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Sandor Bernath (1892 – 1984) Sandor Bernath was known for his stylized watercolors of sailing ships. He was a student of Edward Hopper. Born in Hungary on December 30, 1892, Bernath immigrated in his youth to the United States, and by the early 1920s he had begun to establish himself within New York art circles. In January of 1922, he was given a one-man show at Mrs. Malcolm’s Gallery on East 64th Street. Although [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) Thomas Hart Benton was born April 15, 1889, in Neosho, Missouri. Named after his great-uncle, a prominent U. S. Senator, Thomas Hart Benton emerged from a political background with love for America and its back roads. As the son of a popular Missouri congressman, Benton traveled extensively with his father on the campaign trail. In 1907, he left Missouri to study at the Art Institute in Chicago and the Academie [...] Click here to continue reading. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, 1872 to 1898) Aubrey Beardsley, beloved and reviled in Britain as the most visible rebel against staid Victorian mores, began work as art editor for The Yellow Book in 1894. His decorative Art Nouveau style, considered grotesque and vulgar by many, was vastly imitated in America, and added life, spice, excitement and novelty to American poster sidings. Writing in The Poster in November 1900, Scotson-Clark pointed out that, “Until the [...] Click here to continue reading. Walter Martin Baumhofer (1904 to 1987) A versatile storyteller, Walter Baumhofer was a dominant force in the pulp magazine market and a steady, inspired mainstay of the general interest magazines. Though the time he spent illustrating pulp magazines was relatively brief, Baumhofer had an enormous impact on the genre. The prolific artist recalled in a letter to Walt Reed in 1968, “I doubt if anybody did as many pulp covers as I did in [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Ashbrook (1867-1949) This artist was born Paul Eschenbach in New York and studied under William Merritt Chase. He took the job of head designer at the Henderson Lithographing Company in Cincinnati. While in Cincinnati, he studied with Frank Duveneck, and from 1914-1919, he taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He also served as president of the Cincinnati Art Club. In 1917, he changed his name to Paul Ashbrook. Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921 to 2006) In the years immediately following World War II, there was an explosion of fresh artistic talent in Europe, as well as in the United States. Jean Dubuffet, Asger Jorn, Antonio Tapies and Francis Bacon, to name only a few of the most prominent of these artists, consciously sought to alter the face of European art by finding new artistic syntheses among the still-swirling currents of cubism, surrealism, [...] Click here to continue reading. John Antrobus (1837 to 1907) John Antrobus, born in Warwickshire, England, immigrated to the United States in 1850 and settled in Philadelphia. Within three years he had relocated to Savannah, Georgia, and then he moved to Montgomery, Alabama. During this time he also traveled throughout the American West and Mexico. By 1860, he had opened a studio in New Orleans. There he planned a series of 12 large paintings of plantation life. He [...] Click here to continue reading. Carol Anthony Born in 1943 in New York City, Carol Anthony studied at the BFA Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island where she received a BFA in 1966. Anthony works primarily in craypas on gessoed masonite, rubbing and blending the colors with her fingers, images are drafted layer by layer to create an unearthly light and dreamlike quality. Carol Anthony’s paintings are the means through which she conveys her internal visions. [...] Click here to continue reading. Andy Warhol (American, 1928 to 1987) Andy Warhol, a son of an immigrant coal miner and arguably the most influential visual historian of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 where he became a successful illustrator, painter, film-maker, and author and kept the company of socialites and street people alike. In a meaningful departure from Expressionism, Warhol embraced popular culture and [...] Click here to continue reading. Edmund Adler (Austrian, 1876 to 1965) Initially trained as a lithographer, Edmund Adler later attended the Vienna Academy where he received the Kenyon Traveling Scholarship in 1903. During World War I (1914 to 1918), he was a prisoner of war in Siberia. Subsequently, he exhibited with both Austrian and Russian artists, and his genre paintings became quite popular in Vienna, Dresden, and Brunn. His realistic portrayals of peasant children are amongst the most highly [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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