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John Alexander Harrington Bird (1846-1936) John Alexander Harrington Bird was a British-born painter who moved to Montreal, Canada in 1875 and exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy. He moved back to London in 1885 and had five works exhibited at the Royal Academy. A number of prints were published after his work, including the popular The Queen’s Race Winners a series of thirteen racehorses with jockeys up. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Leon Bibel (1913 – 1995) Born in San Francisco in 1913, Leon Bibel trained at the California School of Fine Arts and under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936 Bibel moved from California to New York City to join the Works Project Administration (WPA) [...] Click here to continue reading. Dale Philip Bessire (1892-1974) Dale Bessire grew up in Indianapolis, and studied at the University of Chicago. His time in Brown County was divided between his orchard business and his art career. He became serious as a painter in the late 1920s, and was a founding member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926. He exhibited throughout the 1930s-50s at the Hoosier Salon; he also exhibited at the Chicago Gallery Association, Century [...] Click here to continue reading. Clifford Kennedy Berryman (1869-1949) Clifford Berryman was a self-taught cartoonist and illustrator. He began his life in Washington, D.C. in the U.S. Patent Office. In 1891, he began his cartooning career at the Washington Post, where remained until 1907. He spent the remainder of his career at the Washington Evening Star. He is best known for his 1902 cartoon in the Post depicting Teddy Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub. This cartoon would [...] Click here to continue reading. Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (1874-1953) A founder of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus was born in 1874 in St. Louis, Missouri and developed an interest in art through his family’s lithography business. In 1898, he traveled for the first time into New Mexico and Arizona. This visit began a tradition of spending the winter months in St. Louis and the summers in Taos. In 1912, he joined the founding members of the Taos [...] Click here to continue reading. Sandor Bernath (1892 – 1984) Sandor Bernath was known for his stylized watercolors of sailing ships. He was a student of Edward Hopper. Born in Hungary on December 30, 1892, Bernath immigrated in his youth to the United States, and by the early 1920s he had begun to establish himself within New York art circles. In January of 1922, he was given a one-man show at Mrs. Malcolm’s Gallery on East 64th Street. Although [...] Click here to continue reading. Aaron Berkman (1900-1991) Aaron Berkman was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1900 and began studying painting from an early age. Beginning in 1916 he attended the Connecticut League of Art Students for two years, following which he studied with Albertus E. Jones from 1919 to 1921 at the Hartford Art School. Berkman stated that he was influenced during this time by George Innes and John Singer Sargent and the old masters. Berkman received [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) Thomas Hart Benton was born April 15, 1889, in Neosho, Missouri. Named after his great-uncle, a prominent U. S. Senator, Thomas Hart Benton emerged from a political background with love for America and its back roads. As the son of a popular Missouri congressman, Benton traveled extensively with his father on the campaign trail. In 1907, he left Missouri to study at the Art Institute in Chicago and the Academie [...] Click here to continue reading. John Prentiss Benson (1865 to 1947) John Benson was a native of Salem, Massachusetts, the second son in a prominent Salem family. Both John and his brother Frank W. Benson took an early interest in artistic expression. Encouraged by the family to pursue architecture, John established his reputation by desigining homes, hospitals, schools and other public buildings. By the 1920s he put aside his drafting tools and turned to his true passion, art. In [...] Click here to continue reading. John Henry Belter (1804 to 1863) The American furniture industry was in a state of flux in the mid-19th century. Gone were the days when a single craftsman toiled in his shop taking raw wood, carving and turning the elements to produce a finished piece that he would then sell himself. The advent of the steam engine changed this industry, as it did for most others, forever. Furniture began to be made in stages: [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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