Academic Art
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
“View of Pyramid Cestius, Rome”
Located in Southampton, NY
Brown ink and wash drawing with touches of watercolor and gouache by the French artist, Francois-Marius Granet. Signed lower left. Condition: Good. Provenance: Christie’s London sale 1993. Matted but unframed.
The Pyramid of Cestius (in Italian, Piramide di Caio Cestio or Piramide Cestia...
Category
1810s Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Canvasback Duck
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1849. As he he grew up his interests and talents both matured in painting, wood carving and sculpture. The lure of nature led him to combine his abilities to better create a realistic image. He is said to be the first man to paint game birds carved from wood. Two of his painted carvings were purchased by the Czar of Russia...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Triptych of Pears.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
RUDOLF GOETHE
HERMAN DENGENKOLB, REINHARD MERTENS
Aepfel und Birnen
Walter Muller, Illustrator
Berlin, 1849
Chromolithograph
Fascination with fruits, vegetables and spices ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Northern Hare
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
John Bachman
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Published by V.G. Audubon
Lithograph with Original Hand-Coloring
New York 1849. Royal Octavo Edition
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hindou
Located in Florham Park, NJ
House of Bernard
Founded 1905.
Pen and ink.
Paris, France.
Coats, 1923.
French fashion has influenced men and women, kings and queen, rich and poor throughout time. Tumultuo...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Archival Tape, Ink, Paper
Papauer Flore. (Poppy Flower)
By Emanuel Sweert
Located in Florham Park, NJ
EMANUEL SWEERT (1552-1612)
Florilegium, tractans de variis floribus.
Frankfurt, 1612. Seed and Plant Catalogue.
Frankfurt, through 1647. Academic Florilegia.
Copper Plate Engrav...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Kimono Designs in Black and Blue
By Matsui Yuoku
Located in Florham Park, NJ
REISHIN GACHO
(Album of Beautiful Designs)
Japanese Kimono Designs
Matsui Yuoku, Painter
Japan, 1900 (Meiji 33)
Honda Ichijirou, Publisher
Woodblock Prints
Celebrated as mu...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Marriage of St. Margaret and King Malcolm, " Original Etching by A. Runciman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Marriage of Saint Margaret and King Malcolm" is an etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman. There is an engraved signature with the artist's monogram followed by "pinxit et fecit," indicating that Runciman both designed the original drawing and likely executed the etching on the metal plate. On the left, a young woman with a halo in fine dress stoops slightly and gathers her skirts as she leans over to accept the ring that the man on the right is reaching to place upon her finger. He is also young, dressed finely, and wearing a crown. Between them, a church official with a pointed hat and a long flowing beard recites the appropriate prayers for the occasion, while onlookers crowd in the background. The tiled floor demonstrates the use of one-point perspective, and the church appears to be in the Gothic style.
Art size: 8 3/4" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 26 1/2" x 22 3/8"
Alexander Runciman (Edinburgh 15 August 1736 – 4 October 1785 Edinburgh) was a Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects. He was the elder brother of John Runciman, also a painter.
He was born in Edinburgh, and studied at the Foulis Academy, Glasgow, and from 1750 to 1762 he was apprenticed to the landscape painter Robert Norie, later becoming a partner in the Norie family firm. He also worked as a stage painter for the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh.
In 1767, he went to Rome, where he spent five years. His brother John accompanied him, but died in Naples in the winter of 1768–69. During Runciman's stay in Italy he became acquainted with other artists such as Henry Fuseli and the sculptor Johan Tobias Sergel...
Category
1770s Academic Art
Materials
Etching
XIV. Etruscan Urn
Located in Florham Park, NJ
...Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities....
Hamilton, Sir William. 1730 – 1803.
Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. W. Hamilton.
4 vols. Naples, 1766-7.
D’Hancarvills, sculpt.
Aquatint Engravings in Black and Terra Cotta Inks.
Finishing in Original Hand-Color.
