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Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 2,000 short subjects produced by Warner Brothers and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Many early talkies, such as The Jazz Singer (1927), used the Vitaphone process. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the so-called sound-on-disc processes. With improvements in competing sound-on-film processes, Vitaphone’s technical imperfections led to its retirement early in the sound era. (The name [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mathias Joseph Alten (1871-1938)
Born in Gusenburg, Germany, near Trier, Mathias Alten is hailed as the foremost painter of Grand Rapids, Michigan and a second-generation Impressionist whose primary theme was agrarian labor. He was apprenticed to Joseph Klein, a decorative painter in Saint Wendel, Germany and worked on ceiling and wall decorations for churches and theaters. At age 17, he emigrated with his family to Grand Rapids, Michigan, which was a major manufacturing [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Bradford (American, 1823 to 1892)
William Bradford was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1823, and started painting in 1852. From his studio overlooking the harbor, Bradford painted portraits of the ships that were coming into New Bedford as part of the lucrative whaling business. He continued this type of painting in Boston, where he painted much larger clipper ships. In 1854, Bradford decided to focus more on marine scenes, coastal views, and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Louis Joseph Bahin (French/American, 1813 to 1857)
Louis Joseph Bahin was born in Armentieres, France; his wife Fanny Josephine Caremantrand was from Mantua, Italy. While residing in Paris they had two sons, Gustave and Alphonse. Also while in Paris, Bahin’s portraits were exhibited at the National Museum of the Louvre in 1848 and 1850. The family immigrated to New Orleans, and about 1852 established permanent residence in Natchez, Mississippi. One of the few, French [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Benjamin Luks (American, 1867 to 1933)
George Luks was born in Williamsport Pennsylvania in 1867. After traveling and studying in Europe he returned to the United States in 1894 to work for the “Philadelphia Press,” doing reportorial sketches, a method that became his forte. He enrolled at Pennsylvania Academy, but his rebellious nature resisted the formal study and he withdrew after one month. In Philadelphia, he became friends with John Sloan, Robert Henri, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Camille Hilaire (French, 1916 to 2004)
Camille Hilaire was born in Metz, France in 1916. He studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in Andre Lhote’s academy. Hilaire’s work frequently used searing colors and neo-cubist forms.
Information courtesy of Harlowe Powell Auction Gallery, April, 2011.
Fernand Marie Eugene Legout-Gerard (French, 1856 to 1924)
Though interested in art from a young age, Legout-Gerard gave in to filial pressure and entered the banking profession. Eventually attaining the prestigious position as Bank Director in his native Normandy, Legout-Gerard did not return to painting until after an 1890 visit to the Breton town of Concarneau. Enthralled by Brittany and encouraged by his artist friends, he visited the region numerous times on painting excursions. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Irving Ramsey Wiles (American, 1861-1948)
Irving Ramsey Wiles was born in upstate New York. He was introduced to painting by his father, artist Lemuel Wiles (1826 to 1905), but it was not until he studied at New York’s Arts Students League that he determined to make his father’s profession his own. It was here that Wiles first met his mentor, William Merritt Chase (1849 to 1916), and the two remained lifelong friends. After two [...] Click here to continue reading.
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Campaign of 1877
Chief Joseph, a Nez Perce leader, known to his people as Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt or Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain (1840-1904), constantly appealed to the federal government to return his people to their ancestral homelands and not to a distant reservation in Idaho. His band is known for their brilliant military retreat, one that lasted over three months until their eventual surrender to the US.
The Nez [...] Click here to continue reading.
Walter A. Clark (American, 1848 to 1917)
Clark originally studied engineering at M.I.T., before embarking on an extensive tour of Europe, Asia, and India. Upon his return to the United States, he settled in New York where he enrolled in the National Academy of Design and the Art Student League. It was during this time that he befriended the painter George Inness, Sr. (1825 to 1894), who occupied the studio next door, and who [...] Click here to continue reading.
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