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Today's Figge Art Museum is the successor to the city-owned Davenport Art Museum, which itself began as the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery in 1925. The museum's original collection was donated by Charles Ficke (1850–1931) , a successful lawyer and former mayor, who collected art from around the world. [ 2 ]
Genieve Figgis (born 1972 [1]) is an Irish artist who started her artistic career using social media.She is known for her vibrant colors and ghoulish or macabre imagery. According to an article in Flaunt magazine: "Her unique brand of painting—which uses acrylics “slathered heavily” on canvas and often references works of the canon as viewed through a melted macabre filter—is at once ...
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UGallery is a curated online art gallery headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2006, UGallery is an e-commerce platform that connects artists directly with collectors on its website. The company positions itself as an approachable and convenient alternative to the brick-and-mortar contemporary art gallery. [1] [2]
Pedro Figari (June 29, 1861 – July 24, 1938) was a Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer, and politician. Although he did not begin painting until his later years, he is best known as an early modernist painter who emphasized capturing the everyday aspects of life in his work.
The Web Gallery of Art (WGA) is a virtual art gallery website. It displays historic European visual art, mainly from the Baroque , Gothic and Renaissance periods, available for educational and personal use.
Sidney Janis (July 8, 1896 – November 23, 1989) was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who opened an art gallery in New York in 1948. His gallery quickly gained prominence, for he not only exhibited work by the Abstract Expressionists, but also European artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian.
The museum was founded in 1904 by a voluntary association - the Friends of Fiji Museum. [2] [3] [4] During the twentieth century its location moved several times before its current location in Thurston Gardens. [2]