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Edmund Henry Wuerpel (1866-1958) Well known for his atmospheric landscapes, Wuerpel studied with Whistler and Gerome in Paris. He was the Dean of the St. Louis School of Fine Art and exhibited extensively and won awards at the St. Louis Expo (1904) and the Pan-Pacific Expo (1915). Woolies A woolwork picture of a ship – usually a sailing ship – is affectionately called a woolie. If it depicts anything else – a house, dog, flower – it is a woolwork picture. Woolies were the creation of British sailors who got caught up in the embroidery fad that infatuated their wives and daughters in the mid-to late-Victorian era. The woolwork fad (also called Berlin work for the city where it began) [...] Click here to continue reading. Ellsworth Woodward (American, 1861 to 1939) Ellsworth Woodward and his brother William were two of the most influential figures in the New Orleans art community. Ellsworth studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and later in the studios of Samuel Richards and Carl Marr in Munich, Germany. He accepted a position as a professor of art at Tulane in 1885, a year after his brother had joined the faculty. The brothers were [...] Click here to continue reading. M. Woodruff & Co. Madison Woodruff operated a pottery in Cortland, New York from 1849 to 1870. His wares included stoneware crocks, jugs and flasks. Three marks are known from his pottery: M. WOODRUFF/CORTLAND; M. WOODRUFF & CO/CORTLAND, and CORTLAND. Thomas Waterman Wood (1823 to 1903) Born in 1823, Thomas Waterman Wood grew up in Montpelier, Vermont. He began his career as a portrait painter, and like many other artists of his day he took extended trips to Europe to see and study the great works of art there. He studied portrait painting with Chester Harding in Boston during 1846-47, and later worked in Quebec, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore until 1858. He then decided [...] Click here to continue reading. Samuel Wood (English, 1704-?) Samuel Wood was born 1704, and in 1721 was apprenticed to Thomas Bamford who had been bound to Charles Adam. Wood came from a continuous line of specialist castor-makers. According to Arthur Grimwade so many were produced and were of such a ‘uniformly high standard and one of the most attractively designed smaller items of plate, without which no reasonably equipped table of the eighteenth century appears to have been [...] Click here to continue reading. Wood & Hogan Established in 1927, Wood & Hogan is an American family-owned company specializing in making fine traditional English style furniture based on original examples from 1700 to 1825. The company prides itself on its ‘bench-made’ cabinetwork with a single highly skilled craftsman responsible for each piece of furniture it makes. Many Wood & Hogan pieces are exact reproductions of English period examples; others pieces are based on period examples but modified to [...] Click here to continue reading. John Wollaston Jr.(active 1735 to 1775) John Wollaston was born the son of English portrait painter John Wollaston (the senior)(circa 1672 to 1749). His first firmly documented portrait was of evangelist George Whitefield (1742, engraved by John Faber). John Wollaston Jr. came to New York from England in 1749, one of several artists introducing the American colonies to English rococo portraiture. He lived and worked in several mid-Atlantic cities, Southern cities, on plantations [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Wolchonok (1898-1973) Louis Wolchonok was born in 1898 in New York City. He trained at the NAD, Cooper Union, Academie Julian in Paris, and the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Art. He worked in a variety of media including pastels, gouache, oil, watercolor and woodblock. His subjects were many and varied. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Julius Woeltz Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1911 Julius Woeltz first studied art under Wilson K. Nixon, Jose Arpa, and Xavier Gonzalez. He then traveled to Paris for study at the Academy Julian, and later the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was awarded two scholarships. Woeltz taught in San Antonio, and in 1932, he was appointed head of the art department at Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, Texas. Woeltz won [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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