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Kaioke – Japanese Shell Game The shell game kaioke or “hokkai” was played with 360 double-valved shells (kai), half of the shells enclosed a poem, the other half a drawing which corresponded to it; the shells were distributed one by one and the goal was to match the poem with the drawing; whoever was left with an ‘orphan’ lost the game. Information courtesy of Sotheby’s October, 2007. Yue Minjun (Chinese, born 1962) Yue Minjun is now well recognized as one of the representative artists of his generation. Born in the province of Heilongjiang, he studied in the oil painting department of Hebei Normal University in 1985. His art consists of versions of himself, smiling broadly into the gaping maw of contemporary society. Two rows of small, perfectly formed white teeth opening into the black abyss of his mouth, a broad pinkish [...] Click here to continue reading. Kalo Shop The Arts & Crafts metalcrafter Kalo Shop was in operation form 1900 to 1970 and was a significant producer of 20th-century hand-wrought silver. It was started by Clara P. Barck and five other women in Park Ridge, Illinois. The company moved to Chicago in 1914. Though they tried, unsuccessfully, to open a retail store in New York, they never retailed their wares in department stores, instead selling directly to the consumers. The [...] Click here to continue reading. Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824 to 1887) Alfred-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse began his artistic training at a young age, first with an engraver and then a goldsmith, before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1840. Finding himself more attracted to the decorative arts, he began working with ceramics at the Minton factory and with metalwork for English companies such as Wedgwood and William Brownfield & Sons. After his debut at the salon in 1850 with two [...] Click here to continue reading. Ferdinando Tacca (Italian, 1619 to 1686) Ferdinando Tacca was both pupil and assistant to his father, Pietro Tacca, until his death in 1640, and succeeded him as the primary sculptor to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, taking over Giambologna’s former foundry and studio in the Borgo Pinti. He completed two of his father’s commissions, the statue of Ferdinando I de Medici for the Cappella de Principi, San Lorenzo, Florence and the equestrian statue of [...] Click here to continue reading. Kurz & Allison Publishers The firm of Kurz & Allison was founded in Chicago in 1880 when Austrian born Louis Kurz partnered with Alexander Allison. Kurz had previously established the Chicago Lithographing Company shortly after 1852. Thirty six chromolithographs of dramatic and emotionally charged Civil War battles were produced by Kurz & Allison from 1880 to 1903. Information courtesy of Garth’s Auctions, November 2007 Paul Desire Trouillebert (French, 1829 to 1900) Following a standard academy training, Trouillebert began exhibiting in 1865 in the Paris Salon, where his painting of a “Bather” received much attention in 1882. Rather than pursuing what had promised to be a successful personal style, however, he increasingly (as in this painting) turned to the production of masterfully rendered variations on the late works of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 to 1875). One such canvas was eventually [...] Click here to continue reading. Ellis Wilson (1899 to 1977) In 1952, African-American artist Ellis Wilson used his prize money for winning second place at the national Terry Art Exhibition in Miami to travel to Haiti. There he found the Haitian community to be a source of inspiration and produced a colorful series of paintings. Wilson’s “Impressions of Haiti” exhibition at the New York Contemporary Arts Gallery opened in 1954 to critical acclaim. The exhibition was praised for its [...] Click here to continue reading. William Acheff (born 1947) Born in Alaska in 1947, William Acheff moved with his family to San Francisco when he was age five. He lived in the Bay Area for twenty years and began painting in 1969 when, working as a barber, he came in contact with Roberto Lupetti, an Italian artist who gave him art lessons, assisted him in marketing his work with galleries. At first he worked from photographs but changed his [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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