Internet Antique Gazette

Alexis Comperet (Alexis Compera, American 1856 to 1906)

Alexis Comperet, also known as Alexis Compera, was a Denver painter, born in South Bend, Indiana. then moved to Colorado. Around 1874 he traveled to Paris. In 1879 he spent a brief time in New Mexico and did several works of the Grand Canyon, returning to Denver to teach for a short period at the Colorado Academy of Design He moved to San Diego in 1906 [...] Click here to continue reading.

Athos Menaboni (Italian/American, Georgia, 1895 to 1990),

Born in Livorno, Italy, Menaboni arrived in New York City in 1920, eventually settling in Atlanta, Georgia. While living and working in Georgia, Menoboni achieved popular and critical acclaim for his murals and illustrations. Influenced by the great naturalist, John James Audubon, Athos Menaboni began a series of paintings of American birds in their native settings during the 1930s.

With his wife he lived on a five- [...] Click here to continue reading.

William Wendt (American/California, 1865 to 1946)

Referred to as “the Dean of California Artists,” William Wendt’s paintings epitomize the plein-air style for which California Impressionists are so revered. His best known works demonstrate the feathery brushstrokes and attention to light that are considered the hallmark of a great Impressionist painting. These pivotal canvases from the height of Wendt’s career are the very definition of a California Impressionist landscape in the minds of most art [...] Click here to continue reading.

Bernard Buffet (French, 1928 to 1999)

Born in Paris, in 1928, Bernard Buffet was one of the most celebrated painters in 20th-century France. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1944, where he studied art for two years. After his brief education, Buffet worked mostly on his own producing paintings, lithographs, etchings, and sculptures many of which addressed the turmoil of the post-war period. His works are often somber, done in grays and [...] Click here to continue reading.

Gordon Coutts (American, 1868 to 1937)

A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Gordon Coutts was an enormously versatile painter who specialized in Impressionist and Tonalist styles and diverse subjects ranging from California landscapes and Indian genre scenes to boudoir nudes and portraits of North Africans. He received classical art training in London and at the Academie Julian in Paris before teaching from 1896 to 1899 at the Art Society of New South Wales in [...] Click here to continue reading.