William Bogert (American, active 1839-1881)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
William Bogert (d. 1881) was one of at least three silversmithing sons of Nicholas I. Bogert and the one who achieved the most prominence in the American silverware industry. Little is known of his early history. Even the year of his birth is not certain. Evidence suggests he is the "William Bogert, silversmith," working in Albany in the late 1830s and the early 1840s.
Whiting Manufacturing Company (American, 1866-1924)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Whiting Manufacturing Company was formed in 1866 and was sucessor to Tifft & Whiting. The principals were William D. Whiting, president; William M. Cowan, vice-president; and Charles E. Buckley, treasurer. Later George E. Strong joined the firm. In 1869-70, the firm acquired the flatware dies of Michael Gibney and Henry Hebbard.
Peter L. Krider (1821-1895)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
According to a trade journal obituary, Peter Krider (1821-1895) was born in Philadelphia and worked on a farm until he was fourteen. During the next six years he served an apprenticeship with John Curry, a local silversmith. For a period following, he worked at the factory of R.
Roycroft Shops (1895-1938)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
At the turn of the century, the Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, New York (1895-1938), was one of the leading centers for the production of Arts and Crafts goods–books, leatherwork, metalwork, and furniture. The designs of the Roycrofters were influenced by a host of sources, including the work of Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Workshops, the Wiener Werkstätte (notably in the graphic and metalwork designs
Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Charles Webster Hawthorne grew up in Maine and moved to New York City at the age of eighteen to attend the Art Students League. In 1896, he began studying under William Merritt Chase at the summer school that Chase had formed on eastern Long Island in the town of Shinnecock Hills. The following year, he became Chase's studio assistant and helped his teacher establish the Chase School of Art in New York City.
Paul Sérusier (1863-1927)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Paul Sérusier was born into an upper middle class family in Paris in 1863. He was the student in charge of the studio at the Académie Julian where he had a profound influence over his fellow students Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Elie Ranson, Edouard Vuillard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, and Félix Vallotton. This group of artists later formed the Nabi group whose theorist Sérusier became.
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in 1848 to Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902), the founder of the luxury goods firm of Tiffany & Company, and Harriet Aver Young (1817-1897), Louis Comfort Tiffany initially explored a career as a painter, inspired by the work of George Inness (1825-1894), one of his instructors.
Grueby Faience Company (1897-1919)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Trained at Low Art Tile Works in Revere, Massachusetts, William Henry Grueby (1867-1925) entered a partnership with Eugene Atwood in 1891 to create a subsidiary of Fiske, Homes and Company, a Boston management company specializing in architectural tile and related products.
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
As an artist and teacher, Thomas Eakins championed a realistic approach to art and praised the use of preparatory drawings made from live models. During the 1880s, Eakins was one of the first American painters to use photography as a tool in training the artist's eye in the anatomy and physiology of the human figure.
George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, and there attended Ohio State University (1901-04) before leaving his senior year to study art in New York. He gave up a promising career in baseball to pursue his first love, art. Sports became a primary theme in his work, but he was also well known for painting landscapes, portraits and figure compositions with vitality and strong emotion.