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Elder
Gallery
presents
A
Trio of Diversity
Paintings
by
Leandro
Manzo, Leon A. Makielski & Ernest Walker
During the month of July Elder Gallery will present a diverse
exhibition of paintings created by three artists. The works
of Los Angeles artist, Leandro Manzo, will be paired with
selected paintings from the collections of Leon A. Makielski
and Ernest Walker.
Leandro Manzo was born in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
in 1969 and is a fourth generation artist. His talent was
recognized at a very young age and a public exhibition of
his work was held when he was thirteen years old at the Museum
of Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Manzo studied drawing and painting with renowned artist Martinez
Howard who had studied with Lino Spilimbergo and the great
Hungarian artist Lajo Szalay. His paintings are included in
several International public and private collections in Argentina,
Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Madrid, Paris, Vienna,
Zurich, Mexico City, and Toronto.
In the United States his work is included in collections in
Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City and Charlotte.
Leon Makielski was born in Morris Run, Pennsylvania in 1885,
studied and taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and spent
his summer months at the Eagle’s Nest Camp, situated
west of Chicago in Oregon, Illinois. Eagle’s Nest was
the most important summer art center in Illinois and attracted
notable sculptors, painters and writers.
Makielski was awarded the Art Institute’s Traveling
Scholarship in 1908 for four consecutive years to study in
Paris. While in Paris he enrolled at the Academie Julian and
the Grande Chaumiere, studied with Henri Martin and Richard
E. Miller, and was selected to exhibit his work at the Paris
Salons of 1911 and 1912.
He spent his spare time painting in the city’s parks,
on the Seine, and in the countryside around Paris, especially
Giverny and Versailles. He also visited Italy, England, Germany,
Poland, Belgium, Holland, and Austria and painted towns, cities,
and landscapes along the way.
Upon returning to the United States he taught fine arts at
the University of Michigan from 1915 through 1927. He later
taught drawing and painting at the Meinsinger Art School in
Detroit and portraiture to fellow members of the Scarab Club.
Makielski is listed with the Smithsonian’s National
Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and was included in William
Gerdts’ book, Monet’s Giverny: An Impressionist
Colony (New York: Abbeville, 1993), p. 218, 260. He died in
Michigan in 1974. Ernest Walker was born in Rochdale, England
in 1892 where he demonstrated great promise as a young artist.
He won a scholarship to Sheffield School of Art in 1908 and
subsequently a full scholarship to Manchester Municipal School
of Art in 1909. During his studies he was awarded the coveted
King’s Prize for Design.
In 1913 Walker moved to the United States and attended the
Art Student’s League in New York City. He worked as
a freelance artist and, after serving in the United States
Army, returned to England, married and painted throughout
Great Britain for a number of years. In 1930 Walker returned
to Long Island and became a freelance artist and contributed
to Fortune, Woman’s Home Companion, McCall’s,
Country Life and Pictorial Review.
In 1935 the artist was commissioned by House & Garden
to paint interiors of manor homes in England. A number of
his paintings were shown on the cover of the magazine. The
artist was invited to exhibit his work at the Chicago Art
Institute in 1938 and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Watercolor
Exhibition in 1939. He was included in The Whitney Museum
of Art’s Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American
Art of 1941.
During the 1940s and 1950s Walker continued painting for House
& Garden, Lord and Taylor, Abraham & Strauss, General
Electric and others. He illustrated a number of books for
Harper Brothers Publishing and MacMillan Publishing.
Walker died in South Carolina in 1991 at the age of ninety-nine.
Elder Gallery is the exclusive representative for the Walker
Collection.
Elder Gallery’s exhibition will continue through July
31, 2007.
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down to view partial list of painting in exhibition.
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