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Edouard Henri Theophile Pingret (French 1788-1875) The genre and portrait painter Edouard Pingret was a student of both David and Regnault. He exhibited at the Paris Salons between 1810 and 1867, and was awarded second class medals in 1824 and in 1831. Pingret was honored as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1839. Pillin, Polia Surockin Painter and watercolorist Polia Surockin Pillin (1909 to 1992) turned to ceramics in the early 1940′s when she completed a six-week course in pottery making at Chicago’s famed Hull House. By 1948, she and her devoted husband William had established a pottery studio in their garage in Los Angeles. Her creative work became the couple’s sole source of income. Pillin vases and ceramic tiles are often decorated with colorful, wispy modernist [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph Pickering (English 1865-1912) Pickering gave up a career as a civil engineer to pursue painting and became a celebrated painter of grand and romantic landscapes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Society of British Artists. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 to 1973) While Picasso is most famous for his paintings and sculptures, his work with ceramics was just as imaginative and ambitious. He began working with clay in 1947 and spent most of his vacations for the next 25 years working at the Madoura Pottery workshop in Vallauris, France. He was prolific in his ceramic work, creating editions of his ceramics, just as he did with prints, still using [...] Click here to continue reading. Pianos The modern piano was invented circa 1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua and Florence, Italy (1655 to 1731). A harpsichord maker, Cristofori replaced the string-plucking mechanism of his harpsichord with hammers, which allowed the player to adjust its volume by applying different degrees of force to the keys. He called his invention, ravicembalo col piano e forte “the harpsichord that plays soft and loud.” As the instrument grew more popular, the name was [...] Click here to continue reading. Photomicrograph A photograph made through a microscope. Photogravure – A Photographic Process A photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate. The process is rarely used today due to the costs involved, but it produces prints which have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a lithograph. In essence, the production of a photogravure consists of three steps: taking the picture; producing a printing plate of the image; and printing the image on paper. The basic [...] Click here to continue reading. Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) Ammi Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut on 24 April 1788 and by 1811 was known to be working as an itinerant professional artist. Phillips married twice before his death in 1865 and it was his practice to move his family to a rural community to paint commissions in that region and then moving on when he had exhausted the demand in that area. In this manner he moved throughout western [...] Click here to continue reading. William Preston Phelps (1848-1923) William Preston Phelps is one of a number of American painters who, despite their talents, but because of personal circumstances, have tended to disappear in the canonical account of American art. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1848, Phelps began his career as a self-taught sign painter . His obvious abilities, however, soon encouraged a group of local businessmen to sponsor his further training at the Royal Academy in Munich, where [...] Click here to continue reading. Nan Dee Phelps (1904-1990) Nan Phelps was born in London, Kentucky. She moved to Hamilton, Ohio in 1922. A self-taught artist, Phelps was prolific, producing hundreds of paintings while working into her eighties. Often drawing on childhood memory, she painted portraits, still lifes, birds, animals, buildings, landscapes, and religious scenes. She exhibited three times in New York, once in Boston, at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and in numerous small art shows throughout Ohio. She [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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