Waller-Yoblonsky Fine Art

Jane Waterous, pop and semi-abstract artist works out of the Bahamas.  She is formally trained, having a B.A. in Fine Arts from Queens College, and a degree from Ontario College of Art, Toronto.  Waterous started her career as an art director at a Toronto graphic design firm in 1986.  Then went on to graduate from New York University's professional film program.  The gallery websites' that represent her artistically talk about how enormously popular and widely collected her work is.  It is a little boastful, and it sounds like she is selling her painting's on the QVC network, but Andy Warhol was also influenced by graphic design and had the power to turn Campbell Soup into an art form.  If it is true that Waterous is an internationally noted artist and widely collected, then it is not boastful, it is just fact.   Waterous uses many vintage cultural symbols and sometimes words to create her art.  She creates pink lip paintings and here bel...

Alice Stanley Acheson was an impressionistic artist, wife and diplomatic partner to Dean Acheson, Secretary of State during the Truman Administration, and a tall elegant woman who could wear cutting edge fashion to all the momentous diplomatic dinners and cocktail parties. Acheson's art career came with two sides of fame, one side included access to the fine art world, the other side included the need to be careful not to take advantage of her political notoriety within the United States and the world.  She was born in Charlevoix, MI, into an artistic family.  Her mother, Jane Stanley was a self-trained watercolorist that documented her world travels with stunning precision, and her grandfather was the John Mix Stanley, the renown painter who painted Native Americans on the western frontier.  John Stanley's work is included in numerous museums including the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the Gene Autry Museum, and Acheson's hometown museum, the Detroit Institute of th...

Harry Deitch rose to regional prominence in the late 1930s.  By 1940 his works had been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, and had an art show at Warwick Galleries in Philadelphia.  He was designing dust jackets for the literary trade while serving as a graphic artist. He attended the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art where he was recognized for his drawing skills in 1927, and graduated in 1930.  This school was established in 1876 and today is known as the University of the Arts, and the museum is now the Philadelphia Museum of Art. While there is limited information on Deitch, his preferred medium was watercolor.  Clearly during his years in school he was greatly influenced by the precisionist art movements used by Joseph Stella and Charles Sheeler, both prominent artists in the mid to late 20's.  Photography was also a growing medium during this period, which influenced American art.  It wa...

Outsider Art is art by self-taught or naive art makers.  In the case of "Sky" she is outside the mainstream of the professional art field and she uses her art to calm her soul, which is in keeping with Outsider Art.  Her Madonna portrait is reflective of the biblical text coming from Matthew 1:18, Mary is touched by the Holy Spirit, pregnant, yet still not a mother. Sky's art works start with a traditional canvas stretched over a frame.  Yet frames are made out of materials that are easily available from the trash or leftovers from a building site.  In other words, the frames could be 2 X 4 wall construction studs.  Her canvases are divided into sections where she paints the flat sections with different areas of color.  There is no shadowing, or gradation, just flat sections of color that delineate this Modern Madonna's hair, face, neck, shoulders, and breasts.  The breasts are highlighted with candy gum drop nipples. Sky uses something like "3D Sc...

Celine Marie Tabary (1908-1993) was a French artist that became active in the Washington, DC area in the mid-20th century.  Tabary's work has been recognized for skill and artistic temperament.  While her artwork alone should have brought her national notoriety, it was her relationship with Lois Mailou Jones that has brought her into the world of artistic folklore. Tabary was studying at the Academie Julian in Paris when Jones an African American arrived to study there also.  Jones needed assistance, so Tabary served as her interpreter and brought her home to stay.  In Paris the both of them studied under Emil Bernard, a post-impressionist painter that had known Vincent van Gogh.  In 1938, Tabary arrived here in the U.S. to visit to Jones.  Tabary could not return France due to the rising tensions that became World War II. During these turbulent times, Tabary and Jones taught children art classes.  As time progressed, Tabary ended up on the faculty...

D.C. art society has lost track of Henry William Olson (1902-83).  There was a day and age when Olson was smack dab in the middle of Washington Art Society.  He belonged to the Society of Washington Artists, Washington Watercolor Club, Washington Art Club, and the American Association of University Professors.  During his tenure he was an active member and served as the President of the Washington Watercolor Club for two different terms, first in the 50s and later in the 70s. Olson was born in Canton, Ohio, studied at Columbus School of Art, Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio, Ohio State University and in DC at the Corcoran School of Art.  He served as an instructor at the Wilson Teachers College, which in 1955 was transitioned into the District of Columbia Teachers College.  Some claim he taught scientific illustration.  The watercolor below:  Chinatown, NYC , was included in the 1943 Society of Washington Artists exhibit at the Corcoran Museu...

Nan Watson, aka, Agnes Paterson Watson, Mrs. Forbes Watson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs. Watson came to the to the U.S. in her infancy. She received her early education in Buffalo, NY. She started painting early in her life and when she was 18 she arrived in Paris and studied at Academie Colarossi, later returning to New York where she studied further at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase. She was married to the nationally known author and art critic Forbes Watson, who was an administrator in the Works Progress Administration's Art Section during the Roosevelt administration. For many years she had her own studio in New York before moving to Washington, DC. Her first exhibit was at the old Whitney Studio Club, now the forerunner of the present Whitney Museum. In New York she had several one-man shows at such galleries as Kraushaar, Rehn and Wildenstein. Watson was always interested in painting portraits, fresh fruit and flowers. In 1939, Watson h...