March 4, 2007

Treadway/Toomey Auctions

ARTISTS BIOS

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Murdoc (American, b. 1963)
Contemporary mid-western painter, highly influenced by Magic Realism, post-war Japanese art, and graffiti artists.  Studied at Washington University in St Louis (1981-1986).  A graffiti artist himself, Murdoc, blends popular urban symbolism with a personal narrative--much like another influential figure to him, Jean-Michel Basquiat . The topiary shaped as a crown is a direct homage to Basquiat on one hand--and simultaneously, a representation of Murdoc, himself).  In the tradition of Magic Realism, his subjects are executed in a realistic (non-abstract) style, but they are in content, substitutions for other, personal relationships.  The topiary, the hummingbirds, the mermaid, the owl, and the starfish, for example, represent people or even significant events relevant to the artist.  Every aspect which makes up the composition--the arrangement or the number of something,  for example, symbolizes something very specific.  There are no purely decorative elements to his paintings.

Alexis Jean Fournier (American, 1865-1948)
Fournier formally began his artistic career in 1886, when he became a student of Douglas Volk, in Minneapolis. It is believed that Fournier met Elbert Hubbard at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Hubbard, the beloved spiritual guide and business leader of the Roycroft community of artisans and craftspeople, would eventually become one of Fournier's greatest patrons and admirers. Fournier was living at least part-time in East Aurora by 1903, the year this work was painted, and soon became the director and artist-in-residence there. In addition to his activities with Roycroft, Fournier painted at the artist colonies in Woodstock, New York; Provincetown, Massachusetts; and Brown County, Indiana.

John Olson Hammerstad (American, 1842-1925)
Artist lived and active in Illinois. Known for landscape, coastal, and wildlife subjects. Included in the Friedman Collection-Chicago.

Carl Phillip Weber (American, 1850-1921)
The strict, refined style which characterizes Carl Weber's landscapes can be attributed to his uncle, also named Paul Weber (1823-1916), who was the renowned German landscape painter under whom he studied in Darmstadt and Munich. Paul Weber was also the teacher of famous landscape artists Thomas Moran and Edward Lewis. Carl P.Weber continued his training under sculptor and muralist August von Kreling in Nuremberg.
Carl Philipp Weber's paintings were exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1876-1891 and at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1880 and 1881. He was a member of the Philadelphia Artists Fun Society.

Frederic Milton Grant (American, 1886-1959)
Born in Sibley, Iowa, Frederick Grant settled in Chicago where he was an oil and watercolor landscape and still-life painter. He studied with John Vanderpoel at The Art Institute of Chicago and then went to Paris and Venice where he was a student of William Merritt Chase. He adopted Chase's broad, painterly technique in his work which inclined towards romantic subject matter. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Art Club and the Palm Beach Art Center.

Svend Svendsen (Norwegian-American, 1864-1945)
Svendsen moved from Norway to Chicago around 1893. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibited in Chicago and nationally from the 1890s-1920s. He is especially known for his snowscenes.

William Keith (American, 1838-1911)
William Keith was one of California’s earliest artists. A native of Aberdeen, Scotland, Keith settled permanently in San Francisco in 1859. Keith’s early works are most closely aligned with the romantic vision of the Hudson River School artists. The latter part of Keith’s oeuvre was focused onsmaller, more intimate scenes more closely aligned with the French Barbizon artists. Keith taught (primarily women) in his studio throughout his career. Four years after his death, an entire room was devoted to Keith’s work in the 1915 Panama-Pacific international Exhibition.

Miles Jefferson Early (American, 1886-1957)

Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff (Russian/American, 1886-1933)
Landscape painter, Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff was born in Vladimir, Russia in 1886 into a family of artists. Podchernikoff first studied art with his grandfather Dmitri Zolotarieff and later with Ilya Repin and Verestchagin. In Moscow he was awarded a gold medal and his work "My Beloved Russian Woods" was purchased by the Royal Art Commission.
He emigrated to the U.S. in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War and settled in San Francisco. A painting of his Santa Barbara studio appeared on the front cover of Literary Digest, March 10, 1928. Although he spent the last 20 years of his life in Southern California he returned often to San Francisco to paint scenes of Marin and the northern coast. He is well-known in California for his landscapes done in the manner of Corot. His last years were spent in Pasadena where he died on Oct. 31, 1933 of tuberculosis.

Julian F. DuPre, (American, early 20th century)
Du pre worked in Los Angeles, and exhibited at the Mark Hopkins Institute (San Francisco) as early as 1897.

Ernest Fredericks (American, 1877-1927)
Fredericks is known for his colorful landscape paintings of the Midwest.

Carl A. Schmidt (American, 1890-1962)
Born 1890 in Berlin, Germany. Illinois painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Student of the Académie JulianArt, Institute of ChicagoArt, Students League of New York, Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, and Munich Royal Academy. Member of the American Artists Professional League and the American Federation of Arts. Exh: American Artists Professional League and Palette & Chisel Club-Chicago

Daniel MacMorris (American, 1893-1981)
Daniel Leroy MacMorris: portrait painter, muralist, illustrator, decorator and designer, was born 1894 in Sedalia, Missouri, and raised in central Missouri and Kansas City. MacMorris was an illustrator for the Kansas City Star and served in both world wars. Following his first assignment to France with the army, he returned to spend five years as a student and artist with his own studio on the right bank. Before leaving, he had an exhibition at the Durand-Ruel Gallery. MacMorris returned to the States and set up a studio in New York City above the Carnegie Hall. While there he studied with Joseph Pennell, Robert Henri and George Bridgeman. He exhibited at the Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York and Newport. After 1945 he resettled in Kansas City, Missouri as a portrait painter, muralist and teacher. He died painting a mural while in his 90's. He has murals in Kansas City in the Nelson Art Gallery, the Liberty Memorial Building, and the Public Library, and in Columbus, Ohio at the State Office Building.

Hubert A. Bade (American, early 20th century)
Bade exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1928.

Louis Ritman (American, 1889-1963)
Was influenced by Claude Monet and American impressionist painter-friends in Giverny; he was lured by the intimism that was practiced by Karl Albert Buehr, Richard E. Miller, Lawton Parker, Frederick Frieseke, Guy Rose, and Alson Skinner Clark, the genre that featured artfully posed female models in intimate, decorative interiors, usually illuminated by natural light. Ritman would return to Giverny for five summer seasons (1912-16).
Back in America during the war years, Louis Ritman was offered a one-man show at the Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibited his works in Parker’s Chicago studio in 1914 and a year later, two of Ritman’s paintings were on display at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco where he won a silver medal. Ritman won the Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy in 1921.

Grace Gay Betts (American, 1885-1978)
Born and raised in New York City, Grace Betts became a peripatetic painter of Western and Southwest landscapes and Indians, and her subjects included Yosemite National Park and Arizona tribal members. She was also a muralist who did backdrops for animal displays at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and an illustrator for magazines and children's books. The Art Institute of Chicago was a frequent exhibition venue from the time she was a student there beginning 1900, and her work was also exhibited at the Laguna Beach Museum of Art. During the 1930s, she painted dioramas for the WPA (Works Progress Administration) in San Diego, and she and her sister, Vera, did backgrounds for the museum in Yosemite National Park and for the Simson African Hall of the California Academy of Science in San Francisco.
In 1929, the Santa Fe Railroad Company acquired two Arizona landscapes by Betts, and in 1954, the All Tribes Indian Center in Chicago acquired six of her large Indian studies, and several others were displayed as part of the Anselm Forum's Indian Collection in Gary, Indiana.

Walter Markmann, (American, early 20th century)

G. Adolph Anderson (American, b. 1877)

Einar Lundquist (Swedish/American, b. 1901)
Born 1901 in Shovde, Sweden. Known for Illinois town-landscape, Indian/Native American and figure subjects. Student and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Taught under Daniel Garber.

Alvin Stude (American, early 20th Century)
Illinois painter known for landscapes. Worked in Oak Park.

Trevor Robinson (American, early 20th century)
California artist known for beach scene, figure, landscape, and marine subjects.

