Granville C. Fairchild
I am an Artist by instinct, a Photographer by curiosity and a Technologist by default.
"Although I came to discover my artistic drawing and painting talent rather late in life. I was very fortunate to have had the following Artists recognize my innate talent and help me to develop it in earnest and in great leaps. To this pursuit I availed myself of all else to which I am indebted to these remarkable Artists, their skills, mentorship, camaraderie and legacy. "
Granville C. Fairchild
Albert Bloch
Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He first studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1901-03 he produced comic strips and cartoons for the St. Louis Star newspaper.[1] Between 1905 and 1908 he worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for William Marion Reedy's literary and political weekly The Mirror. From 1909 to 1921, Bloch lived and worked mainly in Germany.
After the end of World War I, Bloch returned to the United States, teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago for a year, and then accepting a Departmental Head position at the University of Kansas until his retirement in 1947.
Robert Sudlow
Robert Sudlow ( 1920 - 2010 ), was born on February 25, 1920 in Holton,
Kansas, where he spent his childhood, and developed his love and
fascination for the prairies and the essence of life that surrounded him.
In 1942, he received a bachelor of fine arts degree from The University of
Kansas, where he studied under Albert Bloch, who became a mentor for
Robert Sudlow. That same year he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, trained as a
pilot, flying sea planes. He earned the rank of Lieutenant Senior Grade and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Western Pacific Theater, World War II. "While learning to fly in the Navy, I managed to paint alot of watercolors- swamps, beaches, airfields and romantic fantasies."
After his war service, he spent a year in art academies in Paris. Later, he attended California College of Arts and Crafts where, in 1956, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree. He studied under the supervision and teachings of a prominent California painter, Richard Diebenkorn.
Edwin Dickinson
Edwin Walter Dickinson (October 11, 1891 – December 2, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman best known for psychologically charged self-portraits, quickly painted landscapes, which he called premier coups, and large, hauntingly enigmatic paintings involving figures and objects painted from observation, in which he invested his greatest time and concern. His drawings are also widely admired and were the subject of the first book published on his work.[1]
Less well known are his premier coup portraits and nudes, his medium-sized paintings done entirely from imagination or incorporating elements from one of his drawings or done from observation over several days or weeks, including still lifes, portraits of others, both commissioned and not, and nudes.
Robert Beverly Hale
Robert Beverly Hale (1901 -November 14, 1985) was an artist, curator of American paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and instructor of artistic anatomy at the Art Students League of New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He was also the author of the well-known book "Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters" as well as the translator of the classic anatomy text "Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer.
Hale was born into a prominent family in Boston, Massachusetts,[1] but grew up in New York City, and studied at Columbia University, where he did post-graduate work at the School of Architecture. He also studied at the Art Students League under George Bridgman and William McNulty, and at the Sorbonne in Paris.[2]
His careers as instructor, curator, and artist were apt to overlap: according to Hale, "One day in East Hampton de Kooning came up to my little studio there and said that I was ruining any number of people by telling them about anatomy".[7]
George Grosz
George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933.
At the urging of his cousin, the young Grosz began attending a weekly drawing class taught by a local painter named Grot.[5] Grosz developed his skills further by drawing meticulous copies of the drinking scenes of Eduard von Grützner, and by drawing imaginary battle scenes.[6] From 1909–1911, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where his teachers were Richard Müller, Robert Sterl, Raphael Wehle, and Oskar Schindler.[7] He subsequently studied at the Berlin College of Arts and Crafts under Emil Orlik.