In the garden with American painter Theodore Wores. Living from 1859 to 1939, he studied at the San Francisco School of Design and painted with William Merritt Chase. A friend of James Whistler and Oscar Wilde.
Category: American
Lake Nemi, Italy. Various painters from various countries who all painted in Rome. Everyone did, sharing with what we would call studio/roommates if you weren’t rich enough to rent one by yourself.
Impressionist San Francisco. American. Jules Francois Pages, artist. Living from 1833 to 1910, he studied at the California School of Design. Closely associated with the Northern California Impressionists although his style has more of a French influence.
Steuben compotes. American. Part of Corning Glassworks. Made in Corning, New York where they are still making it.
Egyptian Revival with a Tiffany Studios spin. Egyptian Revival has been going in and out of fashion for around 200 years. It always comes back. All of that with that extra fabulousness.
Still lifes with corn and a few baskets that just keep hanging around. American. Alfred Montgomery, artist (1857-1922). He was the first teacher to teach drawing in the public schools of Topeka, Kansas.
Etchings all with cactus. American. George Elbert Burr, artist. Living from 1859 to 1939, Burr studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago. Also did oil paintings, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings.
Make your home look like a meadow of wild flowers. More selections from Emma C. Embury’s 1845 book “American Wildflowers in their Native Haunts.”
Mountain landscapes, all of them with water, too. American. Charles Wilson Knapp, painter. Born in 1823, he died in 1900. Painted in the style of the Hudson River School.
Oh to live in a house down by the water. American. Fern Coppedge, artist. Living from 1883 to 1951, she was a member of the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Art Students League of New York. Part of the Pennsylvania Impressionism movement.
