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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (American, 1899 to 1988) Louise Nevelson’s interest in working with wood scraps began at the age of nine while visiting her father’s lumberyard in Rockland, Maine. She started her career as an artist at the Art Students League in New York, where she was exposed to important works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. She later went on to assist Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Nevelson is best known [...] Click here to continue reading. American Historical Views on Staffordshire Pottery – Cities Series From about 1830 to 1845 an unknown English potter produced a series of plates and platters decorated with views of American cities. The series comprises sixteen American views plus one each of Buenos Ayres [sic] and Quebec. Both of these foreign city examples include hollowware, as does the Louisville example, all the other city views are limited to platters and plates of various sizes. Examples [...] Click here to continue reading. R-Way Furniture The following information was available on Wikicollecting.org (December 2011): The R-Way Furniture Company was initially founded in 1881 as the Mattoon Manufacturing Company, and by 1900 the business had grown to employ 800 workers on a site which covered 12 acres. When the company’s founder, George B. Mattoon, died in 1904, the company was renamed the Northern Furniture Company and went on to successfully produce a wide range of furniture, including dining [...] Click here to continue reading. William E. Irwin (1871 to 1935) William E. Irwin, born in 1871, picked up his trade in the early 1890s, likely in Indian Territory or Texas. Throughout his career, he had studios in Chickasha, Indian Territory, Silver City, Arizona, and Bisbee, Arizona. In 1922, he left Bisbee for Douglas, Arizona, where he remained until his death in 1935. During his career, he worked with his brothers, John and Marvin, and with a photographer named [...] Click here to continue reading. Quanah Parker (1845? to 1911) Quanah Parker (circa 1845 to 1911) was the son of Peta Nocona, a Comanche chief, and Cynthia Ann Parker, the daughter of a settler who was captured in 1836 when she was nine years old. She grew up happily in the Comanche culture until she was abducted back into white civilization where she lived unhappily and finally died. Quanah fought against the westward pressures caused by the settlers but [...] Click here to continue reading. Wang Xisan Wang Xisan (born 1938) is probably the best-known modern Chinese painter of inside snuff bottles, his works are highly sought after by collectors world-wide and are in the collections of major museums. Wang Xisan became enthralled by inside painted bottles (“Nei Hua”) as a child visiting the fairs at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. Eventually he studied the art with Ye Xiaofeng and Ye Benqi, sons of the late 19th century [...] Click here to continue reading. Plummets The artifact that we call a plummet, named for the resemblance of its tear-drop shape to the carpenter’s plumb-bob, first appeared in the Late Archaic period, about 1000 B.C. They are found all over the U.S., and the world as well, made from various materials available in the local area either naturally or by trade, including hematite, hardstone, copper, antler and marine shell. They may be well crafted, ornamented and polished or crude [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Baumann The renowned marble collection formed by Paul Baumann had its beginnings in the summer of 1952, when Baumann was a mere five years old. His parents were antique collectors who enjoyed prowling through shops, but they worried about their son’s short attention span and wanted to think of a way to keep him occupied. The solution Paul’s dad devised was to give the boy a portion of his own marble collection, with [...] Click here to continue reading. Wu Guanzhong Wu Guanzhong was one of China’s best known contemporary painters whose popularity, both inside and outside of China, continues to rise. In 1936 he joined the National Arts Academy of Hangzhou studying both Chinese and Western painting techniques. After studying in Paris at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, he introduced Western aspects of painting to his students at the Central Academy of Art in Beijing. He was banned from painting [...] Click here to continue reading. Li Keran Li Keran was a child prodigy beginning his artistic career at age 13. He studied at Shanghai Art College studying both tradition Chinese painting and Western art. He learned from Kang Youwei who stressed artistic foundation should be built upon Song academic painting and the realistic tradition of Western painting. He also studied under Andre Claoudit and then developed his abstract and structural style. His experimentation with wash technique began in 1934. [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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