Robert Vonnoh: In Flanders Field – Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow

“In Flanders Field – Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow” by Robert Vonnoh. The Butler Institute of American Art

In the development of American Impressionism, Robert Vonnoh is significant both as a painter and as a teacher. He was one of the earliest painters to bring European impressionism to America and his canvases had cool tones and balanced compositions with much capturing of light and atmosphere. He completed more than 500 commissioned portraits, and he had a distinguished teaching career in Boston and Philadelphia.

Vonnoh was born in 1858 in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Boston. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1875, and attended the Academie Julian in Paris in 1880. There he studied with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. In 1883, he returned to Boston where he taught at the Cowles School in 1884 and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1885.

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Vonnoh studied French Impressionism and was impressed by Claude Monet, whose influence can be seen in his works of colorful landscapes and bright flowers. His painting at this time also demonstrates the dichotomy of many American Impressionists. Some of his works are almost Fauvist, with raw brilliant colors and paint laid on with wide brushes or palette knife, as in his painting “Poppies” in 1888. Other works from about the same time are done almost entirely in neutral tones, as in “Companion of the Studio”, a solid three-dimensional portrait of John C. Pinhey, who was a fellow student at the Julian Academy.

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Individual Artist: Mitzura Salgian

Mitzura Salgian is a Fine Artist with a masterful technique and reverence for detail. Her distinctive style is rooted in the Baroque richness of imagery and the Surrealist sense of marvelous to which she was drawn since her early teens. Mitzura is an American artist of Romanian origin. She was educated in her native city of Bucharest, where she received MFA from the Fine Arts Institute.

After moving to the United States, Mitzura began developing her artistic style and perfecting her technique. Her paintings have been widely exhibited in places like the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Society of Illustrators and Museum of American Illustration in New York City; the Trenton City Museum in Trenton, New Jersey; Nina’s Choice Gallery at Bergdorf Goodman, New York City; Bergstrom-Mahler

Museum in Neenah, Wisconsin; the National Arts Club, the Salmagundi Club Galleries and the New York University Washington Square East Galleries, all in New York City; the Attleboro Arts Museum in Attleboro, Massachusetts; the Turtle Bay Museum in Redding, California; the Danville Museum of Fine Arts And History in Danville, Virginia; the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama; the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas; the World Bank Auditorium in Washington, District of Columbia.

Mitzura’s work is part of the permanent collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Recognized in art shows and competitions, Mitzura received medals and awards for her paintings. Among them: the Gold Medal of Honor, Audubon Artists; the Silver Medal of Honor, Allied Artists of America; New Britain Museum of American Art Award for Oil Painting; Best in Show Painting and Utrecht Award of Excellence, 27th Ellarslie Open at Trenton City Museum; Dorothy Barberis Memorial Award and Tamsin L. Holzer Memorial Award, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club; Midyear Show Honorable Mention Award, Butler Institute of American Art; Midamerica Pastel Society Award, Pastel Society of America; 4th Place in Show, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Award of Excellence, Society of Newspaper Design; Certificate of Merit, Society of Illustrators and Museum of American Illustrators.

Mitzura created Editorial and Book Illustrations for clients like The New York Times, Gulf+Western, Games and Health magazines and she was commissioned by major publishers: Random House, Harper-Collins, Ballantine, St Martin’s Press, Scholastic, Bantam, Harlequin, Pocket Books, Dell, Zebra, Thorndike Press.

Among Best-Seller Authors whose book jackets have been illustrated by Mitzura Salgian are: Agatha Christie, John Updike, Eric Lustbader, Anne Perry, Jeffrey Archer, Jude Deveraux, Bryce Courtenay, Liza Cody, Lavyrle Spencer, Paul Theroux, Andrew M. Greeley, Diane Pearson, Iain Pears, Linda Lael Miller, Edward Marston, Ann Cleeves.

As a Designer, Mitzura created original pieces for companies like Lenox and The Bradford Exchange.

Mitzura teaches at Parsons New School for Design – Parsons School of Fashion.

She is a member of the Executive Board of the Allied Artists of America.

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Individual Artist: David M. Band

 

David M. Band, a native of Portland, Maine, now lives in Texas. He has devoted the majority of his life to art as a painter, printmaker, educator and collector.

David is a member of Allied Artists of America, Inc., Audubon Artists, Inc., Watercolor USA Honor Society, Salmagundi Club, Artists Fellowship, Inc., and is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society.

His work can be found in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Mo., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Museum of Texas Tech University, Salmagundi Club, Dunnegan Gallery of Fine Art, and the United States Air Force collection.

He is the author of “Enrich Your Paintings With Texture”, North Light Publications.

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Gary T. Erbe: Individual Artist

Gary T. Erbe was born in 1944 in Union City, NJ where he maintained his studio for 35 years. Self taught, he began painting in 1965. In the early years, every painting Erbe created would become a learning experience bringing him closer to understanding what makes good art. This was a challenging time for him. Then he discovered and became interested in Trompe l’oeil painting. In 1969, he conceived a way of creating Trompe l’oeil paintings that would be contemporary and different from the 19th Century Trompe l’oeil masters and coined the term “Levitational Realism”. In 1970, he quit his job as an engraver to pursue art fulltime and in the mid 1970’s, he began to explore the idiom of abstraction and cubism and how it can be applied to Trompe l’oeil painting. The idea of integrating modern principles into his painting was very challenging and exciting. Bridging the gap between modern art and realism would be his vision. In fact, today his work has less to do with Trompe l’oeil and more to do with the creative process.

Erbe’s work is the creation of a synthetic sense of space derived from the combination of flat space integrated with abstract forms exaggerated and enhanced by shadow, light and color. Mr. Erbe has exhibited extensively throughout the world and has garnered many awards for his paintings. Gary T. Erbe served as President of Allied Artists of America, Inc. from 1994-2005.

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Monica Allen-Perin: Individual Artist

Monica Allen Perin, a painter from her youth, began her fine art studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California. She subsequently obtained a Masters degree in the decorative arts (Museum Studies) at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and consecrated her theses to the garden frescoes found in and around Pompeii.

Teaching art history with the University of Maryland she continued to teach studio art and paint watercolors of the Italian country and seaside.

Following a move with her French husband to the South of France in 1998 she expanded her repertoire to include ‘buon fresco’ painting on fresh lime plaster in the manner of the Renaissance, and is currently involved in an important project to add fresco work to the façade of the parish church in Le Pradet, France.

Monica is also a US Navy artist attached to the Naval Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. As a ‘combat’ artist she has passed numerous weeks in ex-Yugoslavia and more recently with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean documenting daily life in an operational capacity on board an aircraft carrier or logistics support with a forward deployed unit. Monica has exhibited her watercolors in Italy, the US and in France, in particular in Marseille, Toulon (awarded best in show for watercolors at the Salon des beaux-arts 2002), and most recently in Cannes where she was awarded the silver medal at the salon international des arts and culture.

Monica teaches watercolor painting and fresco from her studio in France.

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