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Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, 1854 to 1924)
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, was an American Impressionist Painter, illustrator, printmaker, designer, and watercolorist. He was born in 1859 in New Foundland, but grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. According to his brother Charles, Maurice spent every minute of his time sketching. He left school after only eight or nine years, going to work at a commercial art firm. Maurice went to Paris in 1892, and first studied under [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maurice de Vlaminck (French, 1876 to 1958)
Maurice de Vlaminck was a primarily self-taught artist, writer, and musician best known as a key player in the Fauvist movement. He began his artistic career alongside Henri Matisse and his lifelong friend Andre Derain, all of whom exhibited in the Salon des Independants and the Salon d’Automne in 1905. It was at the Salon d’Automne that critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term “Fauves” to describe these [...] Click here to continue reading.
Station Wagon Group
Designed by Paul Frankl, the Station Wagon Group was premiered in early 1950. In Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design, author Christopher Long notes, “With their contrasting woods, the designs were intended to evoke the new station wagon automobiles, which had similar wooden elements afixed to their exteriors. But the style was intended, too, as an ‘attitude’ and ‘a new way of life’; Frankl’s furniture was the latest thing for [...] Click here to continue reading.
Chinese Dynastic Chronology
Note: In general, the p4A reference database uses the Pinyin naming convention system for Chinese Terminology. Where the name varies under the Wade-Giles system p4A will present that alternative in brackets. For example: Qing [or Ch'ing] Dynasty.
Neolithic Period, circa 6500 to 1700 BC
Xia Dynasty, circa 2100 to 1600 BC
Shang Dynasty, circa 1600 to 1100 BC
Zhou [or Chou] Dynasty, circa 1100 to 256 BC Western Zhou, circa 1100 [...] Click here to continue reading.
Loetz Bohemian Glass
When excavations of Ancient Roman sites in the late 18th and early 19th centuries turned up mosaics that included iridescent glass (formed by a chemical process whereby the elements in the soil reacted with the surface of the glass) glassworks all over the world rushed to create their own versions of this shimmering material. While Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Favrille iridescent glass may be the most well known, many companies perfected their [...] Click here to continue reading.
F.E. Hale Manufacturing Company
F.E. Hale Manufacturing Company was founded in Herkimer, New York, in 1907 by F.E. Hale, a designer of stacking bookcases. The company was initially located at the former factory of Horracks Desk Company, which Hale purchased in 1907. Manufacturing continued at Herkimer until 2003, when the business was moved to a new facility in Frankfort, New York.
The Shop of the Crafters
Cincinnati was a center of the Arts & Crafts Movement in the Midwest. Although primarily known for the art pottery produced by Rookwood, it was also was the home for other Arts and Crafts manufacturers, including The Shop of the Crafters, which was in business from 1904 to 1920.
The company was owned by Oscar Onken and specialized in unique Mission furniture. Crafters furniture tended to be more massive [...] Click here to continue reading.
Tobey Furniture Company
Tobey Furniture Company was founded in 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, by Charles Tobey.
The company’s Arts & Crafts furniture was largely influenced by Joseph Twyman, hired in 1896 after experience as a designer with William Morris.
Tobey Furniture went out of business in 1954.
Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
Moran was both an artist and an artist-explorer in search of new landscapes. His sketches from nature are complimented by examples of his studio work and together create an intimate portrait of the artist and his belief in the inherent poetry of landscape.
Born in Bolton, England, Moran immagrated with his family in 1844 to the United States, where they settled in Philadelphia. Unlike many artists of his time, Thomas [...] Click here to continue reading.
Koekkoek Family of Dutch Painters
Hendrik Barend Koekkoek (1849 to 1909) descended from a prestigious family of painters, beginning with Hermanus Koekkoek (1815 to 1882) and spanning three generations. The Koekkoek family was an artistic dynasty in the Dutch traditions of genre, landscape and marine painting. Hendrik Barend was of the second generation; son of Hermanus, and specialized in the Dutch genre landscape tradition.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, February 2007.
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