Jane Porter Robinson (American, early 20th century)

George Ames Aldrich (American, 1872-1941)
One of South Bend, Indiana's best-known landscape painters of the 20th century, George Ames Aldrich became most associated with richly painted impressionist landscapes with water of Brittany and Normandy. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 3, 1872. His early art experience took place in the 1890's while living in Europe. He studied art in the Midwest, the East Coast, and throughout Europe, becoming a successful and respected etcher and painter. He worked as an illustrator for both Punch magazine and The London Times in the 1890's. In 1918, Aldrich arrived in Chicago and became involved with the South Bend art scene during the 1920s. The Indiana dune country, at the southern end of Lake Michigan, was a popular subject for Chicago's painters. The area had reverted to wilderness after the Indians left and after the Chicago fire, when thousands of trees were cut down to rebuild the city. Aldrich exhibited regularly at the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a member of the Chicago Galleries Association, the Hoosier Salon, and the Chicago Society of Painters and Sculptors. In 1924, he won an architectural club traveling scholarship and traveled to Europe to paint in England, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. His work is represented in many museums throughout the world, and many private and corporate collections carry his work including the Union League of Chicago and the War Mothers Building in Washington DC.

Aime Perret (French, 1847-1927)
A student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, Aimé Perret made his artistic debut at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1869. He received a third class medal in 1887, a second class medal in 1888, and a bronze medal at the World's Exposition of 1889. His paintings can be found today in art museums in Luxembourg and in the French cities of Lyon, Montpellier, and Nantes. Though he also painted still life and genre, Aime Perret triumphed in the field of landscape. Born in Lyon (Rhone) in 1847, he began drawing at an early age. Lyon had a vibrant artistic community full of painters, designers, printmakers and sculptors and Perret was swept into the scene immediately. He was a pupil of Joseph Benoit Guichard, Antoine Vollon, and Puvis de Chavannes, and attended the School of Fine Arts in Lyon.
He made his debut at the Salon of French Artists in 1869, receiving a Medal of Honor for each of the two consecutive years. He was also awarded a medal at the Universal Exposition of 1889.
His landscapes are more than studies of nature and light-effects; they become settings for the activities of peasants, which Perret imbues with a sense of solitude and dignity. He uses a rich palette (particularly in his later years, which coincided with Post-Impressionism) and is interested in conveying texture: be it ripples of dirt, the fold of a peasant girls dress, or a ribbon of smoke rising from a flame. He is often compared with the Barbizon landscapist Jean-Franois Millet.
His technique and subject matter may even have influenced Vincent van Gogh. In an 1883 letter to a friend, Van Gogh speaks excitedly about making copies after several French artists, including Perret.
The majority of his career was spent between his two beloved residences: a house in Bois-le-roi (Ile-de-France) which he bought in 1878, and one in Paris on the Rue dAmsterdam. This ability to travel between the city and countryside allowed Perret to remain a sophisticated artist, while painting the rural subjects he loved.

Hamilton Hamilton (American, 1847-1928)
Born in Oxford, England in 1847. Hamilton moved to the U.S. as a child and spent most of his life in Connecticut except for a few years around 1910 when he lived in Pasadena. He died on Jan. 4, 1928 in Norwalk, CT. Member: NA; American WC Society; Century Ass'n. In: Buffalo (NY) FA Academy.
Of Scottish descent and born in Oxford, England, Hamilton Hamilton became a renowned American landscape and portrait painter and illustrator. He traveled widely, which meant that his landscape subjects included France, England, the American West, and the states of New York and Connecticut where he was one of the founders of the Silvermine Art Guild in Norwalk.

Robert Watkins (American, early 20th Century)

J. Scott MacNutt (American, b.1885)
Although he was primarily a portrait painter, he also painted landscapes, primarily in Ogunquit, ME.  He worked exclusively in oils. MacNutt was a pupil of Charles H. Woodbury, N. A., and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; he also studied privately in Paris.  He then worked as a portrait painter in St. Louis, Missouri from 1921 until his death in 1974.  MacNutt served as a president of the St. Louis Artists' Guild.

James R. Bingham (American, 1917-1981)
Bingham died in July of 1971 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He had lived there for over 20 years at that point. He illustrated serial stories in the Saturday Evening Post and other serial magazines of the 40's, 50' and 60's. He also illustrated Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women series and the Perry Mason series. During WWII, he illustrated propaganda for the navy - caricatures of Hirohito and Hitler.

B. Priess, (Continental, early 20th century)

V. Alonzo, (Continental, 19th-20th century)

H. Bargas, (Continental, early 20th century)

Paul Gregg (American, 1876-1949)
Historically important to the State of Colorado, Paul Gregg's artistic endeavors are like windows framing the events of times past. Six hundred and four of his paintings remain in the archives of the "Denver Post" in Denver, Colorado, as silent reminders of the struggles that developed this territory.
Gregg was born in Baxter Springs, Kansas, where his pioneer parents had settled after coming west by oxcart. He saw firsthand the ways of the Indian and observed that a cow gets up rear-end first, the horse front-end first, the buffalo is immune to diseases, and the front and rear wheels of a stagecoach do not have the same number of spokes. When he painted a covered wagon, it was not a copied scene from a history book, but was an exciting picture from his earliest memory.
In the last twenty years of his career, Gregg enlisted the talent of his poet friend, Gene Lindberg, to add verses to his works. The joint effort became a full-page weekly color feature in the Post. Each feature developed from short notes jotted down by Paul or his wife, Marian, as they traveled. Lindberg wrote of his friend, "He was above all a storyteller in oils, and the stories were as varied as the West itself -- old as the fur trade, new as the streamlining of planes."

Alfredo Pina (Italian/French, 1887-1966)
Sculptor. Born in Italy; live, active, and died in France.

John Gee (American, 20th century)
Illustrator. Gee studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a member of the Sarasota Art Association and the Cleveland Print Club. He was a freelance illustrator for numerous children’s books and articles.

C. Lovat Fraser, (British, 1890-1941)
Fraser was a well known Arts & Crafts period designer in England. His design work with applied metal leaf is very rare and desirable.

Frank Jirouch (American, 1878-1970)
Ohio artist known for landscape, marine, and portrait subjects along with sculptures. Studied at Académie Julian, Cleveland School of Art/Institute, and Pennsylvania Academy. Taugh under Daniel Garber. Member of the National Sculpture Society. Exh. Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery Biennial, National Sculpture Society, Paris Salon, Pennsylvania Academy.

Frank Peyraud (American, 1858-1948) A hard-working fine-art painter, muralist and panoramist, Frank Peyraud earned a lasting reputation for rural landscapes, especially snowscenes in broadly defined forms and glowing colors. Excepting a trip from 1921 to 1923 to Italy and Switzerland, he was based in Chicago, where a Registrar of the Chicago Art Institute in a materials for a traveling exhibition, described him as the "dean of Chicago landscape artists." (Richter)
Peyraud was one of the first American painters to focus on Midwestern landscape, and did many river and farm scenes including his signature snowscapes. Many of his paintings reflected Impressionism, an abstract style executed with rapid technique and broken brush strokes brought over from France towards the end of the 19th Century.

Worth Ellsworth (American, 20th century)

Victor Petry (American, early 20th century)
Born in Philadelphia, he painted in New York City and Ogunquit, Maine. He was a member of the New york Watercolor Club and a student of Frederic Waugh.

Finn Wennerwald (Danish, b. 1896)

Sydney Adamson (Scottish/American, 19th century)

Henri Farre (American, 1871-1934)

Matthew E. Ziegler (American, 1897-1981)
Ziegler worked in the artists's colony of Ste Genevieve, MO.

Stan Poray (American, 1888-1948)
Painter, illustrator, teacher. Born of noble birth in Krakow, Poland on April 10, 1888, Stan Foray was raised in an atmosphere of wealth and art. His father, Count Michael Poray, was an established landscape painter in his native city. The younger Foray studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and in Paris. He lived in Moscow and Siberia where he was art director of the First Art Theatre in Tomsk in 1918. Uprooted by the Russian Revolution, he decamped to the Orient where for three years he painted the Imperial family and other notables. After settling in Los Angeles in 1921, he soon became active in the local art world. The interior of his home, which he both designed and built, was a miniature reproduction of a Japanese temple. During his early years in California he painted landscapes, coastals, the missions, and nocturnes; however, later in life he specialized in still lifes. Evidenced in his painting is his study of ancient Chinese culture, philosphy, and art.

Arnold E. Turtle (American, 1892-1954)

Robert W. Stewart (American, early 20th century)

Carl Thorp (American, b. 1912)
California painter, active 1928-57. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art, San Diego with Braun and Mitchell. He was a member of the Society of Western Artists and the Northern California Artist Association.

Harry T. Fisk (American, 1887-1976)
New York painter and illustrator, active from the 1920's-40's.

