The Art of Yellow Tulips
Part II
A blooming collection as seen and painted by artists
from various centuries, various countries,
various backgrounds and both genders.
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Yellow Tulips in a Ceramic Jug
Catharine Constance Cooper (1868-1960) British
Oil on canvas, 24" x 18" (w x h)
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Source various online:Part II
A blooming collection as seen and painted by artists
from various centuries, various countries,
various backgrounds and both genders.
Yellow Tulips in a Ceramic Jug
Catharine Constance Cooper (1868-1960) British
Oil on canvas, 24" x 18" (w x h)
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Catharine Constance Cooper (1868-1960) was a British artist known for her still life and trompe l'oeil paintings.
Tulips - Yellow #3
Mary Koga (1920-2001) American
Chromogenic print, 14" x 9" (w x h), 1984
The Art institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Mary Koga, born in Sacramento, California in 1920, was an avid photographer since she was a child. However, she concentrated on social work and received a BA in 1942 from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's degree in 1947 from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
During World War II she was incarcerated in the internment camp at Tule Lake for a year because of her Japanese ethnicity. After working in social work from 1947 to 1969, eventually teaching as an Assistant Professor for Field Work at the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, 1960-1969, Koga concentrated on photography. She studied at the IIT Institute of Design and received a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1973. She went on to teach photography at Columbia College Chicago for seven years.
The Floral Forms series was begun in 1972 and went on into the 1990s. Done in both color as well as black and white, the images are delicate close-ups of mostly single flower heads, artfully arranged in the studio with tightly controlled lighting. On occasion, she over exposed and used multiple exposure to emphasize the structure and/or color.
Tulip
Emile Galle (1846-1904) French
Pencil and watercolor, 21" x 17" (w x h), circa 1863
Musee d'Orsay, Paris France
Emile Galle (1846-1904), born and died in Nancy, France, was a French artist and designer who worked in glass. He's considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of Art Nouveau glass art and Art Nouveau furniture, and was a founder of the Ecole de Nancy or Nancy School, a movement of design in the city of Nancy, France.
At 16-years-old he went to work for the family business as an assistant to his father, making floral designs and emblems for both earthenware and glass. In his spare time he became an accomplished botanist, studying with the director of the Botanical Gardens of Nancy and author of the leading textbooks on French flora. Emile collected plants from the region and from as far away as Italy and Switzerland. He also took courses in painting and drawing, and made numerous drawings of plants, flowers, animals and insects, which became the subjects for decoration.
When he took over the family glass business, by 1889 he had over three hundred employees. His own office and studio was in the center of the complex. He trained the designers himself, and sent them watercolors of floral designs he made in the gardens of his residence. Galle ordered his designers to use only real flowers and plants as their models, though they could take some liberties in the final design. He wrote in 1889, "It is necessary to have a pronounced bias in favor of models taken from flora and fauna, while giving them free expression."
Tulipes / Tulips
Louis Boitte (1830-1906) French
Watercolor on paper, 9" x 16" (w x h), 1860
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Donated by Alice Boitte, 1959
French architect Louis Francois Philippe Boitte known as Louis Boitte (1830-1906) was the chief architect of the Palais de Fontainebleau. His wife, Zelia Lenoir, was a painter. He is also known for his drawings made in Italy, Greece and Turkey, professional visions of architects of that time. In close collaboration with Albert Lenoir , he also designed the plans for the cenotaph of General de Lamoriciere erected in 1869 in the cathedral of Nantes , a monument with which the sculptor Paul Dubois was associated. In 1959 his family bequeathed to the National Museum of the Chateau de Fontainebleau an important collection of numerous drawings and projects, which was transferred in 1986 to the Musee d'Orsay.
Tulips
Harry Sternberg (1904-2001) American
Color screenprint, 9" x 17" (w x h), 1937
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Harry Sternberg (1904-2001), was an American painter, printmaker and educator. In 1931, his work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art for the first time. He was appointed in 1933 to the staff of the Art Students League of New York where he would remain an instructor for the next 35 years. Sternberg was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1936, and spent the year studying the conditions of workers in coal mines and steel mills. His drawings, etchings and paintings depicting life in industrial America influenced his subsequent post office mural designs. In 1966, he retired from the Art Students League of New York and the Sternbergs moved to Escondido, California, where he established a studio and continued to work as an artist and an educator for 35 more years. Between 1969 and 1978, he participated in The Orme School Fine Arts Festival, known as the dean of the festival, exposing high school students to the work and instruction of professional artists.
He died in Escondido, California, in 2001 at 97 years-old. In 2000, his life and work were celebrated by a major retrospective exhibition: No Sun Without Shadow: The Art of Harry Sternberg at the Museum-California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California. He was the author of three art books, Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making, Pitman, 1958, now in print by Dover, Woodcut, Pitman, 1962, and Silk Screen Color Printing, McGraw-Hill Books, 1942. In 1990 he published a collection of prints: Sternberg: A Life in Woodcuts, one of which depicts his painting of the noted Lakeview post office mural.
Untitled (Yellow Tulips and Lilacs)
Alfred Hesse (1904-1988), German
Oil on cardboard, 39" x 27" ( w x h), circa 1920s-1930s
The Arts Collection of Dresden, Germany
Born in 1904, Alfred Hesse was predominantly influenced by the 1920s, a time of recovery and introspection after the First World War. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919. Surrealism was the predominant expressive mode of the 1920s, and was aided by the liberalism of Germany's Weimar Republic, which was an environment that allowed for remarkable creative flowering.
Since 2002 The Arts Collection of Dresden, Germany has the largest holdings of Alfred Hesse's works in a public collection, almost 500 works including paintings, watercolors, pencil, pen and ink drawings and mural designs. His close home plays an important role in his work; among the watercolors and occasionally other works on paper, there are numerous scenes from the Elbe Valley, Saxon Switzerland and the Eastern Ore Mountains. Occasionally, he also painted still lifes like this one.
Tulips
William House (1928-2015) American
Oil on canvas, 46" x 35" (w x h), circa 1959
David B. Werbe Memorial Purchase Prize,
Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1959
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Frederick William "Bill" House (1928-2015) was a lifetime Detroit area resident, spending the last forty five years of his life in Grosse Pointe. It was in a Lincoln Park grade school where his teacher, Mrs. Kute, recognized his artistic talent. By chance Mrs. Kute also taught Bill in high school where she encouraged his artistic endeavors and spoke to his parents about his skills.
Bill mastered the clarinet and saxophone. It was those skills that served him well, playing in the Artie Shaw U.S. Navy band after World War II. He was a fine arts major at the Detroit Society of the Arts Crafts,(now Detroit's College for Creative Studies, graduating in 1952. He worked as an illustrator and taught at his alma mater, finishing as Professor Emeritus. Throughout his professional working life, he amassed a body of work, a clear, direct, representational style has resonated well with art buyers.
Tulip
Donn Russell (1929-2018) American
Silkscreen, artist's proof, 7" x 19" (w x h), circa 1980s
$195 USD
Born in Boston in an artistic family, Donn Russell attended the Boston Museum School, then Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Design and the Art Students League in New York City. His first public acclaim came winning a top award at a National Academy of Design Annual, followed by success at the Hartford (CT) Atheneum, Silvermine Artists, the New Museum, Audubon Artists, and others. In 1979 he set up his print gallery on Old South Wharf, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, his summer base. He also had a studio in Greenwich Village, New York City. His work has been exhibited solo and in group gallery and museum shows in the US and abroad, has been featured in art and architecture publications, and as illustrations in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, Life and Fortune.
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