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Vernis Martin
The use of lacquer with painted decoration was known in China as early as 1000 B.C. and in Japan from at least the sixth century A.D. In the 16th and 17th centuries this Chinoiserie decoration became very popular throughout Europe and many cabinetmakers and decorators tried to imitate its deep and lusterous alure, mostly without success.
Four French brothers working circa 1730 in Paris finally developed a successful alternative when they perfected [...] Click here to continue reading.
Elizabeth Quale O’Neill Verner (American, 1883 to 1979)
Elizabeth O’Neill was born in Charleston, South Carolina, December 21, 1883. Her artistic gifts were encouraged and developed by her maternal grandfather, Henry Franklin Baker, who had been a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, a Charleston artist. After graduating in 1900 from Ursuline College in Columbia, South Carolina, Miss O’Neill enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of [...] Click here to continue reading.
John William (Will) Vawter (1871-1941)
Vawter was born in and grew up in Greenfield, Indiana. He began his artistic career in 1893 illustrating books for James Whitcomb Riley, a successful poet, and another Greenfield resident. He married in 1906, and moved to Brown County in 1908. For the next fifteen years, Vawter received regular commissions for magazine illustrations. In 1923, he was divorced, and moved into a small apartment and studio in downtown Nashville [...] Click here to continue reading.
Boris Vassiloff (1906-2000)
Boris Vassiloff was Russian-born artist who immigrated to the United States to Long Island, New York in 1952. He studied at an art academy in Leningrad. He is known for his architectural paintings, still lifes and murals. Some of his art is held at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York and the Museum of Dance in France.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chavez (1896-1982)
In 1944, Peruvian-born artist Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chavez completed 49 illustrations while working for an annual base salary of $12,000; in 1995, a single portrait by the artist sold at auction for almost three times that amount. These figures emphasize the dramatic contrast between the mediocre sums collected by the artist during his lifetime and the modern acceptance of his worth as a painstaking watercolorist and airbrush [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cornelis van Leemputten (Belgian, 1841 to 1902)
Leemputten is best known for his images of barnyard animals, especially sheep. A popular 19th century subject, these paintings evoked a sense of nostalgia and were perhaps a response to the ongoing Industrial Revolution. Although largely self-taught, Leemputteen did study at the Academy of Antwerpen. His work was influenced by the paintings of 17th century artist Paulus Potter, as well as his contemporaries such as Charles Jacques.
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Luther Emerson Van Gorder ((1861-1931)
Luther VaGorder was born in Warren, Ohio and was a well known painter of the Toledo, Ohio area. He worked for a Toledo newspaper before going to New York to study art. He went to Paris to study and stayed through the late 1890′s where he painted his well known Parisian market and street scenes.
Van Gorder was a highly respected painter in his day and his works [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sadayuki Uno (Japanese/American, 1901 to 1989),
Sadayuki Uno was born in Japan, but moved to the United States to be with his father. He attended high school in Oakland, after which he received a scholarship to the California College of Arts and Crafts. He continued to study art and worked as an interior decorator and gardener in the Bay Area through the Depression. Uno was relocated to the Fresno Assembly Center after the bombing [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Symphony Phonography by the United Talking Machine Co.
Built between 1911 and 1914, the Symphony was just one of many Columbia-contract built machines. The horn is wood grained metal and the spindle is 1.5″ or United records only!
Doris Ulmann (1884-1934)
Doris Ulmann was born in 1884 in New York City. She began her photographic career while a student at Columbia University studying psychology and law. As a prominent New York City photographer, Doris Ulmann was best known for her photographs of the Deep South during the 1920s and 1930s. Trained as a pictorialist by Clarence White, Ulmann produced beautifully crafted soft-focus platinum prints.
Her work at the Ethical Culture School inspired [...] Click here to continue reading.
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