Lucien Abrams (1870-1941) | Impressionist painter

A native Kansan, Lucien Abrams moved to Dallas with his family in 1873. He studied at Princeton, the Art Students League of New York, and the Académie Julian in Paris, living and traveling in Europe and Algeria from 1894-1914.

While Abrams’ style is diverse, the works he exhibited annually in Paris, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the National Academy of Design showed the influences of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Fauvism.

An admirer of Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨, Abrams pays homage to the Impressionist master in his painting, Déjeuner en Provence, ca. 1910🎨 (on loan from the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas).

The depiction of a female figure in a casual patio setting thinly painted and sketchily defined by short brushstrokes, and using a high-keyed palette, distinguish it as an Impressionist painting. | © Florence Griswold Museum.

Nato nel Kansan, Lucien Abrams si trasferì a Dallas con la sua famiglia nel 1873. Studiò a Princeton, alla Art Students League di New York e all'Académie Julian a Parigi, vivendo e viaggiando in Europa e Algeria dal 1894-1914.

Mentre lo stile Abrams è vario, le opere che espone ogni anno a Parigi e all'Art Institute of Chicago, alla Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts e alla National Academy of Design mostrano le influenze dell'impressionismo, del post-impressionismo e del fauvismo.

Ammiratore di Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨, Abrams rende omaggio al maestro impressionista nel suo dipinto, Déjeuner en Provence, ca. 1910🎨 (in prestito dal McNay Art Museum di San Antonio, in Texas).

La raffigurazione di una figura femminile in un patio informale dipinta sottilmente e definita in modo abbozzato da brevi pennellate, e usando una tavolozza dai tasti alti, la distingue come un quadro impressionista. | © Florence Griswold Museum.

Maxime Maufra | Impressionist painter

Maxime Maufra (1861-1918) was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer.

Maufra first began painting at 18.

He was encouraged to do so by two artists from Nantes such as the brothers Charles Leduc and Alfred Leduc and the landscape painter Charles Le Roux.

Simon Glücklich | Pittore di genere

Simon Glücklich (27 marzo 1863, Bielsko-Biała, Polonia - 29 marzo 1943 a Monaco di Baviera, Germania) - pittore Tedesco a cavallo tra l'Otto ed il Novecento.

È nato a Bielsko (oggi Bielsko-Biała) nella Slesia austriaca, figlio del pittore decoratore Leo Glücklich.

Negli anni 1880-1890 studiò all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Vienna, sotto la direzione di Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892).

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo | Il Quarto Stato / The Fourth Estate, 1901

The monumental painting Il Quarto Stato /The Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907)🎨 portrays a group of workers on strike.

It symbolises the social protest at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the emergence of a new social class - the proletariat - which becomes aware of its rights within the new industrial society.

Achille Funi (1890-1972) | Futurist painter

Achille Funi was an Italian painter🎨 who painted in a neoclassical style.

Funi was born in Ferrara. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1906-1910 and joined the Nuove Tendenze movement as a painter of Cubo-Futurist works in 1914.

Having enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion and served in World War I, he became a champion of the "return to order".

Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo | Neo-Impressionist painter

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (July 28, 1868 - June 14, 1907) was an Italian Neo-Impressionist painter🎨. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.

Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a Divisionist technique🎨 in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to specific color theory.

Yury Darashkevich, 1962

Belarusian painter Yury Darashkevich was born in Asipovichi.

"Following my passion, I attended and graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of the Arts in 1985. Upon graduation I began a career in the illustration and graphic design field, painting in my spare time.

After several successful solo shows in the early 90's, I started to devote my attention to my art. Shortly after making this career change, my family and I moved to Toronto Canada.

Cesare Ciani | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Cesare Ciani (1854-1925) was an Italian painter associated with the Post-Macchiaioli group.

A student of Giuseppe Ciaranfi at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1878, where he won a prize for painting, Cesare Ciani was also strongly influenced by the work of the Macchiaioli painter Giovanni Fattori, with whom he also studied.

Fattori’s guidance is readily evident in Ciani’s landscapes, city scenes and portraits, confidently painted with broad, sketchy brushstrokes.