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Alexander Stirling Calder (1870 – 1945) Alexander Stirling Calder, born January 11 1870 in Philadelphia, was an American sculptor. Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture program on the Philadelphia City Hall and in 1886 is reported to have modeled the arm of one of the figures. In 1885 at [...] Click here to continue reading. Martha Farham Cahoon (1905-1999) Martha was originally from the Rosindale section of Boston, born to Swedish immigrants in 1905. Her father, Axel Farham, was a talented furniture decorator who learned his art in his native Sweden. He worked for some of the best-known decorating firms in Boston. When Martha was 10 years old, the family moved to the Cape Cod town of Harwich. She excelled in school, but chose to apprentice with her [...] Click here to continue reading. Harrison Cady (1877-1970) W. Harrison Cady was “a man who saw things that were not there” said editor and owner of the old Life Magazine, John Ames, about this successful illustrator who depicted nature with great fidelity and imagination. Fantasy and friendly animals living in ethereal magical worlds became Cady’s trademark and thus prompted his work on hundreds of book and newspaper pages, Old Mother West Wind and Peter Rabbit by Thornton W. Burgess [...] Click here to continue reading. Harold L. Burrows (1889 to 1965) At the age of 17, Hal Burrows came to New York to study and room with sculptor and fellow-Utahan Mahonri Young. He was also greatly influenced by his teachers George Bellows and Robert Henri, but obtained freelance work as an illustrator and cartoonist for Life and Judge magazines alongside another friend from Utah, John Held, Jr. During WWI, Burrows was a staff cartoonist on the Army newspaper Stars [...] Click here to continue reading. Edgar Bundy, A.R.A. (British, 1862 to 1922) Edgar Bundy worked primarily in watercolor, and is best known for his historical and genre scenes. Bundy’s work was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the 1850s and 1860s such as William Morris (1834 -1896) and Sir John Millias (1829-1896). He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915 and at the Paris Salon in 1907. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions The Arts & Crafts Movement The principles of the Arts and Crafts movement were initially frontiered in England through the efforts of John Ruskin and William Morris. Ruskin was not a craftsman but an academic scholar at Oxford. He believed passionately that the Industrial Revolution would erode the English countryside by turning it into factory fields while relegating the skilled English craftsman to the status of a laborer. The battle cry of his movement, [...] Click here to continue reading. Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850-1936 Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was born on Dec. 10th 1850 in a log cabin near Honesdale, Pennsylvania. As a young child she drew drawings and while still in elementary school she exhibited paintings at the Wayne Country Fair, where they won ribbons. She moved to New York and trained at Cooper Institute, (which later became Cooper Union School of Design), with Victor Nehlig. She then studied four years at the National [...] Click here to continue reading. George Elmer Browne (1871-1946) Born in 1871 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, George Elmer Browne was a popular impressionistic painter that was active in America and abroad. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, the Cowles Art School and at the Academie Julian in Paris. While in Paris he also studied with the artist Robert-Fleury Lefebvre but did not espouse Cubism or Futurism both popular generas of that era. In 1904, the French [...] Click here to continue reading. Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837 to 1908) Alfred T. Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 10, 1837. He took art lessons at Lowell Institute in Boston from 1851 to 1858. By 1856, his work focused on landscapes, particularly coastal landscapes. He spent time painting in New Hampshire with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, and others. From 1858-1868, he maintained a studio in Boston and there familiarized himself with the work of Fitz [...] Click here to continue reading. George Douglas Brewerton (1827-1901) George Brewerton began life as part artist and part military man. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he moved about frequently with his family. He attended West Point and was sent west in the late 1840s, and there he met Kit Carson. In 1852, Brewerton left the army and became a correspondent for the New York Times and Harper’s, and in 1854, he was admitted to the Kansas Bar. He painted [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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