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Daum Freres Art Nouveau Glass The Art Nouveau style was one of the first international styles, and French glassmakers Jean-Louis Auguste and Jean-Antonin Daum embraced the forms, vocabulary and technology for their sinuous and sumptuous art glass creations. Art Glass Lamps by the Brothers Daum, especially pieces manufactured at the family factory from about 1900 to 1910 find favor with lovers of the sensual lines of the Art Nouveau style. The Art Nouveau [...] Click here to continue reading. Confederate Captain Frank Gurley Courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Frank Ballou Gurley was born in 1834 in northern Alabama, where his father and grandfather had moved in 1818. He grew up in a rapidly growing settlement that would eventually be called “Gurley,” just east of Huntsville in the fertile soils of the Tennessee River. When war broke out, Gurley enlisted in July 1861 in Rev. David Kelly’s (Kelley) cavalry. Meanwhile, Nathan Bedford Forrest was recruiting [...] Click here to continue reading. Snyders Archelogical Site Snyders is the name attached to the site of an important pre-historic Indian village on a farm owned by Andrew Snyders. The site is located in Calhoun County, Illinois, five miles north of Batchtown. It’s situated at the foot of the eastern Mississippi River bluff on a sloping terrace. It covers approximately six to eight acres of the bluff-base slope. Hopewell culture burial mounds are located on top of the bluff. [...] Click here to continue reading. Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) Gustav Stickley is credited with creating the first distinctly American style of furniture known as Craftsman. He was born on March 9, 1858 in Osceola, Wisconsin to German immigrant parents. As the eldest of six children he went to work as a stonemason at the age of twelve when his father deserted the family in 1870. In 1875, Gustav (originally spelled with an “e”), Charles, and Albert Stickley learned basic furniture [...] Click here to continue reading. He Haixia The following information about this distinguished 20th century Chinese artist is reproduced from a 2008 news release from the China National Academy of Painting. He Haixia’s Chinese painting exhibition is unveiled Sponsored by China National Academy of Painting, the Chinese painting exhibition of He Haixia is currently on display to commemorate the centennial anniversary of his birth until Sept.15 at the National Art Museum of China. The exhibition displays more than 100 [...] Click here to continue reading. A Missouri collected ferruginous quartz hourglass form bannerstone. Ferruginous quartz crystals on iron ore from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A ferruginous quartz hinge type bannerstone collected in Indiana. An end view of the hinge type bannerstone. Ferruginous Quartz Ferruginous quartz, sometimes called Hematoide, is a variety colored in yellow, red, or brown variations of differing intensities by inclusions of iron compounds, usually iron oxides and hydrous iron oxides, and hematite or limonite. These quartz [...] Click here to continue reading. Dovetail Points Officially known as St. Charles points, but commonly called Dovetail or Plevna points, these prehistoric artifacts are medium to large points with narrow corner or side notches defining the base or stem. The base is typically fan shaped and resembles the spread-out tail of a dove, hence the collector’s term for this form. A small number of these points have been found having a shallow basal notch. Dovetail points are associated with [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942) Born in Hartford, Kentucky in 1861, Charles Courtney Curran’s extensive education included study at the Cincinnati School of Design, Art Students League, National Academy of Design and Academie Julien in Paris. He moved to Sandusky, Ohio in 1881 and on to New York City in 1882. Already an established artist, Curran was invited in 1903 by artist Frederick Dellenbaugh to Cragsmoor Art Colony in New York’s Hudson River Valley. The [...] Click here to continue reading. Margret Craver (American, 1907 to 2010), Metalsmith & Jeweler Margret Craver had numerous accomplishments as a modernist jeweler and metalsmith. She was largely self taught. Craver was born in Pratt, Kansas, and introduced to metalsmithing as a design major at the University of Kansas in the late 1920s. In 1938 she traveled to Sweden to study with Baron Erik Fleming, silversmith to the King. Under his tutelage, Craver refined her craft and sharpened her [...] Click here to continue reading. Castleford Pottery From Edward Andrews Downman’s 1896 book, English pottery and porcelain: being a concise account of the development of the potter’s art in England, page 19: “David Dunderdale started a pottery at Castleford, 12 miles from Leeds, in 1770 or 1790, and at the beginning of the present century the works were carried on under the style of “D. Dunderdale and Co.” Queen’s ware, and black Egyptian ware in Wedgwood’s style, with raised [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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