John Dominique (American, 1893-1994)
Painter. Born in Virserum, Sweden on Oct. 1, 1893. Dominique came to the U.S. in 1898 and spent his youth in Oregon where he began his art career as a typesetter and cartoonist for a small newspaper. He later worked at the Portland Art Museum, attended art classes there in 1913, and then continued his studies in San Francisco at the Institute of Art (1915-16) and the Van Sloun School of Painting (1917). He had further study in the 1920s at the Santa Barbara School of Arts under C. C. Cooper and C. 0. Borg. In the 1930s Dominique had a studio in Santa Barbara and in Canby, OR in 1941. He continued painting at his home in Ojai, CA until his death on Feb. 20, 1994. His early watercolors and oils were Impressionist but later evolved into Abstract Expressionist.

Everett Lloyd Bryant (American, 1864-1945)
A painter and muralist, Everett Bryant was known for his floral still lifes and landscapes in watercolor and oil. He was raised in Galion, Ohio, and showed early art talent but had no formal study until he was age 28. He studied in London with Herbert Herkomer and Monat Loudan and later in Paris with M. Blanc and Thomas Couture. After three years in Europe, he shared business pursuits with his brother that included a trip to Alaska. Returning to art, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz, William Merritt Chase, and Cecilia Beaux. He married Maude Drein, a fellow student in 1904, and they traveled in Europe. In 1909, he moved to Baltimore and in 1930 to Los Angeles where he was active until his death on September 7, 1945.

Tunis Ponsen (American, 1881-1961)
Active as a landscape painter in Chicago, Tunis Ponsen studied there at the Art Institute with George Oberteuffer and Karl Buehr. He was a member of the Chicago Painters and Sculptors, Chicago Gallery Association, and the Chicago Society of Artists.

Paul Sargent (American, 1880-1946)
Born in Hutton, Illinois, Paul Sargent was an Illinois landscape painter of colorful, impressionist style scenes. He also worked in Brown County, Indiana at the encouragement of Adolph Shulz, and was a charter member of the Brown County Artist Association and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon for over twenty years. He studied with John Harlow and at Eastern Illinois State Normal School with Anna Piper and Otis Caldwell, and at the Art Institute of Chicago with John Vanderpoel, Charles Francis Browne, and Henry Stevens. He stayed in Chicago for several years after graduating from the Institute in 1912, and then went to Charleston, Illinois where he built a studio and based himself for the rest of his life. He taught at Eastern Illinois State College from 1938 to 1942 and also gave private lessons. In the 1920s, he painted in Los Angeles and established a second home there.
Murals by Sargent are at Eastern Illinois State College, and in Chicago at the Crippled Children's Home, Sherman Park Field House, and John Smythe School.

Walter Vladimar Rousseff (Bulgarian/American, b.1905)
Rousseff worked primarily in Chicago. Exhibited at the St. Louis Art Museum, 18th Annual Exhibition of American Artists, Sept15th-Oct 5th, 1923. A WPA artist, Walter Rousseff was a painter who also did murals for Michigan post offices, having earned these commissions in a major competition of the Post Office Department Building in Washington DC. Rousseff was born in Bulgaria, settled in Chicago, and also had a studio in Iron Mountain, a small Michigan town. For the new Iron Mountain, Michigan post office, dedicated in 1935, he completed five murals that are inside the lobby. Most of his mural paintings had western themes with titles including "Moving West", "Washing", "Carrying Gold", "Watching an Early Train", "Stage Coach", "Ferry Boat", and "Fight with Indians".

Louis Grell (American, 1887-1960)
Noted primarily as a muralist, portrait painter and teacher active in Chicago, Louis Grell was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was an instructor at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, having studied at the School of Applied Art in Hamburg, Germany, and in Munich, Germany at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and with Carl Von Marr. Grell painted numerous portraits and completed numerous mural commissions in Chicago and other places including the Union Station and Mark Twain Hotel in St. Louis; the Fort Hayes Hotel in Columbus, Ohio; the Paramount Theater in Toledo, Ohio; and the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. He also decorated many churches.

Andrew T. Schwartz (American, 1867-1942)
Andrew T. Schwartz was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His early education was in the public schools of his hometown, where he showed great promise as an artist. In 1890, he began intense art study with the famed Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati ArtAcademy. He later studied with H. Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York, where he was awarded the Lazarus Scholarship for mural He returned to the United States to assist his teacher Mowbray in decorating the University Club and J. P. Morgan’s private library in New York. He later worked independently and developed a following as a mural painter. His reputation was certainly enhanced by the mural Christ, the Good Shepherd for the Baptist Church in South Londonderry, Vermont, which was considered at the time one of the best examples of mural painting. Other murals were painted for the Courthouse of New York, the New York YMCA, the Atkins Museum of Fine Art in Kansas City and the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building.
Schwartz also painted a number of other paintings in addition to his murals, including both figurative and landscapes. Many of his landscapes are views of New England. He exhibited extensively at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and other major cities.

William Ballantine Dorsey (American, b. 1942)
William Dorsey was born in 1942. As a nationally recognized twentieth-century California painter, Dorsey has had work in auctions alongside early California Masters of plein-air painting. Premier collectors of California art own his paintings.
Dorsey is a 1960 graduate of the Famous Artist Course, Westport, Connecticut and is currently a resident of Ojai, California, and Red Mountain via Homer, Alaska. He was influenced and inspired by Alaskan painter Sydney Laurence and the early California Impressionists. Painting oil landscapes primarily of California and Alaska, Dorsey travels extensively. He has painted, shown and published in: Stowe, Vermont; Taos, New Mexico; Sun Valley, Idaho; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; as well as California and Alaska.

Oldrich Otto Farsky (American, early 20th century)

Joseph Tomanek (American, b. 1889)

Dale Philip Bessire (American, 1892-1974)
A founding member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, Dale Bessire was a native of Indianapolis and studied at the John Herron Art Institute. He studied business at the University of Chicago, and then moved to Nashville, Indiana in 1914 where he became known as the artist farmer because he was successful at both running an orchard and pursuing an art career, primarily as a landscape painter. He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon and the Chicago Gallery Association.

Varaldo J. Cariani (American, 1891-1969)
A landscape and still-life painter whose name is much associated with Brown County, Indiana, V.J. Cariani was born in Renazo, Italy and settled in Nashville, Indiana. He studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League with Frank DuMond, and was a member of the Hoosier Salon, the Indiana Artists Club, and the Springfield Art League. While studying at the Art Students League, he met painter Marie Goth and eventually returned to Indiana with her, building a studio on her Brown County property. However he left the Art Students League in 1917 to enlist in the Army during World War I. A very religious person, his experiences caused him much post-war depression. He returned to his home town of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Marie Goth, trying to find a way to lift his spirits, hatched a plan with her father to hire Cariani as a stone carver for the Goth family Crown Monument Company.

Jules Louis Tavernier (French, b.1879)

Louis Paul Dessar (American, 1867-1952)
Louis Paul Dessar, who was born on January 22, 1861 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is best known for his Tonalist agrarian paintings, with farmers and their animals working in the fields.
It was because of this style that his contemporaries called him the "Millet of America".
Dessar rarely exhibited his works, although he is known to have shown his work at an exhibit in 1902 at the public library of Old Lyme, along with Ranger, Talcott, Cohen, and Voorhees.
Dessar became a member of the Salmagundi Club in 1895; Society of American Artists in 1898; an Associate to the National Academy, a member of the Lotus Club in 1900; and a member of the National Academy in 1906. He was awarded the Third Class medal at the Paris Salon of 1891, and a medal at the Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. He was awarded honorable mention at the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg in 1897; the second Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy in 1899; and the first Hallgarten prize in 1900. He again was awarded a Bronze medal at the Pan-Am Exposition in 1901 and Silver in the Charleston Exposition.

John Herbert Chadwick (American, 1869-1938)

Leon Louie Dolice (American, 1892-1960)
Dolice was born in Vienna. He came to the United States in 1920, and lived and worked in New York City. He became friends with George Luks and Herb Roth, and was clearly influenced by the "ashcan" style. He worked in pastel and made prints of his city. Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; the New York Public Library Print Collection; the New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk Artist's Association, Montauk, NY and at Tribeca Gallery New York City.

Reginald Marsh (American, 1898-1954)
An urban realist painter of New York City genre, Reginald Marsh devoted his career to depicting people going about their everyday business including Bowery bums, vulgar party goers, and persons elbowing their way in crowded subways.  He was also a printmaker, completing about 236 etchings, lithographs, and engravings, and devoted much time, especially in the 1930s, to printmaking. Many of his paintings were done in watercolor and egg tempera. He was much influenced by urban realists John Sloan, George Luks and Kenneth Hayes Miller.  He went briefly to Europe and then returned to New York to pursue his sympathetic depiction of low-life subjects. In the 1930s, he did murals for the W.P. A., and in 1943, he was elected a full Academician to the National Academy of Design. Reginald Marsh died in Dorset, Vermont in 1954.