In 1764, Sir William Hamilton arrived in Naples to take up his new appointment as British Envoy Extraordinary to the Bourbon Court of King Ferdinand IV. At the time of his arrival, Italy was still a largely untapped field of archaeological discovery and there was ample opportunity for the private individual to amass a collection or 'cabinet' of classical antiquities at relatively little expense. The sites of the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, although now under Royal control, were still being only haphazardly excavated and were openly vandalized. Hamilton himself complained of the fact, but also seems to have taken advantage of it.
Hamilton's first collection was in fact acquired by the British Museum in 1772 where it formed the foundation of the now great collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. This was the first major collection of Greek vases (or, as they were then known, Etruscan) to reach England's shores. "To Hamilton belongs the merit of being the first to appreciate with warmth the severe beauty of their shapes, colouring and drawing, the mingled simplicity and feeling of the designs figured upon them; and it was he who recognized the value of these unpretentious vessels for forming and ennobling modern art-taste". (Adolph Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge 1882, p. 110)
Hamilton found a worthy ally in Josiah Wedgwood who was setting up a new factory appropriately called "Etruria". Opened in June of 1769, Wedgwood was to use Hamilton's models again and again in his pottery with many designs taken directly from the engravings. Etruscan antiquities...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
King Duck
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
from Drawings Made in the United States
and Their Territories.
Lithographed, colored, and printed by J. T. Bowen. Philadelphia.
Published b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Tape, Lithograph, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper
Jeux de fillettes a Laghouat - Original litograph (1897/98)
Located in Paris, FR
E. Dinet
Jeux de fillettes a Laghouat
Original litograph
Platesigned
1897/98
Printed on paper Vélin
Size 31 x 40 cm (c. 12 x 16")
INFORMATION : Published by 'Estampe Moderne, Par...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
T-III. Vaso Antico
Located in Florham Park, NJ
CARLOS ANTONINI
Manuale di Vari Ornamenti
Rome, 1781-1790
Engraving.
100 Illustrations.
Late eighteenth century Europe was a world in revolution. People in France were losing their heads to Louis XVI and England had a mad king...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Handmade Paper
Brother Sister
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Pierre Lavarenne (French, born 1928)
Title: Brother Sister
Year: Circa 1975
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 15 x 18.25 inches
Signat...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Dish Garden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Dish Garden in Blue and White China
Japanese Woodblock
Original Hand-color.
Meji Period. Circa 1895.
The enthusiasm for nature prints has spanned the centuries. By the mid-nineteenth century these works, illustrating varieties of flowers in naturalistic styles, had reached a peak of perfection. Each artistic form in traditional printing sought to enhance the beauty of botany. In the woodblock style, as it true for engravings and lithographs, it is imperative that the carving of each block be exacting as they must create an image true to that seen in nature.
For many, the dish garden is a re-creation of a favorite landscape design. It provides an opportunity to build a perfect pairing of ornament...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Solen. Plate 33. (Shells)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM WOOD
General Conchology;
or, a Description of Shells,
arranged according to the Linnean System
John Booth. London, 1835.
Engravings with Original Hand-Color
Tall Oc...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Cardium. Plate 53 (Shells)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM WOOD
General Conchology;
or, a Description of Shells,
arranged according to the Linnean System
John Booth. London, 1815.
Engravings with Original Hand-Color
Tall Oc...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Cardium Plate 56 (Shells)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM WOOD
General Conchology;
or, a Description of Shells,
arranged according to the Linnean System
John Booth. London, 1815.
Engravings with Original Hand-Color
Tall Oc...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Tellina Plate 37 (Shells)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM WOOD
General Conchology;
or, a Description of Shells,
arranged according to the Linnean System
John Booth. London, 1815.
Engravings with Original Hand-Color
Tall Oc...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Dendrobium X Ainsworth (Orchid)
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Iconographie des Orchidees
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Brussels, 1885-1894
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has rem...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Plexiglass, Rag Paper, Silk
“View of Porta San Paolo, Rome”
Located in Southampton, NY
Brown ink and wash drawing with touches of watercolor and gouache by the French artist, Francois-Marius Granet. Signed lower left. Condition: Good. Pr...
Category
1810s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink, Gouache
“Tipos”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil paint on heavy illustration board by the Spanish artist, Cecilio Pla. Signed lower right. Titled and signed verso. “Tipos” means types; different types of people in the painting...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Wood Duck
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope wa...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Citane
Located in Florham Park, NJ
House of Bernard
Founded 1905. Paris, France.
