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Mary Fullerton Faulconer (American, born 1912)
Mary Faulconer studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art where she taught in the Design Laboratory of the Museum School. She has in addition, served as Art Director of Mademoiselle Magazine and Harpers Bazaar. Her free lance work has appeared in Fortune, House and Garden, Life, Look, Seventeen, Town and Country and Vogue magazines.
Among her credits is a painting reproduced for UNICEF in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Etienne Maurice Falconet (French, 1716 to 1791)
Etienne Maurice Falconet belongs to the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, and enjoyed the patronage of Madame de Pompadour and Catherine the Great. Although he was born into an impoverished Parisian family, Falconet was able to escape an uncertain future through his precocious talent for modeling in clay.
His skill attracted the attention of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, who trained him personally. By 1754 he had [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Mackie Falconer (Scottish/American, 1820 to 1903)
Portrait, landscape and genre painter, John Mackie Falconer was also an enameler and etcher. He was born in Scotland and emigrated to the United States around 1848, settling in New York City. The artist remained in New York City for the rest of his life and occasionally visited Canada, the Midwest, and Virginia on painting trips. Falconer was known for oil paintings of historic buildings, watercolors, etchings, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Fairy Villa pattern is classified as “Most Popular/Sought After” by Jeffrey B. Snyder in his 1995 “A Pocket Guide to Flow Blue” issued by Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
FADA Radio & Electric Company
FADA Radio & Electric Company, Long Island City, New York, circa 1923 to 1949. FADA being the initials of the company’s founder, Frank Angelo D’Andrea.
Frank Jay Haynes, Photographer
Frank Jay Haynes (1853 to 1921) operated his Palace Studio Car on the Northern Pacific RR between 1885 and 1905. His North Dakota studio operated from 1879 to 1889. He contracted with the railroad to provide them with publicity photographs (rolling stock, scenic views, etc.). He then befriended Philetus Norris, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Once the National Pacific Railroad tracks came near the park, Haynes was granted a lease [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Arnold Eyden Jr. (1893-1982)
An important Richmond, Indiana painter and teacher, Eyden studied with J. Bundy and T.C. Steele. He exhibited at the Richmond Art Association (1910s-40s), the Hoosier Salon (1925 to 1981), John Herron Art Institute, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Eyden had a studio in Greenwich Village for eleven years. His work is in numerous public collections throughout Indiana.
Walker Evans (1903 to 1975)
Walker Evans was born born in St. Louis on November 3, 1903. He worked mostly in black and white, and didn’t use any fancy equipment or techniques. He took pictures with an old beat-up camera with a slow lens and developed his pictures with rudimentary materials. He tried to capture images of the failed American promise, portraits of sharecroppers, old automobiles, faded signs, ghost towns of the West, decrepit [...] Click here to continue reading.
De (David) Scott Evans (1847-1889)
An important portrait and trompe l’oeil painter, David Scott Evans was born in 1847 in Boston, Indiana and as a young man taught music and art at Smithson College in Logansport, Indiana. He changed his name to De Scott Evans in 1870 after a trip to France during which he allegedly suffered an identity crisis (but may have been merely trying to avoid his creditors). In 1873 he [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eugene Field, Sr.
Eugene Field, Sr. was born September 2, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of attorney Martin Field who earned quite a name for himself as one of the attorneys associated with Dred Scott, the slave who sued for freedom in 1857. When Eugene was five, his mother died, and he was sent to Amherst, Massachusetts to be raised by a cousin.
Field began college at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, [...] Click here to continue reading.
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