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Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949) Koitsu studied under Matsuzaki, who was a carver for Kobayayashi Kiyochika, in Tokyo for 19 years. He produced woodblocks during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Like the work of Kobayashi Kiyochika, Koitsu’s work often uses very dramatic light. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Nellie Knopf (1875-1962) Nellie Knopf, known for still life and landscape paintings, was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Nellie Knopf became a painter of mountain, pueblos, seascapes, and other outdoor scenes that brought her international recognition. She graduated with honors from the Art Institute of Chicago, a student of John Vanderpoel and Frederick Freer. For 43 years she taught and was Director of Art at Illinois State Woman’s College, later MacMurray College, in [...] Click here to continue reading. Jacob Knagy (1796-1883) Jacob Knagy was a cabinetmaker in Meyersdale, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles south of the Soap Hollow region, which surrounds Davidsville. Although many spelling variations of his name are known and his gravestone reads “Jacob Gnagy,” during his lifetime he spelled his name with a “K.” Knagy furniture is sometimes misidentified and marketed as Soap Hollow, yet they represent distinctly different schools of work and regions of origin. Knagy furniture [...] Click here to continue reading. Gene (Alice Geneva Glasier) Kloss (1903-1996) Gene Kloss was born Alice Geneva Glasier in Oakland, California in 1903. She was known for her Southwestern Indian-genre subjects and landscapes which were generally etchings, oil or watercolor. She studied at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts. After her first visit to Taos in 1925 fell in love with the town. Four years later she became a permanent resident. The landscape suited her temperament as well [...] Click here to continue reading. Frank C. Kirk (1889-1963) Frank C. Kirk was born in the city of Zitomir in South Russia. As one of seven children in a family of meager means, Kirk began working at the age of twelve as an assistant to a house decorator. The youth found inspiration in the despondent yet picturesque revolutionary Russia through his drawing, though he was unable to take formal art instruction in his native country. Indeed, the young [...] Click here to continue reading. Raphael Kirchner (American, 1867 to 1917) Raphael Kirchner was born in Vienna, Austria and along with Alphonse Mucha, was one of the most renowned Art Nouveau postcard artists of the Vienna Secessionist movement. The visionary artist later moved to France and worked as the cover artist for the wildly popular La Vie Parisienne. His radically risque portraits of sexually emancipated women were dubbed “Kirchner Girls.” Kirchner moved to New York City in 1915, and [...] Click here to continue reading. Edmund Daniel Kinzinger (American, 1888 to 1963) Edmund Kinzinger was a successful and notable modernist artist in Europe. He was director of the Hans Hoffman Schule fur Buildende Kunst in Munich, and the Hans Hofmann Self-Study Course in California. Labeled as a “degenerate” artist in his own country by the Nazis, Kinzinger fled to the United States, eventually accepting a job as Chairman of the Art Department at Baylor University. During summers Kinzinger maintained [...] Click here to continue reading. Alberta Kinsey (1875-1955?) Alberta Kinsey was an art instructor at the Lebanon University in Lebanon, Ohio. She studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Institute of Chicago. She moved from Ohio to the French Quarter in New Orleans and lived there for more than thirty years. In New Orleans she worked with Ellsworth Woodward and she is said to have inspired an artist colony there. She is known best for her [...] Click here to continue reading. Aaron Edward Kilpatrick (1872 to 1953) Aaron Kilpatrick was born in St. Thomas, Canada, but moved to the U. S. in 1892. He eventually settling in Southern California in 1907. In 1922, Kilpatrick sold his commercial art business and devoted himself to fine art. During his successful career he was elected as an Associate to the National Academy. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., March 2007 Kilian Brothers Kilian Brothers competed with large New York cabinet makers like Pottier and Stymus and Herter Brothers by creating stylish Neo-Grec accent furnishings such as pedestals, side tables, reception chairs, easels, and music or folio stands. Designs generally employed a juxtapostion of machine-made walnut and ebonized structural elements with incised gilt decoration and black ground inlaid panels. Two Kilian side tables, one conserved by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, the other with Prudent Mallard’s (New [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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