Watercolor over pencil.
Some with gold or silver leaf highlights
Coats, 1923. Evening dresses, 1926.
French fashion has influenc...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Pears LXXXII
Located in Florham Park, NJ
This piece would pair well with Brookshaw's "Peaches XXVI" which is also listed.
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
En...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Handmade Paper, Plexiglass, Watercolor
Cattelya Maxima
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Iconographie des Orchidees
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Brussels, 1885-1894
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has rem...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Floral Kimono in Red and Green (Front and Back)
By Matsui Yuoku
Located in Florham Park, NJ
REISHIN GACHO
(Album of Beautiful Designs)
Japanese Kimono Designs
Matsui Yuoku, Painter
Japan, 1900 (Meiji 33)
Honda Ichijirou, Publisher
Woodblock Prints
Celebrated as mu...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
ABS, Woodcut
"Portrait of Baron Mayer de Rothschild, Rothschild Collection, " O. G. Rejlander
By Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Portrait of Baron Mayer de Rothschild, Rothschild Collection" by Oscar Gustave Rejlander is done in ink wash on paper. It is framed and matted. The portrait is a bust of Baron Mayer de Rothschild of the Rothschild banking dynasty, who lived 1813-1874.
Art size: 11 3/4" x 8 3/4"
Frame size: 20" x 17"
"Rejlander, Oscar Gustav (1813-75), Swedish-born photographer, active in England and often known as ‘the father of art photography’, having pioneered practices such as combination printing and promoted photography's capacity to tackle subjects conventionally associated with painting. After studying lithography and painting in Rome, Rejlander arrived in England in the early 1840s and settled in Wolverhampton. A day's instruction with Nicolaas Henneman was apparently his only training before he turned to photography in 1853. Throughout his professional career, Rejlander combined studio portrait work and other commissions with particular artistic projects, importing ideas and inspiration from such sources as Flemish and late Renaissance art, 18th-century English narrative works, or contemporary cartoons from papers like Punch. His famous moral allegory The Two Ways of Life (1857) combines sophisticated combination printing with elaborately staged photographs. Although widely condemned as indecent—in Scotland only the ‘virtuous’ side of the picture could be shown—it was bought by Queen Victoria for Prince Albert. Rejlander vigorously defended photography's narrative capability, emphasizing artifice as a way to truth and creative expression, and works like Hard Times and The Dream (both 1860) convey unconscious states hauntingly and in a precociously modern way. In 1862 he left Wolverhampton for a London studio, where judiciously placed windows enabled him to create subtle lighting effects for portraiture. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alfred...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Ink
Hors d'Oeuvre
By Jules Gouffe
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Jules Gouffe (1807-1877)
Le Livre de Cusine
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Paris, 1867
Chromolithographs
At the age of 16, Jules Gouffe found his calling as a student of the famous...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ondontoglossum Phalaenopsis
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
L'Illistration Horticole
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Belgium, 1887
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has remained on...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Kabuki Theatre: Fuwa
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Kabuki Theatre
Meji 33 (ca1900)
Woodblock
Original Hand-Color.
Woodblock printing flowered in the Edo Period, mid to late 19th century, and is still considered an art form of gre...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Woodcut
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne), " Print after Drawing by Adolphe Willette
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl.
15 3/4" x 12" art
23" x 19 1/4" frame
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections.
Biography
Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne.
He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation.
Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself.
The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Black and White
Kabuki Theatre: Nanatsu
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Kabuki Theatre
Meji 33 (ca1900)
Woodblock
Original Hand-Color.
Woodblock printing flowered in the Edo Period, mid to late 19th century, and is still considered an art form of gre...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Woodcut
Torso
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting of an ancient marble sculpture of a man's torso.
John Woodrow Kelley (Tennessee, 1953) is a figurative artist who focuses on c...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Apocynum (Scarlet Pimpernel)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHANN CHRISTOPH VOLCKAMER (1662-1744).
