A day in the life of Pepper

03/11/2024

02/11/2024

//...Elliott Erwitt...//
USA. New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1988.

01/11/2024

01/11/2024

Bill Perlmutter was born in New York on September 5th, 1932. He began his career with a Bachelor of Arts in Motion Picture Techniques from the City College Film Institute in New York. In 1954 after graduating from the United States Army Photography School, he spend two years in Europe as a staff photographer for the U.S. Army newspapers based in West Germany. Since then he traveled extensively all around the world as a free-lance photographer. From 1978-1997 he worked as the Vice President of Rainbow Chromes, a company specializing in photographic and digital retouching. His images have been collected and exhibited by fine art galleries world-wide and are in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian and the Museum of the City of New York. Bill Perlmutter lives in New York.

01/11/2024

Alariko

30/10/2024

//...Nikos Lytras...//
(1883-1927)
Wheatfield, 1920, Oil on canvas, E. Koutlidis Foundation Collection, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Athens,
photo: Daniel Rabinovich

27/10/2024

Anna Güntner (Polish painter) 1933 - 2013
Conversation with Mr. Montefeltro, 1968
oil on canvas
110 x 70 cm (43.25 x 27.5 in.)
signed and dated on verso
private collection
© photo Shapiro Auctions

Anna Alina Güntner (born 1933 in Poznań , died 5 April 2013 in Krakow ) - Polish painter.

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under Zbigniew Pronaszko , defended her diploma in 1958. In 1964 she received a French government scholarship and stayed in Paris, perfecting her painting workshop, in 1979, after receiving a scholarship from the Kościuszko Foundation, she stayed in New York. She created using the art of a metaphor similar to surrealism, her paintings often depicted naked female figures characterized by eroticism. According to critics, the artist used the Renaissance principle of presenting the world, the women portrayed in many paintings are accompanied by men presented as clearly separate characters who do not form a pair. Anna Güntner was at the height of her fame in the 1960s and 1970s, her works were often hosted in the Krzysztofory gallery in Krakow. They were also exhibited in many galleries in the country and the world, incl. in Milan , Stockholm , New York and Los Angeles . At the beginning of the 1980s, the artist stopped creating, she never revealed the reasons for her decision.

She was married to actor Jan Güntner .

Source: Wikipedia (Google translated)

25/10/2024

//...Ellen Day Hale...//
(American painter and printmaker) 1855 - 1940.
Self Portrait, 1885.
oil on canvas
72.4 x 98.4 cm. (28.5 x 38.8 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

25/10/2024

Margaret Tarrant (British illustrator and writer) 1888 - 1959
Snowy Rural Landscape, s.d.
watercolour
27 x 34 cm. (10.63 x 13.39 in.)
signed
private collection
© photo Roseberys

Margaret Winifred Tarrant as an English illustrator, and children's author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s. She was known for her children's books, postcards, calendars, and print reproductions.

Tarrant was born in Battersea, south London, the daughter of landscape painter Percy Tarrant and Sarah Wyatt Tarrant. She studied in the art department of Clapham High School and the Clapham School of Art. She briefly trained as a teacher, but turned to art instead. She studied at Heatherley’s School of Art, and at Guildford School of Art in 1935. She launched her career at age 20 with an edition of Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies.

In the 1920s, Tarrant helped to popularize fairies in a long-running series of titles on the theme such as The Forest Fairies, The Pond Fairies, and The Twilight Fairies She was long associated with the Medici Society and many of her postcards, calendars, and children's books were published by the organization. Following the death of both her parents in 1934, the Society sent her on a trip to Palestine to research material. During World War II, she donated posters to the war effort, and rode an old bike to conserve petrol.

Source: Wikipedia

25/10/2024

Martha Walter (American painter) 1875 - 1976
Just off the Ship - waiting for the examination of papers - Ellis Island, 1922
oil on canvas laid down on board
35.5 x 45.7 cm. (14 x 18 in.)
signed Martha Walter, l.r.; stamped with the artist's estate stamp, titled Just off the Ship - waiting for the examination of papers - Ellis Island and dated 1922 on the reverse
private collection
© photo Sotheby's

Martha Walter was an American impressionist painter. Walter was a Philadelphia native. She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, where she was taught by William Merritt Chase. She won the school's Toppan Prize and Cresson Traveling Scholarship. In 1909 also she won the school's Mary Smith Prize for the best painting by a resident female artist. On her scholarship she traveled to Spain Italy, the Netherlands and France. In France she received tuition from Rene Menard and Lucien Simon at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

She went on to teach art at Chase's New York School of Art.

Her estate was purchased in the late 1960s by the David David Gallery of Philadelphia.

Source: Wikipedia

25/10/2024

Zena Kavin, painter, printmaker, weaver, and illustrator, was born in Berkeley, California on October 25, 1912. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts and with Aleksei Kravchenko in Moscow. Kavin spent four years in New Mexico working under the Works Progress Administration. In 1940 she painted two frescoes replicating kiva murals for display at Coronado State Monument, New Mexico. As a printmaker she worked in etching, lithography, and woodcut. It was late in life when she turned to weaving, creating tapestries.

In 1940 she wed painter and art teacher, Jon Cornin, and they settled in Oakland, California. They collaborated and, under the pseudonym Corka, produced cartoons for the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's. She produced woodcuts for letterpress printed books and illustrated The Painter's Credo: Selected Notes by Jon Cornin.

Kavin was a member of the San Francisco Art Association and participated in eight of the association's exhibitions between 1935 and 1951. In 1935, she exhibited an etching and two drawings. That same year she was included in the inaugural exhibition for the San Francisco Museum of Art. Her work was also exhibited in the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Her work is represented in the collections of the Davis Art Center, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California.

Zena Kavin Cornin died in Oakland, California on April 9, 2003.

Source: Annex Galleries

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All images in this album will be ordered chronologically.

23/10/2024

Dear Creator, bless our family and friends with good health, and happy hearts