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are owned by the Spertus Museum of Judaica in Chicago, Illinois.
The portraits are being treated in preparation for the November
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Anon. "Jesurun Husband"
ca. 1870
H. 31" X W. 25" After Treatment
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Anon. "Jesurun Wife"
ca. 1870
H. 31" X W. 25" After Treatment
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| 212. The Indiana State Museum
is the owner of hundreds of works by T. C. Steele, the leading
artist of the Hoosier School of Midwestern Impressionists. Steele
was born in 1847 and died in 1926. During his formative years
he moved to Munich and studied at the Royal Academy of Art with
Frank Duveneck and Ludwig Loefftz. In 1885, he returned to Indianapolis
and established an art school with William Forsyth. While his
landscapes are his signature style, he was also a very fine portrait
artist. Today he is remembered as Indiana's finest artist from
the early part of the 20th century. The Crosier is an image of
the oldest house in Indiana before the territory became a State.
A total of 44 canvases have been conserved for the museum over
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T.C. Steele "Female Nude,
Munich" 1884
H. 20" X W. 24" Before Treatment
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T.C. Steele "Figure Study"
ca. 1885
H. 34" X W. 23" Before Treatment
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T.C. Steele "Farm in the Wooded Hills"
1916
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Adolph Shulz "Autumn Gold"
H. 30" X W. 36" Before Treatment
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Sydney Crosier "The Posey
House" ca. 1840
H. 16" X 20" Before Treatment
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| 213. Mathias Alten (1871-1938)
led a well traveled career. He was born in Germany and at the
age of 17 emigrated with his family to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In 1898 Alten went to France and studied with Benjamin Constant
and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Academie Julian. Interested in animal
drawing, he also attended classes at a veterinary school and
later traveled throughout France and Italy. He returned to Grand
Rapids and devoted his work to plein air landscapes influenced
by American and French Impressionism. In 1910 he traveled to
Holland to study Dutch landscape painting and in 1912 he went
to Spain. Always interested in outdoor light, he went to Taos,
New Mexico in 1927 and painted landscapes and Indian figures.
He returned to Grand Rapids but spent some time in California
and Florida. The below paintings are from the collection of Calvin
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Mathias Alten "Leitechenhaan"
ca. 1900
H. 10" X W. 16" Before Treatment
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Harry Leon Engle "River Landscape"
H. 27" X W. 24" After Treatment
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| 214. These three oils are owned
by the Memphis Brooks Museum in Memphis. The oil-on-panel to
the right is by Antonio Moro (1512-1575), known as Sir Anthony
Mor. He was born at Utrecht in 1512 and studied his art under
Jan Schoorel. After making a professional visit to Italy, he
commenced to paint portraits in the style of Hans Holbein. In
1552 he was invited to Madrid by emperor Charles V. Two years
afterwards he was in London painting the portrait of Queen Mary.
In 1558, Moro returned to Spain, and lived there for two years
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Antonio Moro "Portrait of
a Lady" ca. 1550
H. 38" X W. 28" Before Treatment
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| Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919)
is arguably one of America's most important landscape artists
and yet he led a life that would not be envied. He was born in
New York and at the young age of twenty-two he set out to cross
America and paint the great West. He traveled across the Rockies
and went all the way to California painting the western landscape,
Indians and the great American wilderness. After three years,
he returned to New York and offered his canvases for sale but
the images, unfamiliar to the Eastern eye, were met with disdain.
He had great troubles supporting his wife and family. He was
always moving and always hoping for a monetary breakthrough.
He spiraled into depression and was eventually found insane.
At the end of his life he was living in a New York State asylum
as his paintings were selling for up to $20,000.00. The lower
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Albert Blakelock "Indian Encampment"
ca. 1885
H. 21" X W. 34" Before Treatment
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Lambert Lombard "Duchess of
Devonshire" ca. 1550
H. 28" X W. 22" Before Treatment
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| 215. Peter Bianchi was born in
Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1920. His early studies were carried out
at the Mizen Academy of Art in Chicago, the Chicago Academy of
Art and the American Academy of Art. While working on a project
for National Geographic, on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Bianchi
had the opportunity to experiment with scientific illustration.
His work was so well received, he was invited to join the staff
of the magazine and continued his work there for fourteen years.
He collaborated with scientific specialists to illustrate Louis
Leakey's great 1959 Tanzanian discovery of "Zinjanthropus."
Peter Bianchi died in 2001. The left images is from his National
Geographic series. The right image is a portrait of Colonel Elmer
Ellsworth. It is recorded that he was the first casualty of the
Civil War when he was killed after removal of a Confederate flag
from an inn in Alexandria, Virginia on May 24, 1861. These paintings
are being treated for the Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin. |
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Peter Bianchi "Making Pottery"
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Anon. "Portrait of Elmer Ellsworth"
ca. 1857
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Barry Bauman Conservation
Contact: Mr. Barry Bauman
1122 N. Jackson Ave., River Forest, IL. 60305
Ph.(708)771-0382 Fax.(708)771-1532
e-mail:barrybbc7@yahoo.com
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