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Oscar Bruno Bach Born in Germany in 1884 and emigrated to the United States in 1913, Oscar Bruno Bach was a metallurgist and designer who, after many years of research, developed his own process enabling ferrous metals to sustain color and resist corrosion when used on building exteriors. Before the early 20th century, the use of mixed metals had been restricted to small works such as jewelry. Extraordinary skill and new techniques were required [...] Click here to continue reading. Autochromes The autochrome was the world’s first practical color photography process, invented in 1904 by the brothers August (1862 to 1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864 to 1948). Their father ran a successful photographic business in Lyon, France and the pair began working with him in the early 1870′s. In 1882 they started their own business making and selling dry plates using a process that Louis had invented and by the early 1890′s they had [...] Click here to continue reading. Ben Austrian (1870-1921) Born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1870, Ben Austrian left school at fifteen to work in his father’s shop. To promote his father’s drygoods store, Austrian gave every client who placed an order an original painting. A self-taught artist, he struggled to escape the family business and “make a success in my art or die in the attempt.” His mother supported his vocation, allowing him to sell the business and in other [...] Click here to continue reading. Lee Atkyns Also known as Willie Lee Atkyns Jr. (America, 1913 to 1987), Atkyns influenced many aspiring painters in central Pennsylvania and the Washington, D.C. area and studied under the muralist Auriel Bessemer. After his early artistic success with a 1941 show at New York’s #10 Gallery, Atkyns worked for the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. He left that position in 1945 to devote his time to teaching art in schools he established [...] Click here to continue reading. Clyde Aspevig A late 20th century plein-air landscape painter of enormous versatility and vision, Clyde Aspevig paints sublime impressionistic vistas of western wilderness; clouds, sky, and shimmering peaks, wild, flowing rivers and huge rock faces half-eclipsed by shadow. Born in northern Montana thirty miles south of the Canadian border his world was shaped by the land. He recounts that growing up in the shadow of five mountain ranges gave him “a sense of enormous [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Ashbrook (1867-1949) This artist was born Paul Eschenbach in New York and studied under William Merritt Chase. He took the job of head designer at the Henderson Lithographing Company in Cincinnati. While in Cincinnati, he studied with Frank Duveneck, and from 1914-1919, he taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He also served as president of the Cincinnati Art Club. In 1917, he changed his name to Paul Ashbrook. Henry Ary (American, 1807 to 1859). Henry Ary was a key figure in the development of Hudson River landscape painting. Born near Providence, Rhode Island, by 1831 Ary was painting portraits in Albany, New York. Three years later Ary moved to Catskill, New York, where he was encouraged by Thomas Cole to paint landscapes. By 1845 Ary was living in Hudson, New York, and had begun to exhibit his landscapes at the National [...] Click here to continue reading. Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921 to 2006) In the years immediately following World War II, there was an explosion of fresh artistic talent in Europe, as well as in the United States. Jean Dubuffet, Asger Jorn, Antonio Tapies and Francis Bacon, to name only a few of the most prominent of these artists, consciously sought to alter the face of European art by finding new artistic syntheses among the still-swirling currents of cubism, surrealism, [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles P. Appel (1857-1928) Charles Appel was born in Brooklyn and attended the New York School of Art, studying under Francis Luis Mora and William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art, and with Frank Vincent DuMond at The Art Students League, but the major influence in his artistic career was luminist painter George Innes. He spent most of his life in East Orange, New Jersey and remained active in New York [...] Click here to continue reading. John Antrobus (1837 to 1907) John Antrobus, born in Warwickshire, England, immigrated to the United States in 1850 and settled in Philadelphia. Within three years he had relocated to Savannah, Georgia, and then he moved to Montgomery, Alabama. During this time he also traveled throughout the American West and Mexico. By 1860, he had opened a studio in New Orleans. There he planned a series of 12 large paintings of plantation life. He [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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