Lucien Adrion was born May 25, 1889 in Strasbourg, France. He was  was a French Post-Impressionist painter, draftsman, and printmaker known for his depictions of the French countryside and beaches, as well as Parisian life including landscape, still life, figure and landmarks paintings. He began his initial studies in Strasbourg as a technical draughtsman. In 1907, at the age of 18, he left his hometown Strasbourg and traveled to Paris, where he found employment in a large drafting company to work as a fashion illustrator. Adrion changed his mind upon arrival and rather than working for a large company, he decided to peruse his artistic career by traveling to London, Munich and Frankfurt. As the World War broke out he had to go to Berlin, where he studied as an engraver with Hermann Struck, who was also the teacher of Marc Chagall. He remained in Berlin until the war ended and after the demobilization, Lucien would study engraving under Franz Ritter von Struck, who was Marc Chagall's teacher as well. Adrion returned to his home town in France in 1919, and then eventually moved to Paris, where he took a studio in Montparnasse of Paris and allied himself primarily with the young Eastern European painters such as Chaim Soutine, Pinchus Krémègne and Michel Kikoine to operate. In 1921 Adrion had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Chéron and then in 1926 at the age of 37, he had his first major exhibition in the Salon des Indépendants, where later on, he exhibited regularly. In 1940 he exhibited in the Salon d'Automme and the following year 1941 in the Salon des Tuileries where he exhibited several landscapes. As an engraver, watercolorist and painter from the French school, he took a variety of external scenes as subjects for his work, showing a particular fondness for the picturesque aspects of the Parisian landscape, beach scenes and horse races. Throughout his career, Adrion continued to exhibit his work at Salons in Paris, where his paintings were praised for their ability to capture the movement and transience of urban life. He eventually left Paris to settle in Normandy, where he began focusing on beach landscapes subject, with a great success because they became very popular as decorative paintings. He died on August 1953 in Cologne, France.

Martha Walter was born on March 19, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Walter is a well-known American Impressionist painter who benefited from an excellent arts education. She attended Girls High School from 1895 to 1898, Walter studied at the Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art, now The University of the Arts College of Art and Design. Then she enrolled with William Merritt Chase at his summer school in Shinnecock, Long Island, followed by enrolling at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Chase’s wing. Showing in Walter's early work a very strong influence of Chase, translated into a use of rich saturated colors, combined with a very successful application of black paint. Since black was a pigment extraordinarily difficult to master and often omitted in the general course of American Impressionism. She was also one of the few American Impressionists who used black in her palette.

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is where she was awarded the school's Toppan Prize, and in 1903, she won a two-year traveling Cresson Scholarship that allowed her to go to France, where she attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under the tuition of René Menard and Lucien Simon and the Académie Julian in Paris. She also visited Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. In 1909, Walter also won the school’s Mary Smith Prize from the Academy for the best painting by a resident female artist of a portrait she had painted in Europe. In 1922, she was given a solo show at the Galerie Georges Petit. Seeking to explore outside of the academic structure, she established a private studio in the Rue de Bagneaux along with several other American women artists. But at the outbreak of World War I, she returned to the United States and set up a studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She began painting charming beach scenes in New York and Massachusetts; the fishing village of Gloucester, Coney Island, Atlantic City, and from along the French Coast provided an ideal subject for her with its bright colors and scenes of cheerful children, which have brought her national acclaim.

Walter is also known for her depictions at Ellis Island of the immigrants as they arrived in their ethnic costumes from other countries, poor children in rural Tennessee, and later, orientalist compositions of market scenes from her travels in North African cities. Though influenced by the artists of both the European and American art worlds, it could be said that she developed a unique painting style. Her training with Chase is evident in the saturated colors and plein-air subject matter in her early Impressionist work, with bold, dashing brush strokes in conjunction with total color control and well-organized composition. Her painting captured the animation of the city and the light and color of seashore scenes.

Walter lived a charmed life, keeping addresses in New York City, suburban Philadelphia, and Gloucester while continuing to visit Paris, frequently traveling abroad, capturing in oil and watercolor a wealth of landscapes and cultures across the globe. Her outdoor scenes, both of city and country life, were vividly colored and somewhat abstracted. The palette changed according to the setting, but Walter’s strong, well-chosen colors were continually alluring. Her loose rendering of form gives the work an abstract quality, and the quick brushstrokes reinforce the sense of fun and vitality. Eventually, she took up a teaching position at the New York School of Art, run by her old teacher William Merritt Chase. After 1945, Martha spent most of her time in Huntingdon Valley and Glenside, Pennsylvania, where she enjoyed painting flowers from her garden.

Walter’s works can be found in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Cheekwood Museum in Tennessee, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, in France the Terra Museum at Giverny and the Musee d' Orsay in Paris, and the Musee Du Luxembourg, among others. She never married, and in her later years, she preferred not to be disturbed by galleries and museums. Although well advanced in years, Martha Walter lived to the age of one hundred and one and continued to paint until a few years before she died in January 1976 in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Johann Berthelsen was born in Copenhagen in 1883, the 7th of seven children, to Conrad and Dorothea Karen Berthelsen. His parents were involved in artistic and professional circles. In 1890, his mother brought the children to America, settling in Manistee, Michigan, with her sister's family. They would eventually move to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a city on the shore of Lake Michigan. As a teenager, Johann was actively involved in choirs and singing groups. And he always loved to draw and paint, and while he was too impatient to take well to schoolwork, and never went beyond the 5th grade.

Although he worked in several trades, Johann's mind and heart were always with the arts. As his voice matured, he also always wanted to be an actor, and at the age of 18 moved to Chicago where he reconnected with an old friend who was studying voice at the Chicago Musical College. He was awarded the school's Gold Medal on two occasions, and after graduation, he earned a job as the lead baritone with the newly formed Standard Opera Company which was owned by the Schuberts. For the next five years, Johann Berthelsen enjoyed a rich and varied career, touring the U.S. and Canada in operas, concerts, Gilbert & Sullivan, and operettas.

Despite considerable success, the grueling pace of life on the road was difficult, and in 1910 he joined the voice faculty at Chicago Musical College. So he eventually had more time to pursue other personal interests, especially painting. He became friends with the artist, Svend Svendsen, a noted landscape painter whose snow scenes especially intrigued Berthelsen, which became a major influence in his choice of mood and treatment of light and shadow. In 1913, at the age of 30, he became the youngest-ever head of the voice department at the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music.

In Indianapolis, he began a friendship with the painter, Wayman Adams. A native of Muncie, Indiana, Adams had studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri in Spain and Italy and had already established a reputation as a portraitist. Adams and Berthelsen were to remain best friends for the remainder of their lives. Adams would paint many significant portraits of Berthelsen including a life-sized image of his friend preparing to go on stage.

In 1920, seeking to advance their careers, Berthelsen and Adams moved to New York, where both achieved rapid success. From 1920 through the late '50s, Wayman Adams painted some of his best-known works. Johann Berthelsen established a private school of singing instruction at the Rodin Studios and attracted a distinguished following, but in 1929, the heady prosperity of the Roaring '20s dissolved in the Stock Market crash, and the arts were among the hardest hit sectors.

With many Broadway theaters shuttered and the Metropolitan Opera cutting salaries, Johann's pupils disappeared. With the little money left, he purchased art supplies and canvases and began to refine his technique in oil painting. He painted quickly and prolifically, bringing his work to some of the leading galleries. Of the many subjects he painted, the one that he would become most identified with was the city itself. The New York snow scenes burst with movement; cars, trucks, taxis, and people seem to rejoice in the snow that turns the city into a wonderland. Though he was exclusively self-taught he owned his craft and technique.

As his paintings become more popular, his reputation increased. By 1940, his reputation had grown to the point where he was asked to join The Lecture Bureau of the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1942 the family moved to rural New Milford, Connecticut, where Berthelsen painted many views of the surroundings.

With the end of the Second World War, the Depression finally ceased and in the first blush of post-war prosperity, the public again had the time and money to devote to the arts. As more prominent personalities began to collect his work, in 1950 the family moved back to New York City, in part because of the high demand for his work and easy access to galleries. He exhibited his work at the Barbizon-Plaza Galleries, the Allan Rich Gallery, and the Jean Bohne Gallery, among others. The 1960s proved to be an especially satisfying time for Johann and his family since the financial pressures lessened and his paintings started commanding better prices. In 1971 he was hit by a car, which led to a decline in health and ultimately his death the following year 1972.

Jules René Hervé was an Academic French painter, born in 1887. His was born in Langres, a town in the eastern part of France, where he began his art studies in an evening school. Known for his paintings of cityscapes and landscapes, Hervé painted in an impressionistic style that captured the shimmering texture of the city and the softer light of the countryside. When asked, the artist mentions that as far as he can remember, he always wanted to become an artist of talent to being able to express through color the beauty of everything he would see.

Hervé arrived in Paris in 1908 and first continued his studies at the School of Decorative Arts, and then at the Fine Art School. Having his first-time exhibition at the Salon des Artistes français in 1910, where he became a very important member. Hervé was also trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Decoratifs of Paris and studied with Fernand Cormon (French 1845–1924) and Jules Adler (French, 1865-1952). From 1911 to 1943, he taught painting with many generations of artists. Hervé was awarded multiple honors during his lifetime, he received a silver medal in 1914 from the Association of French Artists, including a gold medal by the association of the French artists in 1925 and a gold medal for the World Fair of 1937.

Hervé is both a painter of daily countryside themes in which we find the characters performing the daily tasks and a painter of Parisian scenes. His artistic interpretation is filled with sensibility by the use of delightful strokes of light and color. The Paris seen through Hervé's eyes is a city of poetry, showing its most charming aspects, where the viewer becomes a part of the "City of Lights", with its sentimental life and feelings of that special atmosphere and all of her charm.

Indifferent to the current fashions of his time, and outside any trends, he never ceased to deepen the technical secrets of his art, and after more than 50 years of artistic experience, he achieved a complete mastery of his own style. No only Jules René Hervé is a painter of great talent, but he represents the purest tradition of French art. His works can be compared to the great impressionists of former times, playing with his palette as a musician does with a musical instrument, resulting for each of his works a marvelous symphony of color and light.

His paintings are in numerous museum collections in France and abroad, like in the Pads, Langares, Saint-Etienne, Annecy, and Tourcoing France; and also in institutions like the Chicago Art Institute, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Langres, Musée du Petit Palais in Paris, Casablanca Marocco, Dijon, Tourcoing, Musée des beaux-arts de Tourcoing, Musée des beaux-arts de Saint-Étienne, Musée des beaux-arts d'Annecy and the Dahesh Museum in New York City. Hervé died in 1981.

Born in 1952 in Newburgh, New York, George Nemethy finds his inspiration in moments of quiet and solitude. Where he finds himself, with his imagination, sailing away to this beautiful and colorful marine worlds. That could only be visited when the soul meets with the infinite feeling of the horizon line of the open seas. With an outstanding legacy of his father Albert Nemethy of marine art, George keeps this tradition in his own artistic way. Recreating this wonderful marine depictions in a much more abstract and whimsical way. His dedication to master a magical realism instantly takes the viewer, in each of his unique paintings, and transports to a point in time where all the senses meet and only one thought would exist. George’s peaceful "dream like qualities" miniature works allow us to take a deep breath and reach out to the beautiful vastness of the world in an unprecedented a magical relationship between man and nature.

The Nemethy family immigrated from Hungary and consisted of six artists, all pupils of their late father Albert Sz. Nemethy. The children Julien, Albert Jr., George, Veronica, and the twins Kristina and Georgina. All of them were taught and inspired by their respected father, an American traditional and well groomed marine painter of high regard. George, as a pupil of his late father, became an artist through his inspiration and teachings. George is known for his pastoral miniature sail boat oil paintings. As a 20th century artist he was greatly inspired when he was young by Persian miniatures. Out of this fondness and extensive studying of these models, a devotion to intimacy and solitude was born. Devoting extreme patience to detail, achieving mastery to each and every work with his use of color and size.

Creating pastel hues across the waters with shimmering highlights, and puffed clouds pulling down to the sea, there is a magic being created. In his pieces we can find all the qualities that so many are in love with, and the reason why his paintings are sought after by elite collectors, sailors, and curators. His dreamy puffed clouds that are so effortlessly contrasted with the majestic blues in his sky and water, piece together this absolutely breath taking works. What creates an even more shocking and delightful surprise is, in almost every sailboat painting, if you look closely enough you will find tiny people depicted in the sail boat. In this piece you will find two people sitting about. His extreme attention to detail, and his fixation on miniatures when he was a child is what establishes such a wonderful enchantment to every single one of his masterful sailboat paintings. When critics refer to his work, they write on his sincere ability to achieve pure tranquillity in his paintings.

A George Nemethy is hard to come by, largely because he is often traveling to pick up inspiration for his tranquil color pallet. An artist on the run, George's most sought after "colors on the sea" works are hard to find. Worldwide, sailors, curators and collectors have followed him from coast to coast to track down one of his precious paintings.

Nanno de Groot was born on March 23 of 1913, in Balkbrug, Holland. He started drawing at six years of age. Although his father prevented him to study art at an early age, he moved to the United States in the year of 1941, and in 1946 at age 33 he discovered Picasso and he dedicated the rest of his life to painting and drawing. He worked for a year as a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. After his marriage to the New York School artist Elise Asher in 1948 Nanno de Groot settled in New York on West 12th Street. He became connected to the pioneers of the New York School, where he came to identify with abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, and Joan Mitchell. Nanno de Groot considered himself an American artist and part of the abstract expressionist movement. His earlier works included a number of monotypes and the now famous "Linear Figures" series, skeletal characters delineated by evocative streaks of black oil paint. In the following series, "Women in Chairs", de Groot observed that features interfered with the expression of the painting.

Nanno de Groot exhibited at the Salon d'hiver in Paris in 1950, also at Saidenberg Gallery, New York in 1952, 54, 55, and Bertha Schaefer Gallery, NYC. His works were exhibited in Hansa Gallery, in 1953 and for the years of 1954-1955 in Tanager Gallery and Stable Gallery. He also participated from 1954 to 1957 in the invitational New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves. In 1956, 59, 60, 61, 64 he exhibited with HCE Gallery, Provincetown, MA and 1957, 58, 59, 61 at Parma Gallery, NY. In October of 1960, his works were displayed in Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut. In 1971 his works were exhibited at Jack Gregory Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, and in 1982 a Retrospective Exhibition at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

From 1987 through 2003 his works were exhibited at Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA. For the years between 2004 and 2007, his works were selected for ACME Fine Art, Boston MA and there were presented in two exhibitions "Nanno de Groot: The New York Years” and "Nanno de Groot: Earth Sea and Sky” respectively. His works are a part of Museums and Public Collections like Everson Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, Massachusetts, Chrysler Museum of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Hebrew University at Jerusalem, Israel, Provincetown Art Association and Museum at Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Olson Institute at Guilford, Connecticut and the Kresge Art Museum, and of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Nanno de Groot died on December 26 of 1963 in Provincetown, MA.

Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study fine arts at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. In 1917 he joined the British Royal Fuesiliers under the leadership of General Allenby to liberate Palestine from the Turks. After the first World War he settled in Paris, where he continued his studies at Académie Julian and Academie Colarossi. He then emigrated to the United States in 1922 and continued his art studies at the National Academy of Design. He supported himself by designing jewelry.

In 1925 he returned to Paris and studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier et Colarossi. During the Depression he worked for the WPA. From 1928 he took part in the Paris Salons: Autumn and the Tuileries. His works are expressionistic variations in the type of the Ecole de Paris. As a protégé of both Chaim Soutine and Renoir, hints of their style can be observed in much of his own work. Zucker’s style, that may have been influenced from the art of artists such as Marc Chagall, took pride in being an “internationalist”, standing the art of painting in its highest expression is universal no matter where the canvas was created.

People who respond to quality in art will understand the beauty and meaning, in their own land or in a foreign land, this was his main idea behind his artworks that was exhibited in numerous solo show in leading galleries and museums in New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, and other art centers. Claude Roger-Marx of Figaro Litteraire, dean of French art critics, write a comprehensive study of Zucker’s illustrated with 135 color and black and white plates. He traveled widely, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Israel. From then on Zucker lived alternately in New York and Paris, maintaining homes in both places, and spent considerable time painting in Mexico, Portugal, Greece, and Israel.

Zucker's post-impressionist works including town and landscapes, still-lives, and portraits, are part of an array of permanent installments in numerous museums and private collections in Tel Aviv, including the Joseph Hirschorn collection in Washington, D. C., the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and the Bezalel Art Museum in Jerusalem. In 1947 he settled in Arcueil near Paris. Zucker died in 1981 in New York.

Albert Nemethy (Albert Szatmar Nemethy) was born on March 31, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary. As a young Jewish boy he realized a gift for art that animated his thoughts and artworks throughout his life. Largely self-taught, he sought inspiration in the old masters, yet always strove to express his own ideas. Even thought he was blind in his left eye since an early age, Nemethy was educated at the Academy of Art in Budapest. He and his wife Georgina and family, moved to Salzburg, Austria in 1948, and then to Munich, Germany, where they stayed for two and half years. There he was chosen the “First Artist” out of a group of 600 artists in 1950 and was given an opportunity to exhibit at the National Gallery at Munich, Germany.

In 1951 the Nemethy family of 6 children came to the United States, settling first in Montclair New Jersey. Nemethy was especially interested in the Hudson River Valley School, and he came to public attention primarily through his exquisitely detailed paintings of Hudson River steamboats depicting life during that time and modes of transportation for commerce and pleasure in the manner of James Bard. Out of homage to the Hudson River School artists, he also painted landscapes, then portraits, and genre scenes. Painting almost every day and far into the night, he produced thousands of paintings.

His work of art is unrivaled and unparalleled in subject, color, design and illustrative power. His art is traditional in technique and highly philosophical in aim. Much of his inspiration comes from the Old Testament once declaring "We are able to see the past much better than the present”. Nemethy had other talents besides painting. While in Germany he passed a test on organ building and for many years worked on designs for organs to be built along methods entirely unique in the musical world. He also had a working knowledge of woodworking and masonry.

Albert Nemethy specialized in painting murals for factories, churches, plant lobbies and various companies. Several were painted in New York City, including Worthington Corporation on Park Avenue, New York. These murals, although highly sophisticated, harmonize with their surroundings. In these delightful renderings, he usually depicted science, music, life, time, water, love and transformation of form in modern art. Besides murals, Nemethy also specializes in portraits and landscapes, with a distinct style all of his own and he refers to this style as “psychic realism”. While his works does not have any artistic kinship with one of the most celebrated painters, Salvador Dali, many of his admirers recall Dali’s art. However, he has nothing in common with Dali’s "bizarre weirdness". He is a painter of Life, Nature, Humanity, Love, Flowers, and Music.

In the more recent years his painting subjects widened considerably to include grand landscapes of the American west in the manner of Bierstadt and what he cared about most, his paintings of “moralism”. Where his fertile mind gave expression to a complex philosophy of the role of human life in the universe, a legacy he wished to present to the public and to be remembered by.

As an international artist he received membership in the Munich Academy of Art in Munich in 1950. Also his paintings were exhibited at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and at the Temple Hill Museum and Lodge in Vails Gate, New York. A piece painting depicting the Washington statue situated in Budapest's City Gardens decorates now the White House in Washington. With important international donations like the paintings “Chaikovsk’s Symphony” and portrait to “President Mihail Gorbachev” to the people of Russia. Nemethy painted and presented to President Richard Nixon several works, one of which was to commemorate the bi-centennial of the United States of America.

Given the vast quantity of works he produced, now residing in collections around the nation and abroad, many of them unsigned, his legacy will all be uncovered for years to come. Near to his last days, his enthusiasm for painting did not diminish, he died on September 3, 1998 and he was buried in his native Budapest, leaving us an extraordinary legacy of art.

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André Hambourg was born in Paris on May 5, 1909. Entering the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in 1926, he studied sculpture under Paul Niclausse for four years. The young artist then entered the studio of Lucien Simon at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. While in the middle of his academic studies, Hambourg had his debut solo exhibition at the Galerie Taureau in Paris in 1928. He was only 19 years old at the time. Because of the early recognition of his talent, Hambourg became active in the important Paris salons in the first stages of his developing career. In 1931, he was made a member of the Salon de l’Art Français Indépendant and the Salon de l’Oeuvre Unique.

André Hamburg was demobilized in Casablanca in 1940, but then civilian by the regiment of engineers in 1943, then called by Raoul Salan and assigned to the 2nd Bureau where he became editor, draftsman, reporter of the newspaper "Combattant 1943" then "Combattant 1944 He was named in December 1944 war correspondent accredited to the US HQ (SHAPE), his military experience (being in the first to have reached the nest He wrote two books in 1947: "Berchtesgaden party" and "D'Alger à Berchtesgaden". In an interview he wrote an account of his experience in "La kermesse aux étoiles" in 1953 and 1954, of which he was the organizer, of cheap sales of works by renowned artists in front of the Kermesse public for 3 days and 3 nights. He wrote in the newspaper "Cols bleus" of the Navy souvenirs ("4 July 1943", whose oil on paper will be offered by President Mitterrand to President Reagan) or travel.  The entire work of the artist will be the subject of numerous books, publications, articles, interviews of José Arthur, Michel Law, Jacques Chancel and Micheline Sandrel.  In 1970 five hundred of his works formed a prestigious retrospective at the Maison de Culture in Bourges. Other notable shows include Drawings of Venice at Galerie Varine-Gincourt in Paris (1979), Bonjour New York at Wally Findlay Galleries in New York (1985), The Presence of André Hambourg at the Salon du Dessin (1986), André Hambourg in the Ivory Coast at Galerie Guigne in Paris (1987), and finally André Hambourg in Venice at Galerie Apesteguyin Deauville (1989).  Having past experience creating mural decorations for ships, Hambourg was asked to complete a 195 square foot mural, for the Audience Chamber of the new European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in 1972. One year later, this panoramic work was unveiled at an opening ceremony in the Hotel de Ville, attended by the President of Luxembourg, Robert Lecourt, as well as the Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.

On December 4, 1999 André Hambourg died in Paris after a long and prosperous career. Today his works can be found in the collections of museums such as the Musée National d'Art Moderne, the Musée national de la Marine, and the Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie.

Richard Hayley Lever (1875-1958) was an Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher. He studied under James Ashton at his Norwood art school and was a member of the Adelaide Easel Club before emigrating to New York and later settling in Massachusetts. Lever taught at the Art Students League of New York. He is recognized today as a significant figure in 20th century American Impressionism. His works are included in the White House collection, the Hirschorn Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and many other distinguished collections.

An outstanding oil painting executed with thick use of paint capturing a luminous sight of a train in motion under a bridge with heavy smoke trailing upward. We can feel that a mood is set, as the sky is a deep blue seemingly at twilight. The train tracks are depicted with trees in the upper left corner and snow traces on either side of the canvas. Overall, this painting glorifies American travel during the 20th Century in an impressionistic manor with beautiful brush work and strong contrasting colors. A most fine work done with rich colors of cobalt blue, mars black and pops of bright whites and raw umbers. Signed lower mid right with original plague placed bottom center and displayed in a wonderful carved frame. There is writing inscribed on verso with signature.

Niek van der Plas was born in Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands in 1954. He was the oldest son in a family of four children. Growing up surrounded by historic areas from his hometown, he was inspired by many places which seemed to stay with him into his early adulthood. The old, white church, Holland’s beaches, and dunes, bulb fields, city scenes in Amsterdam and Maastricht, and other typically Dutch vistas such as harbors of old Dutch towns. We can admire these characteristics in much of his works throughout his career. Niek began painting from a very young age with signs, promoted and encouraged by his father. In 1966 he was proposed as a student to the Famous Artist School in the United States where he was awarded for his talents. Between 1973 and 1978 he studied at the School of Art in Frankfurt, and he has taken part in collective exhibitions, mainly in Germany and Belgium.

The drawings he showed at Appel & Fertsch in 1985 were rapidly executed sketches, with a very spare but supple line, sometimes indefinite, but in general, representing a manifestation of movement. A man apparently straying, a blurred structure, a strange small boat - signs of vague recognition that are ultimately less important than the way they take shape and the creative impulse they convey. What started in the early seventies with a romantic style of painting, developed through naturalism to a more impressionistic way of working; a style of painting that came to the surface clearly in the early 1980s.

Van Der Plas has become an artist of international renown and uses a wide variety of subjects as his palette. His paintings are still influenced by his love of water and the richness of the Dutch landscapes which one sees over and over in his work. His use of warm soft colors makes his paintings easy on the eye and delightful to behold. He is a colorist, exhibiting lush rich textures inspired by many post-impressionistic painters from France. Preferably he works with warm colors as he uses dashes of bold brushwork, which enhance the emotion of his composition resulting in beautiful and luminous paintings. He strives to create pieces that have a French feel-like environment. As well, as surrounding himself with the French Riviera, Cafes in the bustling city, and of course the majestic scenes in the Parc de Belleville.

Niek continues to enchant the viewer with his refined brushwork and subtle palette in keeping with the best of impressionist tradition. His works have been exhibited in the Art Museum of Rijnsburg and the Art Museum of Katwiijk in Holland and several major museums around the world, and his works of art are to be found in some of the most prestigious public and private collections worldwide. His works hang in two museums in the Netherlands and several books about him are available. He is one of the few contemporary artists listed in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

Edouard Febvre was born in 1885 in France. Febvre is a visual artist known for his city and streets scenes, pieces of the of suburbs under the snow, fairgrounds and Gypsies. As a painter, active in the 20th Century his work sometimes brings back an imaging of a picturesque, desperate and pessimistic scenario, but sometimes we can find some other works by him that glimmers more cheerful when he painted over the butte. Several of the works by the artist have been sold at auction, including: ’Carnival à Paris’ sold at Christie's New York, ‘The House Sale’ in 2007 and more recently ’Rue anime avec chopes et fiacres’ sold at Eric Pillon Encheres, Versailles in 2014, ‘L’accordoniste’ and ‘Paris, Montmartre’ sold at Eric Pillon Encheres, Versailles in 2014.

Febvre remains a painter to be rediscovered, and which deserves a better understanding of his prolific lifetime as being a true impressionistic painter of the early 20th Century. His works have been exhibited in the Salon d'Automne of 1941, in Galerie Roussard and in Workshop at 8 both in Paris. Febvre died in 1967.

Suzanne Demarest was born in 1900 in the United States. She studied in Nice and Cannes Southern France, as well as at the Royal Academy in England. Demarest lived and painted as well in France. She died in 1985. Demarest was known for her charming intimate figurative scenes portraying life in the North East. She was profoundly active, picking up her subjects from the beaches, parks, restaurants, cities, seasides, and much more. Under acknowledged as one of America's most active plein air artists, Demarest achieved excellence in her career, producing 100's of breathtaking works, now in many private collections and museums around the world. Suzanne Demarest died in 1985.

Paul Gagni was born in 1893 and is a Post-Impressionist French artist. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited at the Autumn Salon and the Salon of Independent Artists. He is well known for his Paris street scenes, and he died in 1962 with a great legacy of impressionistic artworks.

Jean Salabet was a pseudonym used by the Spanish artist Juan Bayón Salado (1913-1995) in the mid-20th century. Juan Bayón Salado (Jean Salabet) was born in Bilbao Spain on June 24, 1913. He settled in Paris between 1950 and 1969 and when using the pseudonym Jean Salabet between 1950 and 1957 he was mainly selling his works through Mr. Reynald Forgeot's gallery initially, and Mr. André Roussard later. Faithful to the Post-Impressionism style, he exhibited in Montmartre in the gallery of rue Norvins, which would become that of Claude Bussière, then at André Roussard) during his long stay in Paris. As a Parisian painter he was mostly known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation including the signatures “Bay Sala”, “Bayon” and “Jean Salabet” used by the artist.

His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, Antoine Blanchard and Edouard Cortes. His paintings are a wonderful example of his dedication and passion throughout his of his career. Exemplary depictions of his pieces are city scenes of artist's vendors selling paintings along the view of Notre Dame de Paris, in Paris. People are scattered throughout between the tree-lined Parisian streets. Or like flower vendors walking down the street with a view from the Pont Neuf bridge, the oldest standing bridge crossing the river Seine, with people are scattered throughout with cars depicted in the background. As well wonderful examples of his works the street scenes with bustling cars and the traffic of the people walking along the sidewalks in front of the storefront view of Parisian cafe's as well as wonderful depictions of the most important Parisian monuments and iconic views of the city of Paris.

Including in each one of his works a diverse color palette with vibrant details that Juan Bayón Salado (Jean Salabet) captures in a magnificent way of the architecture of Paris so beautifully; you can feel the energy of the day and the excitement. In 1969 he returned to Bilbao and died in the spring of 1995 in his hometown with a career filled with honors and popular success.

Ben Benn was born with the name of Benjamin Rosenberg in 1884 in the town of Kamenets Podolsk, Ukraine. This town was the regional capital of an area in what is today, South West Ukraine, and was historically known as Podolia. His family chose to immigrate to the United States in c. 1894 to reside eventually in New York City. Between 1904 and 1908 he studied at the Arts Students League and at the National Academy of Design. He spent most of his career in New York City including memberships with the American Society of Painters and Sculptors, American Artists Congress and the Woodstock Artist Association.

