Dave Archer

Best known for high voltage space art, which is known as reverse glass or verso painting, Dave Archer creates work using millions of volts of electricity as a paint brush. He began this type of work in 1970, as a joint venture with Ron Russell. Archer's work has been used in numerous book cover illustrations and for television programs such as "Eye to Eye with Connie Chung," and some of the "Star Trek" series.

Source: Charlton Hall Galleries auction

Ed Tussey

From Artist website:

Alaska is a never-ending source of inspiration for Ed Tussey. Winner of national and state awards, Ed is a full-time, freelance artist who captures on canvas the majesty of Alaska's interior, coastal and marine environments and wildlife. A lifelong Alaskan, Ed lives on the Kenai Peninsula in the coastal town of Homer, Alaska, with his wife Jacki and their daughters Rachel and Rheanna.

Collectors of Ed Tussey's art are drawn to the impeccable detail with which his brush carefully defines, and realistically portrays, birds, mammals, and marine life in their natural settings. Ed's ability to accurately represent Alaska's wildlife stems from years of observing these magnificent creatures in their natural habitats on land and sea. He studied art and oceanography while attending college in Washington state. He has spend countless hours in remote wilderness areas and has traveled extensively throughout the coastal waters of Alaska, the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea.

The Tusseys self-published their first limited edition print series in 1985, and since then many of the editions have been collected and are listed as sold out. Ed's originals and productions can be found in galleries, museums and private collections throughout Alaska, the continental U.S., Canada, and around the world.

Gustav Likan

Born in Yugoslavia in 1912, Gustav Likan became known in Europe for his portraits of royalty and heads of state.  He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he received Master Student status, meaning he was given his own private studio and model.

He spent his summers in Holland, Italy, France where he visited museums and sketched and painted.  He then immigrated to South America and then to the United States, arriving in Chicago in 1957.  He was appointed to the staff of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts as an instructor, where he taught until 1967.

For the remainder of his life, Professor Likan resided in Texas.  He taught at the Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin and reportedly was a popular instructor.  He was an outspoken critic of gimmickry in art. “Intellectual conjecture” as he put it.  He believed rather in the unifying nature of art: “The function of art is the creation of beauty. The artist has the power to create in others his pleasurable excitement, thereby sharing with them esthetic experiences.”

Chet Engle

Chet Engle (American Artist 1918 - 1994), a native of Illinois, began his art studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and later at Art Center in Los Angles. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Some of his more important shows included representation at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery in London, England, as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Mr. Engle is a painter of moods, often pensive and provocative. Chet and his wife (Marian Jolliffe) spent much of their time exploring the remote areas of California, Nevada, and Arizona gathering material for his works. Old mining towns, desert, mountains, and the sea become a backdrop for the human figure around which he creates dramatic lighting effects, colors, and textures. This interest and invaluable knowledge of the human figure combine to give his paintings a super realism, rarely found in contemporary paintings. His technical ability is only equaled by his power to create mood. By placing his figure in remote landscapes and building dramatic lights and textures, the viewer is invited to participate in the painting.

The many awards he has won have assured Chet Engle a permanent place in American Art.

Two portraits hang in the permanent collection of the National Air Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC:
Jacqueline Cochran
Colonel Charles Yeager
One Painting in the National Archives in Washington D.C.
One Painting hangs in the permanent collection of the State of California in Sacramento.

Listed in Who’s Who in American Art, 1976

1957 Biography from a Challis Gallery Show, Laguna Beach, CA