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Frakturs
Fraktur is both a blackletter typeface, and also highly artistic and elaborate 18th century and 19th century illuminated folk art drawings created by the Pennsylvania Dutch (also known as Pennsylvania Deitsch or Pennsylvanian German). Most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860.
Fraktur drawings were executed in ink and/or watercolors and are found in a wide variety of forms: the Vorschriften (writing samples), the Taufscheine (birth and baptismal certificates), marriage and house [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ellis Wilson (1899 to 1977)
In 1952, African-American artist Ellis Wilson used his prize money for winning second place at the national Terry Art Exhibition in Miami to travel to Haiti. There he found the Haitian community to be a source of inspiration and produced a colorful series of paintings. Wilson’s “Impressions of Haiti” exhibition at the New York Contemporary Arts Gallery opened in 1954 to critical acclaim. The exhibition was praised for its [...] Click here to continue reading.
Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863)
Harvard-educated Robert Shaw, son of a prominent Boston abolitionist family, was serving as a captain in the 2nd Massachusetts when he was tapped by Governor John Andrew to command the first regiment of black troops organized in a Northern state. Shaw went about the organization of his 54th Massachusetts recruiting free blacks from all over New England and some from beyond. The regiment was mustered into service on May 13, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Olaf Carl Wieghorst (Danish/American 1899-1988)
Olaf Wieghorst was born in Viborg, Denmark and made his way to New York around 1917. Fascinated with the Wild West, Wieghorst enlisted in the U.S. Calvary in Mexico. He later worked with the Mounted Police Division in New York City and eventually settled in California. Horses were Wieghorst’s great love: “I try to paint the little natural things, the way a horse turns his tail to the wind [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930)
In 1894, Charles Webster Hawthorne moved to Long Island, New York, to study with leading American Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase. There he began painting en plein-air and he soon became Chase’s assistant. By 1898, Hawthorne established the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A dedicated and passionate teacher, he used the school to promote the style and technique he learned from Chase, which included the use of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Kim Whanki (Korean, 1913 to 1974)
An early proponent of abstract art in Korea, artist Kim Whanki created paintings that harmonized experimental forms of expression with Korean sensibilities. Kim’s images served as a bridge between a past rooted in unchanging traditions and an emerging modernity, as South Koreans sought a new national identity in the aftermath of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War (1950 to 1953).
Kim was born February 27, 1913 into a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Aaron Burr
Burr served with distinction in the Continental Army at the battles of Quebec, Monmouth, and New Haven. He is best remembered for taking the life of Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. After conspiring with General James Wilkinson to create a new republic in the Southwest, he was arrested in 1807, tried for treason, and acquitted. He went abroad in 1808 and tried but failed to interest the English and French in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Andrew Curtain Davis (1853-1915)
Andrew Davis grew up and remained in Bedford, Pennsylvania throughout his life. Although his primary occupation was as a barber, he painted and exhibited locally during his free time. He also carved and gilded his own frames. Among his other talents were comic illustration, in which he also dabbled but to which he was not devoted.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., October 2006.
Allen Tucker (1866-1939)
Allen Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and worked as both an architect and a painter, eventually painting full time by 1904. He was known to have been heavily influenced by Vincent Van Gogh, prompting his contemporaries to refer to him as “Vincent in America”. His style evolved to encompass several modernist movements, and he was an influential figure in bringing abstract art to America.
Tucker was a member of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Bror Anders Wikstrom (Swedish, 1840 to 1909; active New Orleans 1883 to 1909)
The Swedish born Wikstrom was a painter, etcher, designer, illustrator and art teacher. Wikstrom trained at the Stockholm Royal Academy of Fine Arts and later studied at the Academie Julian, Paris. He first came to New Orleans as an illustrator in 1881 and returned here at the time of the 1884-1885 World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition. Known for his marine and [...] Click here to continue reading.
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