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Ex Collection of Charles Chi-Jung Chu (1918-2008)
Featuring the personal collections of paintings, calligraphy, books, and small collectibles of Charles J. Chu (1918-2008), much loved and admired professor, painter, calligrapher, curator, collector, scholar, and educator. Lots 766-887.
Born in a small farming village in Hebei Province, China, Chu went to study at the National Central University in China. In 1945, he came to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Marie Nathalie Loew Charbonnet (1845-1924)
Mrs. Charbonnet was an amateur artist from Louisiana who studied with George David Coulon and gave her paintings to family and friends as gifts.
James Wells Champney (1843-1903)
Born in 1843, James Wells Champney studied art at the Lowell Institute in Boston until 1863, when he enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War. At the end of the war, he traveled to Europe to further his art education at Academie d’Anvers and Antwerp Royal Academy. Champney became known for his landscape, genre and portrait paintings, demonstrating his versitilty. In 1873, he was hired by Scribner’s Monthly to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Chambers (1808-1866)
Born in England, Thomas Chambers became a painter known for landscape and marine scenes, especially of the Hudson River from Albany and from New York City, all in naive, primitive style with bold color, rhythmic shapes applied with brushwork that made his work seem vital and lively. Among the titles of his Hudson River paintings are STATEN ISLAND AND THE NARROWS (Brooklyn Museum) and VILLA ON THE HUDSON NEAR WEEHAWKEN [...] Click here to continue reading.
C. Bosseron Chambers (1883-1941)
A St. Louis painter, Chambers (American, born 1883) studied at the Royal Academy in Berlin. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and the Salmagundi Club. His work is several public collections in St. Louis and Chicago. His specialty was figurative works painted in an illustrative manner similar to that of Louis Icart.
Gaston Chaissac (French, 1910 to 1964)
Chaissac’s brightly-colored primitive compositions run the line between the French academic painting tradition and what is termed ‘Outsider’ art. His paintings are closely related to the work Jean Dubuffet and are often categorized as part of Dubuffet’s ‘Art Brut.’ Chaissac, however, came to reject this categorization and the theoretical implications of the Art Brut movement; while Dubuffet strove to create ‘raw’ art, Chaissac’s eloquent figural images conveyed a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985)
Marc Chagall was a man of keen intelligence, a shrewd observer of the contemporary scene, with a great sympathy for human suffering. He was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia; his original name was Moishe Shagal (Segal), but when he became a foremost member of the Ecole de Paris, he adopted French citizenship and the French spelling of his name. Vitebsk was a good-sized Russian town of [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Catlin (1796-1872)
George Catlin was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania in 1796. He was the first American artist of stature to visit and depict the Plains Indians on his own and spent about eight years (1824 to 1836) traveling among the 48 North American Indian Tribes, including tribes in Alaska. His sketches and paintings are the first and most important record of land west of the Mississippi River before white settlement. His goal [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 in Pennsylvania and spent her childhood there until 1851 when she moved to Europe with her mother where she studied in a number of cities until 1858. She returned to the states to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1865 but decided France was best suited for her career and she moved there in 1866 for the remainder of her [...] Click here to continue reading.
John William Casilear (1811-1893)
An important painter of the Hudson River School, Casilear (1811 to 1893) painted extensively in upstate New York and Vermont. He studied under Asher B. Durand (1796 to 1886) in 1831 and in 1840 he traveled to Europe for three years with Durand and John F. Kensett (1816 to 1872).
Casilear was originally trained as a banknote engraver, but by 1854 switched to painting full-time as his celebrity increased. From [...] Click here to continue reading.
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