Lucille Fink,(American, b.1910)

Rowena C. Fry (American, 1895-1989)
Born in Athens, Illinois, Rowena Fry arrived in Chicago in the late 1920s and there had a career as a painter and screen printer. She had studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ropp School of Art.
She described her paintings as "American Naive" and depicted numerous genre neighborhood scenes of people of the city's Near North Side. Her style and subject matter, which contrasted with social realistic views of industry and frustrated city dwellers among skyscrapers, placed her among the prevalent American Scene painters of the 1920s and 1930s. Fry's goal was to paint works that made people feel good and uplifted.
During World War II, from 1942 to 1946, she taught art classes at the Great Lakes Naval Station, and also did paintings of students participating in those sessions.
Exhibition venues included the Chicago Society of Artists and the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1937 to 1959, she did block-print calendars. Her work is in the collection of Abbott Laboratories.

Fritzi Brod (Czech/American, 1900-1952)
A Chicago painter and printmaker, Fritzi Brod was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, the Chicago Art Club and the Chicago Women's Salon. She also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

Natalie Henry (American, b. 1907)
Illinois painter and graphic artist. Born 1907 in Malvern, Arkansas. Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Member of the Chicago Society of Artists and WPA/Federal Arts Project. Exh. Art Institute of Chicago and Chicago Society of Artists.

Robert Graham (American, 1919)
Born in New Rochelle, New York, he studied at the Kansas City Art Institute with Thomas Hart Benton. He served as a combat artist during World War II and after the war was influenced by the Belgian painter, Jules van Vlasselaer. From that time he did little Regionalist work in the style of Benton, meaning that those paintings by Graham are rare but are also considered the most desirable.
He was an art instructor at the University of Texas in Austin from 1951 to 1955 and from 1958 to 1975, taught at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Fred Jones (American, b. 1914 )
An important African-American painter from Chicago, Fred Jones did numerous paintings and drawings of jazz figures including Louie Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Pee Wee Russell.
He studied at the Art institute of Chicago with George Neal, the first black teacher at the Institute, and Eldzier Cortor, a Chicago artist who spent time painting in Haiti.
Jones and his contemporaries frequented the Southside Community Center in the 1940s, and he exhibited throughout the South, winning the Purchase Award in 1943 at Atlanta University.

D. Duclair, (Haitian, mid 20th century)

Henri-Claude Obin (Haitian, 1934-2000)
Henri Claude Obin is a member of one of Haiti's most prominent family of artists. His father, Philome, is considered the creator of the Cap-Haietien school, or style, which depicts everyday life, and the younger Obin continued to focus on this tradition.

Werner Drewes, (German/American 1899-1985)
(Highly important American abstract painter. Drewes studied with Kandinsky and Klee at the Bauhaus in Germany in the 1920s. He exhibited there and at the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum, and the Boston Museum. He taught at Columbia University, Washington University, and at the Institute of Design (with his friend, Moholy-Nagy). Drewes' work was perhaps the closest link from the Bauhaus to American modernism. He was a good friend of Kandinsky, and the two corresponded frequently while Drewes lived in the U.S. It was through Kandinsky, that Drewes met Katherine Drier, and became involved with the Societe Anonyme, the avandt-garde group in France. Drewes also was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists in New York in the 1930s. Drewes abandoned abstraction in the 1950s-60s, favoring a more expressionist style of painting traditional subjects, but by the 1970s, he returned almost exclusively to painting non-objective subjects. Drewes was skilled in many mediums, including printmaking, watercolor, ceramic and fabric design, and in oil painting; which was consistent with most Bauhaus-trained artists.

Willard Grayson Smythe (American, 1906-1995)
Prominent in the Chicago art world during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Willard Smythe was a painter in an abstract, hard-edged style, which was geometric and influenced by the Synthetic Cubism of Picasso and Braque. Smythe called his style "Scattered Balance Design".
He was also a noted graphic designer and was a member of 27 Chicago Designers. He won many awards in this field including the award of excellence in 1937 and 1952 from the American Institute of Graphic Arts and in 1931, a top prize from the Society of Typographic Artists. He was a life-time member of the International Institute of Arts and Letters.
His design work includes a memorial plaque for the Santa Fe Railroad, and advertising designs for Abbott Laboratories, Monsanto Chemical Company and Searle Laboratories. He served as Art Editor of "Printing Art Quarterly" from 1938 to 1941, and from 1943 to 1946, was Art Editor of "World Book Encyclopedia".
Smythe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and from 1928 to 1960, was a member of the faculty as Professor of Advertising and Design.

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971)
Rockwell Kent was born in to a wealthy New York industrialist family in 1882. Early in his life, Kent was introduced through travel and surroundings to both fine art and architecture. After studying architecture for three years at Columbia University, Kent changed his focus to art and began attending William Merritt Chase’s Summer Art Classes in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, as well as the New York School of Art, where he studied with Robert Henri, and befriended George Bellows. Though he drifted in to relative obscurity until the 1960’s, Kent was one of the best known of the contemporary painters of the 1930’s.

Louise Woodroofe (American, 1892-1996)
An art professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Louise Woodroofe traveled in the 1930s with the Ringling Brothers Circus and from that experience painted numerous scenes of circus life. She studied at the University of Illinois and Syracuse University in New York and with Hugh Breckenridge. During the 1940's-1960's Louise Woodroofe painted abstract works and sometimes collage. She exhibited with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the National Association of Watercolor Painters, Cincinnati Art Museum and the Butler Art Institute.

C. Lovat Fraser (British, 1890-1941)
Fraser was a well known Arts & Crafts period designer in England. His design work with applied metal leaf is very rare and desirable.

John Gee (American, 20th century)
Illustrator. Gee studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a member of the Sarasota Art Association and the Cleveland Print Club. He was a freelance illustrator for numerous children’s books and articles.

Ben Benno (American 1901-1980)
Born 1901 in London, England. New York artist and art educator know for abstract-biomorph imagery. Worked in oil, pastel painting, mixed/multi-media, and bronze mediums. Taught by George Bellows and Robert Henri. Exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Hector Felipe Ortega (Chilean, 20th Century)

Frank Perri (Italian-American, 1918-1999)
An immigrant from Italy to Chicago in the early 1930s, Frank Perri, whose Italian name is Francesco Saverio Perri, did figurative subjects including child portraits, and urban scenes of Chicago. He lived in Oak Park where he was president of the Oak Park Art League. He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago and traveled to Mexico in the late 1930s.

Don Louis Ruf (American, 1905-1982)
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he was an avid hunter and developed a great and talent love for landscape painting. His art talent was encouraged by his sign- painter father and later by his art teacher, Augustus Dunbier with whom he took many painting trips including to the Southwest and Mexico.
From 1924-1928, he studied at the Chicago Art Institute and then worked in Chicago as a commercial artist. In the mid-1930s, he took a one-year trip around the world, painting in Hawaii, the Orient, and Egypt, and even becoming a bull fighter in Spain. Shortly after that, he joined Dunbier on a sketching trip to Arizona where they camped at the Grand Canyon.
Returning to Chicago, he married and became art director for advertising companies. He did numerous watercolor paintings of Lake Michigan, where he also navigated as a skilled sailor. From 1970, he devoted himself full time to his painting and lived in Nebraska and made many return trips to Taos.

Serge Jolimeau (Haitian, b. 1952)
Born 1952 in the village of Croix des Bouquets. Croix-des-Bouquets is home to such great Haitian sculptors as the late Georges Liautaud and Murat Brierre, the brothers Louisjuste, and Gabriel Bien-Aime. Jolimeau worked for two years as apprentice to Seresier Louis-Juste after he finished high school. Today he is one of Haiti's two (along with Bien-Aime) leading metal sculptors. Jolimeau's work has been exhibited internationally and is published in Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988), Forgerons duVodou/ Voodoo Blacksmiths (Foubert, 1992).

Fay Peck (20th Century)
Fay Peck is world-famous for her bold, intense use of colors and forms. Peck has produced oil paintings, drawings and silk screen prints across the globe, most notably in Chicago, New York City, London, Munich and Geneva. She received her education at the University of Miami in Florida, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Oslo in Norway. Peck frequently exhibits her work in one-woman shows throughout the United States.

J. Ortiz Tajonar (Mexican, 20th century)

Glenn Gant (American, 1911-1999)
A regionalist painter and student of Thomas Hart Benton, Glen Gant lived in Arkansas and was active there and in Oklahoma and Kansas City.

