by adminPetra | Oct 26, 2014 | General
Borein, John Edward 1872-1945 John Edward Borein captured the “disappearing West” with the accuracy and vivacity like no one previously. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Borein headed south in 1893 at the age of twenty-one, and over the next few...
by adminPetra | Oct 26, 2014 | General
Annigoni, Pietro 1910-1988 Pietro Annigoni was born on the 7th of June 1910 in Milan, where he was a student at the College of the Piarist Fathers. Annigoni enrolled for the nude class run by the Circolo Degli Artisti, while attending the open class in the same...
by adminPetra | Oct 24, 2014 | General
Coward, Sir Noël 1899-1973 Noël Coward was an English playwright, director, composer, artist, actor and singer. Excelling in all of these was easy for the young boy from a working class family in Middlesex. Noël Coward made his stage debut at the age of 12 and wrote...
by adminPetra | Oct 16, 2014 | General
Hart, Tony 1925-2009 Tony Hart, artist, illustrator and TV presenter was born on October 15, 1925 in Maidstone, Kent, England as Norman Anthony Hart. He was known for the TV programmes including: Vision on (1965), Take Hart (1977), and Hartbeat (1984). His break in...
by adminPetra | Oct 16, 2014 | General
Landau, Zygmunt 1898-1962 Zygmunt Landau studied with the painter Henri Epstein at the drawing school of Jakub Kacenbogen in Lodz. He then enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw in the studio of Stanislas Lentz. At the age of 18, he taught painting. He arrived...
by adminPetra | Oct 15, 2014 | General
Speed, Harold 1872–1957 Harold Speed was a portrait and landscape artist and writer on art. Born on 11 February 1872 in London, son of an architect. He first studied architecture at the R.C.A. in 1887 but turned to painting and won a gold medal for life school studies...
