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Fred Harman Jr. (American, 1902 to 1982) Fred Harman was one of the five founders of the Cowboy Artists of America in 1965. Along with Joe Beeler, George Phippen, Johnny Hampton, and Charlie Dye, Harman helped shape the organization that would set the standard for contemporary art of the American West for decades to come. A rough draft of the organization’s guiding principles was developed by the founders in a bar in Sedona, Arizona. [...] Click here to continue reading. Jules Felix Coutan (French, 1848 to 1939) Known for his classically inspired allegorical works, Jules Felix Coutan had a long and successful career as a sculptor and teacher. He studied under Pierre-Jules Cavelier (1814 to 1894) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1871. He debuted in the Salon of 1876, where he won the gold medal. In 1881, Coutan’s proposed plans for a commemorative monument [...] Click here to continue reading. Kate Freeman Clark (American, 1875 to 1957) Kate Freeman Clark was the daughter of Vicksburg attorney and Cary Freeman Clark, a descendant of the politically prominent Walthall family of Holly Springs. After her father’s death in 1885, Kate and her mother lived in the Walthall family home, known as the “Freeman Place”. In 1891, Cary Freeman Clark enrolled her daughter in the Gardiner Institute, a finishing school for girls, in order to broaden Kate’s [...] Click here to continue reading. Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant (French, 1845 to 1902) Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant is most well known for his romantic visions of the Orient. His loose brushwork and rich palette, as seen in the above, show influence of Eugene Delacroix (1798 to 1863). Constant traveled to Morocco in 1872 with French ambassador and painter, Georges Clarin (1843 to 1919). Throughout his travels he acquired many Islamic artifacts, carpets, and garments which became props in the Orientalist paintings [...] Click here to continue reading. Annie Hurlburt Jackson (American, 1877 to 1960) Annie Hurlburt Jackson was a talented miniaturist based in Minneapolis. She trained with a variety of painters–most of them landscape specialists–including Eric Pape, Charles Woodbury, John F. Murphy, Charles Hawthorne, and Eliot O’Hara, and exhibited regularly with the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, earning a medal there in 1925. Her work was awarded a gold medal at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926; a prize in [...] Click here to continue reading. John Philip Falter (American 1910 to 1982) A classic realist, John Falter created unforgettable scenes of pure Americana, often showcased in his covers for the Saturday Evening Post, or his illustrations for books published by Reader’s Digest and Macmillan Books. He left behind a rich legacy of art at his passing in 1982. A true perfectionist, when Falter was asked to look back over his career he remarked that he never painted a painting [...] Click here to continue reading. George Sloane (American, 1864 to 1942) George Sloane was born in Salem, Massachusetts and trained initially at the Boston Museum School, where he met his future wife, the landscape painter Marion Parkhurst (1875 to 1955). He was strongly influenced by the exquisite cabinet paintings of Bavarian-born artist, Ignatz Marcel Gaugengigl, who achieved great fame in Boston during the last quarter of the nineteenth century when he became known as “The American Meisonnier.” Indeed, Gaugengigl [...] Click here to continue reading. Peter Gerardus Van Os (Dutch, 1776 to 1839) Peter Gerardus Van Os was a member of an influential Dutch family of still life painters that included father Jan (1744 to 1808), brother Georgius (1782 to 1861), sister Maria (1780-1862) and son Pieter (1808 to 1892). His mother was the portrait painter Susanna de la Croix, daughter of French painter Pierre Federic de la Croix. Van Os received his early artistic training in his father’s [...] Click here to continue reading. Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (American, 1878 to 1939) Anna Coleman Watts Ladd was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, She studied in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Charles Grafly and in France with Auguste Rodin. She actively exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic, garnering recognition for her portrait busts, relief panels and soldiers monuments. In France during World War I, she made life masks of the disfigured soldiers she [...] Click here to continue reading. Friedrich Ludwig Hofelich (German, 1842 to 1903) Hofelich was born in 1842 in Leipzig, Germany. In 1860 he went to Petersburg to learn the art of the Xylograph, in which his brother was also trained. He lived modestly and was known for his library of books, which he used to further educate himself. He was also known to have studied music and languages. In 1865, Hofelich traveled to Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig to study [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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