John Dominique (American, 1893-1994)
Born in Virserum, Sweden on Oct. 1, 1893. Dominique came to the U.S. in 1898 and spent his youth in Oregon where he began his art career as a typesetter and cartoonist for a small newspaper. He later worked at the Portland Art Museum, attended art classes there in 1913, and then continued his studies in San Francisco at the Institute of Art (1915-16) and the Van Sloun School of Painting (1917). He had further study in the 1920s at the Santa Barbara School of Arts under C. C. Cooper and C. 0. Borg. In the 1930s Dominique had a studio in Santa Barbara and in Canby, OR in 1941. He continued painting at his home in Ojai, CA until his death on Feb. 20, 1994. His early watercolors and oils were Impressionist but later evolved into Abstract Expressionist.

Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1962)
Born in Austria-Hungary and living in San Francisco, Eduard Ulreich became a painter of genre, and a sculptor, muralist, and magazine illustrator. Many of his murals are in hotels, temples, industrial buildings, and post offices. He was the pupil of Mlle F. Blumberg and also studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy. In the 1920s, he lived in New York City and worked as a general illustrator for books and magazines. He was a member of the guild of Free Lance Artists, and western subjects were included in his illustrations. His wife, Nura, was an author and illustrator of children's books and an art instructor.

Lou Kousens (American, 1899-1997)
Illinois painter known for streetscenes, garden landscape, and genre-human activity. Also visited Central America/Mexico.

Saul Steinberg (American, 1914-1999)
Born in Rumania, he lived most of his life in New York, becoming a well known 20th-century comic illustrator and philosopher, who used a variety of mediums including collage and mural painting. He is perhaps most famous for his poster of the New Yorker whose shortsighted view of the world causes the cityscape of Manhattan to be the landmark from which everything else recedes.
He studied at the University of Bucharest and the Reggio Politecnico in Milan, earning a doctoral degree in architecture in 1940, but he never designed a single building. He had drawings featured regularly in Italian weeklies, and they like the ones he later did in the United States were popular for their doodling, rococo style and tongue in cheek commentary.
In 1941, he fled fascist Italy for the United States but was sent to Santo Domingo because the quota for Rumanians was filled. From there he sent the "New Yorker" magazine editors cartoons, and they sponsored his move to New York in 1942.
In 1943, he married the artist Hedda Sterne and also had his first one-man show, held at the Wakerfield Gallery in Manhattan. He was also drafted into the United States Navy during World War II, and the "New Yorker" editors published his visual accounts of the war from Italy and North Africa.
He continued at the "New Yorker" as staff artist and also did murals for the American Express Line and the Terrace Hotel in Cincinnati. It was said that after the war, his style became more abstract, philosophical, and symbolic. In the 1950s, he devised a whole series of animals to symbolize members of society. A major post-war, one-man show was held in 1952 at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
He died in Manhattan at the age of 84.

Lilly Steiner (Austrian, 1884-1962)

Alvin Stupe (American, early 20th Century)
Illinois painter known for landscape, forest scene, national park, Arizona, Grand Canyon, and portrait subjects.

Gerald L. Nees (American, 20th century)
Nees was paralyzed as a young boy in Indiana, but learned how to paint holding a brush in his mouth. Known for city genre scene, cityscape/city views, Indiana streetscene, and marine subjects; also, Naive, realist, and representational styles.

Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)

Franz von Stuck (German, 1863-1928)
German draughtsman, illustrator, printmaker, decorative artist, painter, sculptor and architect. He was noted for his treatment of erotic and comic aspects of mythological themes.

Floyd Garrison Ackerson (American b. 1889)

Richard Florscheim (American, 1916-1979)
A twentieth-century American printmaker, painter, sculptor, educator and writer, Richard Florsheim first studied at the University of Chicago before going to New York to study at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Metropolitan Museum, under Aaron Bohrod. His education was completed in Paris at the Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne.
Florsheim gained recognition in the late 1930's when he first began exhibiting his art. Venues included the Salon des Refuses, Paris; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Los Angeles County Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Richard Florsheim was a full member of the American Graphic Artists, the Audubon Artists, the Artists Equity Association and the National Academy of Design. During his career he received the Art Institute of Chicago Award (1946), the Pennell Fund Award (1950) and the Library of Congress Award (1956).

Aaron Bohrod (American, 1907-1992)
Known for a range of work in watercolor and gouache that included realist figures in cityscapes, landscapes, surrealism, and trompe l'oeil painting, Aaron Bohrod spent his early career in Chicago where he was born on the West Side. In 1948, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he became a long-time a member of the art faculty and satisfied the inclinations of many artists who leaned towards European-influenced modernism.  In this university position, he replaced John Steuart Curry, Regionalist painter from Kansas, who had died.  Many artists led by Surrealist Marshall Glasier thought Curry had been provincial and limited in subject matter and style. In the late 1920's, Bohrod studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then went to New York City to attend the Art Students League.  He returned to his hometown in 1930 and resided there until the move to Wisconsin. Influenced strongly by the Social Realism of John Sloan, whom he knew from New York, Bohrod painted city people, utilizing a wide array of styles ranging from a tight, detailed manner to one that was more abstract and sketch like.  One of his subjects explored in a series of paintings was the neighborhood where he grew up on the North Side of Chicago.  Many of them convey the loneliness and poverty of the Depression years. He spent some time in the South Pacific during World War II as a war artist and in Europe on assignments from "Life" magazine and from the U.S. Engineers to record the events of World War II in Normandy, Cherbourg, England, Germany and the South Pacific.  His completed paintings are in the Pentagon Collection.  Following this assignment, he served for one year, 1942 to 1943, as Artist-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. In the late 1940's Bohrod began working with ceramics, which he said influenced him towards surrealism with odd juxtapositions that embraced the style of trompe l'oeil (fool-the-eye).  Unlike many surrealists, his work did not have nightmarish undertones.  During this period, his painting became increasingly realistic.

J. Jay McVicker (American, b. 1911)
Oklahoma painter. McVicker studied at Oklahoma State University, and eventually taught there. He painted traditional regionalism in the 1940s, and moved into abstraction later in his career. He exhibited extensively from the 1940s-70s at the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

May Early

Niki de Saint Phalle (French-American, 1930-2002)
Niki De Saint Phalle was born in 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and raised in New York City. She began painting in 1948 and four years later moved to Europe. Niki first came into international prominence in 1961 as a member of the influential "New Realists." Today she is best known for her oversized, voluptuous female figures.

Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976)
Sculptor and painter, born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, USA. The son of Alexander Stirling Calder, he studied at Stevens Institute of Technology, the Art Students League, New York City, and in Paris. Later he was based in New York City and Roxbury, CT, and also maintained a home in France. He was an abstract painter but became most famous for his moving sculptures, named ‘mobiles’ by Marcel Duchamp. His stationary sculptures, named ‘stabiles’ by Jean Arp, are often large public works.

Frank Ashley (American, b. 1920)
Born 1920 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Lived and active in California. Know for painting animal/zoological, figure, human activity, sport figure/sport crowd, interior view, and marine subjects. Student of the Art Students League of New York. Member of Carmel Art Association. Exh. Carmel Art Association and Grand Central Art Galleries.

Eli Levin (American, b. 1938)
Santa Fe painter. Levin studied at the University of Wisconsin and the New School for Social Research (Greenwich Village). Levin lived in New York from 1945-60, and in Santa Fe after 1965. He exhibited extensively in the 1970s-80s, and his work is in important public and private collections, including that of Ralph Lauren, Doc Severinson, Tucson Museum, and the Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe. He specialized in intimate scenes of figures in interiors.

Karl Gasslander (American, 1905-1997)
A painter, teacher, and writer, Karl Gasslander, was born in Rockford, Illinois, and was the art critic for the Evanston "Daily News," and taught at the Evanston Collegiate Institute.
He attended the Art Students League in New York, and in Illinois the Art Institute of Chicago and the Northwestern University School of Art. He was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, the Chicago Society of Printmakers, and was a WPA artist under Louis Cheskin.
A Karl Gasslander painting, purchased from Bunte Auction Services, appears on the television show, "Will and Grace."
The artist worked in watercolor, oil, and blockprints and his subjects included landscapes and coastals, some from Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Karl Priebe (American, 1914-1976)
A part of the Wisconsin Surrealists in the 1930s and 1940s, Karl Priebe has created work that has been diverse and not easy to categorize. His paintings, many with successive washes of casein, include birds in landscape and eerie-looking figures in interiors and in landscapes with odd juxtapositions.
He studied painting at the Layton Art School in Milwaukee and the Art Institute of Chicago, and during the 1940s, exhibited his paintings at the Perls Gallery in New York City. He enjoyed popularity and was featured in Life magazine in 1947. From 1938 to 1942, he was an assistant in ethnology at the Milwaukee Public Museum, and from 1944 was an instructor in painting at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee.
An associate was Marshall Glasier, who led the rebellion against what he regarded as provincial painting, exemplified by John Steuart Curry, Regionalist painter from Kansas, who was artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin from 1936 to 1946.
Priebe was represented in an exhibit, "Surreal Wisconsin," at the Madison Art Center in 1998.
His papers are held at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Raynor Memorial Libraries.

