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Pfaltzgraff Pottery
Pfaltzgraff, of York, Pennsylvania is one of the oldest pottery makers in the United States. German immigrant George Pfaltzgraff and his family began making pottery in York, Pennsylvania, in 1811. They made redware and stoneware for over 100 years.
From 1811 to 1913 the pottery produced gray salt-glazed and blue decorated food storage stoneware, consisting of jugs and crocks. From 1913 to 1942 they specialized in red clay flowerpots; after 1942 the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry B. Pfaltzgraff & the Pfaltzgraff Pottery
Pottery has been made under the Pfaltzgraff name in York, Pennsylvania, from 1811 to present times.
Henry B. Pfaltzgraff was born in Manchester Township (Pennsylvania) May 10, 1854. His parents were George B. and Eleanora (Braumer) Pfaltzgraff, of Germany, who came to America soon after being married. They lived in Baltimore one year, and then they moved to Conewago Township, where they remained only a few years, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jacob Petit (French, 1796 to 1868)
Jacob Petit was the greatest exponent of innovation in nineteenth century Paris porcelain. A self-taught painter, he launched a modest porcelain manufacturing business in 1830. By 1839 Petit employed about 200 craftsmen and enjoyed great success. His prodigious production included vases, urns, clocks, figures, inkwells and perfume bottles. Of particular interest are the figural veilleuses, or bedside tea warmers, known as personnages. These brightly painted beauties can be [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jane Peterson (1876-1965)
Jane Peterson is admired and praised for developing an individualistic style, bold color combinations, and for creatively constructing unique designs in masterfully rendered avenues of paint. Her canvases that intermingle Fauvist and Impressionist tendencies with academic drawing rank among her finest canvases and works on paper. Large canvases like “A Street In Gloucester” represent Peterson’s bold unique brushwork and unusual veracity. Peterson was named Jennie Christine upon her birth in Elgin, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Martin Petersen (1866-1956)
Martin Petersen was born in Denmark in 1866 and settled in New Jersey in 1884. He studied at the National Academy of Design and for fifty years supported himself as an anatomical artist for the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Despite the loss of one arm in a sugar mill accident as a boy, he produced a large body of etched work in the tradition of John Sloan [...] Click here to continue reading.
Leon Rene Pescheret (1892-1971)
Painter, illustrator, etcher, craftsman, architect, writer, teacher, and designer, Pescheret was born in Chiswick, England on May (or March) 15, 1892 and died in 1961. Although all the research books list his death to be in 1961, a collector states that he purchased several works in 1962 and 1964 directly from the artist’s studio in Whitewater, WI and that Pescheret was alive and well in the spring of 1964. Pescheret [...] Click here to continue reading.
Marie Adrien Persac (1823-1873)
The multi-talented Marie Adrien Persac was born in France in 1823, immmigrated to America in the early nineteenth century and worked as an architect, civil engineer, cartographer, photographer and artist. In 1859 Persac found employment as a painter documenting real estate transactions at the Notarial Archives in New Orleans. Persac’s finest and highly prized paintings are the series of watercolors and gouaches he did of the plantation homes along [...] Click here to continue reading.
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933)
Lilla Perry was much associated with Claude Monet and was instrumental in bringing French Impressionism and Monet’s style to America. She had a special relationship with Monet, having lived near him in Giverny, France. Although he never took students, he often advised her. Monet told Perry that her forte was “plein air” figures out of doors.
She introduced the first of Monet’s paintings to the Boston area and was [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edward Penfield (1912 to 1988)
We are a bit tired of the very serious nowadays, and a little frivolity is refreshing; and yet frivolity to be successful must be most thoroughly studied.” So wrote Edward Penfield near the outset of his highly influential career as an illustrator, art editor, and poster artist, a career guided by keen observation, a cosmopolitan sensibility, and a simplicity that belied his meticulously crafted efforts.
In looking at [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sheldon Peck (American, 1797 to 1868)
Born in Cornwall, Vermont in 1797, Peck is known to have been painting portraits in Vermont in 1824. He then lived on a farm in New York around 1828. In the 1830′s he is known to have moved to Illinois where he established himself in the small village of Lombard near Chicago. Most of his Illinois work were double portraits in room settings. In these works he often [...] Click here to continue reading.
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