Ant Farm (1968-1978)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Ant Farm can safely be called Texas's best known and most subversive art collective, one that continues to exert a fascination on subsequent generations of artists, curators, and critics for its incisive critique of contemporary culture through ostensibly humorous means.
B. D. Beiderhase & Co. (American, 1851-1874)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Bernard Beiderhase (d. 1874) was a German immigrant who throughout his lifetime maintained strong ties to other German silversmiths working in the United States. The 1859-60 New York City directory lists Beiderhase as a chaser.
Ball, Black & Co. (American, 1851-1874)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Ball, Black & Co. firm descended from the retail establishment of Frederick Marquand, who had been in business in New York since 1823. In 1833 the firm of Marquand & Co. included William Black and Henry Ball. In 1836 Erastus O. Tompkins and J. D.
Bailey & Co. (American, founded 1832)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The original firm of Bailey & Co. was founded by Joseph Trowbridge Bailey (d. 1853 or 1854) and Andrew B. Kitchen (d. 1840) and was located at 136 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1840 Joseph's brother Eli Westcott Bailey, a New York City jeweler and importer hurt financially by the Panic of 1837, came to Philadelphia and entered the firm.
Donald De Lue (1897-1988)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in Boston in 1897, Donald De Lue came of age as a sculptor under the tutelage of Paul Manship, with whom he studied in Paris between 1918 and 1922. In 1915 De Lue won the prestigious Kimball Prize, awarded by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston.
Edward G. Eisenlohr (1872-1961)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
One of Texas's best-known, early artists, Edward G. Eisenlohr was born in Cincinnati but moved here in 1874.
Fort Worth School
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Fort Worth School was a group of closely knit artists in the 1940s and 50s who explored new types of subject matter and art-making techniques. In direct contrast to their colleagues in the Dallas Nine, the Fort Worth School emphasized the mysterious, the uncanny, and the experimental.
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Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Complex and self-obsessed, with an idealistic to make a difference in the world, Gustave Courbet grew up in the rural village of Ornans, the son of a well-to-do landowner and farmer.
Olowe of Ise
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The artist who sculpted the kneeling female figure with bowl (2004.16.McD) in the DMA collection was named Olowere. He was commonly known as Olowe of Ise. Ise is the town in which he lived most of his life. He was born around 1875, before vital statistics were routinely recorded in Nigeria and before interviewing artists became customary.
Gorham Manufacturing Company's Martelé Silver
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Under the leadership of its new, English-trained chief designer, William C. Codman, and its energetic president, Edward Holbrook, Gorham Manufacturing Company developed one of the most acclaimed lines of art nouveau silverware in the world.