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Claude Curry Bohm (1894-1971)
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Bohm studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1910s. He began visiting Brown County around 1920, usually spending part of the summer there. He specialized in landscapes, and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, Art Institute of Chicago, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Chicago Municipal Art League, and the Chicago Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art. His work is included in the collections [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ettore Caser (1880-1944)
Ettore Caser was from Venice, Italy and resided in both Boston and New York City. He painted landscapes, figures and genre scenes. His works can be seen at both the Engineer’s Club and the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Boston Art Club and his mural at the National Bank in Toledo, Ohio entitled, Anthony Wayne and the Indians at the Marmoux River.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Pruett A. Carter (1891 to 1955)
The paintings of Pruett Carter rarely concentrated on the mechanics of a particular moment of action. Rather, his compositions were concerned with intellect and emotion which in turn were the focus for the clients for whom Carter did his best work. His illustrations for Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Home Companion, McCall’s and American Magazine were less concerned with plot than with character.
From Carter’s start as an [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jean Carolus (Belgian, 1814 to 1897)
Jean Carolus was born in Belgium and is best known for genre scenes which portray elegantly attired aristocrats, usually engaged in pursuits of a leisurely nature.
John Fabian Carlson (1875-1947)
John Carlson was born in Sweden in 1875, but at age twelve immigrated with his family and settled in Buffalo, New York. From youth he was interested in art, and in 1902 began his formal training at the Art Students’ League in New York. There he studied under Frank Vincent DuMond and two years later received a scholarship from what would become the Woodstock Artists Association. There he was tutored [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Carlin, 1813 to 1891
John Carlin, a portrait, genre, and landscape painter, was also a miniaturist and writer who was born a deaf mute in Philadelphia. He studied under John Neagle in this country and Delaroche in Paris. He settled in New York City where he lived for 50 years, exhibiting at the National Academy and the American Art Union.
Gaetano Capone (1864 to 1920)
Born in Majori (near Salerno), Gaetano Capone studied at the Academy of Naples and in Rome. Capone arrived in New Orleans during the winter of 1918 to 1919 and painted a series of Vieux Carre courtyard scenes. In October of 1919, he returned briefly to make additional studies, complete portrait commissions and exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum. Reference: John Mahe, Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 1718 to 1918, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Campeche or Campeachy Chairs
In this country Campeche chairs are associated with New Orleans and the West Indies in general. The chairs feature an X-form leg and stretcher, one leg of which extends up to form a curved stile for the back, the other forming the seat rail, between these extensions is attach a leather ‘sling’ – often goatskin – which forms the seat and back – the equivalent of a contemporary lounge chair.
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Calotype
The Calotype is a photograph made from a paper negative, The original process for making paper negatives in the camera was patented by the Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841.
The basic process employed any stout paper brushed over with a solution of silver iodide and potassium iodide and allowed to dry. Before use, the paper was treated with a solution consisting of silver nitrate, acetic acid and gallic acid crystals. The [...] Click here to continue reading.
Alexander Stirling Calder (1870 – 1945)
Alexander Stirling Calder, born January 11 1870 in Philadelphia, was an American sculptor. Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture program on the Philadelphia City Hall and in 1886 is reported to have modeled the arm of one of the figures.
In 1885 at [...] Click here to continue reading.
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