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Royal A. Carlock Born on the banks of the Wabash in southern Indiana, little is known of Royal Carlock’s early life. We do know he was an honorably discharged World War I veteran who served in Europe. Upon his discharge from the Army in 1918, he decided to remain in Washington D.C. Fascinated by the architecture and national treasures found in our nation’s capital, Carlock focused his photographic and hand-coloring skills on reproducing and [...] Click here to continue reading. William Calder (1792-1856) William Calder of Providence, Rhode Island began pewtering circa 1824 and worked until his death in 1856. He and Thomas D. Boardman of Hartford, Connecticut are responsible for the great majority of the surviving porringers of early American origin. Calder’s porringer output is second only to Samuel Hamlin also from Providence. Most Calder porringers measure from four and seven-eights to five and a quarter inches and carry the Eagle touch. His [...] Click here to continue reading. Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898-1976) Alexander Calder was born in Pennsylvania to a family of famous artists, his grandfather being Alexander Milne Calder (1846 to 1923), a sculptor, his father was Alexander Stirling Calder (1870 to 1945), also a sculptor, and his mother Nanette Lederer Calder was a painter. He began his studies in 1914 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, then he studied and worked in Paris for several years [...] Click here to continue reading. Pol Bury (Belgian/French, 1922 to 2005) Pol Bury began his career in the Surrealist movement, and participated with his countryman Magritte in the 1945 International Surrealism exhibition. In 1953, however, he discovered the work of Alexander Calder, and this altered the course of his career. He become a leading sculptor of the kinetic movement, uniting his creative genius with his technical and mathematical expertise. Bury was considered the master of slow movement and meditation. [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Mickell Burnham (American, 1818 to 1866) Raised in Boston, Thomas Burnham did a famous painting called “The Lewis and Clark Expedition,” which is at the Whitney Gallery of the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum in Cody, Wyoming. He lived in Detroit, Michigan, where he became a sign painter and also gained some success as a portraitist and painter of genre scenes and landscapes. In the mid 19th century, he returned to Boston and then [...] Click here to continue reading. Elbridge Ayer Burbank Elbridge Burbank was a tireless and prolific painter of the North American Indian, who began work in the period after the close of the frontier in the 1890′s and continued well into this century. The Indians Burbank painted nicknamed the artist “Many Brushes,” and it is estimated that he worked among as many as 125 tribes, exhibiting more than 1,200 works in his lifetime. Burbank was born and raised in Illinois, [...] Click here to continue reading. Virginia Fouche Bolton (1929-2004) An important member of South Carolina’s art community for over forty years, Virginia Fouche Bolton was a graduate of Winthrop College. In 1951 she married and settled in Mt. Pleasant. Ten years and five children later, she began teaching at the St. John the Baptist parochial school. Teaching everything from English to Science, Bolton soon went on to Moultrie and Wando High Schools where her teaching career expanded to art [...] Click here to continue reading. Sven Boltenstern (Austrian, active 1954 to present) The son of a Viennese architect, Boltenstern studied sculpture in Oskar Kokoschka’s Salzburg Art Academy and goldsmithing in Vienna and Paris. The artist’s work as a sculptor and jeweler is represented in the Vienna Museum of Applied Art. For further reference, see Sven Boltenstern:Goldsmith of Vienna, by Graham Hughes. Information courtesy of Skinner Inc., September 2006. Alfred L. Boisseau (1823 to 1901) Alfred Boisseau was born in Paris, France, trained under Paul Delaroche and exhibited at the Paris Salon. He moved to New Orleans in the 1840s and in the following decades worked as an itinerant painter throughout the Midwest and along the East Coast. His style ranged from genre, landscape and portrait painting. While in New Orleans, Boisseau came into contact with the Choctaw Indians, who were eventually forced [...] Click here to continue reading. Aaron Bohrod (1907 – 1992) Aaron Bohrod was known for a range of work in watercolor and gouache that included realist figures in cityscapes, landscapes, Surrealism, and trompe l’oeil painting, Aaron Bohrod spent his early career in Chicago, where he was born. In 1948, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he became a long-time a member of the art faculty and satisfied the inclinations of many artists who leaned towards European-influenced modernism. In this [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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