Gertrude Abercrombie (American b. 1909)
Gertrude Abercrombie, a Chicago painter also deeply involved in jazz music, has worked with highly personal surreal images. She was a prominent surrealist in the 1930s through the 1950s in Chicago. She argued that technique was not as important as ideas and developed a style emulating naive artists.
The tone of her paintings is foreboding and references the real and the imaginary with many of them intended as self portraits. For many years she was associated with a group of artists who focused on depictions of their fantasies.
Her family, members of the Christian Science Church, was wealthy, lived on the North Shore of Lake Michigan, and was highly respectable---something she rebelled against. She first married a successful lawyer and then divorced him and married a jazz musician, Frank Sandiford, at a ceremony where Dizzy Gillespie provided the music.
For many years, Saturday night sessions at her home in Hyde Park attracted entertainers such as Gillespie, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughn and writers including Thornton Wilder. She also spent much time communicating with the Wisconsin Surrealist artists led by Marshall Glasier, and was part of much visiting back and forth of these artists between Madison and Chicago.
She was primarily a self-taught artist but studied commercial art briefly at the University of Illinois. In the 1930s, she worked on the Federal Art Project.
Some of her paintings were included in the Madison Art Center exhibit "Surreal Wisconsin" in the summer of 2000.

Richard Loving (American, b. 1924)
Illinois painter. Attended Bard College, N.Y. and the New School for Social Research, N.Y. He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. Work in the First National Bank Chicago Collection and exhibited at the National Academy of Design, among many others, mostly in Illinois.

Lynton Wells (American, b. 1940)

David Bekker (Polish-American, 1897-1956)
Born in Vilna, Poland. He studied at the Antokolsky Art School in Russia; the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, Palestine; and the Academy of Fine Arts in Denver. His distinguished teachers in Bezalel were Boris Schatz and Abel Pann. During the Depression, Bekker was a WPA artist who created images of human suffering and painted murals in Illinois public buildings. In 1932, he published a portfolio of woodcuts, Myths and Moods. His works are included in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Tel Aviv Art Museum. REF: Art of Today: Chicago, 1933 (written by J.Z. Jacobson and published by L.M.Stein), A Gift to Biro-Bidjan: Chicago, 1937 (Oakton Community College).

Carlo Baruffaldi (Italian, b.1930)
Important Italian Surrealist. Baruffaldi was influenced by Dali and Chagall. He exhibited extensively in the early 1970's and was included in an exhibition with Picasso, Braque, and Miro (in Venice). An extensive file regarding the artist and his work accompanies the lot, including a copy of the illustration from the Galleria Giorgi catalog.

Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985)
French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, designer, sculptor, ceramicist and writer of Belarussian birth. A prolific artist, Chagall excelled in the European tradition of subject painting and distinguished himself as an expressive colourist. His work is noted for its consistent use of folkloric imagery and its sweetness of colour, and it is characterized by a style that, although developed in the years before World War I, underwent little progression throughout his long career. following his exile from the Soviet Union in 1923 he was recognized as a major figure of the Ecole de Paris, especially in the later 1920s and the 1930s. In his last years he was regarded as a leading artist in stained glass.

Robert Goodnough (American, b.1917)
Goodnough studied at Syracuse University from 1936-40 and was then drafted into the army. On being discharged he settled in New York, and attended the Amédée Ozenfant School of Fine Arts. The following year he studied with Hans Hofmann, meeting painters such as Larry Rivers and Alfred Leslie. In the late 1940s, he attended New York University and from 1948 to 1949 was one of a number of abstract artists who formed the core of Abstract Expressionism. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, University of Minnesota, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art, and the Art Club Chicago. In the 1970s, Goodnough created large canvases with groups of geometric shapes against vast expanses of color and light

Francesc Segui Artigau (Spanish, 20th century)

Ernest Fredricks (American, 1877-1958)
Chicago area artist. Landscape and marine painter. Exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago 1924-26.

Martyl Schweig Langsdorf (American, 1918)

Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born May 11, 1904 in the small Spanish town of Figueras in the province of Catalunya. Under the influence of the surrealist movement, Dali's artistic style crystalized into the disturbing blend of precise realism and dreamlike fantasy that became his trademark. His paintings combined meticulous draftsmanship and detail with a unique and stimulating imagination. Dali often described his pictures as `hand-painted dream photographs,' and had certain favorite and recurring images, such as the human figure with half-open drawers protruding from it, burning giraffes, and watches bent and flowing as if made from melting wax. Dali moved to the U.S. in 1940, where he remained until 1948. Dali truly created a new movement in art, but it was his own unique brand. Along with his other pursuits in the art realm - which included jewelry design, film production and clothing -- it is his paintings and graphic works which remain the pinnacle of his sweeping importance and mystifying genius. To this day, they hang in museums all over the world.

Worth Ellsworth

Medard Klein (American, 1905-2002)
(American, 1905-2002) Klein exhibited regularly at the Museum of Non-Objective Art (Guggenheim), Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, Laguna Beach Art Association, Oakland Art Gallery and the Institute of Design. Similarly to the work of Kandinsky, Klein’s paintings were influenced by auditory and symphonic experiences. His studio held a large collection of recorded classical music. Klein maintained his paintings sought "...an emotional response not greatly different from that evoked by the abstractions of music."

Albert Pels (American, 1910-1998)
Important WPA painter. Known for figurative works. Born 1910 Cincinnati, Ohio. Pels studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Students League of New York. He exhibited extensively from the 1930s-70s. Member of Art Students League, National Society of Mural Painters, Salmagundi Club, Society of Independent Artists. Exh. Art Institute of Chicago, Audubon Artists, Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery Biennial, MacBeth Gallery-New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York,National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy, Society of Independent Artists-Exhibit, Whitney Museum of American Art.

George Neal (American, b. 1906)
Neal was the first African American instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibited at the American Negro Expostion (Chicago, 1940), Howard University, and the Southside Community Center.

Gary Kowarin

Alonzo Hauser (American, early 20th century)

Hermann Albert (German, b. 1937)

H. Kramer

Sheila Elias (American, b.1945)

J.P. Nuyttens (American, 1885-1960)
Pierre Nuyttens is a very well known artist who worked in various mediums and a wide range of subjects. He has made portrait etchings of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Kings, Queens, actors of stage and screen, industrialists and society people have sat for him. His portraits of Edison, Lipton and Irene Castle, among others, are particularly renowned. He has also recieved awards for his literary work.

Margaret Gustavson

Carl Schmidt (American, 1909-1993)
Ohio painter, etcher, lithographer. Born 1909 in Cleveland. Studied at the Cleveland School of Art/Institute. Exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nicola Simbari (Italian, b. 1927)
Nicolo Simbari. was born July 13, 1927, in San Lucido, a small village in Calabria, Italy, deep in the south of Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea. He was raised in Rome where his father, an architect, worked for the Vatican. He studied painting and architecture at the Academy delle Belle Arte, Rome, and became a member of their faculty of architecture. Comparatively, Simbari achieved early recognition as an artist, receiving his first one-man show in London in 1957 at the age of thirty. This was followed by exhibitions in the United States, from 1959 until the present, in New York, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, and Philadelphia. He also participated in group exhibitions, such as the Quadriennale, Rome, 1955; Three Directions, San Francisco-Italy, 1959; and Thirty Young Artists, Spoleto, Italy, 1959. He has received several awards for excellence, including the gold medal for the best poster of 1954, the Italian State National Concorso, Rome; best stage set, Passerella d’Oro, Rome, 1953; and a coveted commission to paint the murals in the Italian Pavilion, Brussels World Fair, 1958. Simbari’s paintings have attained an international reputation.

L.F. DuPre

H. Gumberg

Konok

K. Vik (American,19th Century)

Gustave de Val

Stanley Tasker (American, 20th Century)
Tasker taught at Washington University in St Louis, and later worked in Florida. Exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy.

B. Priess

H. Bargas

Ray Speers (American, 20th century)
Speer lived and worked in East St Louis, and exhibited mostly locally from the 1940s-70s. A great deal of his paintings depicted African-American subjects.