Despite his excursions into Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, Benn seems always to have been a ‘subject’ painter. The Academy curriculum stressed portraiture built up with broad, painterly brushstrokes, a technique that remained the foundation of Benn’s style. By his mid teens Benn’s canvases were bolder in color and more decorative in style, the artist also depicted urban scenes, yet, unlike the Social Realists, his work was more an affirmation than a critical commentary on the human condition. Considering this, it is remarkable that he remained visible at all during the 50’s and early 60’s, when prejudice against the representational amounted nearly to a proscription of this kind of artwork. 

His first important participations were in the Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters in 1916 as well as the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917. As a pioneer American modernist, with an independent style, was best known for his bold simplification. He exhibited extensively including his first solo exhibition which was held in 1925 at J.B. Newman’s New Art Circle Gallery and four at the Babcock Gallery between 1960 and 1970. He also exhibited at Columbia University in 1927, Whitney Museum of American Art from 1927 to 1950, the Corcoran Gallery in 1932 and 1957, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in 1942 and 1952.

Benn participated in other important exhibitions of American Modernism included “The Decade of the Armory Show: New Directions” in American Art from 1910 to 1920, and the Whitney Museum of American Art's traveling exhibition from 1963 to 1964 and many more. Benn had many solo exhibitions during his lifetime, including one at the Jewish Museum of New York in 1965 and at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Also he was awarded a medal that year at the the Pennsylvania Academy's 147th Annual Exhibition. Today Benn’s works is part of many museums and permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, Newark Museum, Baltimore Museum, Albany Institute of Art in New York, Butler Art Institute in Youngstown Ohio, the Knoxville Art Center and the University of Minnesota. 

His prominence in the art world over 6 decades was reaffirmed at a 90th birthday show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in 1974. Between his most publicly recognized works are a portrait of ‘New York Judge J. Planken’ that has been at the New York City Courthouse, a ‘Still-Life Painting’ that forms a part of The Kröller Collection in The Hague, Holland, and the piece named ‘End of the Street’ that was exhibited at the Hammer galleries at a solo exhibition shortly after the artist’s death, with the number 36 in catalogue, which became also a part of the collection of the New Britain Art Museum. Benn died in 1983 in Bethel, Connecticut.

Richard 'Dick' Sargent, one of The Saturday Evening Post’s most prolific illustrators, was a Midwesterner born in Moline, Illinois, on March 26, 1911. His early career in art began just after his graduation from Moline High School when he went to work for a local printing and engraving plant. While there, Sargent attended night classes at the Moline Illinois Art School, the foundation for his future career as an artist. Sargent then studied at the Corcoran School of Art, and in 1951, he completed his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, “Truth About Santa,” for the December 15 Christmas issue. While Sargent’s popularity grew through the exposure he received with the Post, he also did illustration work for magazines such as Fortune, Woman’s Day, Photoplay, and American Magazine among others. Americans adored Sargent and his art for his ability to show relatable, pregnant scenes with open-ended conclusions that commented on the situational comedy of life. In the late 1960s he retired to the Andalusia region of Spain and died there in 1978.

Arie van Noort (Adrianus Cornelis van Noort) was born in Bennebroek, the Netherlands in 1914. He worked with his father who was a house painter and had the dreams of achieving much more as an artist. During the day he would work his day job, but in the evenings he studied and painted. He began his artistic career with studies under Henri Fréderic Boot, a famous artist from Haarlem and extensively studied the great masters of impressionism, a prominent force in all of his paintings. Being an on-sight painter, mostly executing works of the beaches of Holland nearby his house, we can admire the great use of light and contrast, always feeling the mood of the day from which he painted. This was his main objective, to gather the inspiration of the moment, and translate this into his canvases. We can feel this quality in his work effortlessly, as each piece vibrates with energy and movement.

Van Noort participated in several exhibitions organized at the end of the 40's in the Frans Halsmuseum, Het Huis van Looy in the Waaggebouw. He won the first prize even in a match. His teacher, H. F. Boot had a great deal of appreciation for Van Noort, admiring the structure in his pieces. Verwey bought a work from Van Noort to donate to Godfried Bomans. In 1942 he was accepted as a member of the society "Kunst zij ons Doel".

It did take the artist time to build his career as an artist, and in 1977 he grew to a status of having a constant demand for his work. He gained almost instant success. Exhibitions in Basel, Knokke, Geneva, and Paris were well received by the public. In addition, Van Noort gained much interest from the US. Van Noort is seen as the last representative of the Hague School. Beach views are the main subject of his body of work, but he also captures flower fields, cityscapes, and landscapes. The artist personality is best described as balanced and comfortable with an extremely positive life setting. At the same time, he was a humble and faithful man who, as he himself said, did not like to go into difficult situations. Van Nort was the last representative of The Hague School as an impressionist painter in the French line.

His work is admired all over the world having exhibitions from the Brès Gallery in Amsterdam to New York, Los Angeles, and Singapore. He died in 2003 at the age of 89. He was active and lived in Holland most of his life while preferring to go outside and use his paintbrush to capture “En plein air” his perception of the world.

Edna Marie Schmidt was born in Cincinnati Ohio in 1912 and was a lifelong resident there. Her art career began at the young age of nine when she entered the Art Academy of Cincinnati. After graduating from Withrow High School, she attended the Applied College of Arts at the University of Cincinnati. That education led to doing fashion artwork for Mabley-Carew and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Several years later she was offered a better job in Milwaukee doing fashion page work for the Milwaukee Sentinel. She married William C. Schmidt of Cincinnati in 1937. Her art studies continued around the U.S. at various workshops, although her principal influence was her instructor Carl Zimmerman and the weekly studio that she attended for more than a decade in the '70's and 80's in his Loveland, Ohio studio. She has participated in numerous shows, with several one woman shows featuring her work. Her commissioned portraits of industry and educational leaders hang in various public buildings of the Cincinnati area including her "Camargo Hunt" series of fox hunting oils. Edna Marie Schmidt was known for portrait and landscape painting, alongside with newspaper fashion illustration, she died in 1999 in her hometown.

This piece depicts a unique impressionistic landscape of the San Francisco Bay depicting the Golden Gate Bridge and all the beautiful details of the busy city of San Francisco. With much whimsey and atractive vibrant colors, we can feel the energy of the day and time in which it was executed. The sun is bright and the day is warm. A most charming piece comes ready to be displayed in a wonderful gold tone wood frame.

Robert Freiman, deaf from birth, was born in March 1917 in New York City. He attended an oral program near his home and later transferred to the Lexington School for the Deaf when he was six. Early in his childhood, his love for drawing, painting and studying became apparent, and as an adult, he continued his studies in New York at the National Academy of Design, Pratt Institute, the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design. In Paris, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.   Freiman was especially focused on painting portraits and figures in motion in various mediums, especially the mixed-media combination of watercolor, acrylic and pen. Among his subjects were acrobats, ballet dancers, cyclists and other athletes. He as well focused on abstracts for a time, discovering new media in his works with quick brushwork and expressive movements.

Coulton Waugh was born in 1896 in Cornwall, England. He was an American visual artist, son of maritime painter Frederick Judd Waugh, and his grandfather was the Philadelphia portrait painter Samuel Waugh. In 1907 his family moved to the United States, he grew up in Provincetown, Massachusetts and later made his home in Newburgh, New York. Over there Waugh was enrolled at New York's Art Students League where he studied with George Bridgman, Frank Dumond and John Carlson. By 1916 Coulton was employed as a textile designer. In 1921 he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts where he operated a model ship and hooked rug shop for 11 years.

As a part of an artistic family, Waugh was a painter, comic strip artist and author. As he lived in New York he is often known for the artistic work in marine scenes, still life compositions and cartoons. Also was one of the main artists who worked on the famous “Dickie Dare” comics, created by Milton Caniff. He was working on the strip for more than 20 years, from 1933 until 1957, and there is where Waugh met his future wife, Odin, after hiring her to work on the strip as an artist and letterer. In 1945, he created “Hank” which only ran a short time. From 1947 on, Waugh divided his time between painting, teaching art and writing a seminal history of cartooning called “The Comics” in 1947 as a reference on the history of comics, which became one of the first serious examinations of the medium, as well as instructional books on cartooning and palette-knife painting.

In Provincetown he created other pictorial maps or decorative maps, including ones of Provincetown of 1924, Cape Cod of 1926 and Newburgh, New York in 1958. His map of California of 1948 was a collaboration with his wife Odin Burvik (Mabel Burwick).

His paintings were displayed at New York's Hudson Walker Gallery, and he also was known for his pictorial maps and hand-colored lithographs, like the one exhibited of a Cape Cod map at the International Silk Show in the year 1918. Some other exhibitions where his artwork participated was at the National Academy of Design and the Provincetown Art Association. Among the Museum exhibitions that showcased his pieces are the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute (International), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City used to hold a notable representation of his artworks. Waugh died in 1973.

Marcel Dyf was born as Marcel Dreyfus on 7 October 1899 in Paris. He grew up in Normandy, in the towns of Ault, Deauville and Trouville. Dyf started a career as an engineer, but soon decided to become a painter. In 1922, he moved to Arles, where he was trained as a painter and set up a studio.

He painted frescoes in the cityhalls of Saint-Martin-de-Crau and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He also painted frescoes in the Museon Arlaten and in the dining hall of the Collège Ampère, both of which are in Arles. He also designed windows inside the Église Saint-Louis in Marseille. In 1935, he moved to Maximilien Luce's old studio on the Avenue du Maine in Paris. By 1940, because of the German invasion of France during the Second World War, he returned to Arles. He quickly joined the French Resistance in Corrèze and the Dordogne.[2][3] He later moved back to Paris, and finally moved in Saint-Paul-de- Vence. However, in the 1950s, he started wintering in Paris and summering in Cannes, where he attracted the attention of American art collectors.

His work was exhibited and sold at the Petrides Gallery, the Salon d’Automne, the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris as well as galleries in Cannes, Nice, Marseille and Strasbourg. Overseas, it was exhibited at the Frost & Reed Gallery in London.

In 1954, he married Claudine (Godat) Dyf in Cannes, when she was only nineteen years old. They purchased a sixteenth-century hunting lodge in Bois-d'Arcy near Versailles, and it became their primary residence. They also summered in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and Eygalières. He died on 15 September 1985 in Bois-d'Arcy.

Jacques Bouyssou was a French expressionist artist born in 1926 near Honfleur Paris. He was influenced from an early age, as his father owned an art gallery in Paris representing some of the leading expressionists of his time including Friez, Dufy, Lagar, and Leprin. Bouyssou studied architecture at the Beaux Arts de Troyes, and drawing with the sculptor Janin. When he moved to Paris to study at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere in the studio of D'Othon Friez, he discovered his love for painting. He was tutored by Friez, and quickly became a master of the beach and port scenes of Normandy. His paintings remind the viewer of Marquet with their luminosity, and of Utrillo, particularly his street scenes. In 1950 he married.

Bouyssou's life was difficult for the young couple, but his desire to succeed as an artist was not diminished. After exhibiting a few paintings in many different galleries, he finally arranged a one-man show in Paris. That successful show led to one-man exhibitions in London and New York. In 1968 Bouyssou began exhibiting frequently in Paris and New York. His superb draftsmanship and composition are supported by clear, sensitive, and harmonious nuances of color. The paintings of this noted contemporary French artist have gained him international recognition as the official marine artist of France. Bouyssou's well-deserved reputation has grown at a rapid pace, as his works portraying ports, cities and beach scenes are appreciated by discerning collectors. His paintings are found in notable galleries, private collections and, museums throughout Europe and the United States. Not only is Bouyssou a painter of great talent, he represents the purest tradition of French art. He paints just like the great impressionists of former times, playing with his colors as a musician does with his musical instruments. He obtains in each of his works a marvelous harmony of color and light. His paintings are in numerous museums in France; in the Petit Palais in Pads, at Langres, and abroad, and at Casablanca.

Since his first exhibition at the Salon des Artistes Augerons in Paris, he has exhibited in all the major French Salons, as well as in the United States, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, England, Sweden, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, and Venezuela. Exhibition Awards: 1er prix du Salon des Bas Normands, 1955; 1er prix de Deauville, 1965; Peintre Agree au Departement de la Marine, 1973; 1er prix de Maisons Laffitte, 1978; Medaille d’Or Salon de la Frette, 1978; Medaille de la Ville de Paris, 1978; Medaille du Salon des Bas Normands, 1979; Nomme peintre titulaire de la Marine, 1987; Nomme Chevalier dans l’Order National de la Legion d’Honneur, 1990. Museums: Honfleur; Rouen; Beyrouth; Montreal; Philadelphia; Art Moderne, Paris; Menton; Musee de la Marine, Paris; New York Public Library; Bibliotheque National, Paris; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England.

Luigi Cagliani was born in Milano in 1910. As an Italian Impressionist who worked in the first half of the 20th century, he was active in Lombardy, which helps explain his penchant for lakeside scenes and also his love to paint scenes set in Venice. In his earlier career, Cagliani appeared as a painter of a clear romantic taste, whom in some way saw himself discordant with the posthumous teachings of Mosè Bianchi.

With a modern accent of his own, and on the path of the 19th century modern European impressionists, Cagliani stands out as possessing a dexterous and acute style, softened by an intimate sentiment that envelops the figurative scenes by the use of a complex tonal values, with the prominent use of soft lilac and pink colors, then we find the figures executed with an agile move, as if the viewer was inside of a dream like pictorial composition accomplished with evident precision.

Dino Bonardi, a critic involved in the Society of Independent Art in Milan, wrote in 1944 that Cagliani's paintings were "delicate and moving" almost like the feeling of a 19th century romantic style sense. The world of Cagliani’s paintings is achieved in an agile and wavy design, as Bonardi explains: ‘the artist starts from a natural pictorial instinct, from which the dominion of the sign and color moves, but obeys a fantastic evocative power whereby the limits of reality immediately merge and transfigure into dream realities within which the evoked poetic motifs which circulate with sureness of hand and abandonment of vision.’

Cagliani, exhibited at the Ranzini Gallery in Milan, where he presented a collection of paintings that offered a set of visions in which reality was perceived transfigured in the light of an imaginative inspiration. While his form remained bound to the Lombard impressionism style, Cagliani accomplished, with a robust sense of intuition, to grasp the art of painting on a tonal bases substantiated in a refined taste for color. Luigi Cagliani died in 1987.

Cesar A. Villacres was born in Ecuador in 1880, and after leaving Ecuador he became a painter of the "School of Paris”. Villacres was best known for his moody impressionistic Parisian street scenes, with a keen sensitivity and quiet style, using silvery grey overtones to depict the formality of this city scene. The artist was truly a master of expressing the magic and nostalgia of the Parisian life of the "Belle Époque" in France.

