Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener was born in Heidau, Snesia, circa 1848 and died in 1925. He is listed as working in Paris between 1880-1895 at the rue de la Roquette. Present scholarship suggests that Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener and the ebeiste Julius Zwiener, who worked in a remarkably similar style are the same maker. Joseph Emmauel is not recorded in Paris after 1895. At that point, the Paris workshop appears to have been taken over by [...] Click here to continue reading.
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George S. Zimbel (born 1929) Documentary photographer George S. Zimbel spent his early career in New York, working for national magazines, as well as self-initiated projects. His work in Texas began in 1950 and extended through 2006. Among other things, Zimbel was a noted photographer of Marilyn Monroe and was featured in the 2001 PBS American Master’s production, Marilyn Monroe: Still Life. His photographs are included in many collections from The Museum of Modern [...] Click here to continue reading. Webb Young (1913-2005) Webb Young was born in Kentucky, raised near Chicago, and moved to New Mexico as a teenager in the 1920s. He studied under Gerald Cassidy, and also briefly in Vienna, Chicago, and in Mexico. He sold his paintings, which generally depicting southwestern-themed still lifes or southwestern landscapes, in Santa Fe, where he continued to paint until a stroke ended his career in 1995. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. The J. M. Young Furniture Co. The J.M. Young Furniture Company began as early as 1872, producing a general line of Victorian furniture. It was a small, family-run company that had fewer than twenty employees. By 1904, Young offered a range of Mission furniture designs based on the work of Gustav and L. & J.G. Stickley. The construction of the furniture included well-done, five-part posts on settles and poorly added though-tenons on Morris chairs. [...] Click here to continue reading. Yoruba Culture The Yoruba culture and language is indigenous to southwestern Nigeria and parts of Benin and Togo. Yellowware Pottery So named because of its light clay base and surface hues, yellowware can range in color from buff to a deep yellow. For feel and composition it occupies a middle ground between the more course redware and the more refined earthenware or stoneware. It was manufactured mostly in kitchen ware pieces by numerous potteries throughout the country, with important production centers in New Jersey and Ohio. Samuel Yellin, Artist in Metalwork Yellin as born in 1885 in Mogilera, Galacia, Poland. He was enrolled in a specialized school for arts and crafts as a child. There he was recognized for his drawing ability and interest in iron work. Family and teachers got him an apprenticeship to a local Russian blacksmith. Yellin became a mastersmith at the age of seventeen. In 1902 he left home and is believed to have traveled to [...] Click here to continue reading. Beatien Yazz (Navajo, born 1928) Beatien Yazz, born March 5, 1928 in Arizona, is also known as Little No Shirt and Jimmy Toddy, and was a Code Talker during WWII. He has received numerous commissions, honors, and awards and his works are in many museums (Lester 1995:47). Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions September 2006 Edmund Yaghjian (1903 to 1999) Edmund Yaghjian, born in 1903 in Armenia, was head of the art department of the University of South Carolina and was then Artist in Residence there. He died in Columbia, South Carolina in 1999. He was a student of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York, and his work has the same spirit as the Ashcan School of painters. The colors orange and [...] Click here to continue reading. Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836 to 1892) Born in Evans Creek, Ohio, in 1836, Alexander Wyant began his career as a topographical landscape painter along the Ohio River. After viewing the work of George Inness at an exhibition in Cincinnati, Wyant traveled to New York City to visit the artist. Inness encouraged him to travel to Europe, where Wyant was influenced by other landscape artists such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. After returning to [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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