Carlo Carrà was an Italian painter associated with the Futurist movement. Carlo Carrà was born in Quargnento, Italy in the year 1881. In addition to Futurist work, the artist was an accomplished realist painter.
The artist worked in a Futurist manner until the outbreak of World War One.
Below a great montage of works by Carlo Carrà:
Carlo Carrà passed away in 1966.
The artist was a prolific author publishing several books on art over his lifetime.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
In this clip another great selection of works by Carrà:
Carrà was very innovative in his compositions and use of color.
Ben Nicholson was a British artist renown for his abstract and cubist painting styles. His abstract works focus on bold color choices and basic geometric shapes. For his cubist works he is best known for his work with the still life and mugs and various drinking vessels.
Ben Nicholson was born in Denham, Buckingshire, England in the year 1894. His family was well known in the region as his mother and father were both painters and a brother went on to be a well known architect.
The artist attended the Slade School of Fine Art located in London, England.
In this clip we take a closer look at one of Nicholson’s still life paintings up for sale at Christie’s Auction House:
Nicholson had severe asthma. This condition would not allow him to serve his country in World War 1.
He was married to sculptor Barbara Hepworth for more than one decade. The artist was married three times.
Nicholson was also an avid printmaker.
Below a large selection of works by Ben Nicholson:
Ben Nicholson passed away in 1982.
Price range information: Works in pencil start around $20,000. Etchings start at $5,000. An original oil has sold for more than $1.6 million dollars at auction.
Mary Fedden was a British artist renown for her modernist paintings of the still life. Mary Fedden was born in Bristol, England in the year 1915.
Fedden attended the Slade School of Art located in London, England.
The artist was the first women to teach at the Royal College of Art located in London, England. Some students of hers included David Hockney and
She is sometimes mistaken as being the daughter of Sir Roy Fedden. Sir Roy Fedden helped to design aircrafts and was a noted engineer. Sir Roy Fedden was the uncle of Mary Fedden.
Fedden was married to another artist name Julian Trevelyan. As a huge fan of families of artist, Julian Trevelyan will be the next post! The couple were based much of their life sharing a studio on the famed River Thames.
In this clip we view a wonderful selection of paintings by Mary Fedden. She was able to have great depth in her work. This quality is always enhanced in her works by large very flat areas of the painting. A great combination:
Mary Fedden passed in 2012 at the age of 96 years of age.
Below we visit the studio of the artist. It is very interesting because she NEVER paints away from her studio. This is a short clip from a documentary about Mary Fedden:
Price range information: Fedden was a very prolific painter and printmaker. Works start at $8,000 for a watercolor, gouache, or print. Original oils can fetch $60,000.
Robert Douglas Hunter is a wonderful painter who specializes in painting the still life. Robert Douglas Hunter was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in the year 1928.
Hunter served in the United States Marine Corps.
In this clip more works by Hunter:
Here the Robert Hunter tells us what he thinks all great paintings have in common. From the Boston Guild of Artists Group:
For his artistic education Hunter attended the Vesper George School of Art located in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition the artist studied privately with artists Henry Hensche and Robert Hale Ives Gammell.
The artist is now based out of Walpole, Massachusetts.
For compositions Robert Douglas Hunter reminds me of the Dutch and Flemish masters who mastered the art of the still life. Artists from this time period made beautiful paintings from very limited resources. Floral bouquets were painted one at a time, even wealthy Dutch of the tulip era seldom displayed more than one tulip in a vase at one time.
Hunter is one of my favorite painters of vessels. His bowls, vases, and jars have a great simple shape and bold color. The bold and strong color makes for a strong reflection.
Hunter served as president for the Boston Guild of Artists for five years from 1973 until 1978.
Another great painter of vessels I have profiled would be Jeff Legg.
In addition to his own art career, Hunter has been a treasure to anyone wishing to pursue a career in the arts. The artist has taught over forty individuals who went on to professional art careers.
Price range information: The artist works with oils and prices range from $10,000 to $40,000.
Phyllis Plattner is wonderful artist renowned for her still life paintings. Phyllis Plattner was born in 1940 and grew up in New York City. For her artistic education Plattner attended the New York City High School of Music and Art. Plattner went on to college earning a bachelors degree from Bennington College located in Bennington, Vermont.
Plattner earned a M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate Schoo.