In his artworks, Villacres mainly portrayed his style as a French impressionistic visual artist. And although there is not much information about him, the majority of his works were produced by capturing the Paris busy street scenes from the Early 20th Century, by mostly using subtle brush strokes of oil on canvas with a wide color pallet. The use of thick paint is frequently noted, with quick brushwork and precise attention to detail.

Villacres was a prolific artist in the first part of the 20th Century, having mostly worked in South America and Paris. His mountain landscapes paintings are tremendously vivid and alive, as well as the Impressionist Paris street scenes and figurative paintings. People going about their day; street vendors and flower sellers are alive as horses and carriages are wispily riding along. In the distance, the viewer will usually find some detailed elements like a tree-lined street with cars driving by, and the beautiful architecture of the city. Cesar A. Villacres died in 1941 and his works can be found in many collections worldwide.

Joachim Berthold, born 1917 in Eisenach, lived and worked until his death in 1990 in Oberaudorf am Inn. In 1936 he began his training at the renow­ ned Werkschule in Cologne. There he met his artist colleague and later wife Gisela Berthold­Sames and he continued his studies until 1941 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1945 he worked as a freelance sculptor. This was followed by hard artist years in which the execution of any commissioned work to secure a livelihood left little time for free work. Gradually, the situation improved until, from the 1960s, it gained interna­tional renown through more and more numerous and important exhibitions at home and abroad, large orders from industry and cities as well as mu­seum acquisitions.

Berthold's appearance was striking. This corresponds to his figurative, mainly in bronze realized small to larger than life­sized sculptures. The to­pic of his work was the man. He was not concerned with the representation of individual, external manifestations. His sculptures are reduced to the essentials, re­ main in their economical movements, wi­thout facial expressions, anonymous and timeless. The essence of man and his development between becoming and decay were his concerns.

Through the mental processing of Greek me­taphors, he concentrated on the depiction of the human forms involved in a matter or in their own body form and dissolving out of it, as well as cast their own shadow. Berthold's typical formal idiom lives from the antago­nism of convex and concave, perfectly smoo­thed and rough, sometimes broken surfaces, exposing the underlying innermost amor­phous layers.

Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.

Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.”

By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners.

In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may have decided to use the name Baxte for his art. Baxte, née Posner, received critical acclaim from art critics. In 1929, Lloyd Goodrich of The New York Times wrote, “Mr. Baxte has a way of choosing aspects of the world that are quite unhackneyed… He is an artist of considerable subtlety, not too strong perhaps, and sometimes a little uncertain, but always sensitive and interesting. One feels in each of his pictures an absorption in his subject and an individual manner of looking at it. He has a very attractive color sense, warm, sensuous, and unexpected, which seems natural and unforced.” A dozen years later another New York Times art critic, Howard Devree, commented, “Also at the Bonestell are paintings by Michael Baxte, who lays in his color with gusto and considerable acumen.”

During the 1930’s Baxte and his wife, Violet, lived in France and spent most of their time in Paris, where Baxte became part of the School of Paris and exhibited his artwork in government sponsored exhibitions including the Salon d' Automme, helping as well to organize an exhibition of American painters. When the World War II began, and Paris became unsafe Baxte and his wife relocated to Mexico where they continued to live and work. Baxte died in 1972 in Mexico.

Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania's Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien.

A man with strong academic art training, Harry Hoffman was judged by his peers to have done best with his landscapes when he painted what he saw and set aside the theories. He studied in Paris, worked at Yale University with John Ferguson Weir, and was a student at the Art Students League with Frank DuMond. But Willard Metcalf had the strongest influence, encouraging Hoffman to paint in the style of impressionism.

In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. He stayed at the Florence Griswold House, returning for many subsequent summers. At one point, when he was exceptionally low on money, he nearly became a professional baseball player, but was dissuaded by his painter friends.

In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman's antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910 Hoffman married another Old Lyme artist named Beatrice Pope, and the couple had one child in 1921.

Hoffman and his wife often escaped New England during the harsh winter months. In the winters of 1914 and 1915 he traveled to Savannah, Georgia with fellow Old Lyme artist William Chadwick. Hoffman depicted urban genre scenes around the city and was inspired by the soft hazy light created by the tropical climate. Hoffman's Savannah paintings feature loose, Impressionistic brushwork and vibrant, saturated colors. In 1916, he visited the Bahamas and became interested in seascapes and underwater scenes. During the early twenties, Hoffman accompanied renowned naturalist William Beebe as a staff artist on expeditions to the Galapagos Islands, British Guiana, and Bermuda.

He married Beatrice Pope from East Orange, New Jersey, who was also staying at the Griswold House, and they lived in Old Lyme. In the 1920s, he had a reputation for his underwater life paintings, having made a bucket with a glass bottom that he floated on the water for special vantage points. Intrigued by the many colors he found in the ocean, he accompanied the naturalist William Beebe on research trips to the Galapagos Islands, Bermuda, and British Guiana.

He was awarded a gold medal at the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915 and won the Eaton Prize, bestowed by the Lyme Art Association in 1924. His work is now located in private and permanent collections throughout the United States. In 1930, he was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design. He was also very helpful to Florence Griswold in her old age when she was about to lose her house. Successfully avoiding that loss, he served as the treasurer and fund raiser of monies to save it as a home during her lifetime and as a museum when she died.

In addition to his long painting career, Hoffman was a writer, actor, and musician. He was active in the historic preservation of the Florence Griswold House, the intellectual center of the Old Lyme Colony, as a museum. Hoffman lived to be ninety-two years old and died at Old Lyme, Connecticut, on March 1966.

Robert Philipp was born on February 2, 1895 in New York City.  He was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Moses Solomon Philipp showed early talent and grew up in a family atmosphere that fed and cultivated his creativity. At age of 15, he entered the Art Students League for four years and then continued his training at the National Academy of Design. His teachers at the League included George Bridgeman and Frank DuMond, and at the National Academy he studied with Douglas Volk and George Willoughby Maynard.

After the death of his father, Philipp turned away from painting for a time and joined his uncle's opera company as a tenor.  He eventually returned to painting and settled in Paris, living there in the 1920s. The exact date of Paris sojourn is not known, but he reportedly lived there for ten years, supporting himself through the sale of his paintings. Back in New York in the early 1930s, Philipp was gaining a reputation for his portraits and figure studies. His - Olympia - won the Logan prize at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936 and was subsequently purchase by J. Paul Getty.  During the Depression, he worked for the Public Works of Arts Project. In 1934, he married artist Shelly (Rochelle) Post, who became his favorite model until her death in 1971. Critic Henry McBride called Philipp "One of the top ten painters in America."  It was during the 1930s that he began to paint landscapes, still lives and nudes evolving a distinctively lyric and modern style.

Philipp painted passionately and directly creating a synthesis of observation and poetic vision using high keyed colors and rhythmic treatment of form. Philipp's work, in his later years, began to increasingly resemble the Expressionist and emotional style of Chaim Soutine. He conveyed his subjects with a certain sensitivity and understanding that his viewers could relate to. Philipp, as a teacher at the Art Students League for over thirty years and at the National Academy for sixteen years, was an important influence on American art. As a teacher, he was well known for his attention to color and his constant emphasis on the importance of drawing.  He was a member of the Lotus Club, National Academy of Design and Royal Society of Arts.

Philipp taught at the High Museum of Art, 1946; University of Illinois, 1940; Art Students' League of New York and the National Academy of design. He was also elected an associate of the National Academy and later full Academician of the National Academy of Design. He won numerous awards during his life including the third Hallgarten Prize, 1922; prizes from the National Academy of Design, 1947 and 1951; Laguna Beach Art Association prize; medal prize, Art Institute of Chicago, 1936;  IBM, 1939; bronze medal, Allied Artists of America, 1958 and others. Robert Philipp passed away in 1981.

Kristina Nemethy is one of the twin sisters of Albert Nemethy and sibling of five. She was born in 1950, Germany and arrived to New York City at age one. In her later years, her father found that the town of Newburgh was where this family of artists can flourish. She was raised with strong influences and was inspired by the surrounding artistic values that reached all of the siblings; who all eventually became artists. Julien, Georgina, Albert, George and Veronica; whose paintings you may spot at auction halls upstate New York.

Kristina started to go her own way, trying different subjects of her skills. She paints still lifes, river boats, portraits, seascapes, landscapes, and emotionally strong depictions of subjects she feels connected to; creating intricately detailed modern subjects with rich colors and fine details. She often varies her media from oil to water colour and other techniques.

There is a spiritual connection that binds the Nemethy's, with the tradition of love towards fine art and the heritage of the Hudson Valley. Being inspired by a father of such talent; studying and experience directed her and made it so much easier to be self-taught. Kristina's work is vast, as she is inspired by many traditional values of painting. Always incorporating her fine art skills, her work is intricate with the finest details. Her work is expressive and bold; making it easier for her work to be distinguished from her other siblings.

As a traditional painter, she will always have that in her expressive nature, but there are moments where she chooses to paint off the path of her family. She opens a new tradition in her art style when experimenting in other subjects. A style that expresses a rich color pallet with subjects that are extravagant, and bold. As her work is always consistently detailed and this consistency will always follow her no matter what style she is experimenting with; creating paintings that are modern, elegant, sophisticated, and most of all expresses her love for fine art.

Bela de Tirefort was known for his stunning New York scenes, mostly painted on sight, leaving us with an enduring record of the metropolis between the 1930s and ’50s. This piece is an excellent example of his on sight paintings, an iconic scene with beautiful brushwork, thick use of paint and whimsical details. We can feel the atmosphere that the artist has created with many layers of paint and specks of light peaking through the fresh snow.

This work is a charming depiction of a snowy pathway in Central Park, New York City on a winter day with city buildings captured in the distance. A cozy impressionistic scene with colors of light cobalt, muted pinks, and purples. This painting captures the essence of Christmas in the 1930s in NYC. Signed lower left and it comes housed in its original frame, a beautiful museum quality gold tone frame, ready to be displayed with hanging wire on verso.

David Allen Moskovitz, was born in 1944 in Akron Ohio, and he was known for richly colored botanical and landscape paintings. As a psychiatrist, Moskovitz graduated from The University of Akron and from Case Western Reserve University Medical School. He did his residency in psychiatry at The Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn. He served in the U.S. Army as a psychiatrist at Ft. Bragg, N.C., earning the rank of Major.

As a self-taught artist, he found his inspiration in nature, rural scenery and travel, painting colorful scenes of his backyard garden in Shaker Heights and of travels in Ohio's Amish country, New England, New Mexico and Europe. Dr. Moskovitz believed in the healing power of art and encouraged others to explore their creativity. Former Plain Dealer art critic Helen Cullinan wrote that his paintings “are exuberantly affirmative ... unlike the florals with their impassioned brilliance, his landscapes project a sense of calm affection.”

David Moskovitz’s paintings have been shown in more than 40 solo and juried exhibitions and he was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and The Temple-Tifereth Israel, Dr. Moskovitz enjoyed classical music, windsurfing, traveling, and looking for arrowheads. Dr. Moskovitz also exhibited his paintings at museums including the Bulter Institute of American Art in Ohio, the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts, and the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. And his artwork was featured in New York; Connecticut; Massachusetts; Louisiana; Ohio; Washington, D.C.; and in Oslo, Norway. He’s works also appears in many private collections and died on October 7 in 2008 at age 63.

Bruno-Émile Laurent, known as BEL, is a French painter born in 1928. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Artistes français, also the Montmartre museum exhibits several of his works, and the Moulin-Rouge, which considers him the last great painter of Montmartre, publishes lithographs of his works. Laurent in 1987, he decided to open his studio-gallery, which made him one of the personalities of the Butte. Located on the lower part of Montmartre, among his favorite subjects are views of Montmartre under the snow and the Lapin Agile, also BEL was inclined to specialize on painting of the Montmartre scene, although his subjects also range from flowers to views of Paris, New York street scenes, and landscapes of Provence or the interiors of cafés.

Considered one of the greatest painters of the "School of Montmartre", several retrospectives of his work have taken place, as the nostalgia is at the heart of his inspiration: sensitive to the Paris of yesteryear, that of "bougnats, sellers of coal, merchants of the four seasons who moved with their cart" in his youth, he readily integrates legendary characters such as the songwriter. Aristide Bruant, the dancers of the French cancan and views of the missing Montmartre. With a touch of humor and hedonism, he revisits film masterpieces such as Les Enfants du paradis, La Traversée de Paris. It pays tribute to Vincent van Gogh, to Auguste Renoir, to the Medrano circus. Enamored of freedom and anxious to make the spectator dream, Bruno-Émile Laurent goes against spectacular contemporary art, even nihilist and provocative, in favor of a conscientious and descriptive profession in the tradition of easel work, clean at the French fine arts.

Albert Munghard was born in 1919 and he was known for his charming intimate figurative scenes portraying life in Paris and Europe, and he was profoundly active, picking up subjects from the cities, parks, restaurants, cities, and much more. Under acknowledged as one of French-America's most active Plein air artists, Albert Munghard achieved excellence in his career, producing 100's of breathtaking works, now in many private collections and museums around the world. Munghard died in 1998.

Helen M. Butman was an active American impressionist painter in the 20th Century, creating wonderfully lush color pallets reminiscent of the great impressionists of our time, such as Renoir and Monet. She is known her garden landscapes and still life painting.

Constantin Kluge was born in Riga on January 29, 1912 then a large industrial port city in the Russian Empire. Of Russian parents, his father was a graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Riga and his mother a Professor of Literature. Kluge's father was mobilized in the Czar's army in 1914 and during the subsequent civil war in Russia, the artist's childhood was spent in moving constantly from one end of Russia to the other. When Kluge was eight years old the family emigrated to North China, settling in Shanghai, where Kluge graduated from the French Municipal College. By the time he was seventeen, he was a very active member of the Shanghai Art Club. At this period of his life he also took up the violin and cello, and later in Paris gave music lessons to help him with his expenses. Meanwhile, his parents had decided that pure art was not a dependable career, and so in 1931 Kluge left Shanghai for Paris to study architecture. He spent six years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and in 1937 graduated with the title of French Government Architect.

T. E. Pencke is a Parisian painter born in 1929 also commonly known as "Pencke" & "T. Pencke”. He is a listed French Postwar & Contemporary artist and in his early life, he studied art in New York and Paris. His talent of an elegant impressionist oil painting style for his many French Street scenes, caught the attention of art critics early in his career and his work is now carried in numerous international galleries.

Pencke is well known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of the late 19th-century Parisian life, with French street scenes executed in an impressionist style as his work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, Antoine Blanchard, and Edouard Cortes. Even though his most popular subjects are Paris street scenes, Pencke’s works also feature some of his lovely beach scenes paintings of the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France resembling the works by the renowned artist Maurice Prendergast, as he executed stunning landscapes paintigns in an impressionistic manner.

