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…
Madge Knight – Abstract, 1945 Madge Knight – Abstract, 1945 Madge Knight, (1895-1974), was a modernist artist in the early to mid 20th century. Knight was born in England, where she met and married her husband, influential American artist Charles Howard, in the 1930s. Knight and Howard lived in London until 1940. With the advent…
Madge Knight – Washing Madge Knight – ‘Washing’ Madge Knight, (1895-1974), was a modernist artist in the early to mid 20th century. Knight was born in England, where she met and married her husband, influential American artist Charles Howard, in the 1930s. Knight and Howard lived in London until 1940. With the advebnt of WWII…
Dennis Hare – Standing Figure Dennis Hare painting of a female figure. Dennis Hare, (1946- ), is a Colifirnia abstract figurative painter known for his expressive and brightly colored paintings. Hare was born in Glendale California to a photographer/writer father, and a mother that was an interior designer. Both of Hare’s grandparents were artists. Hare…
Edward Marecak – Two Mystic Ladies out Mystifying Each Other Edward Marecak – ‘Two Mystic Ladies Out Mystifying Each Other’ Edward Marecak, (1919-1993), was an American painter who lived and worked in Colorado. Edward Marecak was born in Cleveland, OH and grew up in a farming community outside of Cleveland. He was granted a full…
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…
Seymour Bottex (Captain Haitien) – Oil Painting Seymour Bottex (Captain Haitien) – Oil Painting Seymour Bottex (aka Captain Haitien), was born in the early 1920s in Haiti. No exact records of his birth exist. Bottex worked as a photographer until 1955 when his older brother Jean-Baptiste encouraged him to begin painting. He joined the Centre…
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…
