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Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Childe Hassam became one of America’s most noted Impressionist painters, but he never labeled himself in that way, asserting he was more interested in the emotional content of his paintings than the technique of applying color. He also completed over 350 etchings and drypoints and about 45 lithographs, most of them after he was 56 years old. Watercolor was another specialty, and Hassam was one [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles C. Gruppe (born 1928)
Charles C. Gruppe came from a respected family of East Coast artists. His grandfather, Charles Paul Gruppe (1860-1940), studied and painted in Europe until moving to Rochester, New York. His uncles, sculptor Karl (1893-1982) and painter Emile (1896-1978) were successful and widely recognized for their work. Charles’s, father, Paulo Gruppe, was a gifted cellist. Charles Gruppe studied at Yale University and at Columbia, as well as at the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Jasper Johns has become one of America’s best-known post-Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists. His name is most associated with pictorial images of flags and numbers, Pop-Art subjects that he depicted in Minimalist style with emphasis on linearity, repetition, and symmetry.
Johns completed his first flag painting in 1955, alphabet subjects in 1956, sculpture in 1958, and lithographs in 1960. Unlike Abstract Expressionism, these signature works seem [...] Click here to continue reading.
Howard Baer (American, 1907 to 1986)
Howard Baer was born in Finleyville, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Carnegie Institute, and exhibited at the PAFA and the Carnegie Institute. In New York, he did illustration work for the New Yorker, Esquire, and other magazines. During World War II, he produced pictures of the Army Medical Department in the India-Burma-China theater.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., February 2006
James Otto Lewis (American, 1799 to 1858)
James Otto Lewis was born in Michigan and began painting Native Americans in 1823. Between 1825 and 1828, the United States Indian Department commissioned him to attend treaty ceremonies. While at these ceremonies, Lewis rendered portraits and interviewed chiefs and subsequently published the first collection of native North American portraits, the North American Aboriginal Port-Folio. In 1835 the Aboriginal Portfolio was published in ten parts each containing [...] Click here to continue reading.
Rosalie (Rosa) Marie Bonheur 1822 to 1899
Rosalie Marie Bonheur was born in Bordeaux, France on March 16th, 1822. She was the oldest of four children born to an impoverished French painter and all the four children became artists. Rosa began sketching at the age of four. She would go to the Paris horse market and sketch horses. In her adult life she was considered eccentric because she would go to slaughter houses where [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Schreyvogel
Born in New York in 1861, Charles Schreyvogel (1861 to 1912) was the second son of Paul and Theresa Schreyvogel, two German immigrants whose families moved to the United States to escape revolutionary troubles in Europe. His interest in art became apparent as a young child. Although discouraged by his father, a shopkeeper, he pursued these interests by working as an apprentice to a die-sinker and then in a lithography shop. The [...] Click here to continue reading.
Bryant Chapin (American, 1859 to 1927)
Bryant Chapin was born, lived, painted and died in Fall River, Massachusetts, though he did travel on occasion to Europe, where he painted landscapes. But he was primarily a still life painter and sometime portraitist as one of the group of Fall River artists. Fruit was Chapin’s primary still life subject, depicted with atmospheric form and light, and high key color, and placed on complexly constructed tables whose [...] Click here to continue reading.
Chaim Gross (Austrian/American, 1904 to 1991)
Chaim Gross was born in the Carpathian Mountain Region of Austria. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna before his family fled the area during the Russian invasion in World War I. After several years of wandering as refugees, Gross and his brother moved to the U.S. in 1921.
In New York, Gross studied clay modeling under Elie Nedelman (1882 to 1946) at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design [...] Click here to continue reading.
Francoise Gilot (French, born 1921)
Francoise Gilot was Pablo Picasso’s partner and they had two children together before she left him in 1953. Her artwork frequently exhibits a vibrant color palette. Gilot is known for her poetry as well as her artistic career. She studied at the University of Paris, the Academie Julian, as well as obtaining a philosophy degree from the Sorbonne and an English degree from Cambridge University.
Information courtesy of Harlowe [...] Click here to continue reading.
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