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Peter Robert Keil (German, born 1942) Peter Robert Keil is one of the leading figures in the early German Neo-Expressionist movement. Keil moved from Poland to Germany as a young boy, following the death of his father. He is best known for his dynamic use of vibrant colors, harmonius forms and vigorous lines. As a child he was intrigued by the work of Pablo Picasso, and his playful images and bright colors which offered [...] Click here to continue reading. Fred Harman Jr. (American, 1902 to 1982) Fred Harman was one of the five founders of the Cowboy Artists of America in 1965. Along with Joe Beeler, George Phippen, Johnny Hampton, and Charlie Dye, Harman helped shape the organization that would set the standard for contemporary art of the American West for decades to come. A rough draft of the organization’s guiding principles was developed by the founders in a bar in Sedona, Arizona. [...] Click here to continue reading. Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant (French, 1845 to 1902) Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant is most well known for his romantic visions of the Orient. His loose brushwork and rich palette, as seen in the above, show influence of Eugene Delacroix (1798 to 1863). Constant traveled to Morocco in 1872 with French ambassador and painter, Georges Clarin (1843 to 1919). Throughout his travels he acquired many Islamic artifacts, carpets, and garments which became props in the Orientalist paintings [...] Click here to continue reading. Annie Hurlburt Jackson (American, 1877 to 1960) Annie Hurlburt Jackson was a talented miniaturist based in Minneapolis. She trained with a variety of painters–most of them landscape specialists–including Eric Pape, Charles Woodbury, John F. Murphy, Charles Hawthorne, and Eliot O’Hara, and exhibited regularly with the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, earning a medal there in 1925. Her work was awarded a gold medal at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926; a prize in [...] Click here to continue reading. John Philip Falter (American 1910 to 1982) A classic realist, John Falter created unforgettable scenes of pure Americana, often showcased in his covers for the Saturday Evening Post, or his illustrations for books published by Reader’s Digest and Macmillan Books. He left behind a rich legacy of art at his passing in 1982. A true perfectionist, when Falter was asked to look back over his career he remarked that he never painted a painting [...] Click here to continue reading. Peter Gerardus Van Os (Dutch, 1776 to 1839) Peter Gerardus Van Os was a member of an influential Dutch family of still life painters that included father Jan (1744 to 1808), brother Georgius (1782 to 1861), sister Maria (1780-1862) and son Pieter (1808 to 1892). His mother was the portrait painter Susanna de la Croix, daughter of French painter Pierre Federic de la Croix. Van Os received his early artistic training in his father’s [...] Click here to continue reading. Kate Freeman Clark (American, 1875 to 1957) Kate Freeman Clark was the daughter of Vicksburg attorney and Cary Freeman Clark, a descendant of the politically prominent Walthall family of Holly Springs. After her father’s death in 1885, Kate and her mother lived in the Walthall family home, known as the “Freeman Place”. In 1891, Cary Freeman Clark enrolled her daughter in the Gardiner Institute, a finishing school for girls, in order to broaden Kate’s [...] Click here to continue reading. David Wojnarowicz (American, 1954 to 1992) The art of David Wojnarowicz reflects, the harsh experiences of his youth: a difficult home life during childhood, dropping out of high school, hitch-hiking across country, living on the streets. Despite claiming that he ‘never had what could be described as an art education’, he gleaned valuable and quite sophisticated lessons in assemblage and collage from Bay Area artists such as Jess and Bruce Connor, during a stay [...] Click here to continue reading. Tseng Yu-Ho (Betty Ecke, Chinese/American, Hawaii, born 1924) Born in Beijing in 1923, Tseng Yu-Ho studied the ancient art of mounting scroll paintings on a collage of various papers made of bamboo, mulberry tree bark, cotton, rice stalks, hemp or silk. In her work, the artist extended this technique to the surface of her paintings, where each sheet is colored before it is layered on another in order to attain the effect of opacity [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Bird King, (American, 1785 to 1862) Charles Bird King studied under Samuel King, Edward Savage, Benjamin West, and Thomas Sully. Failing to achieve success in Philadelphia, he moved to Washington, DC in 1816. In 1821, Superintendent of Indian Trade Thomas McKenney commissioned King to paint the portraits of American Indians who were brought to Washington as guests of U.S. government. By 1842, he had executed over 100 portraits of some of the most [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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