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Delbert Dana Coombs (American, 1850 to 1938)
Delbert Dana Coombs was born in Lisbon Falls, Maine, on July 26, 1850. Although primarily self-taught, Coombs took painting lessons from Scott Leighton, an animal painter, and studied landscape painting with Harrison Bird Brown. Coombs painted actively for over fifty years.
His subjects included portraits, landscapes, and cattle. He painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire on many occasions, particularly favoring the Jackson area. A typical [...] Click here to continue reading.
Konstantin Korovin (Russian, 1861 to 1939)
Born in Moscow to a family of artists, Konstantin Korovin is as well known for his theatrical designs as he is for his paintings. He entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture at the age of 14 where he was classically trained as a painter. In his early thirties, Korovin became associated with the Neo-Romanticism group Mir iskusstva. Similar in manifesto to the English Pre-Raphaelites, the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sam Gilliam (American, born 1933)
Abstract Expressionist painter, Sam Gilliam, is best known for his color field images that manipulate both color and space. His bold colors work against the unprimed, unstretched canvases which serve as both a conforming geometric structure and deconstructed space. Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and grew up in Kentucky. In 1962, he moved to Washington D.C. and joined the second generation of the Washington Color School (following Morris [...] Click here to continue reading.
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880 to 1980)
Born in Philadelphia in 1880, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth was one of the most esteemed and ground breaking female sculptors of her time. In her youth, she lived and studied in Switzerland, France, and Germany. At the age of 19, at which time she moved to Paris and briefly studied with Auguste Rodin. Following her return to the United States, Frishmuth attended the Art Students League of New [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Ball (American, 1819 to 1911)
Thomas Ball, born in Massachusetts the son of a house and sign painter, worked at Moses Kimball’s Boston Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, where he also cut silhouettes. Beginning in 1837, he progressed to miniature, and then life-sized, portraits. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the American Art Union, and the Apollo Art Association. Beginning about 1851, however, Ball focused on sculpture, his most famous being [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Ball (American, 1819 to 1911)
Thomas Ball, born in Massachusetts the son of a house and sign painter, worked at Moses Kimball’s Boston Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, where he also cut silhouettes. Beginning in 1837, he progressed to miniature, and then life-sized, portraits. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the American Art Union, and the Apollo Art Association. Beginning about 1851, however, Ball focused on sculpture, his most famous being [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Ball (American, 1819 to 1911)
Thomas Ball, born in Massachusetts the son of a house and sign painter, worked at Moses Kimball’s Boston Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, where he also cut silhouettes. Beginning in 1837, he progressed to miniature, and then life-sized, portraits. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the American Art Union, and the Apollo Art Association. Beginning about 1851, however, Ball focused on sculpture, his most famous being [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Ball (American, 1819 to 1911)
Thomas Ball, born in Massachusetts the son of a house and sign painter, worked at Moses Kimball’s Boston Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, where he also cut silhouettes. Beginning in 1837, he progressed to miniature, and then life-sized, portraits. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the American Art Union, and the Apollo Art Association. Beginning about 1851, however, Ball focused on sculpture, his most famous being [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Ball (American, 1819 to 1911)
Thomas Ball, born in Massachusetts the son of a house and sign painter, worked at Moses Kimball’s Boston Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, where he also cut silhouettes. Beginning in 1837, he progressed to miniature, and then life-sized, portraits. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the American Art Union, and the Apollo Art Association. Beginning about 1851, however, Ball focused on sculpture, his most famous being [...] Click here to continue reading.
Lucien Levy-Dhurmer (French, 1865 to 1953)
Lucien Levy-Dhurmer was a painter and potter. From 1879 he studied at the Ecole Superieure de Dessin et de Sculpture in Paris. In his first exhibition at the Salon in 1882 he showed a small porcelain plaque depicting the Birth of Venus in the style of Alexandre Cabanel, and he continued to exhibit there regularly. From 1886 to 1895 he worked as a decorator of earthenware and then [...] Click here to continue reading.
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