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Akers, Charles  

American, 19th century, male.

Born 15 November 1836, near Hollis (Maine); died 16 September 1906, in New York.

Sculptor, draughtsman. Busts.

Charles Akers' brother, Benjamin Akers, was his teacher in Rome from 1857 to 1858. He sculpted a large number of busts and medallions of famous men, including ...

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Ames, Blanche  

American, 19th – 20th century, female.

Sculptor, painter. Still-lifes.

Blanche Ames lived in Lowell, Massachusetts, between 1903 and 1904.

New York, 24 Oct 1986: Still-life (1923, oil on canvas, 30 × 24½ ins/76.2 × 62.5 cm) USD 1,000

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Andrieu, Jules  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1844, in New Orleans; died 1923, in New Orleans.

Painter, sculptor.

Jules Andrieu studied with Ernest Ciceri in Paris and then worked at Pass Christian c. 1907-1908.

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Aronson, David  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 1923, in Shilova, Lithuania; died, 2 July 2015, in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Painter, sculptor, pastellist. Figures, portraits.

Symbolism.

David Aronson was the son of a rabbi and arrived in the USA at the age of five. He founded the School of Art at the University of Boston, which he ran for 30 years. He received many awards including the Purchase Prize at the National Academy of Fine Arts in ...

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Bagg, Louise  

American, 19th – 20th century, female.

Born in Springfield (Massachusetts).

Sculptor, painter.

Louise Bagg went to work in Paris, under the direction of the sculptor Desvergnes. She won a bronze medal at the St Louis Exhibition in 1904.

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Ball, Thomas  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in Florence, Italy from 1865.

Born 3 June 1819, in Charlestown near Boston; died 11 December 1911, in Montclair (New Jersey).

Painter, sculptor. Figures. Groups, busts.

Thomas Ball initially worked as a painter of miniatures, opening a studio in Boston in ...

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Ball, Thomas  

Pamela H. Simpson

(b Charlestown, MA, June 3, 1819; d Montclair, NJ, Dec 11, 1911).

American sculptor and painter, active also in Italy. Active in the mid-19th century, and for much of his career an expatriate in Italy, Ball is noted for his bronze portrait statues. Largely self-taught, he began as a painter in New England before turning to sculpture. In 1854 he settled in Italy and became an important part of the American expatriate community. He returned to Boston in 1857, but went back to Italy in 1865, where his house and studio became important stops for American artists and visitors. His pupils included Daniel Chester French and Martin Milmore (1844–83). Ball’s naturalistic style was little influenced by the Neo-classicism of contemporaries such as Hiram Powers. A pioneer in the popularization of mass-produced statuettes, he is best known for his public monuments, especially the equestrian statue of George Washington in the Boston Public Gardens and the Emancipation Group in Washington, DC.

Ball’s father was a sign painter, and both his parents were interested in music, a gift he shared. He supplemented his income early in his career by singing professionally. After his father’s death, he left school and worked at various jobs including cutting silhouettes and painting miniature portraits. His first sculpture success was with a cabinet-sized portrait of the Swedish soprano ...

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Barney, J. Stewart  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1868 or 1869; died 1925, in New York.

Painter, sculptor. Landscapes.

New York, 28 Nov 1995: Stream (oil on canvas, 25 × 29 ins/63.8 × 73.5 cm) USD 1,725

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Barthé, James Richmond  

Margaret Rose Vendryes

(b Bay St Louis, MS, Jan 28, 1909; d Pasadena, CA, March 6, 1989).

African American sculptor and painter. Barthé was raised a devout Roman Catholic Creole. He was also the only African American artist of his generation to consistently portray the black male nude. Although closeted throughout his life, sensual figures such as Stevedore (1937; Hampton, VA, U. Mus.) expose his homosexuality. Barthé’s elementary education ended in 1914. As an adolescent, he skillfully copied magazine illustrations, especially figures. Barthé worked for the wealthy New Orleans Pond family, who summered on the Bay, and in 1917, he moved to New Orleans to become their live-in servant. Barthé had access to the Pond library and art collection, and while in their employment, he began to paint in oil. In 1924, his head of Jesus prompted the Rev. Harry F. Kane to fund the first of four years at the Art Institute of Chicago School, where Barthé studied painting with Charles Schroeder and sculpture with Albin Polasek (...

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Baylos, Zelma  

American, 19th – 20th century, female.

Born 1867, in Butka, Hungary.

Painter, sculptor. Portraits.

Zelma Baylos studied in Paris from 1897 to 1901, and showed two portraits in the Salon.

