New York / Canada. 1907 - 1967
Still-life paintings of machine parts, other broken pieces, sound design
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1900 Brainerd, Minnesota - 1952 New Brunswick, Canada. Known for: Magic realist and surreal painting, illustration.
For John Atherton there was no line drawn between "fine" and "commercial" art. He painted pictures for advertisers, magazine covers, and galleries alike. All were characterized by his strong sense of... Read full biography
For John Atherton there was no line drawn between "fine" and "commercial" art. He painted pictures for advertisers, magazine covers, and galleries alike. All were characterized by his strong sense of design and color. Atherton was born in Brainerd, Minnesota, studied at the College of the Pacific,... Read full biography
For John Atherton there was no line drawn between "fine" and "commercial" art. He painted pictures for advertisers, magazine covers, and galleries alike. All were characterized by his strong sense of design and color. Atherton was born in Brainerd, Minnesota, studied at the College of the Pacific, and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He first worked in a number of West-Coast art studios learning the basics of his craft. When he won a $500 first prize award in the annual... Read full biography
For John Atherton there was no line drawn between "fine" and "commercial" art. He painted pictures for advertisers, magazine covers, and galleries alike. All were characterized by his strong sense of design and color. Atherton was born in Brainerd, Minnesota, studied at the College of the Pacific, and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He first worked in a number of West-Coast art studios learning the basics of his craft. When he won a $500 first prize award in the annual exhibit of the Bohemian Club in 1929, it financed his move to New York. There, he began to do illustrations for advertisers, including General Motors, Container Corporation of America, and Shell Oil, and covers for Fortune, Holiday, and The Saturday... Read full biography
For John Atherton there was no line drawn between "fine" and "commercial" art. He painted pictures for advertisers, magazine covers, and galleries alike. All were characterized by his strong sense of design and color. Atherton was born in Brainerd, Minnesota, studied at the College of the Pacific, and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He first worked in a number of West-Coast art studios learning the basics of his craft. When he won a $500 first prize award in the annual exhibit of the Bohemian Club in 1929, it financed his move to New York. There, he began to do illustrations for advertisers, including General Motors, Container Corporation of America, and Shell Oil, and covers for Fortune, Holiday, and The Saturday Evening Post. His first one-man show was held in Manhattan in 1936. In the "Artists fo... Read full biography
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New York, Connecticut. 1901 - 1973
Social surreal genre and abstraction painting
Ohio, New Jersey. 1904 - 2000
Modernist genre and landscape painting-watercolor, illustration
New York, California, Oregon / France. 1905 - 1970
Abstract expression, figure, still life
New York, California / France, Russian Federation, Italy. 1899 - 1972
Surreal genre and landscape painting, set design
New York, California, New Jersey. 1864 - 1941
Cavorting nudes and landscape painting
New York. 1882 - 1952
Mod figure-still life, non-ob
New York, Massachusetts. 1882 - 1935
Sculpture-caricature nude, sketches
Nebraska, Illinois. 1896 - 1977
Non objective, modernist genre-figure-views
Connecticut, New York. 1919 - 2010
Modernist street people figure and genre painting, teaching
New York / Italy, France. 1877 - 1946
Modernist figure, landscape and still life painting
New York. 1897 - 1977
Genre-satire, religious painting, illustration
Connecticut, Ohio. 1907 - 1994
Illustrator-genre and sea-landscape painting
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts / France. 1884 - 1958
Figure, genre, carnival and interior painting
New York / France, Russian Federation. 1881 - 1961
Cubist, futurist and fauvist painting-landscape, figure and still life
Pennsylvania, New York. 1883 - 1965
Precisionist painting-architecture, landscape, interiors
New York, Illinois. 1907 - 1975
Landscape, coastal, figure and genre painting
Massachusetts, New York / Germany. 1867 - 1938
Modernist architecture painting, landscape, colorist
New York / Germany. 1874 - 1951
Illustration, figure, genre, animal painting
Massachusetts. 1902/03 - 1968
Illustration-female figure
Washington, California, Oregon / Ireland. 1910 - 2001
Abstract, symbolic painting-birds, still life, insects and animals
New York, Vermont. 1898 - 1980
Illustrator-action genre, marine
New York, California. 1877 - 1949
Clown figure and portrait painting, cartoons, some sculptural work
Pennsylvania, New York / Europe. 1883 - 1935
Precisionist painting, landscape, still life, figure, portrait, industrial scene
Massachusetts, Florida. 1903 - 1972
Surreal figure-animal, expressionism
New York / France, Poland. 1882 - 1946
Abstract figure and animal sculpture
Connecticut. 1904 - 1999
Drawing, nude figure, satirical genre, etching
New York, Massachusetts / Spain. 1902 - 1971
Right angle geometric and modernist figure painting
Wisconsin, Illinois. 1907 - 1992
Mod genre-landscape and trompe still life painting
New York, Vermont / Spain. 1920 - 2011
Surreal genre and figure painting-social commentary
New York / England. 1824 - 1910
Genre, portrait and child-figure painting
New York / Germany. 1894 - 1965
Landscape, portrait, genre, etching