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Theodore Gerard (Belgian, 1829 to 1895) Gerard was an academically trained artist who excelled at scenes of rural Belgian life. His often idyllic depictions of peasants, farmers, and other country folk are imbued with his belief in the nobility of the common man. Gerard studied at the Academy of Gand and the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. A popular and successful painter [...] Click here to continue reading. George Ford Morris (American, 1873 to 1960) Well known as an American equestrian artist, George Ford Morris worked as a painter, sculptor, illustrator and lithographer. Although self-taught, he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1888 and later at the Academie Julien in Paris. He is best known for his illustrations of horses and equestrians. His work can be seen in the New York Historical Society, the International Museum of the Horse [...] Click here to continue reading. Pieter Van der Aa (1659-1733) Pieter Van der Aa was from Leiden, Holland and was a fine publisher and maker of maps and atlases including the notable 1714 ATLAS NOVEUA ET CURIEUX DE PLUS CELEBRES ITINERIES (A New Atlas and curious and celebrated itineries). His fine volumes included local views of the New World. In 1729, Van der Aa published his monumental works GALLERIE AGREEABLE DU MONDE which contained 2500 plates and maps, [...] Click here to continue reading. Rudolf Levy (German, 1875 to 1944) Levy was the scion of a prosperous Jewish merchant family. He originally enrolled in the Grand Ducal School for Decorative and Applied Arts in Baden in 1895 to study carpentry, but left that University in 1897 when he decided to pursue painting at the various, well-lauded private art schools in Munich. In Munich, Levy studied with Nicolas Gyzis, Heinrich Knirr (1862-1944), and the noted Symbolist painter Franz von [...] Click here to continue reading. John LaFarge (American, 1835 to 1910) La Farge moved from New York to Newport in the spring of 1859 to study painting with William Morris Hunt. He nonetheless frequently visited Glen Cove, Long Island, where his family had a large summer property that had been purchased by his father sometime before 1835. The impressive Glen Cove estate, extending over some fifty acres, could be accessed directly by boat from both Hempstead Harbor and Glen [...] Click here to continue reading. First Day Stamps The first day of issue is the day on which a postage stamp, postal card or stamped envelope is put on sale, within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority. Sometimes the issue is made from a temporary or permanent foreign or overseas office. There will usually be a first day of issue postmark, frequently a pictorial cancellation, indicating the city and date where the item was first issued, and [...] Click here to continue reading. Vitaphone Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 2,000 short subjects produced by Warner Brothers and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Many early talkies, such as The Jazz Singer (1927), used the Vitaphone process. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the so-called sound-on-disc processes. With improvements in competing sound-on-film processes, Vitaphone’s technical imperfections led to its retirement early in the sound era. (The name [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry W. Andrews Henry W. Andrews was born in New York State in 1829. By 1851 at the age of 22, he is noted as a merchant, living in the boarding house of Joseph Fuller, a carpenter in Auburn, NY. By 1867-68, the Cayuga, New York directory lists Andrews associated with the firm Andrews and Ball. He married Frances V. Chase, and by the 1870 census, Andrews, still listed as a merchant, had a [...] Click here to continue reading. Kataro Shirayamadani (1865-1948) – Rookwood Artist In 1887 Rookwood hired Japanese artist Kataro Shirayamadani after several unsuccessful attempts to retain a Japanese decorator. In May of that year Shirayamadani arrived from Boston, where he had been employed by Fujiyama, an import retail and decorating shop. Born in 1865 in Tokyo, Shirayamadani was a skilled porcelain painter whose talent proved most useful to Rookwood. Shirayamadani had been in Cincinnati in 1886 as a member [...] Click here to continue reading. David Stirling (1887-1971) David Stirling was born in 1887 in Corydon, Iowa, to a pioneering family, and his father was a newspaper publisher. He died in Longmont, Colorado, after a short illness in 1971 and was buried there in a family plot. There were 8 children in the family, of which he was the youngest, being 7 years younger than the next youngest son, and he was the first of the family to graduate [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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