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Charles Partridge Addams (1912 to 1988) To many peoples’ surprise, Addams’ mother did not give birth to him in a dilapidated house along a deserted highway. Nor did he have a pet alligator that was a scourge to the neighborhood’s poodles. In fact, he grew up in the almost generic suburban community of Westfield, New Jersey. He yearningly scribbled pictures of the more exciting realm of knights and their castles. He was known however, [...] Click here to continue reading. Narciso Platero Abeyta (1918 to 1998) Narciso Platero Abeyta, also known as Ha-So-De, was born on December 15, 1918 in Canoncito, New Mexico. He spent four years in the army during WWII. When he returned home he attended the University of New Mexico, studying under Raymond Jonson. In 1961, Abeyta was published in Art in America and again in American Indian Art in 1976. He received numerous accolades during his career and participated in [...] Click here to continue reading. Les Maitres de l’Affiche Les Maitres de l’Affiche (The Masters of the Poster) refers to one of the most influential art publications in history. The 256 color plates that make up this suite represent a wide-ranging selection of outstanding original prints from the turn of the twentieth century, when this popular art form first reached its peak. By the 1890′s the streets of every great city were enlivened by large, colorful posters. [...] Click here to continue reading. Florence Ezzell Stevenson (American, 1894 to 1974) Florence Ezzell Stevenson, born and raised in Alabama, she attended the Tuscaloosa Conservatory of Art and Music and the Art Institute of Chicago. After a decade-long departure from art (during which she raised her family), she made a triumphant return at the All-Illinois Society of the Fine Arts in 1928. One jury member proclaimed, ‘The most stimulating of the pictures in the show are a pair of [...] Click here to continue reading. Hilla Anna Rebay (American, 1890 to 1967) Grace Glueck wrote “She was an accomplished painter, a friend of great artists and a woman of strong, sometimes dogmatic views who more or less invented the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, the early version of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Yet today the German-born Hilla von Rebay is little recognized, except to art worldlings with very long memories. When she is recalled, it is as the art [...] Click here to continue reading. Lynda Benglis (American/Louisiana, born 1941) Louisiana native and Newcomb College graduate, Lynda Benglis burst onto the New York expressionist scene in the late 1960′s and 1970′s, marking poignant points in her career with shocking organic pieces representative of her contemporary focus.Information courtesy of New Orleans Auctions, May 2006. John Edward Costigan (American, 1888 to 1972) John Edward Costigan was a largely self taught artist, working adeptly as a painter and printmaker in various media. He exhibited in over forty shows at the National Academy of Design between 1920 and 1950. He also received critical acclaim in his lifetime-he was named a National Academician in 1928, and was the subject of a traveling retrospective by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1968. Unlike [...] Click here to continue reading. Lamar William Dodd (American, Georgia, 1909 to 1996) Born in rural Georgia, Lamar Dodd studied locally and then at the Art Student’s League and with famed American artists George Luks and John Steuart Curry. Returning to the south in 1933, Dodd became a proponent of American regional art, calling for local artists to paint the local scenes, landscape and people. While a professor of art at the University of Georgia, Dodd exhibited regionally and [...] Click here to continue reading. Hans Andersen Brendekilde (Danish, 1857 to 1920) Hans Anderson Brendekilde was a nineteenth century Danish artist who excelled in a variety of media. He began his artistic life as a sculptor but in his maturity committed himself entirely to oils and pastel. His paintings are often on a very large scale creating delightful enveloping vistas of the beautiful Danish countryside. He painted evocative landscape paintings, harsh social realist subjects and dramatic depictions of religious [...] Click here to continue reading. Georges Braque (French, 1882 to 1963) Georges Braque played a major role in the development of what became known as Cubism. In this Braque’s work is intertwined with that of his collaborator Pablo Picasso, especially from 1908 to 1912, particularly regarding their respective contributions to the development of the collage. Picasso’s fame and notoriety often overshadowed the quiet life of Braque. Information courtesy of Hiertiage Auction Galleries, May 2009. |
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