Mario De Ferrante (Italian/American, 1898-1992)
Studied with Antonio Mancini in Italy before coming to the United States in 1922. The Futurists, led by Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti, belived that it was crucial to tear down all traditions of past painting philosophy (manifestos were written regarding art, music, literature, drama, etc), and begin a new technical and artistic endeavor. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, U.S. Bureau of Information (Wash. DC), Princeton, Yale, and Brigham Young Universities.

V. Alonzo

Giacometti

Eduardo Chillida (Spanish, 1924-2002)
A modernist sculptor and drawing master from the Basque section of Spain that includes his birthplace, San Sebastian, Eduardo Chillida did early work that focused on the human figure, especially torsos and busts, but later did massive abstract pieces from concrete, cast iron and steel.
In 1950, he began doing printmaking---lithography, woodcuts, etchings, drypoints and silkscreens. His graphics are not related to his sculpture but are creative expressions unto themselves. During the 1960s, his graphics tended to be massive black lines on white, giving the appearance of realistic shapes. Towards the end of his life, he did graphic reliefs.

Aristide Maillol (French, 1861-1944)
Aristide Maillol was born in Banyuls, France in 1861. Maillol's early career was spent mainly as a tapestry designer, but he also painted. Although he first made sculpture in 1895, it was only in 1900 that he decided to devote himself to it after serious eyestrain made him give up tapestry. After about 1910, he was internationally famous and received a constant flow of commissions. With only a few exceptions he restricted himself in his sculpture to the female nude. He took up painting again in 1939 when he returned to his birthplace, Banyuls, but apart from his sculpture the most important works of his maturity are his book illustrations, which helped reestablish the art of the book in the 1920s and 1930s.
His finest achievements in this field are the woodcut illustrations, which he cut himself, which show superb economy of line. He also made lithographic illustrations.

Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953)
Raoul Dufy was born on June 3, 1877 in Le Havre, France and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as well as with Othon Friesz and Lhuillier. Although inspired by Matisse and resembling him in his devotion to rhythmic line, pure color and decorative effects, Dufy was a painter of great independence and originality. During the first half of the 20th century, the Fauves, the Cubists, and the Surrealists dominated the art of France. Throughout all of these developments, Dufy went on painting the most highly civilized subjects he could find, the elegant holiday places and events of the rich.
Dufy's palette and his taste for beauty eventually led him to the world of fashion and fabric design. He formed a close relationship with the couturier Paul Poiret, for whose fashion house he designed a logo; he also designed silk fabrics. This association bought him financial security. He eventually became one of the most sought-after illustrators of his day and designed sets and costumes for the theatre as well as upholstery and wallpaper.

Charles Sebree (American, 1914-1985)
African-American painter. Sebree studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and exhibited there in the 1930s-40s. He also exhibited Katharine Kuh Gallery, American Negro Exposition (Chicago, 1940), Howard University, and the South Side Community Art Center (Chicago). He also worked as a WPA artist. It is known that Sebree painted and exhibited portraits of fellow artist, Gertrude Abercrombie, in a white turban, although the subject of this work is unidentified.

Arturo Nieto (Equadorian, 20th Century)
Nieto was known for his images of the Otavalo Tribe.

Leo Politi (American, 1908-1996)
Born in Fresno, CA on Nov. 21, 1908. Politi spent his first seven years in Fresno and then moved to Italy with his family. In 1924 he was awarded a scholarship to the National Art Institute at Monza near Milan. Leaving Italy in 1931, he settled in Los Angeles where he established a home on Bunker Hill. When not painting watercolors on Olvera Street in the Old Plaza, he was art editor of Viking Press as well as illustrator of "Little Pancho" and the weekly "Jack and Jill." He won the Caldecott Book Award three times and was awarded a medal from the Catholic Library Ass'n for his contribution to children's literature. Having painted a mural there, a branch library in Fresno was named for him in 1974. Politi died in Costa Mesta, CA on March 26, 1996. Exh: Delphi Studios (NYC), 1930s; PAFA WC Annual, 1937; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1938; DeFerrante Gallery (LA), 1941; Glendale Library, 1944; LA State College, 1961. In: University of Fresno Theater (murals).

Daniel Massen (American, 1897-1971)
Illinois art educator and painter know for geometric abstraction. Exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Born 1897 in Bornholm, Denmark and died 1971 in Washington DC.

Igor Pantuhoff ( American, b. 1911)

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Spanish painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, decorative artist and writer, active in France. He dominated 20th-century European art and was central in the development of the image of the modern artist. Episodes of his life were recounted in intimate detail, his comments on art were published and his working methods recorded on film. Painting was his principal medium, but his sculptures, prints, theatre designs and ceramics all had an impact on their respective disciplines. Even artists not influenced by the style or appearance of his work had to come to terms with its implications.

Frederick Hart (American, 1943-1999)
A sculptor and stonecutter in the classical style, Frederick Hart was an apprentice at the National Cathedral in Washington DC and learned there about sculpting and stonecutting. Then his big break came when he won a competition to design the facade of the Cathedral, which incorporated his thirteen year masterpiece of the Creation, a 21 X 15 foot bas relief. He also designed "Three Soldiers," realistic in style, for the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial to contrast with the abstraction of Maya Lin's work.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in South Carolina, he was an opponent of most contemporary art, thinking it motivated by political rather than aesthetic reasons. As a proponent of realism, he was made an honorary member of The American Society of Classical Realism Guild of Artists.
Just before his premature death from lung cancer in 1999, he built his 17,000 square-foot dream home "Chesley," on 250 acres of land in Virginia. This mansion was intended to be an artists' retreat to nourish traditional, classical values and refute modernist trends that he said allowed anything to be called art.
He endured several legal battles including the use of his "Three Soldiers" on a souvenir without his permission and a lawsuit with Time-Warner over the "demonizing" of his creation scene.

Roland W. Reed
Roland Reed was born in 1864 in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin. His parents were farm people of a Scottish ancestry.  He grew up in a log cabin near the old Indian trail that led from Lake Poygan to Fond du Lac, and the hero of his boyhood days was an Indian named Thundercloud – the chief of a band of Menominies camped on the opposite side of the lake.
Roland Reed produced an epic portrait of the unconquered North American Indian that is at once severely beautiful and ethnologically important.   It is a significant interpretation of  Indian history as  well as a major collection of photographic art.  Roland Reed began his  life’s work shortly after the turn of last century. It was his intention to publish a definitive photographic record of the North American Indian.
Using a heavy, large format, 11x14 camera, he spent 25 years and a considerable fortune recording the images of the American Indian. He worked among the Woodland Indians (Ojibway), Plains Indians (Blackfeet, Cheyenne and Flathead) and the Southwest Indians (Navajo and Hopi).  Reed had a sincere respect and affection for 
the Native American.

Walter Henry Williams (American, 1920-1988)
Important African-American artist. Walter Williams studied art at the Brooklyn Museum Art School under Ben Shahn, Reuben Tam, and Gregoria Prestopino. He also spent a summer studying art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Williams moved to Copenhagen, Denmark in the 1960's, returning only briefly to the United States to complete a body of work informed by the experiences of being an African American living in the South. While he was in Copenhagen, he created a series of colorful woodcuts of black children playing in fields of flowers. He died in Copenhagen in June 1998.

Dorothy Bartholomy (American, 1914-2005)
Bartholemy lived in East St. Louis, and studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Art (now Washington University) with Edmund Wuerpel. In 1937, she was awarded the John T. Milliken Prize for her painting, "Slave Market, 1850". This award included a year of study in Europe. Bartholemy regularly exhibited at the St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis Art Museum, and the Society of Independent Artists; as well as the Carnegie Institute (Directions in American Painting) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). Bartholemy exhibited with other well known American Scene painters, Joe Jones, Joseph Vorst, and Charles Quest. Her work is highly indicative of this unique brand of American painting, revealing the influence of pioneer Midwestern artists in this movement, such as Jones, Benton,Wood, and Curry.

Joseph Santoro (American, 1908-1996)

Ann Scott Dodson (American, 20th century)

George Colin (American, contemporary)
Colin is a contemporary folk artist from Salisbury, Illinois who has a significant following in Chicago and the Midwest. His work is in the collections of Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan.

