Internet Antique Gazette

William Penhallow Henderson (1877-1943)

William Penhallow Henderson lived, briefly, in Santa Fe as a young boy before his family’s return to their native Massachusetts. He studied at the Boston Museum School under Edmund C. Tarbell. Winning the prestigious Paige Scholarship allowed him to travel to Europe and study everything from the Old Masters to the then-modern Impressionists. Upon his return to the States, he took a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts [...] Click here to continue reading.

Colette Pope Heldner (1902-1990)

Colette Pope Heldner settled in New Orleans with her husband in 1923, living in the French Quarter. She became famous for her impressionistic scenes of New Orleans patios and swampland shacks near the water. She captured the essence and spirit of New Orleans in its heyday, and her works are a reminder of the distinct character of the port city. Colette’s work has been included in many important American impressionist [...] Click here to continue reading.

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)

As a native of Lewiston Maine, Marsden Hartley loved to paint the mountains and coast. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York where he studied under William Chase. By 1921, his role as a key component in American Modernism became clear and defined. Painting a breadth of subject matters, from abstract portraits to forceful landscapes, he traveled all over Europe and displayed his work in galleries with contemporary [...] Click here to continue reading.

Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison’s journey as an artist seems to have begun when he first climbed onto a sign painter’s scaffold on the side of McCartha’s Hardware in Denmark, South Carolina. The Coca-Cola sign that he began that day with his mentor, J. J. Cornforth, was the first of more than 100 similar signs he painted over the next few years and shaped the future work of this South Carolinian in many ways.

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Hamilton Hamilton (1847-1928)

Of Scottish descent and born in Oxford, England, Hamilton Hamilton became a renowned American landscape and portrait painter and illustrator. He traveled widely, which meant that his landscape subjects included France, England, the American West, and the states of New York and Connecticut. Hamilton Hamilton emigrated with his family to Cowlesville, New York, a rural community near Buffalo, when he was a child, but he spent most of his life in [...] Click here to continue reading.