1851-1917Type: Oil on canvas
June 13, 2013 at 4:34 pm Featured Artist: Dines Carlsen http://conta.cc/14z1a87
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Landscape and still-life painter Dines Carlsen, son of artist Emil Carlsen, was born in New York in 1901. Naturally gifted, he studied with his father, and began to exhibit in large international shows at the age of fifteen. Public interest in the work of Dines Carlsen was furthered at the sale of t...
June 7, 2013 at 3:39 pm On a recent trip to NYC, Joe had a great visit with Carlos Madrid. Carlos is an outstanding and well respected artist that McColl Fine Art is honored to represent. He is currently working on some new and exciting pieces and we're looking forward to receiving them in the near future.
June 6, 2013 at 7:12 pm Featured Artist: Travis Schlaht http://conta.cc/19MhTag
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Travis Schlaht, born 1975, California. Schlaht received his Bachelor of Arts in studio art from the University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA in 1997. He subsequently moved to New York City and received classical training from Jacob Collins at The Water Street Atelier (1999-2003).
May 31, 2013 at 6:18 pm Featured Artist: Nicholas Hiltner http://conta.cc/15pfYFs
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Nicholas Hiltner (American, b. 1982) is a Contemporary Realist painter working predominately in landscape and figures. Hiltner displays an expertise and mastery of traditional painting, and his allegiance to painting strictly from life, and en plein air, contributes to the regeneration of a classic…
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 23, 2013 at 7:35 pm Featured artist:
Robert Weir Allan
Type: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 42 inches
Frame Dimensions: 33 x 51 inches
Signature: lower left
The son of a publisher, Robert Weir Allan was born in Glasgow in 1852. Allan began his studies in Glasgow and later studied at Julian’s Atlier in Paris as well as the Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux Arts from 1875-1881. He was notably a friend of the artist Arthur Melville (1855 - 1904) and was visited by him in Paris in 1878.
In 1881, Allan settled back down in Glasgow and continued to paint abroad through his travels. He often painted his surroundings capturing the beauty of landscape and marine scenes, painting in both oils and watercolours. His travels included Italy, Netherlands and Spain as well as the more distant lands of India, Japan and North Africa.
In 1934 he had the honor of painting the portrait of the former Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
Allan died in 1942.
May 17, 2013 at 4:37 pm A fun flash mob in honor of Rembrandt's 12'x14' masterpiece, The Night Watch. Courtesy of Donald Jurney.
http://donaldjurney.blogspot.com/2013/05/rembrandt-redux_6186.html?m=1
May 16, 2013 at 7:26 pm Featured Artist: Sue Zylak http://conta.cc/12yr22v
May 9, 2013 at 8:29 pm Featured Artist: Deborah Bigeleisen http://conta.cc/10J7Vyg
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After leaving her former career as the founder / C.E.O. / Design Director of a global textile design company in New York City, Deborah moved to West Palm Beach in 1998 and embarked upon her second career as a fine art painter.
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