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Man Ray (American 1890 to 1976) Man Ray, born August 27, 1890, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of medias and considered himself [...] Click here to continue reading. Mahantongo Valley Pennsylvania Some of the most distinctive and elaborately decorated furniture created in early nineteenth century America originated in what is known as the Mahantongo or Schwaben Creek Valley of central Pennsylvania. Today, this body of work constitutes highly revered Pennsylvania German material culture. The majority of which can only be found in major museum collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Located [...] Click here to continue reading. Jacob Maentel (1763-1863) Born in Germany in 1763, Jacob Maentel (sometimes spelled Mantel) died in New Harmony, Indiana one hundred years later. He came to the new American republic sometime before 1810 when he is known to have been working in Pennsylvania. From about 1810 to 1825 Maentel worked as a watercolor portraitist, usually working on paper averaging 12″ by 10″ in size and drawing his subjects in ink and then filling them [...] Click here to continue reading. Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928) Fanny Reed. Reminiscences Musical and Other. Boston: Knight and Millet, 1903. Pages 85-90. CHAPTER VII: MADELEINE LEMAIRE. Who that knows her does not love Madame Madeleine Lemaire, the most gracious and fascinating of women and a most brilliant star in the artistic world of Paris! At a soiree at Princess Scilla’s, some years since, my attention was attracted by a very sympathetic and intelligent face; I asked this lady’s name, and [...] Click here to continue reading. Roderick Dempster MacKenzie Roderick MacKenzie was raised and educated in Mobile, Alabama. He studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the Chapu and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a student of Constant, Laurens, and Jules Lefebvre. In 1913, after spending twenty years in India, MacKenzie returned to Mobile. He painted a series of pictures of the steel works at [...] Click here to continue reading. David Maass (1929- ) An avid sportsman and ardent contributor to conservation organizations, David Maass has been actively painting game birds for more than thirty years. In the past twenty years he has designed more than thirty conservation stamps and prints, a distinction few artists can claim. His 1982 winning canvasback painting marks the second time that a Maass design has appeared on the Federal Duck Stamp and Print. In 1974 he reached [...] Click here to continue reading. The M. Austin & Jill R. Fine Collection Marcus Austin Fine’s passion for collecting American Folk Art played an integral role in our family life. There are so many memories. Vacations and drop-offs at summer camps and colleges always included stops off the beaten path to visit antiques dealers, auctions or shows. At an early age, my sister and I boycotted these visits, remaining in the stifling car reading teen magazines. Many years later, [...] Click here to continue reading. Michael Lyne (1912 to 1989) Michael Lyne was a British hands-on sporting artist who worked in oils and watercolor. His art career flourished as an illustrator for books and magazines, especially for the British Country Life magazine. He also did commission work for many horseracing notables including Paul Mellon and many other Virginia and New York families. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988) Luigi Lucioni was born in Malnate, Italy, in 1900 and is a well-respected artist known for the photographic realism of his landscapes and still life paintings. Lucioni immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1911. He studied art at Cooper Union, and at the National Academy of Design under William Auerbach Levy. A prolific etcher, the linear approach to this technique solidified has crisp, realistic style in painting. Lucioni [...] Click here to continue reading. Jane Wells Webb Loudon(1807-1858) Jane Wells Webb, earned her living through writing after the death of her father left her in poverty at age 17. Her first book was a romantic work of science fiction called The Mummy, a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, published in 1827. John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener and publisher of horticultural and architectural books, reviewed the book, and determined to meet the author, whom he determined to be a [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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