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George Ames Aldrich A landscape artist, George Ames Aldrich was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 3, 1872. His early art experience took place in the 1890s while living in Europe. He studied art in the Midwest, the East Coast, Paris, and throughout Europe, and worked as an illustrator for both “Punch” magazine and “The London Times” in the 1890s. In 1918, Aldrich arrived in Chicago and became involved with the South Bend art [...] Click here to continue reading. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (British 1870-1935) Cecil Aldin did his first set of hunting prints in 1899, The Fallowfield Hunt. This was a series of six sporting prints in which many of the backgrounds were pastiches of equine destinations that Mr. Aldin had known. He also did a series on inns that have become his best selling work to date. Aldin worked mostly in pastel or watercolor and produced a number of fine etchings [...] Click here to continue reading. Adam Emory Albright A Chicago area impressionist painter, Albright (1862 to 1957) specialized in scenes of his children in outdoor settings. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Hoosier Salon, and the Chicago Gallery Association. Josef Albers (1888-1976) Josef Albers was born to a family of craftsmen in Bottrop in the Ruhr region of Germany in 1888. He studied art in Munich and Berlin from 1913 to 1920, but his most significant education took place in Weimar, Germany at the Bauhaus, an association of artists, craftsmen, and architects committed to a creed of merging craft techniques with creative aspects of fine art. In 1923 he became a teacher [...] Click here to continue reading. Allan Adler (1917-2003) ‘Silversmith to the Stars’ Allan Adler learned his craft from his renowned father-in-law, seventh generation silversmith, Porter Blanchard (who was a founder of the Arts & Crafts Society of Southern California). In 1940, Adler opened his own shop on Hollywood Boulevard to sell the clean-lined silver flatware and hollowware he designed. Known as “silversmith to the stars”, his clients included, among others, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Ackerman (French, 1908 to 1981) Paul Ackerman was an active and prolific Romanian-born artist who forged a successful career as a French modernist during the mid-20th century. He was born in Jassy, Romania, to a well-to-do Jewish family who sought refuge in France four years later. The Ackermans settled in Paris, where young Paul was initially encouraged by his businessman father in his love of art. From a young age he drew and [...] Click here to continue reading. John Ottis Adams (Indiana, 1851-1927) John Adams was a landscape, genre, and portrait painter who was a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters. Adams was, along with William Forsyth and Theodore Steele, committed to depicting his own native region. These artists were for many years the premier impressionist painters of the Midwest. Much of their subject matter was along the Muscatatuck and Whitewater Rivers and around the Indiana communities of Brookville and [...] Click here to continue reading. The A. H. Davenport & Co. (1875-1910) The A.H. Davenport & Co. had its primary business in Boston, but also maintained a branch office in New York City. Davenport was closely associated with many of the leading architectural design firms of the day, including H. H. Richardson and McKim, Mead & White, and was one of the few American firms able to supply the quantity of luxury furniture and interior decorations needed for the [...] Click here to continue reading. The 20th Century Limited In the 1930′s when technology began to reflect the sleek, aerodynamic lines of the Art Deco movement, the new 20th Century Limited train, designed by Henry Dreyfus, was the pride of the New York Central Line, running from New York to Chicago in sixteen hours. Susan Crowder (American, 20th/21st Century) Crowder is a Charlottesville, Virginia based artist. She is one of the founders of the Science & Art Project at the University of Virginia, which facilitates collaboration between artists and scientists. Her art education included study at the Ecole du Louvre and the Art Students League. Her work is in the collections of public institutions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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