Charles Partridge Adams was an American landscape painter renown for his images of Colorado. Charles Adams was born in Franklin, Massachusetts in the year 1858. His family moved west to Denver in 1876 and within a year he found employment at a bookstore.
Adams is considered by many historians to be the best Colorado landscape painter in history. One of Adams favorite subjects were the wonderful snow covered peaks of Colorado. Other popular locations he painted include Massachusetts and Colorado.
One of his first teachers was named Helen Chain, she was a student of the famed painter George Inness. The artist studied with various teachers for brief periods of time, but he didn’t attend a formal artistic academy and remained largely self taught. He honed his skills by going on camping trips, for as long as three months, where he just sketched and painted the local landscapes.
Charles Partridge Adams passed away in 1942.
In this clip we view an appraisal of a painting by Adams seen on my favorite television show, the Antiques Roadshow!:
Michael Glier is an American artist renown for his work with the figure. Glier was born in the year 1953. The artist attended Williams College located Williamstown, Massachusetts earning a B.A.. The artist went on to earn a M.F.A. from Hunter College located in New York City. In addition the artist took classes at the Whitney Museum and also the Rhode Island School of Design.
Glier is also a wonderful teacher of anatomy and drawing the human figure. In this clip Glier talks about teaching:
Glier enjoys working with mixed media including charcoal and acrylics using non-traditional backgrounds such as fiberglass. Glier began working en plein air in 2009. He has traveled to locations around the globe to paint fantastic landscapes that show the climate differences between Canada, the Virgin Islands, and New York City.
I enjoy Glier’s use of shape to build solid forms on a flat surface. Glier also has a keen sense of design in his landscapes that keep the eyes of the viewer constantly shifting about the picture. His landscapes are a great mix of realism and abstraction.
Wanda Koop is a Canadian painter of the landscape in a modernist style. Wanda Koop was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in the year 1951. The artist was raised and still resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The artist attended college at the University of Manitoba located in Winnipeg.
Koop works in other mediums including video art. For her paintings most works are made with acrylics.
Koop was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2005.
In this clip from Waddington’s Auction House of Canada, where so many of the Inuit auctions take place, we view a wonderful signature work from 2007 that sells for more than $26,000 at auction:
Koop has multiple works in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Her works are also in museums in Iceland and China.
Koop is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Below a brief interview with the artist:
This artist is great because she does a great job in trying to give her local community as much art as possible. She opened a place called Art City where people of any age can go and receive free art instruction. Art City is located in Winnipeg.
Russell Drysdale was one of the most prominent painters in the history of Australia renown for his work with the Australian outback. Drysdale was born in Bognor, Sussex, England in the year 1912. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia and attended college in London, England at the Grosvenor School of Art and also in the Grand Chaumiere in Paris, France.
From the National Gallery of Australia we view a signature work of Drysdale showcasing his thoughts on the Australian landscape:
Drysdale was an outstanding painter despite having very poor eyesight. He was nearly blind in his left eye due to a detached retina when he was only 17 years of age.
The artist had a very successful solo show in 1938 which established him on the international art scene.
In his landscapes, Drysdale was particularly admired for his depictions of the drought ravaged region in New South Wales.
The artist received his knighthood in 1969. Drysdale passed away in the year 1981.
From ABC of Australia we view a show that took place in 2012 in Sydney featuring the work of Drysdale:
Price range information: The artist worked as a printmaker and also used watercolor, oils, and inks. Prices range from $5,000 to $750,000.
On a personal note, Drysdale lost two important people in his life. His son Tim took his own life at the age of 21. In the year that followed his wife also took his own life.
Drysdale was great at capturing the emotions and different physical traits of people.
Stephen Bone was an English artist renown for his landscape paintings and woodcut prints. Stephen Bone was born in Chiswick, London in the 1904.
Bone attended the Slade School of Fine Art located in London, England. His father was an Scottish artist who worked as an etcher and watercolor painter. His father was Sir Muirhead Bone. His father liked to paint works dealing with architecture.
Bone worked in a position that his father held previously, working as a full time salaried war time painter whose specialty was admiral and naval scenes.
In this clip we view a montage of works over Stephen Bone’s career:
Bone married another artist named Mary Adshead. The couple illustrated two children’s books. His wife also designed stamps. The couple had three children.
Stephen Bone passed away from cancer complications in 1958 at the age of 53 years of age.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
The artist is part of the Tate Museum collection.
Bone comes from a wonderful family of artists. Next up will be his father, Sir Muirhead Bone. What is so interesting is that you have Muirhead Bone, Stephen Bone, and Mary Adshead (Stephen’s wife) who all paint the same subject matter, war and naval scenes.
What a great use of perspective in his paintings of submarines.
