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George Frayne (born 1944) George Frayne, better known as “Commander Cody,” is by turns an artist and classic rock musician. Frayne has described himself as “an artist with an artist’s temperament” noting, “Sometimes I just feel like I’ve got to rock n’ roll. Sometimes I feel like I can’t rock n’ roll for another second, ‘Where’s my paintbrush?’ The next second it’s ‘If I see another paintbrush, I’m going to commit seppuku.” He was [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles A. Fraser (1782-1860) Charles A. Fraser, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most notable Southern portrait miniaturists of the late 18th and 19th centuries. He resided at 56 King Street his entire life, and as a result the majority of his portrait miniatures are of Charlestonians, even though he made several trips out of South Carolina. Fraser is also noted for the landscape and literary themes within his paintings. [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Frank (born 1924) Robert Frank was born in Zurich Switzerland, in 1924, to Jewish parents. As Frank grew to adulthood during World War II, he began his formal training in photography with a staid, old view camera, eventually using a 35mm range finder. Frank moved to New York in 1947 to study under the famed editor Alexey Brodovitch, who encouraged him to take fashion photographs. Frank quickly found himself drawn to documentary subjects [...] Click here to continue reading. Frank Finney (born 1947) Frank Finney was born Royland Frank Smith Finney, May 14, 1947 in Cornwall, England. Finney’s father, Herman David Finney, of Native American heritage, was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Herman Finney was a carver who joined the U.S. Navy and later was a culinary artist, caning flowers and birds from fruits and vegetables as decoration for government banquet tables. Frank’s mother, Ethel Grunvauld, was Dutch, born in South Africa. Finney moved [...] Click here to continue reading. Dr. Alonzo H. Fowler (1825 – 1903) was a dentist in Ithaca, New York who used the molding technology of his profession to design a reel made almost entirely of hard rubber. The “Gem” represents one of the earliest reels of hard rubber in the construction of fishing reels, other than for handles. It was extremely light weight but it was very fragile and few have survived. Of the approximately dozen Fowler reels now [...] Click here to continue reading. Stanislaus Fournier (????-1853) Clockmaker Stanislaus Fournier was born in St. Aubin de Cauf in Normandy and apprenticed with the Lepaute firm of Paris. Lepaute sent Fournier to install a large clock in New Orleans’ St. Louis Hotel in 1841 or 1842. Prompted by the lack of clock and watchmakers in the city, Fournier opened a shop on Toulouse Street after his seven month St. Louis Hotel project was complete. Fournier soon relocated to [...] Click here to continue reading. Myles Birket Foster Born in 1825, Myles Birket Foster was given a Quaker education and apprenticed to the wood engraver Ebenezer Landells until about 1850. He worked exclusively as an engraver and a black and white illustrator throughout the 1850s. Foster taught himself to paint in watercolors and began to actively exhibit after 1859. He traveled considerably on the continent starting in 1852, visiting Venice on several occasions, and was commissioned to make a [...] Click here to continue reading. Benjamin Foster (1852-1926) Born in 1852 in North Anson, Maine, Benjamin “Ben” Foster worked at a number of odd jobs before coming to painting in 1882. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City in 1882 under the direction of A. H. Thayer and with Luc Olivier Merson and Aime Morot in Paris from 1886 to 1887. Foster’s landscapes depicting scenes around his Carnwall, Connecticut home were particularly popular due to [...] Click here to continue reading. William Forsyth (1854-1935) A highly important Hoosier group painter, Forsyth (1854 to 1935) was primarily a landscape painter. He studied at the Royal Academy of Munich. He exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition (1904), the Pan-Pacific Exposition (1915), the Richmond Art Association, the Indianapolis Art Association, and the Hoosier Salon (1925 to 1935). His work is in the collections of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indiana State Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and the Herron Art [...] Click here to continue reading. N.A. Forsyth, Western Photographer Norman A. Forsyth (1869 to 1949), a native of New York, was one of the better-known stereoview photographers of the early 20th century. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree, he began work in Yellowstone National Park in the 1880s, driving a stagecoach and providing tours to visitors. During the next six summers in the park, he also supplemented his income by selling his stereoviews to tourists. In the off-season, [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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