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Beman, Jean  

American, 19th century, female.

Born 1865, in Waterloo (New York).

Painter, sculptor, illustrator.

Jean Beman was a pupil of Walter Satterlee and Irving Wiles in New York.

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Bickfory, Nelson N.  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in New York.

Painter, sculptor. Animals.

Nelson N. Bickfory was a student of Lefebvre, Boulanger and Bouguereau in Paris and also exhibited at the National Academy of Design. He was a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia.

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Bicknell, Albion Harris  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1837, in Turner (Dakota); died 1915, in Malden (Massachusetts).

Painter, sculptor. Historical portraits, landscapes, urban landscapes, still-lifes (flowers), animals.

New York, 19 June 1981: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1913, oil on canvas, 50 × 40½ ins/127 × 102.9 cm) ...

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Bicknell, Frank Alfred  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 17 February 1866, in Augusta (Maine); died 1943.

Painter, sculptor. Landscapes.

Frank Alfred Bicknell was a student at the Académie Julian in Paris, and a member of the Society of American Sculptors, the 'American Art Association' in Paris, and the Salmagundi Club, New York. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in ...

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Birren, Joseph Pierre  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 14 May 1864, in Chicago.

Painter, illustrator, sculptor. Genre scenes.

Joseph Pierre Birren studied in Paris with Benjamin Constant, Gustave Courtois and Jean Falguière. He was a member of the Palette and Chisel Club, and was its President in ...

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Blythe, David Gilmour  

Gina M. D’Angelo

(b Wellsville, OH, May 9, 1815; d Pittsburgh, PA, May 15, 1865).

American painter and sculptor. An artistic jack-of-all-trades, Blythe is recognized today as the foremost satirical painter of the mid-19th century. At a time when most American genre painters depicted idyllic, sentimental pictures of American life, Blythe’s images were unique, often highlighting the social and political ills of post-Jacksonian America.

The son of Scottish–Irish Presbyterian immigrants, Blythe grew up on a farm in East Liverpool, OH. His strict upbringing informed his sense of moral righteousness and his staunch commitment to individual rights and liberty. In 1831 Blythe went to Pittsburgh to apprentice with the wood-carver Joseph Woodwell and, after a stint in the Navy, returned to his hometown in 1840 and began his artistic career.

Between 1841 and 1852 he worked as an itinerant portraitist, painting stiff likenesses of the local gentry along the Ohio River. He also carved a monumental wood sculpture of the Marquis de Lafayette (1850) for the dome of the Uniontown Courthouse (...

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Boardman, Frank Crawford  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born in Hartford (Connecticut).

Painter, sculptor.

Frank Crawford Boardman was a student at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, and at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

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Boericke, Johanna M.  

American, 19th – 20th century, female.

Born in Philadelphia.

Painter, sculptor.

Johanna M. Boericke attended the Pennsylvannia Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and completed her training in Rome and Paris. She was a member of the Plastic Club and of the Academy of Pennsylvania.

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Borglum, (John) Gutzon  

Phil Kovinick

(b Ovid, ID, March 25, 1867; d Chicago, IL, March 6, 1941).

American sculptor and painter. He was born into a Mormon family practising plural marriage and early suffered the loss of his mother when his father separated from the religion. Reared mostly in Fremont and Omaha, NE, he studied briefly at St Mary’s Academy in Kansas City, KS (1882). Some time later (c. 1884), he worked as an engraver for an Omaha newspaper. Interested in a career in art, he next went to Los Angeles. There he apprenticed himself to a lithographer, then turned to fresco painting and etching; c. 1885 he met Elizabeth Janes Putnam (1848–1922), a divorcee and accomplished painter many years his senior, who became his wife (1889). Before that, however, encouraged by her, he travelled to San Francisco and studied at the California School of Design (c. 1885–6) under Virgil Williams (1830–86) and received criticism from William Keith. On his return to Los Angeles, while sharing a studio with Putnam, Borglum was working on ...

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Borglum, John Gutzon de La Mothe or Gutzon  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 25 March 1867, in Bear Lake or Ovid (Idaho), to Danish parents; died 6 March 1941, in Chicago.

Sculptor, painter, illustrator, decorative designer. Figures, portraits, historical subjects.

Gutzon Borglum, brother of Solon Borglum, was born to a Mormon father with two wives, and he lost contact with his mother when his father left the religion and decided to conform to society's norms for marriage by abandoning her. Borglum studied at St Mary's Academy, Kansas City, in ...