Albert Marquet | Fauve painter

Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 - 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.

He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse.

Marquet subsequently painted in a more Naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910-1914, several female paintings.

Zbigniew Kopania, 1949 | Still Life/Landscape painter

Zbigniew Kopania Henry was born in Lodz, Poland. Having graduated from secondary schools in 1969, he became a student at the state theatrical, television, and film college, the Faculty of Camera-Works. Included among its distinguished alumni is Roman Polanski.
Together with film and photographic activities, he cultivated paintings in the department of Art. The early stage of his painting was under the guidance of Dr. K. Zwolinska and J. Mierzejewski, a renowned painter in Poland and abroad.

Domenico Morelli | Symbolist painter

Domenico Morelli (1823-1901) was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works.

Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples, but also because of his rebelliousness against institutions: traits that flourished into the passionate, often patriotic, Romantic and later Symbolist subjects of his canvases.

Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929) | Figurative sculptor

Giuseppe Verdi [1813-1901]

Vincenzo Gemito born in Naples in 1852, is considered to be the most important Italian sculptor of the late nineteenth century and is increasingly regarded as one of its greatest draughtsmen.

His origins were unpromising.

An orphan street child until he was adopted by a poor artisan, he was put out as an assistant to the sculptor Emanuele Caggiano at the age of nine.

He then attached himself informally to the older but more progressive sculptor Stanislao Lista, who apparently encouraged him to work from street models.

Kevin Zuckerman | Abstract painter

Kevin Zuckerman (1960-2022) was born in St. Louis and grew up in Japan, Thailand, and Greece.

He returned to the United States to live in Washington D.C. and Chicago and now lives and works in New Mexico.

At the age of 18, Kevin entered The American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL.

After completing his training there, he began his private study with the master painter, Eugene Hall, until Hall's death in 1985.

Charles Sprague-Pearce | Academic / Orientalist painter

During the mid-nineteenth century, before America had truly established its claim to artistic originality, American artists were seduced by the fascinating Parisian art scene.

During the latter half of the nineteenth century an important group of American artists congregated in France, among them Mary Cassatt, James Abbot MacNeill Whistler - though only temporarily- and Daniel Ridgway Knight, among many others.

Masson Benoit | Still life painter

Italian painter R. Masson Benoit works in Turin. Up to 20 years studied painting at various masters. After participated in group exhibitions held several solo exhibitions. His works are a series of colors that convey the viewer a fresh emotional outburst, feeling fragrant viability tangibility. Colors are sometimes violent, sometimes calm are always in a pleasant harmony. The joyful and exciting palette R. Masson Benoit has a touching charm.

Karin Jurick | Figurative Realist painter

When painter Karin Jurick was in high school, she spent many days and hours going to train stations and museums so she could sketch the variety of people who came into her view. She would sketch fast, quickly filling up sketchbook after sketchbook, and it was just something she wanted to do – the more she did it, the better she got.