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Stickley Brothers Furniture Co. Two of the five famous Stickley Brothers, Albert and John George Stickley, founded the Stickley Brothers Furniture Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1891, both having worked with their three other brothers in a similar company in New York. John George returned to New York in 1900 to form the L. and J. G. Stickley Furniture Co. with his brother Leopold. Albert remained in Michigan and operated the “Brothers” company [...] Click here to continue reading. Chinese Ruyi Visitors to Beijing’s Forbidden City will notice a valuable exhibit called ruyi (formerly spelled as juyi) with a head like a shred of cloud and a long body or handle in the shape of a flat S. It may be made of any of a wide range of valuable materials: gold, jade, jadeite, crystal, agate, coral, agolloch eaglewood, bamboo, bone and what not. And the workmanship is often quite meticulous: it is [...] Click here to continue reading. The Benedict Art Studio The Benedict Art Studio, also known as the Onondaga Metal Shop was opened in 1904 in East Syracuse, New York by Harry L. Benedict and George N. Couse. They produced a wide selection of decorative and practical accessories and lighting in brass, iron and copper in the style of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Jane Wilkinson (Acrive New Orleans 1822-1843 A Mrs. J. Wilkinson is cited in the April 16, 1826 edition of La Gazette, (page 2, column 4): “A school has just been established by Mrs. J. Wilkinson at Frascaty, one mile below the city, where the French and English languages will be taught. Also, …Drawing. Her pupils will equally learn their religious duties, as catholics or reformers. Mrs. Wilkinson has made choice of the best professors [...] Click here to continue reading. Spencerian Compositions Said to be “flourished”, the elaborate hand-drawn pen and ink compositions are often called “Spencerian Compositions” after Platt Rogers Spencer, Sr. One of twelve childred, Spencer was born in 1800 in East Fishkill, New York. Called “the man who taught American to write”, Spencer was an early administrator of Bryant, Lusk and Stratton Business College in Cleveland where he developed a uniform cursive writing system and instructional manuals which were used in [...] Click here to continue reading. Vorschrift frakturs were often created by schoolmasters as specimens of penmanship and calligraphy for copying by their students as a means of learning to write. They often include alphabets, numerals and a favorite saying, etc. of the teacher. Abe Blashko, born 1920 Abe Blashko grew up in Seattle and had an early proclivity for drawing. He dropped out of school to pursue art full time and, in 1938, became the youngest artist ever to have a solo exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. Blashko’s drawings and prints from the late 1930′s and 1940′s capture the gritty edge of street life during the Great Depression in Seattle and New York City. According [...] Click here to continue reading. Courtenay Miniature Firgures Courtenay Miniatures of Duran, England was founded in 1938 by Richard and Vida Courtenay as an extension of Doran toy makers which dates back to 1892. They continued in production until 1963. The Courtenay specialty was very limited production figures, especially pewter royalty figures including Knights of the Round Table. Peter Greenhill purchased the Courtenay molds in the early 1960′s and continues to market miniatures under both the Courtenay and Greenhill [...] Click here to continue reading. Stevengraphs English inventor and weaver Thomas Stevens was among the most successful in adapting the jacquard loom to weaving silk. Based in the English weaving center of Coventry, he first introduced book markers around 1862 followed in 1879 with woven silk pictures and portraits. By 1900 nearly 70 of these silk images were available and known as “Stevengraphs” (note, not “Stevensgraphs”). In America they were also advertised as “Texilographs” for a period of time. [...] Click here to continue reading. Peter Uhl Peter Uhl was born in Germany circa 1806, and after settling in Ohio, wove coverlets (some of which are undated) in Portage and Trumball Counties from 1838 to 1841. His corner blocks contained either his name and location or his name, location, client’s name and the date. |
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