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Charles Arthur Fries (1854-1940) Charles was born in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1854 and apprenticed with a lithographer in Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 15. While in Cincinnati, he attended the Art Academy there at a time when it was considered one of the most notable in the United States. He married in 1887 and moved to New York City where he set up a studio. When his wife began to have failing health, [...] Click here to continue reading. Pal Fried (Hungarian/American 1893 – 1976) Pal Fried, was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie under Professor Hugo Pohl and in Paris under Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. Under Pohl’s influence, he executed many portraits, nudes and Oriental scenes in pastel. He was also greatly influenced by the French Impressionist School of Renoir and Degas. His works are listed in the Fine Arts Book. Fried’s signature on his paintings was Fried [...] Click here to continue reading. George Frayne (born 1944) George Frayne, better known as “Commander Cody,” is by turns an artist and classic rock musician. Frayne has described himself as “an artist with an artist’s temperament” noting, “Sometimes I just feel like I’ve got to rock n’ roll. Sometimes I feel like I can’t rock n’ roll for another second, ‘Where’s my paintbrush?’ The next second it’s ‘If I see another paintbrush, I’m going to commit seppuku.” He was [...] Click here to continue reading. Myles Birket Foster Born in 1825, Myles Birket Foster was given a Quaker education and apprenticed to the wood engraver Ebenezer Landells until about 1850. He worked exclusively as an engraver and a black and white illustrator throughout the 1850s. Foster taught himself to paint in watercolors and began to actively exhibit after 1859. He traveled considerably on the continent starting in 1852, visiting Venice on several occasions, and was commissioned to make a [...] Click here to continue reading. William Forsyth (1854-1935) A highly important Hoosier group painter, Forsyth (1854 to 1935) was primarily a landscape painter. He studied at the Royal Academy of Munich. He exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition (1904), the Pan-Pacific Exposition (1915), the Richmond Art Association, the Indianapolis Art Association, and the Hoosier Salon (1925 to 1935). His work is in the collections of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indiana State Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and the Herron Art [...] Click here to continue reading. James Edgar Forkner (1867-1945) Forkner was known for his landscape, city and coastal views. This biography was submitted by Richmond Art Museum. Nationally known watercolorist, Edgar Forkner was born in 1867 in Richmond, Indiana. Equally adept at painting floral still-lives and harbor scenes, Forkner exhibited over twenty years in the Hoosier Salon Exhibition winning numerous awards for best watercolor. He received his training at the Art Student League in New York studying with J. [...] Click here to continue reading. Ruth Alexander Robertson Fontenot (1914 to 1995) Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, Ruth Robertson Fontenot was a historian, genealogist and artist. She attended Newcomb College of Art for two years, but due to the economic hardship of the Depression transferred to Southwest Louisiana Institute (today University of Louisiana, Lafayette). Fontenot was the food editor of Louisiana Life and wrote for The Acadian Lifestyle and The State Line. In the 1980s, Fontenot lived in the [...] Click here to continue reading. John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972) Landscape painter John Folinsbee was a leading member of the New Hope School of American Impressionism, a group of artists working in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Folinsbee was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied there with Jonas Lie. By 1916 he had moved to Pennsylvania, where he began to paint landscapes of and around the Delaware River. Folinsbee is best known for his plein air winter scenes. A member of [...] Click here to continue reading. Eugene Fleischer Collection There are many reasons to hail the early ceramics collection of Eugene Fleischer. His talents have been legendary in amassing encyclopedic and rarities collections in the fields of historical “Old Blue” Staffordshire and other English ceramics featuring subjects of American interest. His extraordinary collection includes War of 1812 and Liverpool jugs, painted American scenery on fine porcelain, and Parian; and the list goes on. The variety of forms, many unrecorded, has [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph A. Fleck (1892-1977) Fleck was born in Austria-Hungary and studied at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was drafted into WWI and served in Italy, and completed his studies at the Royal Academy after the war. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1922 and settled in Kansas City, Missouri and worked as a stained glass designer in a factory owned by Louis [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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