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Lynda Benglis (American/Louisiana, born 1941) Louisiana native and Newcomb College graduate, Lynda Benglis burst onto the New York expressionist scene in the late 1960′s and 1970′s, marking poignant points in her career with shocking organic pieces representative of her contemporary focus.Information courtesy of New Orleans Auctions, May 2006. Hilla Anna Rebay (American, 1890 to 1967) Grace Glueck wrote “She was an accomplished painter, a friend of great artists and a woman of strong, sometimes dogmatic views who more or less invented the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, the early version of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Yet today the German-born Hilla von Rebay is little recognized, except to art worldlings with very long memories. When she is recalled, it is as the art [...] Click here to continue reading. W. Allan Manford, Canadian Art Collector A number of paintings in the Sotheby’s Canadian Art Sale on June 2, 2010 are from the collection of W. Allan Manford, a Toronto art collector. His remarkable taste, insistence on quality, and determination to uncover major works reflected a passion for Canadian art that contributed to what might have been the finest private collection of paintings by the Group of Seven and their contemporaries in the country. [...] Click here to continue reading. Florida Highwaymen Painters The Florida Highwaymen were and are a group of African-American painters working St. Pierce, Florida. Influenced by Albert E. Backus, the “Highwaymen” included among others, James Gibson, Harold Newton, and Alfred Hair. The group would travel from town to town painting and selling their works directly from the trunks of their cars. Their vibrant Floridian landscapes highlighted the colors and life of the region. Information courtesy of Skinner Inc., September 2007. [...] Click here to continue reading. Walters Family & Walters Art Museum Collection William Walters (1819 to 1894) left his home town in central Pennsylvania to establish a Baltimore grain trading firm which ultimately developed into one of the country’s most important wholesale liquor houses. Divided in his loyalties when the Civil War began, Walters took his wife and children, Henry (1848 to 1931) and Jennie (1853 to 1922), to Paris. There he pursued his passion for commissioning art and [...] Click here to continue reading. Boucheron – French Jewelers Maison Boucheron (est. 1853) grew in a relatively short period from a small workshop in the Rue Royale to a prestigious firm enjoying royal patronage and occupying a mansion on the Place Vendome. Henri Vever said that from early on, Frederic Boucheron was daring, and, with the finest materials, created jewels which “very few of his colleagues would have dared to make at the time … Yet despite their high [...] Click here to continue reading. George Paulding Farnham (American, 1859 to 1927), Tiffany Designer George Paulding Farnham studied in the studio of Tiffany’s chief designer, Edward C. Moore, and in 1885 became his assistant. His skill as a designer and sculptor was recognized by Moore and Charles Lewis Tiffany. At the age of 27 he was selected to create the Tiffany jewelry collection that would be sent to Paris for the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Farnham and Tiffany recieved [...] Click here to continue reading. Mildred G. Watkins (American, Ohio, 1883 to 1968) Mildred Watkins was one of the first of a generation of Ohio-based artists who, in turning their attention to the medium, elevated enameling to unprecedented levels of beauty and inventiveness. She started as a painter who sort of “fell into” enameling. She studied portraiture at the Cleveland School of Art, but was not fond of laboring over her paintings, saying that “anything she did after the [...] Click here to continue reading. John Edward Costigan (American, 1888 to 1972) John Edward Costigan was a largely self taught artist, working adeptly as a painter and printmaker in various media. He exhibited in over forty shows at the National Academy of Design between 1920 and 1950. He also received critical acclaim in his lifetime-he was named a National Academician in 1928, and was the subject of a traveling retrospective by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1968. Unlike [...] Click here to continue reading. The Oriel Cabinet Company The Oriel Cabinet Co. was founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1880 and consolidated operations with Berkey & Gay in 1912. It grew out of a business conducted for a number of years previous to 1880 by Wheeler, Green & Gay. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, June 2008. |
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