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Charles Lee, Bed Manufacturer The origin of bedsteads found in Louisiana and elsewhere throughout the South stamped “C. LEE” has long been cause for speculation. The most persistent popular belief has been that Lee was a free man of color who apprenticed under Prudent Mallard. It is now known that Charles Lee was in fact working in Manchester, Massachusetts circa 1856 to 1868, employing approximately eighteen men and shipping to New Orleans retailers such [...] Click here to continue reading. Lee LeBlanc (1913 to 1988) LeBlanc studied in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art School and PAFA before joining the staff at Disney Studios. He later held administrative positions at 20th Century Fox and MGM until his retirement in 1962. He then moved to Iron River, MI where he remained. In 1972 he began designing stamps for wildlife and fishing licenses and won the Federal duck stamp competition in 1973. Information courtesy of [...] Click here to continue reading. Albert LeNormand (born 1915) Born May 14, 1915 LeNormand studied at the National Academy of Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Academie Julian. He opened a school in Paris with friends, and later an Academy in Lyon. His work has been exhibited at the Salon du Mai and at a one-man show in Paris. After his first tapestry, “Les Etendards,” in 1946, he made fifteen drawings for the tapestries for “L’Ange Gardien” for [...] Click here to continue reading. Jasper Holman Lawman (1825-1906) The 19th century American landscape and portrait painter was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1825 and moved to Pittsburgh in 1846 where he died in 1906. Lawman traveled to Paris to study at the atelier of Couture, following which he returned to Pittsburgh and established a studio. In the mid-1860′s he joined an informal group of western Pennsylvania artists know as the “The Scalp Level group” who were known for [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Laurent (1890-1970) Robert Laurent was born in France and arrived New York City in 1901. He was a talented sculptor and frame maker who trained in Paris, New York and Rome. He carved frames for many friends and artists including Childe Hassam, John LaFarge, Robert Henri, and the colector Albert Barnes. His sculpture was created from various mediums: woood, albaster, marble, stone and clay. His own collection of folk art was legendary and [...] Click here to continue reading. Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940) Every region in America seems to cherish a favorite artist who over an extended period of time was able to capture the spirit of the people and the country they painted. For many in Alaska, that artist is Sydney Laurence. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1865, Laurence studied at the Art Students League and by the late 1880′s he exhibited at local galleries. Following studies in England, he eventually [...] Click here to continue reading. Lorenzo Palmer Latimer (American, 1857 to 1941) Latimer was the son of California pioneers and an 1882 graduate of the San Francisco School of Design. His work was hailed by his contemporaries, and selections were exhibited at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Latimer would go on to teach at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, later renamed the California School of Design. His work is increasingly sought after with the increased [...] Click here to continue reading. William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938) William Lathrop was born in Ohio in 1859. He was the founder of the New Hope, Pennsylvania, Impressionist Colony and was known as one of America’s premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His style was Tonalist, which coincided with Impressionism but was neither plein air nor focused on light, sunny colors. He was not innovative in style, but much admired for the strength and [...] Click here to continue reading. Bernard Langlais (1923-1977) Born in Old Town, Maine, the son of a carpenter and in an area that relied for its economy on the timber industry, Langlais studied commercial art in Washington, D.C., before enlisting in the Navy in 1942. After his military training he attended the Corcoran School of Art, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He later attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in [...] Click here to continue reading. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Lanceray The leading Russian sculptor of the 1870′s and 1880′s, Yevgeny Lanceray was known for the his skill in modeling horses and for his highly detailed models. Many of his works were cast by the St. Petersburg foundry of Felix Chopin, but the Paris foundry of Susse Brothers (Freres) offered a complete collection of Lanceray’s 123 works at the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, and featured them in their catalogues from 1902 [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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