Art Collection

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Artworks in the collection of the Converse Memorial Building, Malden, MA

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Photo by Anne T. Converse

Bust of Mary Diana Edmands Converse

Montague Dawson is widely considered as the best-known sea painter of the 20th Century, and one of the most skilled craftsman in the direct line of English marine artists. He is noted for his unerringly beautiful ships, the weight and surging power of his waves, and the scudding grace of his skies. In a painting by Dawson, the elements and the ships are one, united in a harmony of motion and color which immediately rings true.

Juana Romani, née Carolina Carlesimo (30 April 1867 – 1923/24) was an Italian-born French portrait painter and artists' model.

She began to exhibit her works in 1888 at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited with them regularly until 1904. She was especially valued as a painter of female portraits, including many women from notable families, often depicting them as mythological or symbolic figures. One of her portraits was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). In 1901, she donated 5,000 lire to the art school in her home town. Four years later, it was officially renamed the "Scuola d'Arte Juana Romani".

Her work was also well received by the critics. In 1896, Louis Gonse [fr] of Le Monde moderne [fr] declared that she was more skillful than her mentor, Roybet. She usually painted directly on the canvas, without preliminary sketching, and sold many works before they were finished.

In her later years, she became mentally unsound and was confined to a psychiatric hospital in Paris. She died there, forgotten, around 1924. Her remaining works were auctioned off at the Hôtel Drouot. Many of her paintings may be seen at the Musée d'Orsay.

The Charles Bargue Drawing Course is used by many academies and ateliers which focus of Classical Realism. Among the artists whose work is based on the study of Bargue's plate work are Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh, who copied the complete set in 1880/1881, and (at least a part of it) again in 1890.

Bargue was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Bargue worked closely with Gérôme and was influenced by his style, which included Orientalist scenes and historical genre. Bargue's last painting was completed by Gérôme and is now conserved in the Malden Public Library, Malden, Massachusetts, USA. He travelled extensively through North Africa, and the Balkans, during which time he executed many portraits of local people with meticulous detail.

Erté was born Roman Petrovich Tyrtov in St Petersburg, Russia. He was Ukrainian, Russian, and French and used the pseudonym of the French pronunciation of his initials, Erté. Read more.

Troyon was decorated with the Legion of Honour, and five times received medals at the Paris Salon, while Napoleon III was one of his patrons; and it is certain he was at least as financially successful as his Barbizon colleagues.

All of his famous pictures are of date between 1850 and 1864, his earlier work being of comparatively little value. His mother, who survived him, instituted the Troyon prize for animal pictures at the École des Beaux Arts.

Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1936. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he learned about abstract modernists Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann, he attended Princeton University, where he majored in history. Early visits to New York art galleries fostered his artistic development, and his work was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Stella moved to New York in 1958, after his graduation. As of 2015, Stella lives in Greenwich Village and keeps an office there but commutes on weekdays to his studio in Rock Tavern, New York.

Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1936. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he learned about abstract modernists Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann, he attended Princeton University, where he majored in history. Early visits to New York art galleries fostered his artistic development, and his work was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Stella moved to New York in 1958, after his graduation.

As of 2015, Stella lives in Greenwich Village and keeps an office there but commutes on weekdays to his studio in Rock Tavern, New York.