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Thomas Bigelow Craig
American, 1849 - 1924
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Oil Painting by Thomas Bigelow Craig, American Artist

Known for his bucolic landscapes with grazing cows, Thomas Craig was born in Philadelphia where he remained until 1889 and then moved to New York City until 1899. He finally settled in Rutherford, New Jersey, but maintained a summer studio in Woodland Valle, near Phoenicia, New York. It is believed that Craig was largely self taught, but his activity in the Philadelphia Sketch Club, 1873 to 1876, suggests he was a student of Thomas Eakins. He frequently painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and in the countryside of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Mr. Craig's works are included in the Butler Institute of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, The Washington County Museum of Fine Art, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Mobile Museum of Art and the Newark Museum. He was a Member of the National Academy, Salmagundi Club and Artists Fund Society and exhibited at these venues as well as at the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia Art Club (1876), Philadelphia Exposition, Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Art Club, Brooklyn Art Association and Society for Independent Artists. He exhibited for forty-five years at the National Academy of Design.

Sources include:
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art William Patterson & David Zellin, Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club

 

Austin C. Wooster
American,
1864-1913
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Oil Painting by Austin C Wooster, American artist

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.

 

E. Maxwell Albert (aka Ernest Albert, Jr.)
American, 1857-1946
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Oil Painting by E Maxwell Albert, American Artist

A distinguished theatrical and scenic designer, Ernest Albert worked in New York, St. Louis and Chicago. Born in Brooklyn in 1857, he showed early talent and received the Graham Art Medal at age 15, while he was studying at the Brooklyn Art Institute. Though Albert had some early success as a newspaper artist, his introduction to the theater world in 1877, began a career in stage design, he worked on productions staring most of the best-known performers of the day. During this time, in 1879, he employed and befriended young Jules Guerin, who went on to become the Lincoln Memorial muralist.

From New York City, Albert went to St. Louis in 1880 and five years later to Chicago. In 1892, he became involved with the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago. He was responsible for the color schemes and ornamental design of the many interiors of buildings in that renowned and successful fair. While in Chicago, he helped found the American Society of Scenic Painters. In 1894, Albert returned to New York City, where his work in scenic design was centered from then on.

All along, he had painted whenever he could snatch the time. At the pinnacle of his career in 1905, he began to withdraw gradually from his theater work. His family was settled in the striking new house he had built in New Rochelle, New York and his financial independence was established. From then on, he devoted most of his considerable talent and energy to his landscapes.

Albert's landscapes, painted mostly in Old Lyme, Connecticut and later on Monhegan Island, Maine {as well as a few on the West Coast}, are simple in composition but subtle in effect. His impressionistic rendering of color and light imbue his quiet country scenes with all the magic of the moment. The gentle strength of these pictures and of his still lifes ensured their popularity and earned him a place as one of America's respected artists.

Albert was active in several organizations and was a founder and first president of the Allied Artists of America.

Cullen Yates
American, 1866 - 1945
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Oil Painting by Cullen Yates, American Artist

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.

In New York, Yates studied with William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) and Leonard Ochtman (1854-1934) and at the National Academy of Design. Then, in Paris he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Colarossi Academy, and the Academy Julian under Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921) and Benjamin Constant (1845-1902.

Yates was a elected as an Associate member of the National Academy of Design (ANA) in 1908 and a full member (Academician) of the National Academy (NA) in 1919. He was also a member of the Lotos Club; Salmagundi Club in NYC, 1899; National Arts Club in NYC as a life member; Allied Artists of America in NYC; New York Society of Painters; Century Association in NYC; American Watercolor Society in NYC; and New York Watercolor Club.

While exhibiting with the Boston Art Club consecutively from 1903 to 1909, Yates had several addresses in New York City. Other exhibitions and prizes include a bronze medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition; Innes Prize, Salmagundi Club in 1907; another prize at the Salmagundi Club in 1921; and a medal at the National Arts Club in 1932.

Collections include the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA; Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; City Art Museum in St. Louis, MO; Seattle Gallery in Seattle, WA; Ball State University Museum of Art in Muncie, IN; Brooklyn Institute Museum; Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH; Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, PA; Montclair Art Museum in NJ; Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA; Butler Art Institute; Seattle Art Institute; National Arts Club, NYC; Lotos Club; and the Newark Museum in NJ.

References:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art", vol. I, page 700 Ray Davenport,
"Davenport's Art Reference 2001/2002", page 2015
Glenn Opitz, "Mantle Fielding Dictionary", page 420
"Boston Art Club Exhibition Record 1873-1909", pages 415-416
Whistler House Museum of Art files.

 

Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville
French, 1851-1941
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Oil Painting by Alfred Arthur Brunel De Neuville, French Painter

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.

In 1879, Brunel de Neuville began exhibiting at the famed Paris Salon. That first year, he presented to the audience a piece entitled Pommes et raisin, and then in 1880 showed his Halte de chasse, a scene of frolicking kittens very appreciated and widely executed at the time. In 1889, he began to exhibit at the Salon des Artistes Francais with a canvas depicting a still life of fish, and continued participating in shows at this institution until 1909. In 1907, this group made him an associated member.

In his celebrated still lifes of fruits, the velvety richness of their smooth and silky texture is set in opposition to the rougher material of wicker baskets. Brunel de Neuville was in addition rather well-known for his wonderful ability to render the texture and shine of copper pots, and this aspect of his oeuvre is commonly reproduced and cited. In the history of French painting, he most definitely earned a lasting reputation as a
highly skilled artist with a fantastic ability to bring the contents of his canvases to life.

 

Austin Wooster
American, 1864-1913
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Oil Painting by Austin Wooster, American Artist
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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

 

Alfred Bryan Wall
American, 1861-1935
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Oil Painting by Alfred  Bryan Wall, American Artist

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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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