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James Dexter Havens (American, 1900 to 1960) James Dexter Havens was born January 13, 1900 in Rochester, New York and had a fairly unremarkable childhood until he was fourteen, at which time he was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Doctors gave him only two years to live, but he clung to life for the next forty-six years, albeit bedridden much of the time. In order to combat boredom, he turned to drawing. In the early [...] Click here to continue reading. Konstantin Korovin (Russian, 1861 to 1939) Born in Moscow to a family of artists, Konstantin Korovin is as well known for his theatrical designs as he is for his paintings. He entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture at the age of 14 where he was classically trained as a painter. In his early thirties, Korovin became associated with the Neo-Romanticism group Mir iskusstva. Similar in manifesto to the English Pre-Raphaelites, the [...] Click here to continue reading. Sam Gilliam (American, born 1933) Abstract Expressionist painter, Sam Gilliam, is best known for his color field images that manipulate both color and space. His bold colors work against the unprimed, unstretched canvases which serve as both a conforming geometric structure and deconstructed space. Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and grew up in Kentucky. In 1962, he moved to Washington D.C. and joined the second generation of the Washington Color School (following Morris [...] Click here to continue reading. Lajos Markos (Hungarian/American, 1917 to 1993) Born in Budapest, Hungary, Markos earned a scholarship to the National Royal Academy of Budapest. Markos paintings hang in museums in the United States and Europe. He has international recognition for both his portraits and his western art. Markos also painted portraits of the founders of the Zigler Museum, Fred B. & Ruth B. Zigler. Information courtesy of Charlton Hall Galleries Inc., September 2006. William Lester Stevens (American, 1888 to 1969) William Lester Stevens was a landscape painter and teacher from the Boston school of painting. He was born in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1888 and he died in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1969. He studied with Parker S. Perkins in Rockport, Tarbell and Benson at Boston’s Museum School, and in Europe after World War I. He was a National Academician and a member of the American Watercolor Society; a [...] Click here to continue reading. Soren Emil Carlsen (1853 to 1932) Emil Carlsen grew up near the Baltic coast of Denmark, where the sea was a constant and powerful presence. Although he also distinguished himself as a painter of woodland landscapes and still lifes, it was his poetic depictions of the ocean and its shifting skies which earned him the greatest critical praise. Whether painting the Danish shoreline, the many faces of the Pacific in California, the sandy beaches [...] Click here to continue reading. Daniel Ridgway Knight (American, 1839 to 1924) A native of Philadelphia, Daniel Ridgway Knight developed his artistic talent early in life when he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with classmates such as Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins. Despite his talented and enthusiastic American contemporaries, Knight longed for the culture and thrill of Paris. He made his first trip overseas in 1861, where he studied under two highly regarded artists: Gabriel Charles Gleyre, [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Aston Knight (1873 to 1948), The son of renowned American expatriate genre painter, Daniel Ridgway Knight, Louis Aston Knight was born in Paris in 1873 and spent most of his life working in France. In addition to the artistic training he received from his father, Knight studied at the Academie Julian with Jules Lefebvre and T. Robert-Fleury from 1891 through 1895. Knight’s work departed from his father’s as he usually depicted flower gardens [...] Click here to continue reading. Daveda Movitz works in watercolors, ceramics, gouache and oil. After receiving her M.A. in Fine Art from Boston University, she has worked as an artist and has developed an abstract impressionist style to create increasingly emotive works. Her work has been featured in one person and group shows in the northeast including the Brooklyn Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Daveda has also worked as a teacher. Married since [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward D. Movitz (20th/21st Century Artist) Edward Movitz is a Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art. He obtained an M.A. in Education at Harvard University. In addition to creating gouache and oil paintings, Edward works in drawings, monoprints, and woodcuts. Over the course of his career, his work has grown increasing personal and his style has evolved from representationalism to symbolic abstraction. He has exhibited extensively throughout New England, including the Fogg Art [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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