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Theobald Chartran (French, 1849 to 1907)
Chartran was a classical academic painter who began his artistic career by creating caricatures of his fellow students at the Lycee Victor Hugo. He studied with Alexander Cabanel (French, 1823-1889) and attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1877 Chartran was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome. His earliest works were epic historicizing scenes and he soon received commissions for French Government buildings including, most [...] Click here to continue reading.
Raymond Yard – American Jeweler (1885 to 1964)
Raymond Yard began his career in fine jewels at the age of thirteen as a door boy at Marcus & Co. In 1922 he opened his own shop at 522 Fifth Avenue where his first commission was a Rockefeller wedding. His business was an instant and continued success, and discretion was his hallmark. Even with little to no advertising and making clients wait to obtain the [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Hosmer Perkins Wise (1845 to 1901)
James Hosmer Perkins Wise was born on February 5, 1845 in New Hampshire, where his father was a lawyer. Wise served as a member of the medical corps attached to the 18th New York Cavalry, stationed in both Texas and later South Louisiana. At the time Wise was married to his first wife, Mary Comerford of New York City. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Wise [...] Click here to continue reading.
Igor Tulipanov (Russian, born 1939)
The contemporary surrealist artist Tupilanov was born in St. Petersburg. He began his training at the Polytechnical Institute,where his artistic talent was soon realized and he was thus transferred to the Nikolai Akimov Institute. Tupilanov worked initially as a stage designer and gradually moved into painting. In 1980 he moved to New York,and shortly thereafter held his first major exhibition in San Francisco. Tupilanov was influenced by Bosch and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ben Nicholson (British, 1894 to 1982)
Ben Nicholson was born in 1894, the first son of his artisan mother Mabel Pryde and Sir William Nicholson. Nicholson studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London for about a year in 1910, and traveled for years thereafter. In the 1920s, Nicholson went to Paris where he experienced modern art for the first time, specifically that of Pablo Picasso. Most celebrated for his unique style [...] Click here to continue reading.
Rodolfo Morales (Mexican, 1925 to 2001)
Oaxacan artist, Rodolfo Morales, painted primitive dream-like compositions depicting Mexican peasant life. He used rich, warm colors and surrealist images to create magical scenes that erased the tedium of daily life. He frequently featured women, to display his deep respect for them and his appreciation of their hard work. Along with Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo, Morales is responsible for the cultural and artistic growth of Oaxaca and [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Keith (American, 1838 to 1911)
One of California’s most successful and prolific painters of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, William Keith found in Mt. Shasta a subject of enduring inspiration. He traveled to the area on numerous sketching trips, sometimes in the company of his great friend and fellow naturalist, John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. Both men were natives of Scotland who met in the Yosemite Valley in 1872 and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese/American, born 1948)
Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto left Japan for Los Angeles in 1970. There he became inspired by the universal facets of Minimalist painting and sculpture which came to dominate his work. His photographs have explored the aesthetic and conceptual boundaries of photography for more than thirty years. Through the use of a large-format camera and extremely long exposures, Sugimoto explores his themes through a rigorous use of continuality. Sugimoto captures [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mel Ramos (American, born 1935)
Born in Sacramento, California in 1935, Ramos has achieved much success and is one of the leading exponents of American Pop Art. His works are adventurous with a sense of humor, while revealing great technical skill and creative innovation. Along with fellow artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, Ramos created art which exploited and celebrated aspects of popular culture as represented in mass [...] Click here to continue reading.
Archibald Kay (British, 1860 to 1935)
Kay studied at the Glasgow School of Art with Robert Greenlees (English, 1820 to 1894) and in Paris with Gustave Boulanger (French, 1824 to 1888), Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (French, 1836-1911), and Benjamin Constant (French, 1845 to 1902). He taught art at various schools across Glasgow. Even though Kay spent most of his life in the city, he was almost exclusively a landscapist, preferring to sketch and paint directly from [...] Click here to continue reading.
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