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“The Eight” – Ashcan School
The Ashcan School was a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early 20th century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York’s poorer neighborhoods. In 1908, the Macbeth Gallery in New York mounted an independent exhibition of artists who became known as “The Eight,” consisting of Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, John [...] Click here to continue reading.
Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin (Russian, American, 1881 to 1955)
Nicolai Fechin was born in 1881 in the city of Kazan near the Volga River to a craftsman who gave his son his earliest instruction in drawing and sculpting. At fourteen, he enrolled at the Art School of Kazan, then studied at the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg, from which he eventually graduated in 1908. In just a few years, the young artist attained international success, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Catharine Carter Critcher (American, 1868 to 1964)
Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1868, Catharine Critcher received her formal training at New York’s Cooper Union School as well as the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. By 1900 she began a successful career painting society portraits of elite Virginians. Like many artist’s of her generation, Critcher eventually traveled to Paris to attend courses at the Academie Julian in 1904. While in Paris, Critcher [...] Click here to continue reading.
Chana Orloff (Russian, Israeli, French, 1878 to 1968)
Chana Orloff, a figurative sculptor, was a member of the Ecole de Paris. She was a portraitist of the Parisian elite, including Modigliani and Auguste Perret. While she settled in Paris, she always maintained a link with artists in Israel. Early in her career Orloff sculpted a portrait of David Ben-Gurion; she also received and executed numerous commissions in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. She died in Tel [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mathurin Moreau (French, 1822 to 1912)
Mathurin Moreau attended the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris in 1841 and exhibited at the Salon in 1844. A prominent sculptor of the female form in the classical style, he was made a member of the Legion de Honneur as a chevalier in 1885.
Information courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries, October 2007.
Antonin-Marie Moine (French, 1796 to 1849)
Sculptor Antonin-Marie Moine, was born in St. Etienne on June 30, 1796. He studied painting in Lyon before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1817, where he was a student of Girodet and later – his greatest mentor – the renowned Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835). His first showing at the Salon was in 1831, where he exhibited regularly thereafter.
iAmong his better-known works are a bust [...] Click here to continue reading.
Theodore Waddell (American, born 1941)
Both Montana rancher and artist, Theodore Waddell depicts the land and animals that he sees and works with on a daily basis. His work is striking evidence that the Art of the American West has evolved to include a very wide range of subjects, styles, and techniques. Waddell is a third generation Montanan who trained in the art academies far from his family roots only to return to first [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles H. Chapin (American, 1830 to 1889, active New Orleans 1882-85),
Charles H. Chapin arrived in New Orleans from New York City in the winter of 1882, and advertised as a painter of portraits and landscapes, and as a teacher. Chapin had earned critical acclaim for his portrait of Polish actress Helena Modjeska in her role as Mary Queens of Scott. While in New Orleans, he established a studio on Dryades Street and exhibited [...] Click here to continue reading.
Giovanni Maria delle Piane, called Mulinaretto (Italian, Genoa 1660 to 1745)
Giovanni Della Piane was one of the leading portraitists of the late Baroque in Italy, becoming court painter to the Farnese at their courts at Parma and Piacenza, and later to the Bourbons at Naples (no doubt due to the artist’s relationship with Elisabetta Farnese, the mother of Carlo VII of Naples, whom he had painted numerous times). He was trained in his [...] Click here to continue reading.
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (French, 1824 to 1886)
Monticelli attended the Ecole Municipale de Dessin in his native Marseille before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Paul Delaroche (French, 1797 to 1856). In the 1850s he befriended the famed Barbizon artist Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (Spanish/French, 1807 to 1876), and the two men made frequent plein air painting forays into the Fontainebleau Forest. During this time Monticelli developed [...] Click here to continue reading.
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