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Cullen Yates Cullen Yates - landscape and still
life painter of rivers, coastal scenes, villages, and flowers - was born
in Bryan, Ohio on January 24,1866 and died in Shawnee, PA in July of
1945. He maintained his studio and residence for many years in
Shawnee-on-the-Delaware, Monroe County, PA.
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Alfred Arthur Brunel
de Neuville
A highly skilled artist of the French school, Alfred Arthur Brunel de
Neuville painted primarily animals, still lifes, fruits, and
occasionally flowers. A student of his father, he received a rather
basic foundation in the fine art of painting, and spent the rest of his
career elaborating upon it, improving his talents all the while.
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Simon P. Schafer
Shafer was active in the last part of the 19th century and was married to Ella M. Shafer, a fruit and floral painter. Simon was noted as a Trump still life painter who resided in Detroit, Michigan and later Earlville, Ohio. He exhibited in numerous galleries with his wife during the last quarter of the 19th century. His listings included Davenport's Art Reference Guide, Who Was Who, Artists of Early Michigan by Gibson and various on-line resources. |
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Albert F. King
Considered Pittsburgh's premier portrait artist well into his eighties, today A. F. King is recognized more for his still life paintings. His many still life compositions included realistic watermelons with a wedge missing, apples falling from a basket or strawberries spilling out of a chip basket. In addition, King traveled to Scalp Level in Cambria County with his good friend Martin B. Leisser along with George Hetzel and others on many sketching trips. Albert F. King was born in Pittsburgh in 1854. He studied with Martin B. Leisser who was also his friend. A popular and familiar figure to Pittsburghers of his time, King, along with George Hetzel, excelled at portraiture but was known to paint landscapes, still lifes and genre scenes occasionally mostly for his own pleasure. He made his living as an artist by doing portraits of the city's bank presidents and business officials..... Except for a period of years spent in Omaha, Nebraska home of one of his sons, "Al" King worked in Pittsburgh all of his life. He gave an interview to art critic Dorothy Kantner of the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph in 1938 after which she wrote, "Today, at 83, the Pittsburgh painter (King) is still one to whom many turn to portrait work. His hand is just as steady, his ability to secure a likeness just as infallible. Albert King died at the home of his son, Albert E. King, in Pittsburgh's East-End, on January 4 1945. See another of his paintings in Examples of Inventory Selections. |
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Austin Wooster
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Austin C. Wooster, son of Dr. Henry Wooster and Rebecca Thornburg, was a southwestern Pennsylvania painter of portraits, landscapes, and still lifes from 1860 to 1916. His great-grandfather, Thomas Thornburg, was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War. He was born on the Thornburg farm in Chartiers Valley, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This is now part of a town called Thornburg. Austin's grandparents, Jacob and Jane Lorain Thornburg, who raised him after the early death of his parents, discouraged his art, looking on it as an insane fancy or crime, rather than as a gift. Wooster lived in Green Tree (then called Union Township), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania where he earned his living as an artist and did occasional work at house painting. Wooster had a studio in Pittsburgh at Fourth Avenue and Wood Street. He exhibited his work in various ways, including the 1890 Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, and Pittsburgh department stores, where he sold his work. Wooster also did work for hire; painting houses, farms, and vineyards in neighboring communities. According to two of Wooster's neighbors he did portraits, and he gave lessons in watercolor to at least one young girl, also a neighbor
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Alfred Bryan Wall
SOLD As a second generation "Scalp Level School" artist, Mr. Wall frequented that artist's retreat outside of Pittsburgh with his father and uncle, Pittsburgh artists Alfred S. Wall and William Coventry Wall. This experience and the tutoring by his father was his only art training. His work includes portraits of Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Henry Clay Frick along with his pastoral landscapes which featured sheep and occasionally cows. His brushwork was often loose but confident and exhibited a freedom of spirit. His work is often described as being casual and calm but without sentimentality. His first exhibition was in 1879 at the National Academy of Design and he was a trustee of the Carnegie Institute where he served on the Fine Arts Committee to help select the permanent collect.
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