Nurnbergische Hesperides,
Oder Grunliche Beschreibung der Elden
Citronat, Citronen,und Pomerantzen Fruchte.
Drawn by Decker and Volckamer....
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Blue and White Kimonos
By Matsui Yuoku
Located in Florham Park, NJ
REISHIN GACHO
(Album of Beautiful Designs)
Japanese Kimono Designs
Matsui Yuoku, Painter
Japan, 1900 (Meiji 33)
Honda Ichijirou, Publisher
Woodblock P...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Landscape, Paysage aux Bories
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Pierre Lavarenne (French, born 1928)
Title: Landscape, Paysage aux Bories
Year: Circa 1975
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 15 x 18.25 inches
Signature: Signed lo...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Belcolor
Located in Florham Park, NJ
House of Bernard
Founded 1905.
Pen and ink.
Paris, France.
Coats, 1923.
French fashion has influenced men and women, kings and queen, rich and poor throughout time. Tumultuo...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Pen, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Archival Tape, Ink, Paper
“Dutch Harbor”
By Anthony Andreas de Meijier
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper by the Dutch artist, Anthony Andreas Meijiers. Signed lower right. Condition: Excellent. Unframed.
Anthony Andreas de Meijiers or Meyer was a Dutch active in...
Category
1840s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Cherries. Plate IX.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke.
London, 1812.
Aquatint and stipple engravings...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
"Sparrow Hawk, " Original Color Lithograph by an American artist
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sparrow Hawk" is an original color lithograph by an unknown American artist. It depicts a bird perching on the limb of a tree, its young poking out of th...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Anona (Pawpaw Fruit)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE DIONYSISUS EHRET (1708-1770).
Plantae Selectae....
Text by Dr. Christoph Trew.
Drawn by Georg Dionysisus Ehret.
Engraved by Johannes Jacobus and Johannes Elias Haid.
Nure...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Initial Letters "Y" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic e...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lapageria Rosea (Chilean Bellflower)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Paul Jones. (1921-1997)
Flora Superba.
London, 1971. Edition of 406.
Flora Magnifica.
London, 1976. Edition of 506.
Lithographs.
The portraits of flowers by Paul Jones ...
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Caput Phaenicopteri & Keratophyton (Flamingo Head with Coral)
By Mark Catesby
Located in Florham Park, NJ
MARK CATESBY. (1682(83)-1749).
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.
Drawn by Mark Catesby and G.D. Ehret.
Etched by MarkCatesby.
Original Hand-Colorin...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Academic Art
Materials
Etching, Watercolor
"Still Life with Figure"
Located in Southampton, NY
This painting is an oil on canvas mounted to a wood panel. It is signed with his monogram signature JTA lower right. The work is unframed.
Axton was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kan...
Category
1980s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dorking Chickens: Silver-Grey Hen. Rose-Combed Cock. Single Combed Hen.
By J.W. Ludlow
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of Poultry
J. W. Ludlow, artist
Lewis Wright (1838-1905), editor
Cassell, Petter & Galpin
London, Paris, New York, 1880
Vincent Brooks Day & Son
Chromolithography
10....
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Stil life with Lobster"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas still life painting of a wine bottle along with a lobster. Signed lower left. Circa 1880. The painting is housed in its original monumental wood gesso and gilt Victoria...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Girl
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A late twentieth-century American school portrait of a girl posed against a light slate background and gazing back at the viewer.
Displayed in a cream mat.
Matted dimensions: 14.5...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Kachoga -- Flowers and Birds
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Japanese Woodblocks.
Meji Period. Circa 1895.
The enthusiasm for nature prints has spanned the centuries. By the mid-nineteenth century these works, illustrating varieties of f...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Psyche. Sultan. Dark Brahma Pullet & Cockerel. (Chickens)
By J.W. Ludlow
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of Poultry
J. W. Ludlow, artist
Lewis Wright (1838-1905), editor
Cassell, Petter & Galpin
London, Paris, New York, 1880
Vincent Brooks Day & Son
Chromolithography
10....
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Monmouth Shore
By Julius Bien
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JULIUS BIEN (1826-1909)
Bien Atlas of New Jersey.
Geological Survey of New Jersey.
