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Gerald Harvey Jones (G. Harvey, American, born 1933) Gerald Harvey Jones was born in the Hill Country north of San Antonio and grew up with strong western traditions. His grandfather had been a trail boss who had pushed cattle along the Texas trails to northern rail heads. His stories of those adventurous, as well as arduous, days informed the early days of the artist and helped inspire his early artistic leanings. After graduating with [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry James Johnstone (British, 1835 to 1907) Henry Johnstone was born in Birmingham, England but spent much of his life in Australia and from 1877 to the 1890s lived in San Francisco. He was also a portrait photographer and was a partner in Johnstone, O’Shaughnessy and Company in Melbourne. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. David Claypool(e) Johnston (1798-1865) David Johnston, the first American satirical artist of note, was born in Philadelphia in 1798. He was apprenticed to Francis Kearney, a local engraver, from 1815 to 1819. Johnston may have lived in London from 1822 to 1824. Although his first caricatures date from about 1819, his career may be said to have begun when he settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1825. He made the first commercially successful American [...] Click here to continue reading. John Kehrer (German. American, born 1831, died after 1900) John Kehrer was born in Wurtemburg, Germany the son of a grape farmer. A trained stone mason, he came to the United States in 1849, settling initially in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia). An 1858 tour of “the west” prompted his removal from Wheeling to Martins Ferry in Belmont County, Ohio, where he followed his father’s footsteps and began raising grapes. His cultivation of grapes [...] Click here to continue reading. John Abbot (1751 to 1840) From his arrival in Georgia in 1776 until his death in 1840, John Abbot faithfully recorded the flora and fauna of the Savannah River Valley in Georgia. Influenced by naturalist works by Albin and Catesby while still in his native England, he focused his collecting and rendering in Burke, Chatham, and Bullock counties. By limiting himself to this area he created the earliest thorough investigation of any region in [...] Click here to continue reading. Alois Janak (born 1924) Born in Krasne Brezno, Czechoslovakia, 1924 the son of a headmaster, the contemporary painter, etcher and lithographer Alois Janak first studied art in Prague during World War II under Professor Spacek in 1943. Following the war he worked as in the Prague aircraft factories and studied agriculture. Janak became embroiled in Czechoslovakia’s post-war political turmoil and escaped to Bavaria, and then Paris, in 1949. He completed his education in both [...] Click here to continue reading. Edme Marie Eduard Paul Jacoulet (1902*-1960) Born on January 23, 1902* in Paris to a French family who moved to Japan in 1906 where Jacoulet pere taught French at the Imperial University. Paul was a self-taught artist, and, in 1929, went on a long trip to the islands of the South Pacific. Jacoulet made many sketches and photographs of local natives, dressed and posed elegantly. It was this work that he first translated [...] Click here to continue reading. Antonio Jacobsen Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1850, Antonio Nicolo Gaspara Jacobsen studied art at the Royal Academy of Design in Copenhagen and came to New York City in 1871 to avoid being drafted into the Franco-Prussian War. To earn money, Jacobsen decorated safe doors for the Marvin Safe Company and began painting ship portraits for the Old Dominion Steamship Line. His reputation grew to the point that he was widely regarded as one [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Icart (1888-1950) Well known for his sleek and often erotic images of flapper women in extravagant poses, frequently with their canine companions or horses, Louis Icart was born in 1888 as Louis Justin Laurent Icart in Toulouse, France. He began drawing at an early age, evidencing a particular interest in fashion. Icart came to Paris in 1907 and began to study printmaking techniques. He was introduced to the capital’s fashion scene by Leon [...] Click here to continue reading. Peter Hurd (1904 to 1984) A regionalist painter known for his landscape, figure and genre paintings of New Mexico, Peter Hurd was especially focused on capturing light and atmosphere. His preferred medium was tempera on gesso panel, and many of his works depict the panoramic views he saw from his beloved ranch land as well as the mixed-blood and pure-blood people with whom he was most familiar – Indians, Mexicans and Caucasians. He was [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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