Anatol Bouchet was born in Marseille, France in 1930 and he was the son of a well known artist. He was an impressionist painter primarily known for his vivid paintings of Parisian cityscapes and street scenes, as well as landscapes and marine scenes of the French Riviera in the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France. After finishing his elementary education in Marseille, he traveled to Paris to study and quickly became involved in the art societies of Parisian painters and contemporary fellow artists. And influenced by many of his well known artist friends, he quickly developed a special talent creating a unique aesthetic for his artworks and soon he began exhibiting his paintings in and around Paris, which garnered a lot of attention from the public art scene, becoming a very popular painter of the Parisian style.

Maryse Ducaire-Rogue was born in 1911. She was a pupil of Emmanuel Fougerat and a graduate of the National College of Decorative Arts in Paris. As a French impressionist artist she was best known for her paintings of female nudes and signed her name 'M. Ducaire'. She exhibited her work at numerous exhibitions in Paris, including the Salon des Artistes Indépendants where she became a member, the Salon des Artistes Français where she won a gold medal, the Salon d'Automne and the Salon Comparaisons. She also had solo exhibitions in Paris, Aurillac, Lyons, Grenoble and New York, and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, one of France's highest honors for artists. Ducaire died in 1992.

Artist Maurice Legendre was born 1928 and he is known for his cityscapes and scenes of important landmarks of London, Paris, and the French Riviera. Legendre was a student of Robert Couturier and in 1954, he won the prestigious Blumenthal prize for art, and after studying under sculptor Marcel Grimond, received the Brantome prize for sculpture in 1965. Sculptures like his 'Sacre', made in the Pate-de-Verre method of glass casting, are representative of his work. Legendre's paintings of city scenes and landmarks, such as Notre Dame de Square Viviani and Eiffel Tower, are sought after examples of his work. His use of silver gray in his Paris winter scenes, vibrant colors in pieces such as 'La Madeline Flower Market' in Paris, and his work in sculpture, reflect the diversity of artwork produced by him. Legendre also depicted scenes of the French Riviera and North Africa.

Lucia Fortuny was born in 1937 in Italy and is known for her vibrant paintings that capture the essence of mid-20th-century life with bold brushwork and heavy use of paint. Her works use small, distinct dots of color that blend from a distance to create detailed and luminous scenes, with a blend of pointillist and impressionist styles. Her works are characterized by a bold brushwork, with a strong presence of heavy paint application, which gives her work texture and energy. As well as the use of vibrant color palettes, effortlessly filling her canvases with joy and charm, she often depicts sunny French or Mediterranean scenes. French landscape or coastal areas themes are common subjects in her body of work, reflecting her main focus on picturesque landscapes and seascapes. Her paintings are filled with details, with a strong presence of bold brushwork and heavy use of paint, and are done in a pointillistic style. She effortlessly fills her canvases with much joy and color, capturing the essence of the middle of the 20th Century in the utmost charming manner.

Emile Thysebaert was a born in Gent, Belgium on 4 June 1873 and he was known for his impressionistic street scenes depicting popular locations in Europe. Thysebaert was a post-impressionist Belgian figurative painter and etcher whose theme was very diverse: marginals, alcoholics, folk people, workmen, market squares, horse markets, balls, processions, draft horses, fishermen. He found many of his subjects in the Marolles . In the later years he also painted images of Mechelen, the dunes in Oostduinkerke and Koksijde, the height of the Dudenpark, Neerpede, etc. He used powerful brush strokes and striking colors. If his colorite was rather gloomy in the beginning, it became more colorful after his trip to Italy. He was not influenced by the prevailing art movements, but always worked in his own realistic style and with a strong social commitment.

Thysebaert became a member of the artists' group “Le Sillon”, whose fellow members included Willem Paerels , Louis Thevenet , Georges Van Zevenberghen, Louise Brohée, Arthur Navez and J. Tordeur. He also became a member of "Labeur" and participated in the salons of "Labeur" among others in 1903 and 1904. His works were displayed in several exhibitions including: Brussels, hall of the University in 1901; Salon in Ghent in 1903; Brussels, Galerie Royale in 1917; Brussels, Galerie Kodak in 1927 and 1929 among many others.

In 1914, Thysebaert went to live in Schaerbeek. In 1921, the couple undertook a trip to southern France and Italy. During this trip he made many sketches. He was appointed Knight in the Order of Leopold in 1920 and finally as Officer in the Order of Leopold in 1961. Emile Thysebaert died in Anderlecht Belgium on 2 February 1963 and in 1964 was held a retrospective exhibition at the Maison des Arts in Schaerbeek with around 60 canvases of his works.

Andre Franchet was a french artist born in 1896. He was active in France and is known for his technique and colorful visions expressed with a bright colored pallet creating a very special Parisian atmosphere. His most iconic works are beautiful oil on canvas paintings of colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is comparable to in many ways of the impressionist masters of the 20th Century. Parisian street scenes with book sellers and figures, Notre Dame, and the Seine river are among the wonderful paintings examples of his work from the prime of his career, where the viewer can feel the energy of the day and the excitement of the times as he always captures so beautifully the architecture of Paris with magnificent details. Andre Franchet passed away in 1961.

Mario Passoni was born in Naples in 1929. Although he did not have any formal painting training, he was one of those fortunate enough artist to be born with the ability to paint and, as a self-taught artist, he painted just about any subject; from landscapes, street scenes, café scenes to figures and even sacred subjects. Using a pleasantly impressionist style were we can always find lively colors.

While growing up during the 1950s, Passoni was influenced by the artistic culture of the time. During the Post War period, New York City became the international focus for Modernism, and throughout the Second World War, many artists had made their way to the busy city after having fled in exile from Europe, resulting in a merging and amalgamation of talent and ideas. Whilst in New York, he was still influenced by Europeans painters such as Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers and Hans Hoffmann, providing inspiration for American artists, and influenced cultural development in the United States for many decades that followed.

In 1968, Passoni won a Gold Medal in Paris in a showing entitled “The Art of the Frame”. He was also involved in a collective exhibition in Rome in 1971 and a one-man show in Cagliari in 1975. These and many other exhibitions have established Passoni as a first-rate Italian artist.

Eugen Ankelen was born in 1858 Laupheim, Germany and was a well-known German painter and writer of the late 19th-early 20th century. He studied at the Academies of Stuttgart and Munich in 1879-81. His works are displayed in the museums of Munich and Ludwigshafen. He died in 1942 Munich, Germany.

Renee Theobald was a French Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1926 in Paris, France. She studied at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. And in 1953 she won the first prize for Landscape at the Deauville International Competition, and in 1956 she also won an Art Scholarship in Paris. Later on she got the first prize for Composition, Cannes International Competition in 1957 and the Sociéte des Amateurs d’Art et Collectionneurs in 1962.

Theobald was known for Palette knife impressionist painting, landscape and coastal scenes. Through the years, she developed a style which is uniquely personal. Her paintings reveal the confidence of stroke only of years of evolution, from hard work and study, can produce. While her paintings are masterfully constructed, they are full of spontaneity, with which she paints and her rich and varied palette, produce not only the image of the subject but its very essence. Her works were a part of numerous group shows and special exhibitions like: the Museum of Modern Art: Selection of the Pacquement Prize; Musée Galleria, Paris, 1967; “Les Artiste Français” Montreal, Quebec; Tapestry design: Chartres 1971; “Les Peintres Temoins de leur Temps” Japan 1973 & 1974; Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, December 1975; “Five French Painters” Newman-Saunders Gallery, Philadelphia 1998; and the “Ecole de Paris – 50 Years” University Museum, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, August – October 1998 among others.

She also had a number of individual exhibitors starting early in her artistic career, in 1951 in Paris at the ‘Galerie Cardo Matignon’; and had her first solo show at the prestigious De Young Museum in San Francisco, CA. Renee Theobald's art has been exhibited in major museums and can be found in some of the most prestigious public and private collections worldwide like Paris and Saint-Maur in France, London in the United Kingdom, Bougie in Algeria, Ovar in Portugal, Museum of the Marine and the Museum of San Francisco. As well her pieces where a part of the Salon d’Automne, Salon de la Sociéte Natonale des Beaux-Arts, Salon des Independants, Salon de Courbevoie, Salon de la Marine and the Palais du Trocadero.

Renee’s joy of living, with a deep inner serenity become an intricate part of each canvas. All her travel experiences always added to her vast array of subjects. The viewer is always aware of her sensitivity to her surroundings and her ability to express her insights. Theobald died in 2014 in Paris, France leaving behind a vast number of works to be enjoyed by critics and collectors alike.

Johannes Schiefer was born in 1896 in the Netherlands, and quickly gained notoriety for his landscapes, still life’s and portraits. Schiefer won the Prix de Rome at the age of 19 and studied at the Düsseldorf Academy in Germany, and then moved to Paris where he continued his studies in art at the Beaux Arts, and later at the Villa Medici in Rome. He traveled to paint across Europe, primarily France and Italy and also Latin America.

When he married, he settled down in Nice France, and during the late thirties, he traveled and painted the coastline of the South of France, as well as Venice and the Adriatic. He remained in France until 1942, when he moved to New York with his family after the birth of their daughter, future actress Joanna Miles. Already an artist of stature when he arrived in New York, he settled with his family on Long Island, and for the next 30 years, Schiefer kept on painting and built a solid reputation as an important American artist. The Schiefers also had a son, Johannes Jr. After the war, Schiefer maintained a Paris studio and became a resident of Los Angeles for a time in the 1950s.

For the next 30 years Schiefer kept on painting and during his career had numerous one man shows, having exhibitions at: Gallery Zak in Paris; Kunsthaus in Hamburg; Kunsthalle in Munich; Stiebel Galleries in Paris; O'Connor Gallery in Ontario; Museum of Modern Art, Wildenstein & Co, Carol Carstairs Gallery and Schoeneman Galleries in New York City; Esther Robles Gallery, County Museum and Vigoveno Galleries in Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum.

Like Picasso, Schiefer never permitted himself to be “type-cast” in a single monotonous style. If there is anything that typifies his work, it is his versatility, his deft handling of subdued tones to create a unique brilliance of light and color that stamps every painting with his own individuality. In February 1964, Ethel Kennedy happened to meet the artist at Donald Patterson’s decorating establishment on Worth Avenue in New York City. Donald described the meeting saying that she “just looked in wonderment when Johannes came in with one of his paintings. The Kennedy family has collected Schiefer paintings for a long time, but Ethel Kennedy had never before come face to face with the painter.” After looking at a few of his works, she commissioned Schiefer to create a painting of Monaco for her. This was the beginning of a wonderful relationship and many more commissioned works followed.

As his work gained notoriety in New York, he eventually became curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, NY. His work is represented in museums and prominent private collections around the world. Johannes Schiefer passed away at his home in Manhattan in 1979 at the age of 83.

Gaston Sébire was born August 18, 1920, in Saint-Samson Calvados Normandy. He was known for his landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and flowers. Sebire was also an engraver, pastel artist and painter of theatre decorations. He settled in Paris in 1951 and in 1953 he created the costumes and decorations for l'Ange Gris, with music by Debussy, for the Ballets of the Marquis de Cuevas. He lived and worked in Normandy and participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Salon of Independents, Paris Salon of Tuileries, Paris Comparisons Salon since 1962, Paris Salon of French Artists since 1964, Paris. He appeared at other groupings in London with Lorjou and Clave, in Munich, Washington, Japan, and different exhibitions of the School of Paris at the Charpentier Gallery in Paris in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1946, 1958 and 1962, at the Biennial of the Jeunes au Pavilon of Marsan in 1957. He received the Critic's Prize in 1953, the Greenshields Prize in 1957 and the Gold Medal at the Salon of French Artists in 1968.

His first major achievement was to design the costumes and sets for L'Ange gris, a ballet by Claude Debussy for the Marquis de Cuevas in 1953. That same year, he won the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, of which he was a member of the 24th artistic promotion, and leaves for Spain. And during the entire second half of the twentieth century, he exhibited in the main Parisian salons, and was notably part of Maurice Boitel's group at Comparisons show, for forty-five years.

Today his work can be seen in Museums around the world and among his shows and exhibitions include: 1944 Galerie Gosselin in Rouen, France; 1952 Galerie Visconti in Paris, France; 1956 Galerie Charpentier in Paris, France; 1961 Galerie Combes in Clermont-Ferrand, France; 1962 Galerie Drouant in Paris, France; 1964 "Exhibition" Musee de Rouen in Rouen, France; 1965 Wally Findlay Gallery in New York and Chicago; 1965 Galerie Drouant in Paris, France; 1965 Wally Findlay Gallery in Paris, France; 1968 Galerie Drouant in Paris, France; 1971 Wally Findlay Gallery in Paris, France; 1976 "Exhibitions" Cultural Center in Le Mesnil-Esnard, France; 1986 "Retrospective" Museum of Fine Art in Rouen, France; 1991 Roger Worms Association with "Cacheux" in Ville de Montfermeil, France and in 1992 Wally Findlay Gallery in Paris, France. Gaston Sébire was appointed painter of the Navy in 1973 and he became a member of the Rouen Academy in 1973. Sébire died in 2001.

Michel Adlen was born in Belarus on May 15, 1898. He received his artistic training in Vienna, where he exhibited for the first time and cooperated in the humorous magazine Die Muskete. From 1923 he was active in Berlin, where he participated in numerous graphic arts exhibitions. Adlen eventually moved to Paris, where he founded the Jewish Painters and Sculptors Association. He was also a member of several different groups of artists, such as the Union of Russian Artists in Paris and La Satire and Les Imagiers.

Initially, Adlen was heavily influenced by Cubist and Fauvist tendencies, around 1925, however, he took up the tradition of French landscape painting after Corot and Pissarro, but some of his works are also in reminiscence of Cézanne. As a representative of the École de Paris, Adlen also created landscapes and still life artworks, often with wild flowers and fruits, that have a melancholic mood due to the predominance of various grey tones.

And from 1929 to 1939 he worked as an illustrator for several major Parisian magazines and received numerous commissions. In addition to many paintings, he also created numerous graphic works such as lithographs, colored prints as well as etchings, and drawings. His works are part of several museum collections like the museums in Moscow and Kiev, and the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris. Michel Adlen died 1980.

Charles Genge was born in 1874, and he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. Genge is considered a leader of the British Post Impressionists, and in his early years, the artistic foundation was laid for the rest of Genge’s career, as an artist who rejected academic traditions and believed that art should be available to all. Charles Genge was a dedicated teacher and one of the founders of Bethnal Green Working Men’s Institute, where he offered tuition until 1925. During his earlier career, his works were exhibited at Goupils, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and the New English Art Club. And in 1927, Genge was appointed Curator at the RA Schools.

