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Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome – American Artist

Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome (American, 1824 to 1910)

Tropical Sunset, by Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome, is a testament to the creative will in an era when women were actively discouraged from pursuing careers in the visual arts. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Jerome’s youthful drawings were destroyed by her stepmother when she was 15. She subsequently commenced her studies in drawing and painting at the age of 27. Even then her education would likely have suffered [...] Click here to continue reading.

Gene Davis – American Artist

Gene Davis (American, 1920 to 1985)

Gene Davis was a prominent member of the Washington Color School, known for his vertical stripe paintings. Born in Washington D.C. in 1920, Davis first worked as a sportswriter, and then as a White House correspondent covering the administrations of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman; several of his photographs of Truman-with whom he played poker-are in the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.[1]

Davis received no formal art [...] Click here to continue reading.

Jasper Francis Cropsey – American Artist

Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, 1823 to 1900)

Jasper Francis Cropsey was born in Rossville, Staten Island in 1823, and at an early age displayed talent for both architecture and art. In 1843 he exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design, and founded an architectural office in New York. The following year he was elected an Associate Member of the Academy, at the age of 21. By 1845 he turned his [...] Click here to continue reading.

Tiffany, Louis Comfort & Favrile Glass & More

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany, born in New York City on February 18, 1848, was one of America’s foremost leaders of the Art Nouveau Movement. Tiffany opened his glassworks in 1885 on Long Island, New York producing a wide range of outstanding designs for lamps, windows and decorative objects. As a leading developer of new forms of art glass, L. C. Tiffany is most noted for his Favrile glass produced from 1892 into [...] Click here to continue reading.

Habermann, Francois Xavier

Francois Xavier Habermann

A German printer and publisher working in Augsburg, Habermann (1721 to 1796) is known for a series of hand colored engravings of American cities, including New York and Boston, during the Revolutionary period. This series was titled Collection des Prospects, and is popularly known as Vues d’ Optiqu. The title was printed in reverse above the view so that it would read properly in the optical viewer. Individual views are identified [...] Click here to continue reading.

Skeolan, P

P. Skeolan

An itinerant silhouettist working in the north of England, P. Skeolan is listed in British Silhouette Artists and their Work 1760-1860 Examples of his work inscribed Manchester or Liverpool are known.

In addition to cutting silhouettes, Skeolan was a talented watercolor portraitist who advertised later in his career as “Skeolan Miniature Painter Harrogate”. In this latter role Skeolan is known to have colored photographs.

At some point, likely circa 1860 or before, [...] Click here to continue reading.

Nevelson, Louise Berliawsky – American Sculptor

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (American, 1899 to 1988)

Louise Nevelson’s interest in working with wood scraps began at the age of nine while visiting her father’s lumberyard in Rockland, Maine. She started her career as an artist at the Art Students League in New York, where she was exposed to important works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. She later went on to assist Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Nevelson is best known [...] Click here to continue reading.

Robinson, William S.

William S. Robinson (American, 1861-1945)

William S. Robinson was an important member of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Lyme, Connecticut in the early 20th century. Following the death of patron Florence Griswold in 1937, Robinson left Old Lyme and relocated to Biloxi, Mississippi, at the recommendation of his friend, noted New Orleans artist William Woodward. He continued to create impressionistic landscapes, trading the Connecticut scenery for the charming images of shrimp boats and [...] Click here to continue reading.

James Lamantia

James Lamantia (American, 1923-2011)

James Lamantia was a noted architect, artist and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Tulane University. A graduate of Tulane and Harvard Universities and a Rome Scholar, Lamantia worked in architectural firms in both New Orleans and New York. Lamantia was also an accomplished painter; he exhibited his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Chicago Art Institute among others. Most recently he [...] Click here to continue reading.

Moses, Grandma (Anna Mary Robertson) – American Folk Artist

photograph of Grandma Moses, photograph by Rudolph Rissland (p4A item E8981620) Anna Mary Robertson Moses ‘Grandma Moses’ (1860-1961)

Anna Mary Robertson, more commonly known as Grandma Moses, was born in 1860 in Greenwich, New York. She grew up in a large family, where the girls were taught how to perform a variety of domestic tasks. After she married Thomas Salmon Moses, Grandma Moses spent nearly 20 years raising her children on their farm. [...] Click here to continue reading.

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