt. Shasta a subject of enduring inspiration. He traveled to the area on numerous sketching trips, sometimes in the company of his great friend and fellow naturalist, John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. Both men were natives of Scotland who met in the Yosemite Valley in 1872 and [...] Click here to continue reading. Yue Minjun (Chinese, born 1962) Yue Minjun is now well recognized as one of the representative artists of his generation. Born in the province of Heilongjiang, he studied in the oil painting department of Hebei Normal University in 1985. His art consists of versions of himself, smiling broadly into the gaping maw of contemporary society. Two rows of small, perfectly formed white teeth opening into the black abyss of his mouth, a broad pinkish [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Desire Trouillebert (French, 1829 to 1900) Following a standard academy training, Trouillebert began exhibiting in 1865 in the Paris Salon, where his painting of a “Bather” received much attention in 1882. Rather than pursuing what had promised to be a successful personal style, however, he increasingly (as in this painting) turned to the production of masterfully rendered variations on the late works of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 to 1875). One such canvas was eventually [...] Click here to continue reading. Ellis Wilson (1899 to 1977) In 1952, African-American artist Ellis Wilson used his prize money for winning second place at the national Terry Art Exhibition in Miami to travel to Haiti. There he found the Haitian community to be a source of inspiration and produced a colorful series of paintings. Wilson’s “Impressions of Haiti” exhibition at the New York Contemporary Arts Gallery opened in 1954 to critical acclaim. The exhibition was praised for its [...] Click here to continue reading. William Acheff (born 1947) Born in Alaska in 1947, William Acheff moved with his family to San Francisco when he was age five. He lived in the Bay Area for twenty years and began painting in 1969 when, working as a barber, he came in contact with Roberto Lupetti, an Italian artist who gave him art lessons, assisted him in marketing his work with galleries. At first he worked from photographs but changed his [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Edenshaw – Daxhiigang (1839-1924) Charles Edenshaw or Daxhiigang, was a Haida chief as well as a highly accomplished carver, painter, and jeweler. Franz Boaz wrote of Edenshaw as “the best carver and painter among the Haida” (Hoover 1983: 63). His carving ability ranks among the best due to not only his technical abilities but his ability to render traditional forms in a manner consistent with his cultural upbringing, creating masterpieces for the tourist [...] Click here to continue reading. Olaf Carl Wieghorst (Danish/American 1899-1988) Olaf Wieghorst was born in Viborg, Denmark and made his way to New York around 1917. Fascinated with the Wild West, Wieghorst enlisted in the U.S. Calvary in Mexico. He later worked with the Mounted Police Division in New York City and eventually settled in California. Horses were Wieghorst’s great love: “I try to paint the little natural things, the way a horse turns his tail to the wind [...] Click here to continue reading. Frank Leonard Stick (1884-1966) Frank Leonard Stick was born in Huron, South Dakota and spent his youth hunting, fishing and trapping in Iowa. He became a hunting guide and began to document his excursions through paintings. He attended the Chicago Art Institute in 1904, where his talent was immediately recognized by his instructors. He painted predominantly in watercolor and is best-known for his hunting and fishing scenes. Information courtesy of Manitou Galleries/Manitou Auction Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930) In 1894, Charles Webster Hawthorne moved to Long Island, New York, to study with leading American Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase. There he began painting en plein-air and he soon became Chase’s assistant. By 1898, Hawthorne established the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A dedicated and passionate teacher, he used the school to promote the style and technique he learned from Chase, which included the use of [...] Click here to continue reading. Michael Lenk (1890 to ?) Michael Lenk was born in Germany and came to West Allis, Wisconsin. Lenk was an amateur painter never having received formal training and is known to have painted Northern Wisconsin scenes; in some cases historical events and some with religious subject matter. Some of his works are in Wisconsin Historical institutions and at least one of his works “Fifth Day of Creation” was on loan to a traveling exhibit [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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