Genge’s success is due partly because his work displayed a real understanding of the power of colour and mark-making in the French artists – the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, the Fauves and the Cubists – whose work was still very influential in Britain. And also because his works were also infused with a love of the everyday life of the countryside and the suburbs, which he painted in both England and France. Through his paintings, he demonstrated spontaneity and enthusiasm for the plein-air technique of painting, with bold applications of paint laid on paint and the use of dense stripes of colour. His works are distinguished by the excitement, brilliance, and beauty of the ordinary and familiar, British or French landscape scenes. This ability to combine a radical technique with these familiar scenes is what ensured that Genge’s work appealed to many.

In 1930, his works were shown in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, next to many other interesting artists, from Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry to Emily Beatrice Bland, David Bomberg, Muirhead Bone, and Jacob Epstein. Genge died in 1958, and although he had instructed his nephew, William Genge, to clear his studio and burn his paintings upon his passing, instead Genge’s paintings were stored and left hidden for many years. And eventually, the entire studio collection was handed over to Campbell's of Walton Street Ltd., in Knightsbridge, to offer them to the public. From there, the first major exhibition of Genge’s work was in June 1985, which had great success. And subsequently, his works were included in other exhibitions throughout the 1980s, and the following decade. In 1997, a small number of watercolours on paper were exhibited and sold in New York. The remaining paintings by Charles Genge were bequeathed to Campbell’s, after William Genge’s death in 2002.

R. Champignon was born in Marseille in 1918. His studies of art took him to Paris and later to Florence. After completing his education in Italy, he returned to Paris, the city of lights and inspiration for many artists in the 20th Century. He was known for his colorful pallet and bold brushwork, his painting style also has a mystical quality about them which brings us to feel the atmosphere of his works effortlessly. We can feel that the artist was deeply in love with his city.

André Roubaud was born in France in 1929 and he began his artistic career as a painter from a very early age well before he attended art school, as he enjoyed painting the subjects that surrounded him like landscapes, flowers and people. After receiving his art education in Paris at "Art Libre", his work soon began to become recognized and also won prizes from his hometown region in France, and later in 1957, André began exhibiting in Paris and Marseille, then achieving international recognition having exhibited in New York, Chicago, Palm Beach, San Francisco and Montreal, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, and Canada while winning numerous honors during his career.

André Roubaud’s paintbrush is a reflection of his soul, as in each painting he pictorially describes the Provence he grew up in with the grace of its natural beauty, almost as he would like for the viewer to see into his soul when appreciating his work. As Jean-Claude Gaudin, Senator of the Bouches-du-Rhône expressed about André’s works “Reality and dreams, realism and poetry, combine in his eyes and by his hand to move us”.

John Clymer was born near Brighton, England, in 1932. At a very early age, he exhibited definite artistic talents. His father immediately recognized his son's gift and enrolled him at the royal art academy. John was soon swept by the serenity and tranquility of the impressionists. His favorites ranged from Monet to Pissaro and Sisley; eventually leading to an awakening interest in the magnificent Turners at the Tate galleries. Clymer's serene yet colorful canvases ably depict his love for the southern English coastline. Demand for his canvases is very high in the United States and the European continent, while still relatively dormant in his home country. As an Impressionist painter, Clymer was known for his pastoral landscapes depicting scenes from daily life, notably provincial French towns. He also created numerous views of city life during his stay in Paris.

Harry B. Tallman was Born in Cranston, Rhode Island in 1861. His parents were James B. and Sophia Tallman and at a younger age in 1880 he worked as a Wood Engraver, and in 1886 he married Mariana Bisbee. During his life, Tallman created many animal portrait paintings and wrote several articles about dogs, and in 1892 the “Fanciers Journal” in their Christmas Number listed H.B. Tallman as one of the artists. In the 1900s Tallman worked as a photo engraver, he also was featured in “First Lessons in Dog Breaking” Outing Magazine. October 1901. During that time, he also participated as a handler in the Connecticut ‘Field Trial Club’ and the ‘Run at Hampton’ with English Setter Belle, Miss Irish, Blue Roan Bitch, Peggy & Derby. A decade later he also worked as an engraver, for a jewelry company in 1910, until he became the owner of a Jewelry Store in 1920. His love for dogs always kept him involved with many activities like dog competitions and shows. He was an active member of the Hamptons New England Beagle Club, eventually becoming one of the officers for the executive committee. Harry’s wife, Mrs. Tallman, during her life, was also the author of several books, letters, poems, limericks, and articles for advertising contests. Harry B. Tallman Died in Providence, Rhode Island in 1949.

Georges Gerbier was a French painter born in 1906, known for impressionist street scenes depicting popular locations in Europe. With the use of vibrant colors and impressionistic brushwork done with both whim and daring, his work is comparable to those of Jean Salabet, Jules Herve, Antoine Blanchard, and Edouard Cortes. Gerbier was mostly active and lived in France, and he died in 1983.

René Sautin was born in 1881 in Monfort-sur-Risle on Normandy region at the northern France. He entered the Ecole Beaux Arts, Rouen, studying painting under P. Zacharie. Then in Paris Sautin studied at the Ferrier Studio, where he learned from Albert Lebourg, who was born in the same village. He entered Le Salon des Independants with Signac and Luce. He was married to Marthe in 1910 and they settled in Andelys in 1911, making friends with the Pissarro’s sons Lucien and Paul-Émile. He was also influenced by Signac, Luce, Derain, Guillaumin, Lebasque, Bigot, Ge-nez, who came back to Andelys to paint the Seine riverbanks.

Rene Sautin was essentially a landscape artist, and he was mostly known for his French townscape paintings. Around 1923 he left the impressionist style and started to explore fauvism. Sautin found an equilibrium even in the smallest of expressions, and from 1925 until the 1950s, his main focus remained in the feeling of totality of each of his landscape compositions, while presenting them in a personal manner. Sautin died in 1968 and through his works the viewer can experience the sentiment of those depicted times, with the use of strong brushwork that permeated a certain invocation to dominating his will with an intense sensitivity.

Jurgen Winter was born on May 1, 1931 in Dortmund, Germany. When very young he started his career as a sign writer's apprentice. During his apprenticeship he furthered his artistic career by attending the classes at the Art School of Graphics. He profited from this solid graphic education which is recognizable today in the carefully exact execution of his pleasing architectural subjects. Toward the end of the fifties, Winter turned to painting all together and completed his education with study trips to Belgium, Holland, France, and through Germany. In Westphalia, he studied the work of Hans Schaefer of the masters of the School of Duesseldorf. His finely balanced realistic landscapes and his romantic villages soon made the artist well known. His oeuvre was exhibited with great success in Essen, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Zurich.

Jacques Deveau was a French post-war contemporary artist born in 1937 and was active in France during the 20th Century. As an impressionist painter, he was known for his detailed works depicting scenes from daily life; notably works of simple life by the garden or beach often depicting beautiful ladies and children. His rich, impasto technique and use of light and color capture scenes of tranquil beauty and the joy of life. Deveau’s work was also known for his beach scenes and landscapes, and his paintings have been represented by many prominent galleries and appear in private collections worldwide.

Maurice Monnard is an American-born artist of European parentage who began to paint at an early age. As an outstanding student of the Parsons School of Design in New York, he completed a four-year course in three years which included Advertising and Fashion. While attending school, he did artwork for the Department store company W. & J. Sloane. Later, he created artistic travel brochures for Pan American Airways. In his travels to London, Paris, the French and Italian Rivieras he was constantly sketching. He remained in Italy for a time to continue his studies in Fine Art. Although his paintings range from Pianissimo 1o Forte, the sensitivity and serenity of his nature are conveyed in every brush stroke.

Monnard was inspired by the French Impressionists and is a great admirer of the Romantic era. All this is reflected in his work. His paintings now hang in many private collections in Europe, Australia, North and South America and are currently selling in leading galleries in Paris, New York, Palm Beach, Montreal, Houston, and Rio de Janeiro. Since his paintings have been steadily increasing in value, Monnard's art is sure to become a valued family heirloom. He has been described as an artist whose line has come and is destined to become an important artist of this century.

François Gall was known for his impressionistic scenes of the 20th Centruy, portraying the French Lifestyle of that nostalgic era. Scenes depicting popular locations of the plague in Europe, portraits of dancers, and intimate depictions of figures in restaurants, or in homes. We are reminded of the great French impressionists such as Edgar Degas, Boudin, and Renoir. This painting is a tremendously vivid and alive scene from Paris in the 20th Century, depicting a crowded beach scene with figures on the sand. The pastoral colors and impressionistic brushwork is done with both whimsey and boldness.

Dietz Edzard was born in Bremen in 1893. He traveled extensively through Germany, Holland, and France. He studied painting with Max Beckmann and carried on the traditions of the masters of French Impressionism. In 1929, Edzard's work was included in an exhibition of contemporary painting at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, a museum dedicated to the Impressionist masters. In 1938, Edzard married Suzanne Eisendieck (1908-1998), a well-regarded artist in her own right who worked in an impressionist style. Edzard captured in his canvases the charm of the Parisian and European atmosphere. With the use of light and vibrant colorful touches of his brush, he produced sparkling, and yet delicate, paintings of beautiful women, dancers, and flowers. Among his works, we can find brilliant delineations of circus life and the theatre, or spirited portrayals of Parisian café scenes which made him a favorite among the art circles in this country and abroad. Edzard preferred to work along well-defined modes of expression, following the artistic representation of portraits by Velazquez and Goya and continuing in the art by Manet and Renoir. Dietz Edzard died in 1963 in Paris, France.

John Charles Terelak was born in 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his formal art instruction at the Vesper George School of Fine Art. His love for painting and thorough understanding of color theory and artistic technique led him to become Headmaster of Gloucester Academy of Fine Art. Terelak also served as the President of the New England Watercolor Society, and as the demand for his work grew, it eventually led him to devote all his energy as a full-time artist.

Recognized as one of America's finest living traditionalists and impressionists, Terelak’s use of color and rich surface texture are hallmarks of his paintings. While the subject matter of his paintings is diverse, his loves to set his easel "Au plein air" and capture the passing light with his brushwork; he is able to share his gift for observation and the ability to paint with freshness and emotion the world as he perceives it. Terelak’s paintings may capture the tranquility of an early spring morning in the Vermont countryside, the beaches of Cape Cod in the summer, the snow covered mountains of New Hampshire, the great harbors of New York, the hustle and bustle of Times Square, a rainy Boston day, the serenity of the French countryside, a woman hanging her laundry, or a boy out for a late afternoon horse ride.

While patiently exercising the appropriate creative technique, his pieces reveal a beautiful depth and texture. Working with oils, watercolor, or pastel, and using an intricate system of layered paint and glazing, Terelak plays off one color against another, creating color harmonies that evoke distinctive moods and feelings. While taking all the time necessary to place each brushstroke, the work itself, and the feelings that it produces, is what brings the beauty of his surroundings into the richer scene of each painting he completes.

Terelak’s paintings are included in several private and public collections throughout the United States, like the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Sheraton Corporation, the Winthrop Financial Corporation, Prudential Insurance Company, Bank of Boston, Shawmut Bank, State Street Bank of Boston, and Sterling-Regal Publishing Company. His works can be found in important and permanent exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Springfield Museum, and the Butler Museum, among others.

Allen Gilbert Cram was born in Washington, DC, on February 1, 1886, and he was a prolific painter, illustrator, and etcher. He was best known as a painter of desert scenes and western subjects. Essentially an illustrator, Mr. Cram has had experience in many fields of art, from the time when, as a fourteen-year-old boy, he studied with the noted William Chase.  As a young man, he traveled and studied abroad. Cram also studied with Frank DeHaven, William Merritt Chase, Chas H. Woodbury, Elizabeth Shurtleff, and at the Art Students League in New York City. He moved from Boston to San Diego, California, after 1926, and later lived in Santa Barbara, where he became a member of the Santa Barbara Art League.

The work of Allen Gilbert Cram is refreshing to the eye with its vivid color and excellent draftsmanship. Most of his oil paintings present a bit of ranch life in the southwest in a brightly decorative style. His figures and animals scintillate under the bright sun or in the cool of the night; they move dramatically before the wide expanse of sky and desert. To create an impression of the vastness of the southwest region, in some of his canvases, Mr. Cram has chosen to treat large blank spaces in the sky and desert in poster style. In the night scenes, his color displays aesthetic pleasure with pronounced effectiveness.

Important galleries in the east have held his exhibitions, and in 1914, he was given the Ruth Payne Burgess award by the Art Association of Newport. Cram participated in several exhibitions like the San Francisco Art Association in 1924 and 1932; the Paul Elder Gallery in San Francisco in 1927; and also the California State Fair in 1930. Cram died in Seattle, Washington, on May 8, 1947, and his works can be found in several collections, like the Santa Barbara Courthouse, the San Diego Museum, and a collection of his pencil drawings at Stanford University.

Pierre Boudet was born in 1915 in Caulnes in northwestern France, where he lived his youth. His parents were shoemakers and did not want him to venture into the Fine Arts world. However, young Pierre, being attracted by drawing, he enrolled to an Industrial Design School in Paris in 1968. And following his passion, he kept drawing for pleasure, while attending an art drawing school after classes in the evening. Adamant about learning, Pierre Boudet began painting in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, where he met Henri Le Sidaner, Pierre Montezin, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Lobre, Delaporte, and Henri Martin. He was a pupil and friend of Jean-Gabriel Domergue. Boudet mainly painted landscapes, boats, shores, and city views, notably of the Normandy coast, but also of places he visited on his travels, particularly Venice. 

He exhibited from 1945 at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants and the Salon d'Hiver, from 1950 at the Salon Violet, and occasionally at the Salon d'Art Libre from around 1960. His work was also featured in a Biennale exhibition of French painters that toured Buenos Aires, Chicago, New York, Washington, and Montreal in 1968. He also held solo exhibitions in Tokyo and Brussels in 1969-1970, in Paris in 1970, 1972, 1975, 1978, and 1985, and in London in 1972. A retrospective of his work was held at the Palais des Congrès, Versailles, in 1982. He exhibited regularly at the Wally Findlay gallery in New York and was awarded the Tossa de Mar Grand Prix and the Governor of Gerona Grand Prix (1964). Boudet died in 2010, leaving a legacy of outstanding pieces executed with a very fast gesture exemplary of his works.

Born in London, England, William Emerson was an accomplished architect and a widely-exhibited painter of tonalist landscapes. He was a member of the New York Watercolor Club, the Chicago Watercolor Club, the Chicago Society of Artists, and the Westchester Art Institute. Active in Chicago and New Preston, Connecticut, he also exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute. William Emerson is listed in all relevant art reference works including Who Was Who in American Art.

