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Alexander Phimister Proctor (American, 1862 to 1950) Of his life Proctor wrote, “I was born during the frontier period of the United States and grew up in Colorado in the best of it. It colored my life and influenced me greatly. I would not change my life for any other, but my love has always been divided. I am eternally obsessed with two deep desires – one, to spend as much time as possible [...] Click here to continue reading. Vic Payne (American, born 1960) A realist sculptor of Old West themes, Vic Payne was born in Dallas and raised on a ranch in New Mexico. He attributes his career path to two primary influences: his father, the western artist Ken Payne, and his early exposure to cowboy life. Payne’s successful experimentation with sculpting at age nineteen prompted him to move three years later to Cloudcroft, New Mexico, where his mother, a foundry owner, [...] Click here to continue reading. Pat Lipsky (American, born 1941) Pat Lipsky grew up in New York City. She graduated with a BFA from Cornell University in 1963, receiving an MFA from the Graduate Program in Painting at Manhattan’s Hunter College, where she studied with the painter and sculptor Tony Smith. Raised by a painter mother and an engineer father 1, Lipsky had her first one-woman show in New York, at the Andre Emmerich Gallery2. Her work at the [...] Click here to continue reading. Carol Miller (American, born 1933) Carol Miller has been producing her trademark sculptures in bronze for over 40 years. Moving to Mexico from her native Los Angeles in the early 1950′s, she enjoyed a career as a journalist when an interview with the late Mexican sculptress Charlotte Yazbek for Life magazine changed her life. At Yazbek’s encouragement, Miller launched herself into the sculpting world (with the use of Yazbek’s own tools) and has enjoyed [...] Click here to continue reading. Hermon Atkins MacNeil (American, 1866 to 1947) Hermon Atkins MacNeil was born in Massachusetts and educated at the Normal Art School in Boston. His studies in Paris and Rome brought him recognition in both European and American exhibitions, including the Paris Salons, the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the 1915 Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, MacNeil taught and worked in Chicago where he began depicting his best known subjects, Native Americans, inspired [...] Click here to continue reading. Niels Walseth (Danish, 1914 to 2001) Niels Walseth was born on August 12, 1914 in Kolding, Denmark. He was partly educated at the Techn. school and also took lessons from the painter Jacob Meyer. He made several study tours to mountainous European countries including Austria, Germany (especially southern parts such as Bavaria), Switzerland, and Sweden. Walseth was a typical exterior painter in the traditional Scandinavian fashion. He was inspired by the famous Peder Monsted [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Salmon (Scottish, American, 1775 to circa 1851) Robert Salmon was an important early marine painter active in America before Fitz Hugh Lane. His seascapes depend upon European compositional formulas, but possess a refreshing intimacy and immediacy. He eventually returned to his native Scotland. Information courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries, June 2009. Stevan Dohanos (American, 1907 to 1994) Stevan Dohanos studied at the Cleveland School of Art, and later settled in Connecticut. He is best known for his extensive number of Saturday Evening Post covers. Between 1942 and 1958, he produced 123 covers for the magazine, all of which featured scenes of everyday life in the United States during and after World War II. Dohanos’s realistic style and quotidian themes have lead to comparisons to Norman [...] Click here to continue reading. John Frederick Peto (American, 1854 to 1907) John Peto, a talented Pennsylvania Academy-trained painter from Philadelphia whose artistic career sadly ended in disappointment and obscurity. However, thanks to the research of Alfred Frankenstein, the art historian who resurrected the oeuvre of Peto and disentangled it from that of William Michael Harnett, we now know that Peto did not stop painting once he decided to stop “playing the art game.” In 1889, after a [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles A. Watson (American, 1857 to 1923) Charles A. Watson was a landscape and marine painter who spent his artistic career in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His favorite subjects were the Chesapeake and Baltimore Bays at sunrise, sunset, or at moments when they were slightly obscured by fog or mist. His works have an unassuming tranquility, and possess a refreshing, straightforward quality, notably devoid of artificially picturesque devices. Watson’s marine views are frequently [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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