Woody Gwyn is an American painter renown for his panoramic landscape works. Woody Gwyn was born in San Antonio, Texas in the year 1944. Gwyn attended college at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts located in Philadelphia.
From the Denver Art Museum, Woody Gwyn talks about what he hopes viewers achieve when looking at his artwork:
From the fantastic Public Television of New Mexico we view the artist at work on some landscape paintings. This clip is only 3 years old so it gives an up to date look at his style of painting:
The artist has a wonderful sense of design for depicting the vastness of space found in his art. In a museum a person is generally attracted to realism piece when its recognizable from across the room. Gwyn’s panoramic paintings of highways and the ocean make the viewer feel as if they are on the location themselves.
Having seen the work of this artist in person two other artists who show a great talent for depicting vastness of space are Rackstraw Downes and Keith Jacobshagen.
Alvin Hollingsworth was an African American artist who was renown for being among the first minority comic book artists. Alvin Hollingsworth was born in Harlem, New York in the year 1928. The artist began drawing at age 4. When he was twelve he was named to an art assistant post for Cat-Man comics.
In this clip we view a work of Hollingsworth that went to auction in 2013:
Over his comic career the artist also worked for other companies depicting superheroes and even romantic comics.
The artist also worked as a teacher for the High School of Art and Design located in Manhattan, New York. Hollingsworth also taught at the City University of New York.
After deciding to take up painting Hollingsworth painted the figure and also abstract works. He often included themes of women’s and minority rights in his figure works.
Alvin Hollingsworth passed away in 2000.
Unlike many comic artists Hollingsworth even inked his own work.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
It seems this artist was somewhat of a prodigy being a paid artist at 12 years of age! Other artists who worked with comic books before working as painters include Everett Raymond Kinstler and William Wray.
Hanson Puthuff was an American landscape painter born in Waverly, Missouri in the year 1875. Puthuff attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Denver, Colorado. The artist enjoyed painting the desert landscapes of California.
The artist began his art career painting billboards and sign painter. His working process made it easy for the artist become a great landscape painter. To paint a sign he and his associates would be taken to the location of the sign and billboard via horse wagon and dropped off. When the sign or billboard was done the group would paint landscapes of the area whilst waiting for the wagon to return and pick them up.
Puthuff was a founding member of the California Art Club.
In this clip we view a great montage of works by Hanson Puthuff. What a great painter of trees and mountains. The artist also had a gift for using aerial perspective to give his works a great sense of depth:
Hanson Puthuff passed away in 1972.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
What a great painter of the landscape and in particular trees and mountains.
Dustin Yellin is a fantastic artist who makes 3 dimensional paintings in glass using acrylic paint. Dustin Yellin was born in Los Angeles, California in the year 1975. Yellin is a painter, collage artist, and draftsman who uses combines all of these skills when making one of his 3 dimensional works.
The artist moved to New York in 1995. He supported himself by performing street art.
Yellin uses a lot of glass in each work, even the smaller ones. In his studio we visit with James Kalm the artist tells us he had 15 tons of glass in his studio at the time of Kalm’s visit. Each layer is made individually and then layered upon each other to give the work tremendous depth.
The depth is best scene in his works with trees and forests. Many of these works are made just with one color of paint.
In this clip we visit the studio of Dustin Yellin with our art amigo James Kalm (from 2011) This clip is awesome because Mr. Kalm shoots images from the side and in front of the works so the realism and abstraction of each work is seen. :
Price range information: Sorry none available.
I enjoy the creativity of this artist. His acrylic trees are amazing! All the works in glass are so unique because they both explore the fields of abstraction, color, and realism. A visual feast for our eyes!
Millard Sheets was born in Pomona, California in the year 1907. Sheets was renown for his painting skills, but also produced fantastic mosaics and sculptures. Sheets not only created the mosaics for a branch bank that existed in California, he also was the major architect of the buildings.
Sheets attended the Chouinard Art Institute located in Los Angeles, California. Its fair to see he mastered the medium at an early age. Whilst still a teen, he was accepted into some prestigious watercolor societies. Sheets was also given the opportunity to teach the art of watercolor before he graduated from Chouinard.
The artist was also renown for his wonderful skill at teaching. Sheets served as director for the Otis Art Institute located in Los Angeles. He helped the program develop new artistic programs.
The artist worked for such nationally renown companies as Life as an illustrator. He also did illustration work for the United States Army.
Sheets completed large mosaic murals and the one pictured below is located in Dallas, Texas. The work was completed in 1959.
Millard Sheets passed away in 1989.
In this clip fellow artists talk about Millard Sheets. Some works are also shown:
Price range information: The artist worked in watercolors and oils. Works range from $10,000 to $150,000.
What a fascinating artist! From painting, to sculpture, and even mosaics and architecture, his creativity had no limit!
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