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Lu Duble
Lu Duble (January 21, 1896 — August 8, 1970), born Lucinda Davies, was an English-born American artist. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937 and 1938, to study art and sculpture in Haiti. Early life and education Lucinda Christine Davies was born in 1896, in Oxford, England, the daughter of John Walter Davies and Marianne Mogridge Davies. Her father was an author, editor, and journalist. Her mother's grandfather was author George Mogridge. She moved to the United States with her parents in 1903, as a young child. Davies trained at the Art Students League and Cooper Union in New York City. Her mentors included Alexander Archipenko, Jose de Creeft, and Hans Hofmann. Career From 1918 to 1937, Duble was head of the sculpture program at Bennett Junior College in Millbrook, New York. She also taught sculpture classes at Brearley School, Dalton School, Greenwich House, and Montclair Art Museum. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937 and 1938, to study art a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation issues awards in each of two separate competitions: * One open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. * The other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America and Caribbean competition is currently suspended "while we examine the workings and efficacy of the program. The U.S. and Canadian competition is unaffected by this suspension." The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. The fellowships are not open to students, only to "advanced professionals in mid-career" such as published authors. The fellows may spend the money as they see fit, as the purpose is to give fellows "b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Association Of Women Painters And Sculptors
The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards and prizes, and organizes lectures and special events. NAWA’s 1988 Centennial Exhibition stimulated an ongoing debate in the media about female representation in the arts and gender parity in major exhibitions and historical art studies. Constitution NAWA is a non-profit organization, based in Gramercy Park, NYC, with chapters in Florida, South Carolina and Massachusetts. The Board and Officers of the Association are voted in annually by the membership, which numbers over 850 (at 2020). History Early years: Woman's Art Club of New York (1889–1913) NAWA was founded as the Woman's Art Club of New York by artists Anita C. Ashley, Adele Frances Bedell, Elizabeth S. Cheever, Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, and Grace Fitz-Randolph in Frit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Matter
Mercedes Matter (née Carles; 1913 – December 4, 2001) was an American painter, draughtswoman, and writer. She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, and the Founder and Dean Emeritus of the New York Studio School. Biography Matter's father was the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles who had studied with Henri Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe. She first painted under her father's supervision at age 6 and would later recall being given a paintbox to use while working alongside him in the French countryside. After her parents divorced in 1926, Matter spent her remaining school years at various private schools in Europe and America. At the age of 12, she returned to Europe and lived in Italy for over 2 years. She would later recount that her time in Italy—including Venice, Assisi, Rome, and Florence—was formative and her primary education i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Eames
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (née Kaiser; December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was an American artist and designer who worked in a variety of media. In creative partnership with her husband Charles Eames and The Eames Office, she was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architecture, graphic design, textile design, film, and furniture. The Eames Office is most famous for its furniture, which is still being made today. Together, the Eameses are considered one of the most influential creative forces of the twentieth century. During her lifetime, Ray Kaiser Eames was given notably less credit than she has been given posthumously in art and design literature, museum shows, and documentaries. Biography Early life Ray Eames was born in Sacramento, California to Alexander and Edna Burr Kaiser, and had an older brother named Maurice. Edna was Episcopalian and Alexander was raised Jewish but did not practice; Ray and Maurice were raised as Episc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhys Caparn
Rhys Caparn (1909–1997) was an American sculptor known for her animal, landscape, and architectural subjects. Her works were mostly abstract but based on natural forms. In many of them she employed free lines and used a restrained style that nonetheless conveyed what critics saw as an emotional charge. In the animal sculptures for which she became best known, she achieved what a critic called "a graceful curvilinear balance." Another critic put this aspect of her style in terms of the arch of a cat's back in one of her pieces: "A cat's arched back is a pleasingly rounded shape and well balanced on the foundation of paws. But it is still a cat's back, embodying a cat's peculiar physical response to fear or affection." Her foundational influences included an ancient Greek statue and the abstract works of Constantin Brancusi. From her most prominent instructor, Alexander Archipenko, she said she learned to seek out the underlying ideal in a natural form, the point at which "for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Dehner
