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Carol Anthony Born in 1943 in New York City, Carol Anthony studied at the BFA Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island where she received a BFA in 1966. Anthony works primarily in craypas on gessoed masonite, rubbing and blending the colors with her fingers, images are drafted layer by layer to create an unearthly light and dreamlike quality. Carol Anthony’s paintings are the means through which she conveys her internal visions. [...] Click here to continue reading. Andy Warhol (American, 1928 to 1987) Andy Warhol, a son of an immigrant coal miner and arguably the most influential visual historian of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 where he became a successful illustrator, painter, film-maker, and author and kept the company of socialites and street people alike. In a meaningful departure from Expressionism, Warhol embraced popular culture and [...] Click here to continue reading. Ezra Ames Ezra Ames (1768 to 1836) born in Framingham, Massachusetts, lived in Albany, New York from 1795 to the end of his life. A prolific painter, his subjects included Albany’s leaders and their families. American Furniture Styles, 1610 to 1900 – An Overview In the process of defining and describing the attributes of American furniture we find both time periods and styles being used to label particular pieces and whole groupings. Such labeling can lead to significant misunderstandings and can, to the new comer, be very confusing. Furniture periods provide us with just a time frame while styles provide us with the details of design. We must be [...] Click here to continue reading. Ambrotype Photograhic Images In 1851 the Englishman Frederick Scott Archer (1813 to 1857) invented the wet collodion process or ambrotype, as it is commonly known. Unlike the daguerreotype process that was expensive and time consuming, ambrotypes could be produced in a matter of seconds with great clarity and at a fraction of the price of daguerreotypes. Technical Development: The ambrotype process involved the use of a glass plate as a base medium that [...] Click here to continue reading. The Albany Foundry Co. Albany Foundry Company produced doorstops, hitching posts, and firebacks from 1897 to 1932 near Albany, New York. Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, Crimean, 1817 to 1900) Born in 1817 in the ancient Crimean town of Theodosia, young Ivan’s charcoal drawings drew the attention of the town mayor who helped the young man enroll in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts where he would win the gold medal. Heavily influenced by the work of Karl Briullov, Aivazovsky’s works took on a romantic flair, a style that he incorporated with his love of the [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Adolph (circa 1815-?) Charles Adolph migrated from Alsace, France, in 1843 with his brother George; the pair settled in Williamsburg, Wayne County, Indiana. He is listed in Green Township in the 1850 census. He moved to Henry County, Indiana, in the late 1850s and then to Osage County, Kansas, in 1870. A domed temple in the corner block is typical of Adolph’s work. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Edmund Adler (Austrian, 1876 to 1965) Initially trained as a lithographer, Edmund Adler later attended the Vienna Academy where he received the Kenyon Traveling Scholarship in 1903. During World War I (1914 to 1918), he was a prisoner of war in Siberia. Subsequently, he exhibited with both Austrian and Russian artists, and his genre paintings became quite popular in Vienna, Dresden, and Brunn. His realistic portrayals of peasant children are amongst the most highly [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Partridge Addams (1912 to 1988) To many peoples’ surprise, Addams’ mother did not give birth to him in a dilapidated house along a deserted highway. Nor did he have a pet alligator that was a scourge to the neighborhood’s poodles. In fact, he grew up in the almost generic suburban community of Westfield, New Jersey. He yearningly scribbled pictures of the more exciting realm of knights and their castles. He was known however, [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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