Richard Harold Redvers Taylor – Industrial Scene with Staircase British modernist watercolor by Richard Harold Redvers Taylor. R. H. Redvers Taylor, (1900-1975?), was a British modernist who became a successful artist in London after serving his country in WWII. Just after the war Taylor dedicated himself to becoming an artist. Within a few years Taylor…
Richard Harold Redvers Taylor – Industrial Scene British modernist watercolor by Richard Harold Redvers Taylor. R. H. Redvers Taylor, (1900-1975?), was a British modernist who became a successful artist in London after serving his country in WWII. Just after the war Taylor dedicated himself to becoming an artist. Within a few years Taylor gained the…
Boyer Gonzales – Large Abstract Large abstract oil painitng by Boyer Gonzales. Boyer Gonzales, (Washington, 1909-1987), was an American modern artist who worked in Texas, California, and Washington. Gonzales was born in Galveston, Texas, and raised there and Woodstock, New York. He studied at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, in Roanoke, with…
Raymond Jonson – No. 11 – 1958 Raymond Jonson – No. 11 – 1958 Raymond Jonson, (1891-1982), was the leading artist in the American Southwest, at teh forefront of the non’objective art movement in America, and the co-founder of the Transedentalist Group based in Santa Fe, NM. Jonson’s works are held in public and private…
Richard Faralla – ‘The Letter’ – 1943 Richard Faralla – ‘The Letter’ – 1943 Richard Faralla, (1916-1996), was an American abstract painter and sculptor based in California for the entirety of his career as an artist. Faralla was born in Brooklin, NY and moved to Los Anglese in the 1930s. He moved to the San…
Byron Browne – Guitarist – 1958 Byron Browne – ‘Guitarist’ Byron (George Byron) Browne, (1907 – 1961), was an American modernist artist and a central figure in many of the modernist artistic and political groups that flourished during the 1930s in New York City. Browne was born in New York in 1907 and began his…
Joseph Meierhans – Action painting Joseph Meierhans – Action painting. Joseph Meierhans, (1890-1980), was a Swiss born American abstract painter. Meierhans came to America in 1917 and lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania before moving to the Bucks County area. He studied in New York at the Art Students League with Karl Knaths and John Sloan and…
John O’Shea – California landscape painting John O’Shea – California landscape painting. John O’Shea, 1876-1956), was an Irish born painter whose bold, vibrant works were regarded as modern among his contemporaries. At age 16 O’Shea immigrated to New York City where he began his art studies at the Adelphi Academy, and then at the Art…
Humphrey Jennings – Motion Humphrey Jennings abstract oil painting. Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings, (1907-1950), was a British painter, writer and filmmaker, and was one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization. Mass Observation is a United Kingdom social research project which ran from 1937 to the mid-1960s, and was revived in 1981 at the…
Hildegarde Haas – Shostakovich ‘String Quartet No 7’ Hildegarde Haas – Abstraction Hildegarde Haas, (1926-2002), was a German born American abstract painter and printmaker. Haas was born in Frankfort, Germany. When she was 11 years old the family moved to the United States, settling in Colorado Springs, CO. As a young girl Haas studied art…