Plattner counts Bonnard, the wonderful painter of female nudes and floral scenes as a major influence.
Plattner works in many mediums including acrylics, oils, printmaking, and watercolor.
What I enjoy most about Plattner’s work is the fact she paints looking down at objects rather than the traditional boring still life. Plattner is great at using a mixture of shapes on her canvas and does a wonderful job and finding many different textures in her paintings to keep the interest of the viewer.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
Another artist who paints many works looking down is the Dutch artist Kenne Gregoire, profiled here already.
Geni Peter was a Dutch painter born in Basel, Switzerland in the year 1908. Peter worked as an abstract painting using basic geometric shapes and circles in most works. The artist also enjoyed working with complimentary colors. In addition to his abstract body of work, Geni Peter also produced still life paintings with a recurring subject being floral paintings.
For his artistic education the artist studied in Amsterdam, Netherlands where he became a painter of recognition.
Geni Peter passed away in 1969.
Price range information: Peter produced a large number of drawings, oil paintings, and lithographs. Price range from $1,000 to $5,000.
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I really enjoy the wonderful use of color and circles used by the artist. Many of his floral compositions are similar in style to the floral works of the French Expressionist painter Bernard Buffet. Below are some examples of Buffet’s type of floral works.
March Avery is the daughter of aforementioned artists Milton Avery and Sally Avery Michel. March Avery was born in 1932. Like her parents she paints in a very colorful style that concentrates on simple shapes in addition to flat fields of color. Mark Rothko was a good friend of her father’s, for me she uses much of the same palette of colors as Rothko. Subject matter are scenes from every day life, flowers, rugweavers, birds loaded with wonderful colours.
The artist enjoys painting in France and also keeps a studio in Manhattan, New York.
For her artistic education March Avery attended Barnard College in New York City.
The medium she uses most is watercolour.
Price range information: Works range from $1,000 to $8,000. The artist is a printmaker in addition to being a painter.
Milton Avery was born in Altmar, New York in the year 1885. His father tanned animal hides and Avery found his first job at age sixteen working in a factory.
Avery began to attend classes at the Connecticut Art Students League. Avery would win some regional awards. He would get married to an illustrator and the income she earned from her illustration career allowed him to concentrate on his artwork.
The couple would move to New York City and Avery attendwd classes at the Art Student’s League of New York. A major collector saw his work, bought 100 or so pieces of Avery’s work, and donated them to museums all around the globe.
The couple had one child, March Avery, who is a professional artist. March Avery will be the next entry.
Avery was seen as the American version Matisse. Avery enjoyed working with flat planes of color. Even in his portraits the viewer is shown the relationships of color that exist rathet than an exact likeness.
Milton Avery passed away in 1965, at the age of 79 years old.
Price range information: Avery’s works at auction have broken the $3 million dollar barrier.
In this clip we view many works by Milton Avery:
Next up will be his daughter, March Avery. Both paint in a similar style/ manner.
Eliot Hodgkin was a cousin to British abstract painter Howard Hodgkin. Eliot Hodgkin was born in the year 1905 in Purley on Thames in the United Kingdom. Hodgkin was renown for his paintings of still lifes. His family were strict Quakers.
Hodgkin began to work with tempera and enjoyed working with the medium as it dried much quicker than oils. It allowed him to express how he felt about the objects he portrayed.
For his artistic education Eliot Hodgkin attended the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools.
He first worked in oils and then became intrigued by the detail he could add by using egg tempera.
Eliot Hodgkin passed away in 1987 at the age of 81 years old.
Price range information: Works range from $5,000 to $50,000.
Victor Schrager is a wonderful American photographer born in Bethesda, Maryland in the year 1950. Schrager is renown for his work and imagery dealing with books and also for his work in the genre of making photographs of the still life an expressive fine art medium of choice. For the works with books he generally uses an old book with a very used hardcover.
For his collegiate education the artist attended Harvard.
When the Whitney Biennial held its first photography session the artist was included. (1981)
Started off working with color and over the years has made the switch to black and white and now has again focused on color. It depends on the subject matter the artist is working with.
Some well acclaimed series include a series done on birds.
Schrager is based out of New York City.
Winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Has works included in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and San Francisco Museum of Art.
price range information : Most work between $1,000 and $4,000.
Schrager has been the photographer for books including this one titled “Melons for the Passionate Grower.” Still life photography is perfect for this book!
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