A Passion for the Arts in St. Louis

(August 8, 1823 – September 11, 1891) Théodule-Augustin Ribot was a French realist painter and printmaker. He was born in Saint-Nicolas-d’Attez, and studied at the École des Arts et Métiers de Châlons before moving to Paris in 1845. There he found work decorating gilded frames for a mirror manufacturer. Although he received a measure of artistic training while working…

(born August 7, 1941) California artist Tony Berlant is best known for his painterly collages and metal cubes. He broke into the art scene after winning the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Council’s New Talent Purchase Award in 1964. Berlant began to collage while studying art at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received…

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director, producer, and leading figure in the pop art movement. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best-known works…

(August 5, 1920 – March 27, 2011) Born on August 5, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York, George Clair Tooker Jr. grew up in suburban Bellport, Long Island and took painting lessons from a family friend as a child.  Tooker  graduated from Harvard University in 1942 where he studied English Literature and continued to pursue his…

(August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1902) John Henry Twachtman was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman’s style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of “The Ten,” a loosely-allied group of American…

Paul Puzinas is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1907. Paul Puzinas’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1,200 USD to 7,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,000…

(August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) John Sloan was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, on August 2, 1871, the son of an amateur artist and occasional businessman. In 1876 he moved with his family to Philadelphia and in 1884 enrolled in Central High School, where William Glackens (American, 1870 – 1938) and Albert Coombs Barnes were among his…

(August 1, 1854 – April 16, 1932) Walter Launt Palmer was an American Impressionist painter. Palmer’s father Erastus Dow Palmer was a prominent sculptor, and the family residence was frequented by his father’s friends, notably Frederic Edwin Church. Palmer began his formal artistic training under portrait painter Charles Loring Elliott, but it was Church, the period’s premier landscape artist, who later tutored…

(31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called “low art” and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement art…

(30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect, who is best known for his work The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of all art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is now…