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Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874 to 1951) Leyendecker was born in Montabaur, Germany, and came to America at the age of eight. Showing an early interest in painting, he got his first job at 16 in a Chicago engraving house on the strength of some large pictures he had painted on kitchen oilcloth. In the evenings after work he studied under Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute, and saved for five years to be able [...] Click here to continue reading. Samella Lewis (born 1924) Samella Sanders Lewis was born February 27, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to the Duke University Art Library, Lewis earned her doctorate in 1951 from Ohio University, and became the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in art history and fine art. As a practicing artist, she cultivated close relationships with several other African-American artists, including Elizabeth Catlett (born 1919), her undergraduate mentor, and Romare Bearden (1914-1988) [...] Click here to continue reading. Kathryn Yager Lewis p4A has received the following feedback about this artist: I thought I might comment on artist Kathryn Yager Lewis. She was my Grandmother and my family does have at least 30 works of hers across 3 homes. She lived primarily in Oak Park, Illinois and during WWII she was a cartographer for Gousha Maps in Chicago drawing maps from aerial photographs that were used by the war department to chart their [...] Click here to continue reading. Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958) Richard Hayley Lever best known as a Post-Impressionist of marine scenes, he was born in Australia, and moved to London in 1893. He settled at St. Ives in Cornwall in 1900, where he painted marine scenes. For the next ten years, the modified impressionist style he developed brought him much recognition in Europe. In 1911, New England painter Ernest Lawson persuaded him to emigrate to the United States and Lever [...] Click here to continue reading. Emile Aubert Lessore (French, 1805 1876) Born in Paris, France, the son of a notary and with no family history of painters or decorators, Emile Aubert Lessore studied art under Louis Hesent, a not notable painter, until he joined the Atelier of Jean August Dominique Ingres, where he painted in both watercolor and oils. Lessore’s work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1831. In 1835, a collection of 50 or so plates painted [...] Click here to continue reading. Jules Marcel-Lenoir (1872 – 1931) Marcel-Lenoir was born Jules Oury on May 12, 1872 in Montauban, France. Marcel-Lenoir moved to Paris in 1889 and attended l’Ecole des Arts Decoratifs for six months. He was greatly influenced by the Italian painters represented at the Louvre and works from the Middle Ages at the Cluny museum. Marcel-Lenoir’s highly stylized Symbolist works came before the turn of the 20th century. He participated in the Salons de [...] Click here to continue reading. Sir Peter Lely (British, 1618-1680) Sir Peter Lely, of Westphalian birth was a politically versatile and highly successful portrait painter. After the death of Van Dyck, he ran a large and efficient studio that was patronized successively by Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II. (When Cromwell was having his portrait painted, he famously directed Lely to “remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything, as you see me.”) Lely dominated the London art [...] Click here to continue reading. Don Lelooska (Don Smith, Native American, 1933 to 1996) Don Lelooska or Smith was the first born of Mary Smith (Cherokee, Shona Hah). Adopted by the Kwakiutl Sewide Clan, Lelooska, whose name means he who cuts against wood, was taught the craft of carving by his grandfather, He-Killer. During the 1950s, Lelooska carved for the tourist trade helping in the revitalization of Northwest Coast art. From the 1970s until the early 1990s he educated [...] Click here to continue reading. Karl F. Leinonen Karl F. Leinonen was a Finnish born and trained silversmith. He came to Boston and was appointed master smith at the Handicraft Shop, which had been founded by A.A. Carey, president of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. Leinonen later opened his own shop. He was one of only 7 silversmiths to be named a Medalist by the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Doris Emrick Lee (1905-1983) Doris Emrick Lee was born in Aledo, IL, on Feb. 1, 1905 to a merchant banker, was the fourth of six children. Growing up her artistic influence came from a grandmother who used to whittle and carve wood and a great-grandfather that had retired from farming to paint. She was educated at Lake Forest, Illinois, and Rockford College. Upon graduation she married and traveled to Paris for five months where [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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