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The Stretch Family of Clockmakers A prominent Pennsylvania family of 18th century clockmakers began their trade with Samuel Stretch,who was working in Philadelphia, circa 1711. Samuel took his nephew Peter Stretch (1690 to 1740) as his apprentice, and he, in turn, raised two sons as clockmakers, Thomas (1720 to 1760) and William (born circa 1720). In addition to making fine clocks, Thomas was also active in civic affairs and is remembered as one of [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Street (American 1796 to 1865) Robert Street was a Pennsylvania artist about whose early life and career little is known. In 1815, he exhibited at the PAFA. Within 10 years, he had become a well-known portraitist, and had traveled to Washington, DC and painted Andrew Jackson (a portrait that hung in the White House). In 1840, he mounted a large exhibit at the Arist’s Fund Hall in Philadelphia. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions November 2004 Raphael Strauss (1830-1901) Raphael Strauss was born in Bavaria and purportedly began his career painting steamboats in the East. He was painting portraits and miniatures by 1858. City directories list him for better than 20 years maintaining a studio with fellow artist John Aubery. He was vice-president of the Cincinnati Art Club. See The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum and Haverstock et al, Artists in [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Strand (1890 to 1976) Paul Strand was an archetypal American photographer. A student of Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture School, his earliest experimental photographs of 1915-17 were proto-modernist abstract studies of city life that were championed by Alfred Stieglitz. In the 1920s he explored portraiture, a genre that appealed to his humanistic values. In 1932, with his marriage breaking up, he set off for Mexico in his Model A Ford. Strand felt [...] Click here to continue reading. John Stobart (b. 1929) The second son of a pharmacist and a mother who died giving birth to him, John Stobart was born in Leicester, England on December 29, 1929. Raised by his maternal grandmother and various housekeepers, he showed an early aptitude for creativity but a lack of interest in academic learning. His low grades but apparent flair for drawing persuaded his father to enroll him in Derby College of Art in [...] Click here to continue reading. Eleanor Stillman Eleanor Stillman was born in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio and received her early education in the Shaker Heights school system. She also attended the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art) where she studied sculpture with Edris Eckhardt and Walter Sinz, both well-known American sculptors. Ms. Stillman received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 at Bennington College, where she furthered her studies in art and trained under the [...] Click here to continue reading. Julius LeBlanc Stewart (American, French, 1855 to 1919) Julius LeBlanc Stewart was born in Philadelphia in 1855 but moved to Paris at the age of ten and remained there for the majority of his life. His father, William Hood Stewart, had inherited a profitable Cuban sugar plantation and invested his money in fashionable nineteenth century academic art, including works by Spanish school artists like Mario Fortuny, Eduardo Zamacois and Raimundo de Madrazo. Stewart likely [...] Click here to continue reading. Jack Keijo Steele (born 1919) Steele is one of Michigan’s most important Regionalist painters who trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the 1930s and 40s along with fellow artists David Fredenthal and Harry Bertoia. Steele has been the subject of a major retrospective at the Cranbrook Art Museum and his work has recently been included in several traveling exhibitions of American Scene painting. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. February 2002 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars From a Skinner catalogue note by Phil Minervino: “Ever since shocking the established hierarchy and “winning” the Paris Tasting of 1976, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars has enjoyed a privileged perch. The winery makes several ultra suave, elegant cabernets. There is the flagship Cask 23 (a true “reserve” wine), two single-vineyard wines, S.L.V. and Fay, and the estate cabernet. Balance and refinement are the operative descriptors of the Stag’s Leap red wines.” Everett Franklin Spruce (American, 1908 to 2002) From his earliest days in Conway, Arkansas, Everett Spruce was fascinated with the rural landscape and the creatures which inhabited the hills and hollows during the day, and especially at night when nature’s mystery comes alive. His love of the land and the animals that dwell in it became fully embodied with his discovery of the Big Bend region of Texas. Spruce is Texas’ greatest chronicler [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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