Erich Paulsen was born in the small town of Treunbrietzen, in the region Bundesland of Brandenburg, just outside Berlin, on February 23, 1932. He spent his early childhood in the region called "Mark Brandenburg", known for its pine trees and uncounted small lakes. Attracted to the arts since childhood, Paulsen received his formal education in art at the Fine Arts Academy in Lower Saxony, from which he graduated with honors. After the war, his family moved west in search of safety. They settled in Hamburg, where the aspiring young artist attended the Master Class for Painting, Mesterchule der Malerei. He studied under Professor Joseph Burger in Munich at the Kunst-Akademie and also at the Art Academy in Berlin. Paulsen continued his painting and studies and later graduated with honors.

Deeply impressed by the region of his childhood, Paulsen draws upon these memories to create his paintings. From the countryside to the shores of the Baltic Sea, many of his subjects are reminiscences of this romantic part of Germany. Paulsen chooses primarily landscapes, genre, and coastal scenes as subjects for his paintings. His images of quaint old-world villages are compelling as they seem to catapult the viewer back in time to simpler, more wholesome days. Implementing the palette knife technique and using assured impasto strokes to apply bold colors, this artist's works are distinctive and captivate anyone's imagination.

Following his graduation from the Academy, he made several study trips in search of inspiration and new subject material for his compositions. He traveled extensively through northern Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and the Alps. He is well known for excellent countryside and mountain landscapes, and has also been very successful in painting harbor scenes. His colorful canvases have won much recognition at various exhibitions in his own country as well as in the rest of Europe and the United States, and his paintings have been exhibited around the world in major cities like Munich, Hamburg, Paris, London, New York, Chicago, and Sydney. International art critics have praised his works, and today, they can be found in many prestigious private and municipal art collections.

Antonio Gravina was born in Naples, Italy in 1934. He began painting at age fifteen, and was taught at the Art Institute in Naples, then studied at the Art Institute in Milan. Gravina’s style is said to contain a feel of the masterpieces created in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a variety of subjects, he is able to appeal to a wide spectrum of art collectors. Although he painted throughout Italy, particularly the southern coastline, Gravina is also best known for his characteristic views of Paris, the famous cafes of Paris, interior Bistros, as well as his pastoral picnic scenes on the banks of the Seine. Gravina's talent and devotion to his art were rewarded with admiration from both the public and critics alike. Antonio Gravina died in 2011, and his works have been displayed in numerous national and international exhibits in Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the United States.

Tiffany Studios was a New York City-based company founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1902. As the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812–1902), founder of Tiffany & Co., he was able to enhance the marketability of his own wares by capitalizing on the Tiffany name established by his father. Prior to this, Louis C. Tiffany had been working as a painter and interior decorator for about two decades. He was known for his artistic innovation and contributions to the American Art Nouveau movement, and continued the legacy of his various earlier companies that produced iconic stained-glass lamps and other decorative art objects. Tiffany was the president and art director, and he was in charge of all the artistic and technical production, so to accomplish his goals, Tiffany encouraged designers and specialized workers to interpret creatively based on his own ideals. He employed many talented female artists, including Clara Driscoll, and other important designers included Will H. Low and Lydia Emmet, Frederick Wilson, Joseph Lauber, Edward P. Sperry, Agnes Fairchild Northrop, and Alice Carmen Gouvy. Under Tiffany’s watch, teams of talented designers and craftspeople translated his all-encompassing vision into beautiful objects. Tiffany Studios is also renowned for its innovative use of opalescent glass, particularly its Favrile glass, a type of iridescent glass developed by Tiffany. With the use of traditional leaded glass produced stained-glass windows and lamps, including famous designs like the Dragonfly and Lily lamps, bronze decorative objects, as well as blown-glass vases, pottery, jewelry, and more, that captivated an era.

He began producing lamps after Thomas Edison suggested the idea during their collaboration on the electric lighting of the first movie theater, the Lyceum. But it’s also believed that he began making lamps as a way to use up scraps from his window manufacturing business. Embracing the Art Nouveau style at the beginning of the 20th century, he instructed his craftsmen to create elaborate lamps to fit the new style. His lamps quickly became popular at home and abroad. Craftsmen set tiny pieces of glass in natural patterns, featuring flowers, butterflies, or dragonflies, while the bronze bases complemented the leaded shades. Later, some shades were made in folds from panels of pressed glass, creating the appearance of a tweedy fabric. Some of the original Tiffany’s were gas, later converted into electric lighting. In the early 1890s, Tiffany decided to concentrate on the large-scale production of stained glass windows, blown glass, lamps, and decorative household items for retail sale. Stained glass windows were almost always custom-designed for a specific client, and while many of his other decorative items were stock pieces, some were made as special design orders. His company was not a simple enterprise, so he maintained a design file to provide inspiration for the designers. The files included photographs of works created early in his career, of historic monuments of personal interest to Tiffany, and of sights and objects from his travels. With these measures in place, Tiffany secured the unity and quality of the overall production of his companies. For instance, the model number on the lamps indicates a specific design within their extensive catalog, creating dynamic and flowing patterns in their lamps.

Tiffany’s business began to fade just prior to World War I, and in 1917, Tiffany retired while allowing some of his employees to continue to sell wares as Tiffany Furnaces, though pieces were often made with parts long in stock that had already been marked Tiffany Studios or L. C. Tiffany. The Tiffany Studios company closed its operations in 1930, and its founder, Louis Comfort Tiffany, died in 1933, a few years after the company's closure.

Robert Milton DeVee was born on January 1, 1940, in Albany, California. He was an American painter, printmaker, and multifaceted artist whose impressionistic works captured the serene beauty of landscapes, gardens, and everyday vignettes with a vibrant, joyful palette. DeVee grew up in a creative environment that blended the performing and visual arts. From a young age, he immersed himself in dance, training with the Oakland Civic Ballet and performing alongside Ronn Guidi, who would later found the Oakland Ballet. When his family relocated to the rural enclave of Cazadero in Sonoma County, DeVee continued his dance studies under Linda Galletta, the future director of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. These early encounters with artistic communities sparked his passion for visual expression, leading him to pursue formal training in acrylic and oil painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts and San Francisco State University.

After graduating, DeVee entered the commercial art world, spending a decade as a graphic designer for prominent Bay Area retailers Grodin's and Joseph Magnin. This period honed his technical skills and eye for composition, and in 1970, at the age of 30, DeVee made a bold pivot, leaving corporate life behind to dedicate himself fully to fine art. He settled in Sonoma County, first in Cazadero and later in Sebastopol, where the rolling hills and coastal light of Northern California became enduring inspirations for his work. DeVee's early paintings were large-scale impressionist acrylics on canvas, often evoking the luminous French countryside or tranquil Japanese gardens—subjects that reflected his innate sense of harmony and delight in nature.

A pivotal moment came during a trip to Japan in the mid-1970s, where DeVee encountered the burgeoning contemporary print movement. Fascinated by its precision and potential for layered color, he expanded his repertoire to include silkscreen serigraphs and oil monotypes. For his prints, DeVee employed an impressionistic approach, using up to 18 separate screens to build intricate, dot-like compositions that shimmered with depth and movement. His monotypes, created by painting oils onto glass and pressing paper to capture the transfer, added a spontaneous, one-of-a-kind quality to his oeuvre. While primarily impressionist, some works incorporated pointillist techniques, applying small dabs of pure color to create optical blending and a sense of ethereal glow, as seen in his rural landscapes with leafless trees and sunlit barns.

DeVee's art was characterized by its optimistic spirit: soft shadows, blooming sunflowers, and courtyard scenes infused with pinks, blues, and golds that conveyed joy and serenity. His pieces graced private collections, including those of the City of Santa Rosa and Bank of America, and appeared in prestigious publications like House & Garden, Sunset, Interior Design, and Architectural Digest. Exhibitions took him across the United States, from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Dallas, Phoenix, and Chicago, with a particular affinity for galleries in Bodega Bay, where he eventually made his home.

In the 1980s, he co-founded the Ren Brown Collection Gallery in Bodega Bay with gallerist Ren Brown, transforming a modest coastal building into a haven for Japanese prints and contemporary works, including his own. This partnership not only amplified his visibility but also deepened his cross-cultural influences. Robert DeVee passed away in 2017 in Bodega Bay,  leaving behind a legacy of over five decades of work that continues to enchant collectors and art enthusiasts.

Debra Huse is a renowned contemporary American Impressionist oil painter born in 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Huse's passion for art emerged at a young age, nurtured by her mother, an amateur artist who recognized and encouraged her daughter's natural talent. By the age of 10, Huse was enrolled in professional lessons, and her prodigious skill earned her a scholarship in sixth grade to study for an entire summer at the prestigious John Herron Art Academy in Indianapolis. This early formal training laid the foundation for her lifelong dedication to painting, blending technical precision with emotional depth.

Huse initially painted with pastels, and later she transitioned to oils, developing a signature style marked by bold colors, fluid brushstrokes, and luminous light. Huse's style is characterized by rich, saturated colors, fluid brushstrokes, and a masterful capture of fleeting light—qualities that evoke the drama of coastal scenes, harbors, and landscapes. Her studio is currently based in Newport Beach, California, and she works primarily en plein air, traveling extensively to paint on location.

A Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, Huse has exhibited in over 25 U.S. museums and featured in Southwest Art Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, and Fine Art Connoisseur. Her paintings, often inspired by nautical travels on her boat Grouper, are collected worldwide. As a sought-after instructor, she teaches workshops on simplifying complex subjects and using her "Theory of Thirds" to achieve the right composition. Debra Huse's journey from an Indiana prodigy to a coastal Impressionist exemplifies a prominent figure in the plein air community, blending spontaneity and emotional depth in her work.

Gordon Stevenson was born on February 28, 1892, in Chicago to Scottish immigrant parents. He was immersed in an artistic heritage from a young age, honing his craft at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied under luminaries and received early commissions for murals. Seeking broader horizons, Stevenson traveled extensively through the British Isles and Europe, training in Spain under the masterful Joaquín Sorolla, whose vibrant palette and romantic sensibility profoundly shaped his own work. He later benefited from the discerning critiques of John Singer Sargent, who advised him on the delicate balance of proportion and environment in portraiture, helping Stevenson avoid the pitfalls that plagued lesser artists.

As a distinguished American painter, Stevenson was renowned for his elegant society portraits in oil, luminous watercolor landscapes, and intricate etchings that captured the subtle interplay of light and nature. His oeuvre reflects a masterful versatility. His portraits exude sophistication and psychological depth, often depicting affluent subjects in opulent settings with a keen eye for texture and expression. His landscapes evoke the serene poetry of the American wilderness through translucent watercolors that dance with dappled sunlight and flowing streams. Etchings such as those submitted to the 1932 Summer Olympics art competitions demonstrate his precision in capturing fleeting moments of rural tranquility, earning immediate acclaim and acquisition by major institutions.

An athlete in spirit as much as in art, Stevenson's graphics and paintings were selected for the Olympic art exhibitions in both 1932 (Los Angeles) and 1936 (Berlin), where he showcased works inspired by trout fishing along New York's Willowemoc Creek and introspective angling scenes. These pieces not only highlighted his technical prowess but also his affinity for themes of patience and harmony with nature. His art endures as a testament to the enduring allure of beauty, whether in the poised gaze of a sitter or the whisper of a woodland brook. Gordon Stevenson passed away in February 1984, leaving a legacy of works that continue to enchant collectors and institutions worldwide, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum to Tripoli Gallery.

Robert Lebron was born in 1928 in New York City. At a young age, he moved from New York to Puerto Rico with his fisherman cousin, who told Lebron about the perils of the sea. Inspired by these tales, Lebron and his cousin would illustrate these stories on old paper bags. He returned to New York a few years later and, at age 14, was admitted to New York City's High School of Music and Arts. He studied for three years before he gave in to his youthful impatience and joined the United States Air Force, forging his parents' signatures to join underage. He soon started drawing cartoons for the camp newspaper and quickly graduated to the animation department of the Air Force's motion picture unit.

Robert Lebron developed his own personal technique during an extended stay in Spain. Rendering buildings and cityscapes with a palette knife is one quality that distinguishes his work. Lebron painted professionally for almost forty years and is recognized as an important American impressionist. He has had numerous successful shows and exhibitions, and the number of collectors of his work is growing steadily. His paintings can be found in prestigious collections in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Great Britain, and Japan. Robert Lebron passed away on August 31, 2013.

Harold Wolcott was born in New York in 1898 and served in WWI and later worked as a stockbroker. His first art-related job was as an advertising graphic artist. He studied at the Art Students' League in NY and the National Academy of Design under Hans Hoffman. In the late 1940s, he left his advertising job to devote more time to painting. He then moved from Scarsdale, NY, to Southport, CT, in 1949, when he began giving classes. He served as the Art Director of the Hudson River Museum for more than 12 years and continued to teach art. He was represented by Grand Central Art Gallery in NY, as well as Portraits, Inc., and the Bendann Art Gallery of Baltimore. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club of NY, Silvermine Guide of Artists in CT, Springfield Art Association of MA, Hudson Valley Art Association, and the National Academy of Design. He received the Louis Seeley Purchase Award in 1960 from the Salmagundi Club Annual Exhibition, and more than 20 other local and national awards. Wolcott had more than a dozen one-man shows in his lifetime. Mallett's "Index of Artists" shows him exhibiting in 1935 at White Plains, NY, and he was best known as a portrait artist apparently, as well as landscapes, generally with architectural elements in them. Harold Wolcott died in 1977.

John Reilly is a critically acclaimed and award-winning New Jersey artist, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1942. He received his early art training at the School of Art and Design, formally known as ‘The School of Industrial Art’ in Manhattan, where he studied advertising art. By the age of twenty-three, he operated a mid-town-based sales promotion agency, eventually expanding the business to service large companies such as Bacardi Rum, Johnson and Johnson, Nabisco, and KLM Airlines. In 1985, John began painting with the same focus, creativity, and energy that drove his success in advertising, so he decided to study painting in NYC at the Art Students' League, the National Academy of Design with Sam Adoquei, and privately with Burt Silverman. He studied portrait painting with Everett Raymond Kinstler, whom he considered a close friend and mentor. In New Jersey, he also attended the Newark School of Fine Arts.

Reilly's paintings are spontaneous depictions of everyday life executed with oil, with the main goal of capturing the unique visual essence of his subjects. They range from belly dancers to corporate executives, and quiet churches to roaring roller coasters, all painted with the use of vibrant colors. Reilly employs his subjects to express his passion for variety and a serendipitous love for life, where the bold use of color is tempered by sensitive brushwork.

Throughout his life, Reilly was a prolific painter. He was a longtime member of the Salmagundi Club and The Art Students League of New York, and with an exhibition history which includes such venues as Nabisco Gallery, Audubon's Artists' at the Salmagundi Club, and the National Academy of Design. John's passion and contribution to the art world led him to have solo shows at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, the Watchung Arts Center, the Somerset Art Association, and the Robert Wood Johnson Children's Specialized Hospital. John's work is held in private collections throughout the East Coast of the US and in Ireland. John Reilly died on April 19, 2021 in Hope, New Jersey at the age of 78.

