Provincetown
Gallery Ehva
Contemporary & Early Provincetown Art
Ewa Nogiec, Director
Gallery hours:
Mon-Tue 11am-6pm
Wed-Sun 11am-8pm
provincetown
contemporary artists
James Bakker
Cid Bolduc
Rachel Brown
Daniel Cleary
Barbara Cohen
Didier Corallo
Daniel Dejean
Donna Dodson
Rob DuToit
William Evaul
Jenny Fragosa
Lorrie Fredette
Edward Giobbi
Wendelin Glatzel
Julie Gorn
Iren Handschuh
Myrna Harrison
Alicia Henry
Jenny Humphreys
Leslie Gillette Jackson
Zehra Khan
Jane Kogan
René Lamadrid
MP Landis
Bill Liebeskind
Jay McDermott
Kevin McDermott
Andy Moerlein
Ewa Nogiec
Fawn Potash
Meg Shields
Richard E. Smith
Sterck/Rozo
Lisa Ventre
Michael Walden
Rob Westerberg
Special Collection:
Richard Baker
Sculpture Garden (outside):
A Boat for the Impossible Journey: Andy Moerlein
Elevation: Andy Moerlein
Listening for Lightning: Andy Moerlein
Wind: Donald Gerola
74 Shank Painter Road
P.O. Box 1426
Provincetown, MA 02657
508-487-0011
www.galleryehva.com
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Joseph Birren (1864-1933)
Oil on artist board painted from the balustrade of the Pilgrim Monument circa 1910
Joseph Birren, a landscape painter, illustrator and graphic artist, was known for a style called Tactilism, meaning he used paint in a way that gave the illusion of three-dimensional work.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 14, 1864 to Henry and Catherine Birren. He attended private schools and from 1883 to 1900, the Art Institute of Chicago where he was a student of John Vanderpoel. He also studied in Philadelphia, New York at the Art Students League, Munich, and Paris at the Julian Academy (1889).
At age 18, Birren was employed by the Chicago studio of C.F. Schwerdt. In 1885, he worked with Henry Knight in the creation of a cyclorama depicting the Battle of Gettysburg, and the next year, he joined H.H. Gross of the Gross Corporation on a second cyclorama (title unknown) whose circumference was 365 feet.
In 1888, the Gross Corporation commissioned Birren and several others to take that cyclorama to Australia for an exhibition. Birren was gone for a year, and his travels included Asia, Africa, and Europe. Returning to the United States, he spent two years in New York City as a newspaper illustrator, and then in 1892, he became Chief of Art Staff of the "Chicago Graphic" during the 1893 World's Fair. He married Crescentia Lang, a musician, in 1894 and joined the art staff of J. Manz and Company, commercial artists, and in 1899, he founded his own company called "Graphic Arts Company. One of his clients was the Sears Roebuck Company. He stayed with this endeavor until 1916, when he retired from commercial art.
In the 1920s and 1930s, he maintained studios in both Chicago and Laguna Beach, California, and in 1927 had moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he had a positive reception to his impressionist landscapes.
Exhibition venues included the Art Institute (one-man show in 1916), the Pennsylvania Academy, Corcoran Gallery, and Cincinnati Art Museum. He was the founder of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association and served as President from 1911 to 1915. He was also a member of the Laguna Art Association in California and the North Shore Art Association in Rockport, Massachusetts.
Birren died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 4, 1933.
Source:
"Who's Who in American, 1932-1933"
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Faber Birren, 1928 Biography of his father, Joseph Birren
"New York Times", 12/31,1988
[Bio courtesy of Askart]