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Erl Augustus Caesar Bates (1889-1973)
Erl Bates was a professor and director of Indian Extension in New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. As a graduate of Cornell University’s class of 1910, Bates realized that Americans Indians of the Iroquois Confederacy received an inferior education. As an attempt to remedy this situation, he and Alfred R. Munn, dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell, began teaching agricultural and homemaking practices to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jugendstil Movement
In the late 19th century there was an artistic Renaissance in southern Germany, led by the artists and designers of the Jugendstil movement in the area around Munich. While Jugendstil artists like Arnold Bocklin are often thrown in with the French Art Nouveau artists of the same period, their art was stylistically original and focused on Germanic themes and mythology.
The term “Jugendstil” originated in 1896, when it was published in the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Champleve – Definition
A technique of decorating metal in which areas that have been hollowed out, as by incising, are filled with colored enamel and fired.
Champleve is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel. The piece is then fired until the enamel melts, and when cooled the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Andrew Curtain Davis (1853-1915)
Andrew Davis grew up and remained in Bedford, Pennsylvania throughout his life. Although his primary occupation was as a barber, he painted and exhibited locally during his free time. He also carved and gilded his own frames. Among his other talents were comic illustration, in which he also dabbled but to which he was not devoted.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., October 2006.
Allen Tucker (1866-1939)
Allen Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and worked as both an architect and a painter, eventually painting full time by 1904. He was known to have been heavily influenced by Vincent Van Gogh, prompting his contemporaries to refer to him as “Vincent in America”. His style evolved to encompass several modernist movements, and he was an influential figure in bringing abstract art to America.
Tucker was a member of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Stella Teller-Native American Potter – Isleta
Besides having been featured in numerous publications and having her work as part of many prominent collections, Stella Teller has also been an award winner for her ceramics since 1978 including her latest accolade, 2nd place at Indian Market, Santa Fe in 1998.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Bror Anders Wikstrom (Swedish, 1840 to 1909; active New Orleans 1883 to 1909)
The Swedish born Wikstrom was a painter, etcher, designer, illustrator and art teacher. Wikstrom trained at the Stockholm Royal Academy of Fine Arts and later studied at the Academie Julian, Paris. He first came to New Orleans as an illustrator in 1881 and returned here at the time of the 1884-1885 World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition. Known for his marine and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Childe Hassam became one of America’s most noted Impressionist painters, but he never labeled himself in that way, asserting he was more interested in the emotional content of his paintings than the technique of applying color. He also completed over 350 etchings and drypoints and about 45 lithographs, most of them after he was 56 years old. Watercolor was another specialty, and Hassam was one [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles C. Gruppe (born 1928)
Charles C. Gruppe came from a respected family of East Coast artists. His grandfather, Charles Paul Gruppe (1860-1940), studied and painted in Europe until moving to Rochester, New York. His uncles, sculptor Karl (1893-1982) and painter Emile (1896-1978) were successful and widely recognized for their work. Charles’s, father, Paulo Gruppe, was a gifted cellist. Charles Gruppe studied at Yale University and at Columbia, as well as at the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Peter Gunnarson Rambo (1612-1698)
Peter Rambo, founder of the Rambo family of Philadelphia, left Sweden at the age of twenty-seven as a laborer for the New World Trading Company, setting sail on the “Kalmar Nyckel” for the colony of New Sweden (Delaware). Gunnarson chose Rambo as his surname in remembrance of his birthplace, Gothenburg, which is dominated by Ramberget or Raven’s Mountain, overlooking Gothenburg’s harbor. He arrived in 1640 and after serving his indenture, [...] Click here to continue reading.
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