by Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (American, 1831-1915). Perry studied under Emanuel Leutze (several of whose paintings are held by the Pamplin Collection) in Germany and began his career in New Orleans at the outset of the Civil War. He painted the well-known Signing of the Ordinance of Secession of Louisiana in 1861 as well as…
Trouble on the Trail
by Ila Mae McAfee (American, 1897-1995) Born in Colorado, McAfee was trained in art schools in Chicago and New York before moving to Taos in 1928. With husband and artist Elmer Page Turner, McAfee built White Horse Studio, from which they worked until 1993. She painted landscapes, but her specialty was horses, as this humorous…
Wei dynasty (386-556 CE) soldier.
This figure is depicted in battle dress, and poses with a full body shield. The task of this statue would have been to defend and protect the deceased in the afterlife.
Madonna and Child, with Two Angels
by Frans Francken, the Younger (Flemish, 1581-1642). Francken was a versatile painter and the best-known member of a large family of artists. He played a prominent role in the development of Flemish art in the first half of the 17th century. He was particularly skilled at introducing new subject matter and allegorical works. Greatly skilled…
Walking Home from Church
by Anthony Thieme (American 1888-1954). Thieme was a highly regarded landscape and marine painter and a prominent figure in the Rockport (Maine) School of American regional art. Born and schooled in Europe, he moved to the United States in 1910. Continuing his education in the U.S. and Europe, he traveled widely and settled in Rockport,…
From the Collections’ very large grouping of Chinese materials are these neolithic vessels,
all dating to approximately 2500 BCE. The larger jars were sometimes buried in the ground, up to their beginning of the decoration, to give them stability. This is a long-necked ewer, perhaps for wine, of the same age. Ceramics from China’s stone age are rare, and important to our understanding of Chinese culture, as it…
Young Girl Praying With Her Mother,
by Lawrence Wilbur (American, 1897-1988). Wilbur was born in Whitman, MA. He moved to California to work in the engraving department of the Los Angeles Times. In 1925 he relocated to New York City and enrolled in the Grand Central Art School where he studied under Harvey Dunn, N.C. Wyeth and Pruett Carter. In 1957…
The Warrior
by Maynard Dixon (American, 1875-1946) Born in the San Joaquin Valley, Maynard Dixon was a noted illustrator and landscape painter of the early 20th century West. His subjects included the desert, Indians, settlers, and cowboys. Ultimately settling in Arizona, Dixon spent much of his time traveling throughout the Southwest and his depictions of Hispanic, Native…
Very large 18th Century platter
depicting an imperial dragon with flaming pearls. The rare rouge color was made possible by blending ground ruby glass and powdered gold. Particles of both of these elements can be seen distinctly under magnification.No other ceramics from this period have been found to contain these paired ingredients. Microscopic enhanced image showing the ruby glass and…
Rough Customer
by Burt Proctor (1901-1980, American). Proctor became a painter of western landscape and of cowhand scenes with men on horseback. Much of his painting was done in his leisure time afforded by his early career as mining engineer and later as a successful commercial illustrator. Of his early talent, it was said he painted horses…