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Paul Swan (1883-1972) Born in Ashland, Illinois, Paul Swan was both a modern dancer and a prolific painter. He attended the Chicago Art Institute and was also hailed by Arthur Hammerstein as the “most beautiful man in the world”. As a portraitist, Swan’s illustrious sitters included Charles Lindbergh, Woodrow Wilson and Maurice Ravel. Late in his life he was the subject of two Andy Warhol documentary films. Swan’s most notable Southern commission was [...] Click here to continue reading. Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) Painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Jasper Johns has become one of America’s best-known post-Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists. His name is most associated with pictorial images of flags and numbers, Pop-Art subjects that he depicted in Minimalist style with emphasis on linearity, repetition, and symmetry. Johns completed his first flag painting in 1955, alphabet subjects in 1956, sculpture in 1958, and lithographs in 1960. Unlike Abstract Expressionism, these signature works seem [...] Click here to continue reading. Howard Baer (American, 1907 to 1986) Howard Baer was born in Finleyville, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Carnegie Institute, and exhibited at the PAFA and the Carnegie Institute. In New York, he did illustration work for the New Yorker, Esquire, and other magazines. During World War II, he produced pictures of the Army Medical Department in the India-Burma-China theater. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., February 2006 Albertus Del Orient Browere (1814-1887) Albertus Browere was a self-taught Hudson River artist who painted landscapes and genre scenes, as well as scenes inspired by the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. Born the son of sculptor Henry Isaac Browere, Albertus did briefly pursue sculpture before settling on painting as his favored medium. In 1834, he settled in Catskill, New York, where he earned money as a carriage and sign painter. He [...] Click here to continue reading. Meyer Straus (American, 1831 to 1905) Born in Bavaria in 1831, Straus emigrated to the United States in 1848. He lived in Ohio, then in St Louis, Missouri where he obtained s employment as a scene painter in the Old Pine Street Theater. In the years surrounding the Civil War, Strauss obtained work in Mobile, New Orleans, and other parts of the South. In 1875 Straus moved west to San Francisco where he painted [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Eberle (Indiana, born 1945) Robert Eberle is a native of Indianapolis, and a lifelong artist. Study at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis prepared him for a career in commercial art as well as his future in fine art. Eberle captures the airy, atmospheric quality of the Indiana landscape in his impressionistic works. Eberle’s subjects, from natural settings to busy city scenes, are equally mastered with his entrancing color and bold brushwork. Eberle [...] Click here to continue reading. James Otto Lewis (American, 1799 to 1858) James Otto Lewis was born in Michigan and began painting Native Americans in 1823. Between 1825 and 1828, the United States Indian Department commissioned him to attend treaty ceremonies. While at these ceremonies, Lewis rendered portraits and interviewed chiefs and subsequently published the first collection of native North American portraits, the North American Aboriginal Port-Folio. In 1835 the Aboriginal Portfolio was published in ten parts each containing [...] Click here to continue reading. Monteith – Definition A monteith is a large bowl with a scalloped rim so that six or eight wine glasses may be suspended by the foot, allowing the bowl of each to be chilled by the immersion in iced water before use. (The name, according to 17th-century diarist Anthony Wood, derives from the Scotsman “Monteith” who, at Oxford, during the reign of Charles II, adopted the affectation of wearing a cloak with a scalloped [...] Click here to continue reading. Leopold Lambert Leopold Lambert was born on October 8, 1854, in Jouques, a small village near Aix-en-Provence in France. He relocated to Paris in 1873, and started work as a clockmaker/jeweller. While working in Vichy’s shop, he began to be interested in automata, and by 1886, he had his own shop. Lambert had married Eugenie Maria Bourgeois, who was a seamstress, in 1876. It was she who made many of the costumes for the [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Schreyvogel Born in New York in 1861, Charles Schreyvogel (1861 to 1912) was the second son of Paul and Theresa Schreyvogel, two German immigrants whose families moved to the United States to escape revolutionary troubles in Europe. His interest in art became apparent as a young child. Although discouraged by his father, a shopkeeper, he pursued these interests by working as an apprentice to a die-sinker and then in a lithography shop. The [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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