Jorge Sanchez (Dominican, b. 1938)

Siegfried Reinhardt (German/American, 1925-1984)
Reinhardt studied at Washington University in St Louis (St Louis School of Fine Art). In the 1940s, Reinhardt designed stained glass for Emil Frei, and worked as an illustrator for the Shanghai edition of Stars and Stripes .He exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, St Louis Art Museum, and Midtown Galleries. In 1952, Life magazine hailed him as one of the most important young artists working in the United States. He executed numerous murals in St Louis, including, “The History of Flight”, at Lambert International Airport. He taught at Washington University from 1955-1970.
Exhibited: Midtown Gallery; Columbus Gallery Museum of Art; University of Connecticut; Whitney Museum of Art.

Mary Emma Schwarz (American, 20th Century)

Robert Douglas Goldman (American, b. 1908)
Goldman studied with Boardman Robinson and worked primarily in Philadelphia in the 1930's-40's.

Daniel Celentano (American, 1902-1980)
Daniel Celentano at the age of twelve was Thomas Hart Benton's first and youngest student. Celentano often focused on the Italian neighborhood of NYC where he was born and raised as the subject matter of his drawings, paintings and murals. He enjoyed an active career, exhibiting at all the major museums as an accomplished American Scene painter during the WPA and WWII era. His first one-man show was held in 1939 at the Walker Art Galleries. At the start of WWII, Celentano went to work at the Grumman Aircraft Plant, where he executed a mural on "The Story of Flight."

James Henry Daugherty (American, 1887-1974)
Born near Asheville, North Carolina, James Daugherty became one of the early exponents of American abstract painting with a focus on exploration of color and design.  He was inspired by Henri Matisse and the Fauvist movement in France, and by the Synchromist movement led by Arthur B Frost, Jr; Morgan Russell, and Stanton Macdonald-Wright.  His signature painting style in the early 1900s was arrangements of highly complex segments of color. Daugherty was also a WPA artist during the 1930s, producing many murals, especially in Connecticut where he had a studio and home in Stamford. At this time his style became more realistic, and his subject matter often referenced working-class African Americans or Native Americans.  A prolific illustrator, Daugherty completed more than 50 book commissions including biographies of Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandberg and Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving. He spent his early childhood in a highly cultured family, living near Lafayette, Indiana. In the late 1890s, he enrolled in the Corcoran Gallery's Free School in Washington D.C., and in Philadelphia, he studied with William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
From 1905-1907, he traveled in Europe and studied muralism at the London School of Art with Frank Brangwyn. When he worked as an illustrator in New York City, he developed his friendship with Arthur B. Frost, Jr., who exposed him to abstract techniques.

Ernest Hamlin Baker (American, 1889-1975)
Ernest Baker, born in 1889 in Rhode Island, was a self-taught illustrator. Most of his works were covers for Time Magazine , although he was responsible for eleven covers for Fortune Magazine between 1929 and 1941.
Beginning in 1939, Baker produced over 300 covers for Time during his seventeen-year tenure with the magazine. He was described by Time publisher, Ralph Ingersoll, as an artist who could do anything. George Marshall, selected as Times Man of the Year in 1947, was one of Bakers most famous subjects.
During the 1930s, Baker became involved in several WPA programs, one being "Activities of the Narragansett Planters", a 1939 mural which is located in the Wakefield Post Office in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

James Barre Turnbull (American, 1909-1976)
James Turnbull, a social realist, travelled far and wide from his native Missouri in search of the share-croppers, chain gangs and miners who are featured prominently in his work. As a muralist he was awarded several important commissions. In 1987, his murals were the joint focus - with those of Joe Jones - of the "Visions of the Mid west in the 1930s" exhibition.

Lou Krugman

Gomez Reyez

Claude Buck (American, 1890-1974)
Claude Buck was born in New York in 1890 and received his early instruction from his artist-father. A child prodigy, Claude entered the National Academy of Design at the age of 14, staying on for the next 8 years. His works caught the eye of a Chicago art dealer whose representation prompted his move to that city in 1919. There, he participated in a number of exhibitions and one-man shows. In order to be closer to his son, Buck and his wife moved to Santa Cruz, California in 1943. Buck is best known for his exquisite portraits and still lifes, both showing Asian design influences, and for his introspective symbolist paintings. In California, he was a member of the Carmel Art Association, the Santa Cruz Art League that he served as President in 1953,and the Santa Barbara Art Association. His paintings are in the collections of the Santa Cruz Public Library; the Santa Cruz City Museum as well as the Spencer Museum in Lawrence, Kansas; the Brigham Young University Museum; and the Museum of Elgin, Illinois.

Ellis Prentice Cole (American, 1862-1952)
Cole was a Chicago painter, photographer, and lecturer. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago as early as 1902. Cole executed photographs of the Worldís Colombian Exposition of Chicago as well as portraits, but his primary subjects were Native Americans, particularly the Crow, and the National Parks of the West. His works are in the collections of Little Big Horn College (Crow Agency, Montana), The Crow Indian Historical and Cultural Collection; Crater Lake Institute (Oregon); and the National Parks Portfolio (United States Department of the Interior). Cole's approach was fairly literal, but he had a keen sense of composition, and the subject content alone is captivating.

Peter Keil (German, 20th century)
Keil is with Elvira Bach, Rainer Fetting, and Georg Baselitz in the Grossen Wilden of Berlin. He studied with Otto Nagel, Berlin Academy of Fine Art, and with Miro on Mallorca.

Tom Nicholas (American, b. 1934)
Massachusetts painter often known for sea-landscape, still life, and figure painting.

Helen Van Wyk (American, 1930-1994)
Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Helen Van Wyk became a resident of Rockport, Massachusetts in 1968 and was a painter of portraits and still lifes as well as a highly active person in the community including the Rockport Art Association. She wrote seven books taught and demonstrated around the country. She became most known for her PBS television series on painting, "Welcome to my Studio" in the 1990s . Her works can be found in the collections of the Norfolk Museum Arts & Science, Virginia; Bergen County Museum, NJ; St. Vincents College, Latrobe, PA; Minneapolis Club.

Paul Strisik (American, 1918-1998)
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Strisik became a resident of Rockport, Massachusetts, where he did landscape painting that brought him national recognition. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and with Frank Vincent DuMond. In 1953, he moved to Rockport, where he was active in the Art Association and other local civic organizations. He was a member of the National Academy of Western Art, the American Watercolor Society, and the Oil Painters of America. During his long career, he won 185 awards including 16 gold medals. He and his wife, Nancy, also maintained a home in Santa Fe for 12 years, and in 1996, he was honored as Artist of the Year by the Santa Fe Rotary Club. He was widely respected for his willingness to share his talents with young artists, and taught numerous workshops including at the Scottsdale Artists' School. He wrote several books, his last one being "Capturing the Light in Oils."

Carl Antonio Longi (Italian, 1921-1980)

Vaxon (American, 20th Century)

Adele Lemm (American, 1904-1977)
Adele Lemm's goal with her painting is to discover a sense of summer, the season's color and heat, recreation and restoration, fun and fancy. For summers were all these things and more to Adele Lemm (1904-1977), a Memphis teacher-artist. Adele Lemm''s passion for her art was borne out not only in her products, but also in her living. For a quarter of a century, Lemm was a dedicated and popular instructor at the Memphis Academy of Art. She exhibited at the National Academy of Women Artists' annual show, winning five prizes, and at many galleries and museums throughout the East, including the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York City, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and the Delgado Museum in New Orleans.

Lee Chubb (American, 1904-2003)
Louise "Lee" Langenohl Chubb was born in Saint Louis in 1904. Over a 20 year period Chubb composed an extraordinary number of Abstract Expressionist works. In the 1980s Emily Ann Cramer, daughter-in-law of Belle Cramer, introduced Chubb to print making. Blending prints with collage, Chubb produced monographs and collographs that heralded a new era in her work. Chubb's most popular works are landscapes, portraits, and city skylines. These are striking for their bold colors and architectural forms. Her works have appeared in some 50 juried shows since the 1960s. In 2002 a number of her sculptures and paintings were exhibited at the Sheldon Art Galleries in "Lee Chubb: A Retrospective." Twelve of the artist's works, including a self-portrait, "The Amateur Changes her Style," hang in the Saint Louis University Museum of Art.

J. Hanke (American, 20th century)

Genaro (20th century)

Sam Weil (American, 20th century)

Haydee (American, 20th century)

Reeves (American, 20th century)

Esther Silber Reed (American b. 1900)
A painter and illustrator, Esther Reed studied at the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts, the Art Students League in New York, and with Hugh Breckenridge at the Breckenridge School of Painting.
She was a member of the St. Louis Art Guild where she won prizes in exhibitions and was also a member of the Saint Louis Independent Artists. She lived in Pasadena, California in 1940, staying for one year.  Otherwise, her home was in St. Louis.

Onesimo Colin Delgado (20th century)


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