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Kim Whanki (Korean, 1913 to 1974) An early proponent of abstract art in Korea, artist Kim Whanki created paintings that harmonized experimental forms of expression with Korean sensibilities. Kim’s images served as a bridge between a past rooted in unchanging traditions and an emerging modernity, as South Koreans sought a new national identity in the aftermath of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War (1950 to 1953). Kim was born February 27, 1913 into a [...] Click here to continue reading. Andrew Curtain Davis (1853-1915) Andrew Davis grew up and remained in Bedford, Pennsylvania throughout his life. Although his primary occupation was as a barber, he painted and exhibited locally during his free time. He also carved and gilded his own frames. Among his other talents were comic illustration, in which he also dabbled but to which he was not devoted. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., October 2006. Allen Tucker (1866-1939) Allen Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and worked as both an architect and a painter, eventually painting full time by 1904. He was known to have been heavily influenced by Vincent Van Gogh, prompting his contemporaries to refer to him as “Vincent in America”. His style evolved to encompass several modernist movements, and he was an influential figure in bringing abstract art to America. Tucker was a member of [...] Click here to continue reading. Bror Anders Wikstrom (Swedish, 1840 to 1909; active New Orleans 1883 to 1909) The Swedish born Wikstrom was a painter, etcher, designer, illustrator and art teacher. Wikstrom trained at the Stockholm Royal Academy of Fine Arts and later studied at the Academie Julian, Paris. He first came to New Orleans as an illustrator in 1881 and returned here at the time of the 1884-1885 World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition. Known for his marine and [...] Click here to continue reading. Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935) Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Childe Hassam became one of America’s most noted Impressionist painters, but he never labeled himself in that way, asserting he was more interested in the emotional content of his paintings than the technique of applying color. He also completed over 350 etchings and drypoints and about 45 lithographs, most of them after he was 56 years old. Watercolor was another specialty, and Hassam was one [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles C. Gruppe (born 1928) Charles C. Gruppe came from a respected family of East Coast artists. His grandfather, Charles Paul Gruppe (1860-1940), studied and painted in Europe until moving to Rochester, New York. His uncles, sculptor Karl (1893-1982) and painter Emile (1896-1978) were successful and widely recognized for their work. Charles’s, father, Paulo Gruppe, was a gifted cellist. Charles Gruppe studied at Yale University and at Columbia, as well as at the [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Swan (1883-1972) Born in Ashland, Illinois, Paul Swan was both a modern dancer and a prolific painter. He attended the Chicago Art Institute and was also hailed by Arthur Hammerstein as the “most beautiful man in the world”. As a portraitist, Swan’s illustrious sitters included Charles Lindbergh, Woodrow Wilson and Maurice Ravel. Late in his life he was the subject of two Andy Warhol documentary films. Swan’s most notable Southern commission was [...] Click here to continue reading. Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) Painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Jasper Johns has become one of America’s best-known post-Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists. His name is most associated with pictorial images of flags and numbers, Pop-Art subjects that he depicted in Minimalist style with emphasis on linearity, repetition, and symmetry. Johns completed his first flag painting in 1955, alphabet subjects in 1956, sculpture in 1958, and lithographs in 1960. Unlike Abstract Expressionism, these signature works seem [...] Click here to continue reading. Albertus Del Orient Browere (1814-1887) Albertus Browere was a self-taught Hudson River artist who painted landscapes and genre scenes, as well as scenes inspired by the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. Born the son of sculptor Henry Isaac Browere, Albertus did briefly pursue sculpture before settling on painting as his favored medium. In 1834, he settled in Catskill, New York, where he earned money as a carriage and sign painter. He [...] Click here to continue reading. Meyer Straus (American, 1831 to 1905) Born in Bavaria in 1831, Straus emigrated to the United States in 1848. He lived in Ohio, then in St Louis, Missouri where he obtained s employment as a scene painter in the Old Pine Street Theater. In the years surrounding the Civil War, Strauss obtained work in Mobile, New Orleans, and other parts of the South. In 1875 Straus moved west to San Francisco where he painted [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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