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Schwarz Antiques Exterior, Atlantic City (1930s)
Twentieth-century artists include Richard Blossom
Farley (1875–1954), the Impressionist Jonas Lie (1880–1940),
Leonid Gechtoff (1883–1941), the modernists Leon Kelly
(1901–1982) and Morris Atkinson Blackburn (1902–1979), and
Frank Licini (dates unknown).
Some works in the exhibition were executed by people
who were not preeminently painters, such as the stained glass designers
William Lees Judson (1842–1928) and Nicola D’Ascenzo
(1871–1954), the architects George Harrison Freedley
(1860–1932) and George Spencer Morris (1867–1922), the interior
designer Edward Stratton Holloway (1859–1939), and the illustrators
Joseph Boggs Beale (1841–1926), Paul R. Koehler (1866–1909),
and Frank E. Schoonover (1877–1972).
Individual catalogue entries are arranged in
chronological order by the artist’s date of birth. In instances where
the artist’s dates are unknown, I have interspersed entries in the
most logical chronological order based on a presumed birth date or
stylistic criteria. When dealing with relatively obscure artists, I have
included a footnote that refers readers to Peter Hastings Falk, ed., Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975: 400 Years of
Artists in America, 3 vols. (Madison, Conn.:
Soundview Press, 1999), which is abbreviated as WWWAA, followed by the appropriate
volume number and page reference. I have generally tried to avoid
duplicating Falk’s bibliographic references by citing a source only
if I have quoted directly from it, or if he does not mention it. In the
case of well-known artists, I refer readers to the most recent monograph or
exhibition catalogue instead of Who Was Who in
American Art. Unless otherwise noted, all of the
historical information about sites in New Jersey is derived from New Jersey: A Guide to Its Present and Past
(New York: Viking Press, 1939; reprint, New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989).
—Robert Wilson Torchia
Robert Wilson Torchia is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art who received his
Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He is particularly interested in the art and history of
Philadelphia, was guest curator of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s exhibition John Neagle, Portrait
Painter of Philadelphia (1989), and has published a series of exhibition catalogues devoted to the Smith family,
as well as articles on Thomas Eakins and Thomas Sully. He is also the author of the Systematic Catalogue of
Nineteenth-Century American Painting, Volume N-Z, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1998). Torchia works as a
paintings expert for Doyle New York Auctioneers & Appraisers.
Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery
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