Chromolithography.
New York, 1883 - 1889
34” x 25” Paper Size.
A lithographer and map engraver, Bien arrived in the United States in 1849. Born in Naumburg, Germany, he was schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He participated in the political upheavals of 1848 and was forced to leave his country after the movement was crushed becoming one of the many talented German "forty-eighters" to begin life anew in America.
From a tiny print shop in New York City, Bien built a hugely successful business. He received numerous awards for the maps he engraved for the Pacific Railroad surveys, for several decennial census reports and for many US Geological Survey atlases and military field maps. He was also the first president of the National Lithographers' Association.
Geological atlases were elemental in the development of states in both population and commerce. Here is where Bien shines with comprehensive understanding of science and his unparelled technique in printing. Among the most collectible of historic maps, these surveys provided landmark research in building a nation.
Bien's second magnum opus was his chromolithographic edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned both to reproduce the quality of Havell's aquatints and to capture the subtlety of Audubon's colors. The ambitious project was never completed. Some historians blame the Civil War while other suggest financial cheating, but probably it was the death of Audubon that terminated Bien's work.
For more than forty years following the Audubon folio...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Female Nude in a Studio
By Bertalan Karlovszky
Located in Houston, TX
"Female Nude in a Studio" circa 1910. 19 X 13 1/2 inches, oil on wood panel. Etched signature lower right. Well listed Hungarian artist. Spent his student years under the guidance o...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Cateleya Maximum Lindl. var. Hruryanna (Orchid)
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Iconographie des Orchidees
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Brussels, 1885-1894
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has rem...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Plexiglass, Rag Paper, Silk
“Mallards 2”
By Alan Farrell
Located in Southampton, NY
Miniature watercolor painting on arches paper of a pair of mallards done by the very well known miniature artist, Allan Farrell. Exhibited at the Royal Miniature Society exhibition i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Oxcart with 3 Men
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Yosha Zuko Fuzu
Meiji 33 (1900)
Woodblock with Original Hand-Coloring
Writer: Kosugi Onson, Imaizumi Teisuke
Publisher: Yoshikawa Hanshichi
The Japanese litters and palanquins...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Red Kimono with Sword (Front and Back)
By Matsui Yuoku
Located in Florham Park, NJ
REISHIN GACHO
(Album of Beautiful Designs)
Japanese Kimono Designs
Matsui Yuoku, Painter
Japan, 1900 (Meiji 33)
Honda Ichijirou, Publisher
Woodblock P...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Woodcut
Vicinity of Flemington
By Julius Bien
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JULIUS BIEN (1826-1909)
Bien Atlas of New Jersey.
Geological Survey of New Jersey.
Chromolithography.
New York, 1883 - 1889
17 maps. 34” x 25” Paper Size.
A lithographer and map engraver, Bien arrived in the United States in 1849. Born in Naumburg, Germany, he was schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He participated in the political upheavals of 1848 and was forced to leave his country after the movement was crushed becoming one of the many talented German "forty-eighters" to begin life anew in America.
From a tiny print shop in New York City, Bien built a hugely successful business. He received numerous awards for the maps he engraved for the Pacific Railroad surveys, for several decennial census reports and for many US Geological Survey atlases and military field maps. He was also the first president of the National Lithographers' Association.
Geological atlases were elemental in the development of states in both population and commerce. Here is where Bien shines with comprehensive understanding of science and his unparelled technique in printing. Among the most collectible of historic maps, these surveys provided landmark research in building a nation.
Bien's second magnum opus was his chromolithographic edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned both to reproduce the quality of Havell's aquatints and to capture the subtlety of Audubon's colors. The ambitious project was never completed. Some historians blame the Civil War while other suggest financial cheating, but probably it was the death of Audubon that terminated Bien's work.
For more than forty years following the Audubon folio...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Black-Faced Heath Breed
By David Low
Located in Florham Park, NJ
David Low (1786-1859)
The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Isles
William Nicholson, RSA, Illustrator
Brown, Green, & Longman’s, Publisher
London, 1842
Lithographs with Original Hand-Color
Page Size, 12.5 x 17
“Professor Low...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
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