Louis Comfort Tiffany was born on February 18, 1848, in New York City, to Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of the luxury jewelry firm Tiffany & Co., and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. Raised in a wealthy household, he attended military academies, including the Pennsylvania Military Academy and Eagleswood Military Academy, but showed little interest in his father's business. From a young age, Tiffany pursued art, studying painting under George Inness and Samuel Colman. He traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa during the 1860s and 1870s, where exposure to Islamic art, ancient glass, and exotic colors profoundly shaped his aesthetic.

He began as a painter and, in 1877, co-founded the Society of American Artists, then shifted to interior design. In 1879, he formed ‘Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists’, decorating Mark Twain’s home, the White House in 1881, and the Seventh Regiment Armory. In 1885, he founded the ‘Tiffany Glass Company’, which was then renamed ‘Tiffany Studios’ in 1902. His innovations—‘Favrile’ iridescent glass, ‘opalescent’ blends, and textured techniques—revolutionized stained glass and decorative arts. Among some iconic works are: Award-winning windows at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair; Lamps like "Wisteria", "Dragonfly"; and "Pond Lily"; and Mosaics, enamels, jewelry, and the complete ‘Tiffany Chapel’ now at the Morse Museum.

His work epitomized the American Art Nouveau movement, influencing decorative arts worldwide. The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation was founded in 1918 and supports artists. Museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morse Museum, and the New-York Historical Society preserve vast collections. Tiffany lamps fetch millions at auction, and his techniques remain studied in glassmaking. A pioneer in elevating craft to fine art, Tiffany's fusion of innovation, nature, and luxury endures as a pinnacle of Gilded Age creativity. Louis Comfort Tiffany died on January 17, 1933, in New York City, aged 84, and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Gian Luigi Campanile was born in Italy during the early 20th century and developed a distinctive style that reflected his deep connection to Mediterranean environments and everyday beauty. He was an accomplished Italian-American painter active in the mid-20th century, known for his vibrant landscapes, marine views, and floral still lifes executed in oil and acrylic.

Campanile received his formal artistic training at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he later served as an instructor. His early career in Italy laid the foundation for a refined technical approach and a deep appreciation for light, color, and atmospheric effects characteristic of Mediterranean subjects. Following his immigration to the United States, he continued his education at the University of Illinois from 1953 to 1957, where he both studied and taught courses in design and art history. This period marked his full integration into the American art scene while retaining strong ties to his Italian heritage.

Campanile's oeuvre spans the mid-20th century and includes evocative depictions of Italian marinas and harbors, luminous floral compositions, and dynamic urban harbor scenes inspired by American settings, including Chicago. His style bridges post-impressionist sensibilities with mid-century abstraction, often characterized by bold yet harmonious palettes, fluid brushwork, and an emphasis on capturing fleeting light and mood.

His works have been widely exhibited in both Italy and the United States, earning recognition and awards, including a First Prize for his floral painting Iris. Today, Campanile's paintings are sought after, and his legacy endures through his ability to evoke emotional warmth and serene beauty in everyday subjects, making his canvases cherished additions to private and institutional collections.

Henk Petrus Gorter was born in Sneek, Friesland, in 1908. He was a Dutch painter known for his versatile and colorful body of work that spanned impressionistic landscapes, portraits, still life painting, and figurative scenes. Gorter spent much of his early life in the northern province before moving to Amsterdam around 1951 at the age of 43. There, he trained as a drawing teacher at the National Institute for the Training of Art Teachers and pursued further studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts (Rijksacademie). This late start in formal artistic education marked a turning point, allowing him to dedicate himself fully to painting. Gorter’s style was notably diverse: he moved fluidly between loose, impressionistic brushwork, near-surrealistic elements, and more abstract compositions.

What unified his oeuvre was a bold and joyful use of color, often celebrating the vibrancy of nature, which frequently took center stage in his landscapes and outdoor scenes. His subjects ranged from intimate still life paintings and characterful portraits to lively beach scenes and figures. Gorter’s work is appreciated for its expressive freedom and stylistic variety, reflecting a painter who embraced experimentation throughout his relatively short but dedicated career. His paintings continue to appear in galleries and auctions, offering collectors a glimpse into mid-20th-century Dutch artistic diversity. He was an active member of the Vereniging Sint Lucas and the Beroepsvereniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars (BBK) in Amsterdam. Later in life, he settled in Gelderland, where he continued creating until his death in Renkum in 1974 at the age of 66.

George Jan (G.J.) Dispo was born in Denmark in 1925.  Dispo came from an artistic family and was a Dutch painter best known for his romantic cityscapes and detailed architectural scenes, particularly views of Amsterdam's historic buildings, canals, bridges, and streets, as well as similar subjects in other Dutch cities like Delft and The Hague. He received his early training from his father, Jacobus (J.L.) Dispo, and later studied at the Academy of Visual Arts’ "Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten" in The Hague under instructors including A.J. van 't Hof and H.C. Pieck. He lived and worked primarily in The Hague throughout his career, though his paintings frequently celebrated iconic Dutch urban landscapes.

Dispo specialized in oil paintings that captured the atmospheric charm of old Dutch towns. His works often featured landmark buildings, cobblestone streets, canals, swing bridges, and market scenes—subjects that evoke a nostalgic, romantic vision of the Netherlands. He painted with careful attention to architectural detail, light, and mood, creating intimate, collectible views that appealed to lovers of traditional Dutch realism and cityscape art. Dispo passed away in 1973, and his legacy endures through his consistent output of charming, well-observed urban scenes that continue to be traded and appreciated for their technical skill and evocative portrayal of Dutch heritage.

Karen Bonnie was born in Colorado, Wisconsin in 1951. An American Western and equine artist known for her realistic oil paintings that capture the beauty, power, and spirit of the American West, with a particular mastery in portraying horses. Bonnie grew up in the Midwest, where summers spent on her uncle’s farm ignited a lifelong passion for horses and animals. She began drawing them as a child and later channeled that love into a professional art career. In her late 40s, she moved to Colorado, settling near the dramatic San Juan and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where the rugged landscape deeply influenced her work. She has also lived on a ranch in Hondo, New Mexico, and while retraining retired race horses for the dressage arena as a hobby, she expanded her commercial photography career into advertising and graphic design. In 1991, Karen drew on her knowledge of ancient and traditional techniques to found a buckskin garment company. She won "Best New Collection" for her designs at the 1999 Western Design Conference in Cody, Wyoming. Although Bonnie specializes in equine art, painting horses with meticulous attention to accurate conformation, movement, and liberty in the natural Western settings, her subjects extend to broader Western themes, including ranch life, landscapes, portraits, and wildlife. She works primarily in oils and has taught workshops on equine painting.

Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst was born on February 10, 1903, in Crete, Nebraska. She was an American painter known for her plein-air landscapes and vibrant floral still lifes. She spent her early childhood in the Midwest before her family moved briefly to San Diego, California, and then to Eugene, Oregon, in 1918. She briefly attended the University of Oregon around 1920, but her father's health issues prompted the family's return to Southern California.

In 1923, she married realtor Fred Gleiforst and settled in Beverly Hills, where she began painting and drawing in the late 1920s. Gleiforst studied under notable instructors, including Nicolai Fechin, George Melcher, and John Hubbard Rich. Landscape painter Dedrick Stuber and floral specialist Nell Walker Warner (with whom she studied in the 1940s on the Monterey Peninsula) particularly influenced her work.

By the mid-1930s, she had established a local reputation in the Los Angeles area, and her artworks were frequently featured in one-person exhibitions at venues such as the Ebell Society in Beverly Hills and the Westwood Women's Club, among other local spaces. She also presented a solo show at Stanford University in the 1950s. After her husband's retirement in 1960, she traveled extensively throughout California, producing many plein-air landscapes. Gleiforst's paintings, often characterized by rich color and a sensitive handling of light, remain treasured in private collections worldwide. In the 1980s, some health issues forced her to stop painting, and on May 28, 1997, she passed away in Los Angeles, at the age of 94.

Henri Alexis Schaeffer was born in Paris, France, in 1900. He studied at the famous École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under the great master Cormon. Schaeffer’s earlier paintings consisted primarily of architectural studies of classical monuments and religious landmarks. He was a member of and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français beginning in 1934. Schaeffer mainly painted urban Parisian scenes.

Schaeffer was a Post-Impressionist, the art movement following Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism. The style showed a greater concern for expression, structure, and form than did Impressionism. While the use of light is still important, it is strong and focused rather than soft and diffused, and the use of color is also strong and pure. Henri Alexis Schaeffer remained in Paris throughout his life and died there in 1975. The artist was a member of the Salon des Artistes Français from 1934.

Ernest Audibert was born in 1922 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Audibert grew up immersed in the light, colors, and coastal scenery of the Provence region. Deeply inspired by the light and landscapes of the Provence and Mediterranean regions, he developed a distinctive style focused on capturing the vibrant essence of southern France. Rather than a generic Mediterranean painter, Audibert became known as a dedicated chronicler of his local environment through bold, expressive works.

His paintings, primarily oils on canvas, feature thick impasto textures and a rich, colorful palette that avoids black. Audibert excelled in landscapes of coastal scenes such as Martigues and Cassis, as well as lively still lifes with flowers, fruits, fish, and ceramics. His technique emphasized strong contrasts between light and colored shadows, creating voluminous, energetic compositions full of Provençal charm. Audibert exhibited in France in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon in 1976, in Paris in 1990, and at Wally Findlay Galleries in Paris in 1994. His works have been widely collected and sold at auction. A notable admirer was Joseph Ricard, who acquired many pieces.

Audibert passed away in 2017. His paintings continue to be appreciated for their optimistic celebration of light, color, and the simple pleasures of Mediterranean life. Reproductions of his works, especially Martigues and Verdolier, are popular for home decor. He remains a representative figure of post-war French regional painting rooted in impressionist and post-impressionist traditions but executed with a distinctly personal, textured vitality.

Zoma Baitler was a Jewish Lithuanian-born Uruguayan painter, diplomat, and art critic, best known for his impressionist landscapes, urban scenes, and depictions of everyday life. Born on April 3, 1908, in Šančiai near Kaunas, Lithuania, as the youngest of six children, he studied painting and drawing with the Lithuanian artist Paul Kaufman and attended the local art school and World ORT. In 1927, at age 19, he emigrated to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he became a citizen and continued his artistic training, including several years studying with Joaquín Torres García, while largely remaining true to impressionism rather than fully adopting constructivism.

Baitler first exhibited in 1931 at the Free Artists Salon. He co-founded the ETAP atelier, launched the art magazine Perseo in 1936, and wrote essays on art and criticism. He won numerous awards in Uruguay’s National Salon of Fine Arts, including a 'First-Prize' Gold medal in 1951 and the 'Grand-Prize' Gold Medal in 1952. His work appeared in exhibitions across the Americas, Europe, and Israel, and is held in collections such as Uruguay’s National Museum of Visual Arts, the Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, and museums in Israel and the United States.

Between 1949 and 1963, he made study trips to Europe. In 1959 he joined Uruguay’s Commission of Fine Arts, and from 1963 to around 1966 he served as cultural assistant at the Uruguayan diplomatic mission in Israel. He also lectured on artists including Pedro Figari, Rafael Barradas, and Torres García. Baitler died in Montevideo on June 16, 1994.

Dino Zampogna was born in Naples on 11 March 1926. He was an Italian painter known for post-Impressionist works that combined creative sensibility with techniques drawn from French Impressionists such as Manet and Cézanne. His father was the painter Giocondo Zampogna, a follower of the School of Posillipo and a skilled marine painter influenced by Flemish and Dutch traditions, and his mother was Catherine Volpi, a Lombard noblewoman. Dino grew up immersed in art in his father’s studio while his father remained his primary teacher and influence. Although his family initially opposed his artistic path and pushed him toward technical studies, he later pursued formal art training at a high school and the Academy of Brera.

Zampogna’s painting was driven by feeling and a sensitive vision of nature or the human face. He used large, soft brushstrokes to capture essential, warmer traits of his subjects and create atmospheres of delicacy. His style is post-Impressionist, treating portraits, views, nudes, and landscapes. Favorite themes included nudes, affluent and Mediterranean landscapes, lively racecourse scenes, and cityscapes of Naples, Milan, and especially Paris. He also produced London scenes such as Trafalgar Square. His career passed through distinct phases. From 1970 to 1974, he focused on a “fantasy” genre of flower-women. This led into the more mysterious “Presets arcane” period that began in 1975 while he was in Holland. His wife Iris, noted for her beautiful black hair, inspired many of his finest canvases; their children Titian and Nadia also appear in his work.

He exhibited widely and received support from Italian and foreign critics including Lepore, Portalupi, Villani, Piceni, De Grada, Barbieri, Gerace, and Viviani. Writer Dino Buzzati praised the “violent exuberance of color” in his work and described him as “a Mancini emerged from a bath of scented powder in Paris and then London fog,” noting his elegant navigation of residual post-Impressionist waters with echoes of Mancini, Boldini, and De Nittis, appreciated for vivacity of color, gentle sensuality, and worldly pleasure. Zampogna worked and showed in Italy, France, England, Germany, Belgium, North America, Canada, Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico. His paintings entered public and private collections; some were permanently associated with the Hartmann Gallery. He had a solo exhibition at Galleria Ranzini with a presentation by G. Mussio in Milan in 1959. A 1976 monograph titled ‘Zampogna Dino: Poetica di un pittore’ with texts by Dino Villani further documented his work. Zampogna died in 2016, and his oeuvre remains characterized by colorful, atmospheric views and figurative scenes that continue to captivate his audience.

Wayne Beam Morrell was born in 1923 in Clementon, New Jersey. He was an American Impressionist painter known for his luminous marine scenes, coastal views, landscapes, and snowscapes, especially of New England and Rockport, Massachusetts. Morrell studied draftsmanship and commercial art at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and aeronautical design at Drexel University. After early work in shipyards and a stint as a commercial artist, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War era, where he painted murals and met his future wife, Lillian Major.

Following his discharge in 1952, Morrell worked as art director for an industrial exhibit design firm in Connecticut, creating aerospace-themed displays shown at international air shows. He began painting seriously in 1953 and left commercial work around 1961 to pursue fine art full time, settling with his family in Rockport. Largely self-taught as a fine artist, he worked in oil, pastel, and watercolor, drawing inspiration from nature’s light and from masters such as George Inness and Claude Monet.

Morrell became a prominent member of the Rockport Art Association and other groups, including the Allied Artists of America and Salmagundi Club. He exhibited widely, won awards such as the Rockport Gold Medal and Jane Peterson Prize, and received a 40-year retrospective at Drexel University in 1992. His paintings are held in public and private collections across the United States. He died at home in Rockport on December 4, 2013.

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