The Herman Miller Company has withstood the test of time by being able to recognize new trends in customers' needs and genius in design.   

30 October 2017
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Ross Littell

Ross Franklin Littell was born in Los Angeles, California on July 14, 1924.  After military service, he graduated from Pratt Institute in New York.   He won awards for his furniture designs and worked for both Knoll and Herman Miller in th the 1950's and 60's.  In 1960 he moved to Italy and worked for some of the major furniture manufacturers including DePadova.  He designed textiles to accompany his furniture designs.   He died in Santa Barbara, California on April 17, 2000. 

Joe (Joseph) Wolins (1915 - 1999) was one of the VERY FEW American WPA artists still alive when we started collecting WPA prints in 1979.  (the Works Progress Administration was renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration).  The Federal Art Project for which Joe woked was part of the WPA and it became the largest of the New Deal art projects, employing as many as 10,000 artists at one time.   We met Joe in 1984 and continued a relationship with him for the next 10 yea

21 October 2017
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Lazlo Ispanky

Sir Laszlo Ispanky Born 1919 in Budapest, Hungary, he was the youngest of 10 children. Ispanky served in the Hungarian Army and was a POW in Siberia for 11 months. After release, he concentrated on his love of art, gaining fame in Hungary for his many sculptures.

David Segel

American painter and sculptor, David Segel studied at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Lynchburg College in Virginia, The Institute of Design in Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Segel then moved to Paris to work and teach, and began what would be a prolific career.

He has been shown in galleries from Paris, France, to Los Angeles, California, including the Whitney Museum in New York City. Segal also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

Segel worked with a variety of mediums including, oils, bronze and wood sculptures, and dramatic sketches. 

Jean Lurcat was born in Bruyeres, France on July 1, 1892.  His brother, Andre Lurcat became an architect.  He studied at the Faculy of Science in Nancy and was planning to become a doctor but decided against it and eventually studied under Jean Prouve the head of the Ecole de Nancy.  He was interested in engraving and in 1912 went to Paris to live with his brother, enrolling at the Academie Clorossi and studied under Bernard Naudin.

30 July 2017
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Charles Bragg

Born: 1931
Known for: illustrator, surreal figure-genre painting arles Bragg portrays people, but he is not a figurative artist in the plastic sense in which California artists have come to be known.

Elmer Simms Campbell

Elmer Simms Campbell (January 2, 1906 – January 27, 1971) was the first African-American cartoonist published nationally.  He workd for Esquire Magazine and was the creator of "Esky", the famous pop-eyed mascot that represented the magazine.   He was a native of St. Louis, Missouri and the son of teachers.  He was the cartoonist for his high school's weekly newspaper. He was a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute.

This particular entry thanks to Iuri Izratzoff in Buenos Aires, Argentina.   In preparation for the 2019 Art Deco Congress we will be featuring many more of these great articles that Iuri has put together.  Thanks!!!

16 June 2017
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Richard Joseph Ericson

Richard Joseph Ericson
1922-2010
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Director, Southold Historical Society, Southold, NY.
Richard Joseph Ericson (b. October 22, 1922-d. November 21, 2010)
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher. Born in Chicago, Illinois. Son of Claire (b. 1899) and Arthur Ericson (b. 1899). His father was an accountant for a food products company and the family moved to Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York, when he was a young child.

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