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Doris Emrick Lee (1905-1983) Doris Emrick Lee was born in Aledo, IL, on Feb. 1, 1905 to a merchant banker, was the fourth of six children. Growing up her artistic influence came from a grandmother who used to whittle and carve wood and a great-grandfather that had retired from farming to paint. She was educated at Lake Forest, Illinois, and Rockford College. Upon graduation she married and traveled to Paris for five months where [...] Click here to continue reading. Lee LeBlanc (1913 to 1988) LeBlanc studied in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art School and PAFA before joining the staff at Disney Studios. He later held administrative positions at 20th Century Fox and MGM until his retirement in 1962. He then moved to Iron River, MI where he remained. In 1972 he began designing stamps for wildlife and fishing licenses and won the Federal duck stamp competition in 1973. Information courtesy of [...] Click here to continue reading. Albert LeNormand (born 1915) Born May 14, 1915 LeNormand studied at the National Academy of Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Academie Julian. He opened a school in Paris with friends, and later an Academy in Lyon. His work has been exhibited at the Salon du Mai and at a one-man show in Paris. After his first tapestry, “Les Etendards,” in 1946, he made fifteen drawings for the tapestries for “L’Ange Gardien” for [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Laurent (1890-1970) Robert Laurent was born in France and arrived New York City in 1901. He was a talented sculptor and frame maker who trained in Paris, New York and Rome. He carved frames for many friends and artists including Childe Hassam, John LaFarge, Robert Henri, and the colector Albert Barnes. His sculpture was created from various mediums: woood, albaster, marble, stone and clay. His own collection of folk art was legendary and [...] Click here to continue reading. Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940) Every region in America seems to cherish a favorite artist who over an extended period of time was able to capture the spirit of the people and the country they painted. For many in Alaska, that artist is Sydney Laurence. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1865, Laurence studied at the Art Students League and by the late 1880′s he exhibited at local galleries. Following studies in England, he eventually [...] Click here to continue reading. Bernard Langlais (1923-1977) Born in Old Town, Maine, the son of a carpenter and in an area that relied for its economy on the timber industry, Langlais studied commercial art in Washington, D.C., before enlisting in the Navy in 1942. After his military training he attended the Corcoran School of Art, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He later attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in [...] Click here to continue reading. L.A. Huffman (1854 to 1931) Laton Alton Huffman opened his first photographic studio in December 1878 at the military post of Fort Keogh, Montana Territory where he made portraits of the soldiers, Indians and cowboys near the fort, and buffaloes. Venturing beyond, he photographed the Custer battlefield site. He moved his studio to Miles City but the economic depression of 1890 destroyed business and he closed shop traveling to California, Chicago. In 1896 he [...] Click here to continue reading. Kunisada (or Toyokuni III) (1786-1864) Born in 1786 in the Honjo district of Edo Kunisada’s father died the same year and little is known about family as it traveled from one province to another. Kunisada grew to young adulthood during the Kansei era, 1789 to 1801, which produced some of the best Ukiyo-e artists, like Utamaro or Toyokuni I, founder of the Utagawa School Toyoku. By the age of nineteen, Kunisada was under the [...] Click here to continue reading. Max Kuehne (1880-1968) Max Kuehne was born in Halle, Germany in 1880. He later came to New York and studied with Kenneth Hayes and William Merritt Chase at the Chase School. He traveled extensively throughout his life, but it was Cape Ann that became artist Max Kuehne’s favorite destination. An athlete as well as an artist, he eventually set up a studio in Rockport in 1920 in order to spend every summer painting, sailing, [...] Click here to continue reading. Leon Kroll (1884-1974) Leon Kroll first established his reputation between 1911 and 1915 as a painter of powerful views of the bridges, wharves and riverfronts of New York City. Although Kroll loved to tell of his inadvertent discovery of Cezanne’s and Van Gogh’s paintings when he was an art student in Paris, Kroll’s early New York scenes are in fact a great deal closer in their painterly style and progressive spirit to the [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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