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Masood Ali Wilbert Warren (1905 – 1995)
Afro-American painter and sculptor Masood Ali Warren attended classes at the Art Students League in New York during the early Thirties. A participant in the WPA artists program, he later obtained Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from NYU (1939) and Temple University (1961), respectively. Examples of his work have been exhibited at the National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society, and National Arts Club. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Frederick Walrath, potter
Frederick Walrath was a potter working between 1903 and 1918 in New York City, Rochester (New York) and at the Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He specialized in flowing matte glaze studio pottery with limited production runs. Walrath was one of many influential potters who studied at the New York State School of Clay-Working and Ceramics (now Alfred University) with Charles Fergus “Daddy” Binns, the school’s director, commonly [...] Click here to continue reading.
Wallace Nutting (1861-1941)
Wallace Nutting was born in Rockbottom, Massachusetts, in 1861. He was ordained a Congregational Minister in 1887 and while he appeared to excel in this profession, he continually declined calls from one church or another all over the country. He finally settled in 1894 in Providence, Rhode Island, as minister of the Union Church. He resigned from Union Church after a nervous breakdown in 1904 and began to take photographs in [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
Born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838, William Aiken Walker was somewhat of an artistic child prodigy, exhibiting his first oil painting at the South Carolina Institute at age eleven. Over the next decade he produced numerous still lifes, fish and animal works, portraits and landscapes.
In 1860 Walker enlisted as a private in Chaleston’s Palmetto Regiment and was discharged a year later on medical grounds. He continued to serve [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Brown Walker
John Brown Walker, born in Washington County, Pennylvania, in 1815 and died in 1908 in Michigan, had strong ties to Geauga County, Ohio. Possibly trained as a stencil cutter, Brown spent long stretches of time during the 1880s in the Burton, Ohio, area where he produced fanciful cut-paper designs for friends and acquaintances. His work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition and catalog, titled Your Wellwisher, J.B. Walker, at Michigan State University.
Izannah Walker – Early American Cloth Dolls
Izannah Walker began creating cloth dolls in her Central Falls, Rhode Island, home in the 1850′s and on into the 1880′s, becoming one of the earliest of the commercial doll producers. The process she used (which allegedly came to her in a dream) was alternating layers of cloth and paste that ingeniously stiffened cloth dolls and hardened them to a papier-mache-like quality. The bodies were formed in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maria Louisa Wagner (1815-1888)
Maria Louisa Wagner was a miniature, portrait, landscape, still life, and genre painter. She and her crippled brother, Daniel, both self-taught artists, worked in the Chenango Valley of New York in the late 1830s. The generous patronage of William H. Seward, later Governor of New York, prompted them to move to Albany in 1842, where they worked until about 1860. While living in the state capital, the pair painted many [...] Click here to continue reading.
Fred Wagner (1864 to 1940)
A student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Wagner later painted portraits whil living in San Antonio, Texas and Los Angeles. When he returned to Philadelphia in 1902 Wagner took a teaching job at the Philadelphia Academy, and also taught at his own art school.
Wagner is recognized as one of the first Pennsylvania Impressionists to paint Bucks County and Chester County landscapes. He won acclaim for his [...] Click here to continue reading.
Waffle and Thumbprint Glass Pattern
This variation on the traditional Waffle pattern was produced from the 1850′s through the 1870′s by various glassworks, including the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., the New England Glass Co. and Curling, Robertson & Co. It alternates panels with thumbprints with waffled panels. It is known mostly in clear flint glass pieces, but some were also produced using the less desirable and cheaper lime formula process.
William Francis von Vreeland
W. F. Vreeland (American, 1879 to 1954) studied in Paris at the Academie Julian. He was known as a watercolorist, and worked at Rookwood Pottery Company in the early 1900′s. He was a member of the California Art Club, Artist Council (Los Angeles), Oklahoma Artist League, Artists Ceramic Society of Southern California. He worked in Hollywood from the 1920′s.
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