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Mettlach Steins
OverviewWorldwide, beer is the second most popular drink after tea. The delight that comes with drinking beer can be enhanced with the correct vessel for quaffing. For centuries the Germans have been serving beer in mugs or flagons referred to as steins. Contemporary American beer fanciers seem to be less fastidious in their choice of drinking vessels, forsaking the traditional for glass pilsners, and in informal circumstances, drinking directly from the bottle [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Joseph Mess (1898-1962)
George Mess was a landscape and genre painter, as well as an illustrator and etcher. Born in Ohio, he studied at: John Herron AI, Tiffany Fnd., School of Modern Design, Columbia University, and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, France. Some of his teachers were: Otto Stark, William Forsyth, Andre Strauss, Robert Wolff, Arthur Dow, and Wayman Adams. He was the first husband of artist Evelynne Mess Daily, brother of artist Gordon Mess [...] Click here to continue reading.
Emma Mendenhall (1873-1964)
Emma Mendenhall was a Cincinnati artist who studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck while the city was a thriving art center. She exhibited in the United States and in Europe, and favored impressionistic landscapes and still-lifes, especially those with flowers.
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Mary Blood Mellen (1817-1882)
Mary Blood was born in Sterling, Massachusetts, in 1817. Following her marriage to Rev. Charles Mellen in 1840, the couple moved to Gloucester. By the end of that decade, Mellen found herself working alongside famed artist Fitz Hugh Lane, as his student and assistant.
In recent years, scholars have discovered that the relationship between Lane and Mellen, which has often been presented as one of master artist and student, was [...] Click here to continue reading.
Giacinto Melillo (1845 to 1915)
At the age of seventeen, Giacinto Melillo was appointed by Allessandro Castellani to manage the Castellani work shop in Naples at 54/55 Piazza dei Martiri. This was testament to the early development of Melillo’s talent, given that he had completed only half of his apprenticeship at the time. Melillo took over the workshop as his own in 1870, continuing to produce jewelry in the “Archaeological Style” as inspired by [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sofia Pino Medina (1932- )
Sofia Pino Medina was trained by her grandmother-in-law, Trinidad Medina, who encouraged her to create in traditional styles and sizes; providing some of the largest Zia vessels in the second-half of the 20th century. Her work is found in collections of The American School of American Research, Harvard University, and the Peabody Museum. In addition her pottery is published in American Indian Art Magazine 1981, 1990, 1995 and most [...] Click here to continue reading.
Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827-1887)
Joseph Meeker received a scholarship to the National Academy of Design in New York City where he studied with famed Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand. During the Civil War, he traveled down the Mississippi River, as a Union Navy paymaster. In his free time, he sketched and studied the bayous and swamps of Louisiana. Meeker probably painted “Louisiana Bayou” while living in St. Louis, Missouri. There he did [...] Click here to continue reading.
Lewis Henry Meakin (1850-1917)
Lewis Henry Meakin (Harry) was born in Newcastle, England in 1850, the son of an English porcelain worker and emigrated to Cinncinnati in 1863 by way of Canada. He was a landscape painter, etcher, and long-time instructor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Meakin studied extensively in Cincinnati (under Thomas S. Noble), Munich and Paris. He was a founding member of both the Cincinnati Art Club and the Society [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Mead Family Of Ohio Potters
Ira M. Mead (Sr.) was the first member of the family to come to North Springfield, Ohio from central Vermont around 1820. (North Springfield was a village located in Springfield Township of what was Portage County prior to 1840 and Summit County thereafter. Today it is part the Akron suburbs.) Biographical reports indicate that his three sons, Ira M., Abner R, and Truman P., were all trained as [...] Click here to continue reading.
Riccardo Meacci (Italian, 1856 to 1938)
From the home page of the Leicester galleries of London: “Riccardo Meacci was born in Dolciano, a province of Siena, in 1856. He studied at the Instituto di Belle Arti di Siena, where he was trained by Luigi Mussini. He worked in Biringucci until 1881, when he moved to Florence. He was greatly influenced by antiquity and especially the fourteenth century, all his works have religious and allegorical [...] Click here to continue reading.
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