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James Edgar Forkner (1867-1945)
Forkner was known for his landscape, city and coastal views. This biography was submitted by Richmond Art Museum. Nationally known watercolorist, Edgar Forkner was born in 1867 in Richmond, Indiana. Equally adept at painting floral still-lives and harbor scenes, Forkner exhibited over twenty years in the Hoosier Salon Exhibition winning numerous awards for best watercolor. He received his training at the Art Student League in New York studying with J. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ruth Alexander Robertson Fontenot (1914 to 1995)
Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, Ruth Robertson Fontenot was a historian, genealogist and artist. She attended Newcomb College of Art for two years, but due to the economic hardship of the Depression transferred to Southwest Louisiana Institute (today University of Louisiana, Lafayette).
Fontenot was the food editor of Louisiana Life and wrote for The Acadian Lifestyle and The State Line. In the 1980s, Fontenot lived in the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry Folsom
The New England folk artist Henry Folsom’s life dates are given variously as 1792 to 1814 or circa 1805 to 1825. The noted twentieth century collector and scholar Nina Fletcher Little used the 1792 to 1814 dates.
Henry was the son of James and Sarah Gilman Folsom. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy with the class of 1804. He went to Boston to study art [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972)
Landscape painter John Folinsbee was a leading member of the New Hope School of American Impressionism, a group of artists working in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Folinsbee was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied there with Jonas Lie. By 1916 he had moved to Pennsylvania, where he began to paint landscapes of and around the Delaware River. Folinsbee is best known for his plein air winter scenes. A member of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eugene Fleischer Collection
There are many reasons to hail the early ceramics collection of Eugene Fleischer. His talents have been legendary in amassing encyclopedic and rarities collections in the fields of historical “Old Blue” Staffordshire and other English ceramics featuring subjects of American interest. His extraordinary collection includes War of 1812 and Liverpool jugs, painted American scenery on fine porcelain, and Parian; and the list goes on. The variety of forms, many unrecorded, has [...] Click here to continue reading.
Joseph A. Fleck (1892-1977)
Fleck was born in Austria-Hungary and studied at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was drafted into WWI and served in Italy, and completed his studies at the Royal Academy after the war. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1922 and settled in Kansas City, Missouri and worked as a stained glass designer in a factory owned by Louis [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Flaxman
John Flaxman (1755 to 1826) was an English neoclassical sculptor and draughtsman. At the age of 19 he went to work for the firm of Wedgwood and Bentley, where he made his living for the next twelve years as a modeler of classic and domestic friezes, plaques, ornamental vessels and medallion portraits. It was in these inventive jasper” and “basalt” ware compositions that the manufacturers of the age, who had conceived and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Gustave Flaubert (French 1821 to 1880)
Gustave Flaubert was a novelist born in Rouen, France. His 1857 realist masterpiece Madame Bovary garnered him attempted prosecution and widespread condemnation for immorality. Among his later works is Salambo (1862), a story of the siege of Carthage in 240-237 BC by mercenaries. His 1877 work, Three Tales, proved him a master of the short story.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions
Henry Fitz Jr. (1808-1863)
An early experimenter and businessman in the art of the photography, Henry Fitz Jr. of Baltimore opened the first daguerreotype portrait studio in Maryland in the summer of 1840 at 112 Baltimore Street.
Little is know of Fitz’s early commercial photographic work as he is best known to photographic historians through his association with Alexander Wolcott and John Johnson. The latter two collaborated in the development of the Wolcott camera, [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Montgomery Flagg (1877 to 1960)
James Montgomery Flagg, born in Pelham Manor, New York in 1877, is one of those interesting figures in history who actually did so much, but is only remembered for one thing! Flagg was a gifted artist, displaying a prodigy’s talent; he created his first magazine illustration at age 12, and by the age of 14, he had become a regular contributor to Life. He actively pursued training for [...] Click here to continue reading.
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