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an American painter and sculptor. Early life Dorothy Dehner was born on December 23, 1901, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a passionate suffragette. When Dehner was ten years old, her father died and her two aunts, Flo and Cora, moved in. Cora aroused Dehner's curiosity about foreign culture with extravagant tales of her travels abroad. Cora's tales would later provide the inspiration for Dehner's solo trip to Europe in 1925. In 1915, as a result of her mother's declining health, the family of four moved to Pasadena, California, where Dehner actively studied theater at the Pasadena Playhouse.McCandless, p. 21 Dehner experienced heavy emotional loss over the next two years in which both her sister and mother died. In 1918, she moved to California to pursue her acting career and attended classes at the Pasadena Playhouse. In 1922, she pursued studies in theater at the University of California Los Angeles, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Academy Of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition." Membership is limited to 450 American artists and architects, who are elected by their peers on the basis of recognized excellence. History The original founders of the National Academy of Design were students of the American Academy of the Fine Arts. However, by 1825 the students of the American Academy felt a lack of support for teaching from the academy, its board composed of merchants, lawyers, and physicians, and from its unsympathetic president, the painter John Trumbull. Samuel Morse and other students set about forming "the drawing association", to meet several times each week for the study of the art of design. Still, the association was viewed as a dependent organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Sculpture Society
Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States. The purpose of the organization was to promote the welfare of American sculptors, although its founding members included several renowned architects. The founding members included such well known figures of the day as Daniel Chester French, Augustus St. Gaudens, Richard Morris Hunt, and Stanford White as well as sculptors less familiar today, such as Herbert Adams, Paul W. Bartlett, Karl Bitter, J. Massey Rhind, Attilio Piccirilli, and John Quincy Adams Ward—who served as the first president for the society. Since its founding in the nineteenth century, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) has remained dedicated to promoting figurative and realistic sculpture. During the years 1919 to 1924, four works commissioned from members of the National Sculpture Society were funded by philanthropist Paul Goodloe McIntire, including '' George Rogers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Association Of Women Artists
The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards and prizes, and organizes lectures and special events. NAWA’s 1988 Centennial Exhibition stimulated an ongoing debate in the media about female representation in the arts and gender parity in major exhibitions and historical art studies. Constitution NAWA is a non-profit organization, based in Gramercy Park, NYC, with chapters in Florida, South Carolina and Massachusetts. The Board and Officers of the Association are voted in annually by the membership, which numbers over 850 (at 2020). History Early years: Woman's Art Club of New York (1889–1913) NAWA was founded as the Woman's Art Club of New York by artists Anita C. Ashley, Adele Frances Bedell, Elizabeth S. Cheever, Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, and Grace Fitz-Randolph in Frit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Sanford
Marion Sanford (February 9, 1904 - February 1987) was an American sculptor known for her bronze portraits of women engaged in everyday domestic activities. Early life and career Sanford was born to American parents in Guelph, Ontario and was raised on a farm in Warren, Pennsylvania. Her artistic education began at Pratt Institute, where she studied painting in 1922. She later worked as a stage and costume designer before developing an interest in sculpture. At the Art Students League of New York, Sanford studied sculpture under Leo Lentelli and Robert Laurent, experimenting with the direct-carving method. She also worked as an apprentice to artist Brenda Putnam between 1937 and 1940. Sanford provided pen and ink illustrations for Putnam's book, ''The Sculptor's Way,'' and is referred to by Putnam in that book as "my pupil, assistant and colleague." In 1937, Sanford had her first exhibition of sculptures. The same year, her statue ''Diana'' was awarded a prize by the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelia Van Auken Chapin
Cornelia Van Auken Chapin (August 7, 1893 – December 4, 1972) American sculptor and animalier born in Waterford, Connecticut. She was known for her stone models of birds and animals, which she largely carved directly from life and without preliminary models or sketches. Early life Cornelia Chapin was born in Connecticut and raised in New York City as part of a prominent socialite family.Sculptors’ Guild Travelling Exhibition, 1940-1941’’, Sculptors’ Guild, New York, New York, 1940 p. 6 Daughter of Lindley Hoffman Chapin (1854-1896), a Manhattan lawyer and Cornelia Garrison (Van Auken) Chapin (1865-1925), an actress, Cornelia Chapin was also a descendant of Supreme Court Justice George P. Andrews (who presided in the trials of former slave traders) and Cornelius K. Garrison (a merchant involved with the building of railroads). Chapin was also sister to poet Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle, whose husband Francis Biddle was the 58th United States Attorney General. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Central Art Galleries
The Grand Central Art Galleries were the exhibition and administrative space of the nonprofit Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, an artists' cooperative established in 1922 by Walter Leighton Clark together with John Singer Sargent, Edmund Greacen, and others."Painters and Sculptors' Gallery Association to Begin Work," ''The New York Times'', December 19, 1922 Artists closely associated with the Grand Central Art Galleries included Hovsep Pushman, George de Forest Brush, and especially Sargent, whose posthumous show took place there in 1928."Grand Central Gallery Shows Material Found in Artist's Studio After His Death," ''The New York Times'', February 15, 1928 The Galleries were active from 1923 until 1994. For 29 years they were located on the sixth floor of Grand Central Terminal. At their 1923 opening, the Galleries covered and offered nine exhibition areas and a reception room,"New Art Gallery Opens to Throng," ''The New York Times'', March 22, 1923 described as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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