Janos Fadrusz (1858 - 1903)

Artist. A sculptor, The Crucifixion on his grave is his own work.

James Masterson (1855 - 1895)

Lawman. Born in Henryville, Iberville County, Quebec, Canada the third of Thomas Masterson and Catherine McGurk’s seven children. About 1861 the family moved from Canada to the United States. The family spent time in New York state, and Illinois before settling near Wichita, Kansas in 1871. Jim Masterson’s career began as a buffalo hunter, a […]

Moses Jacob Ezekiel (1844 - 1917)

Artist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia into a home with a strong Jewish-Spanish heritage. He attended the Virginia Military Institute, as a “student- soldier” fought at the Battle of New Market, and after graduation studied in Europe before eventually moving to Rome, Italy where he became a world famous sculptor. Among his many great […]

Bat Masterson (1853 - 1921)

American Western Frontier Figure, Journalist.  Born William Barclay Masterson the second of five children, his birthplace is recorded as being either Quebec, Canada or an unknown farm in Illinois. His youth was spent on various farms in the American Midwest and his education consisted of a basic frontier education in series of one room schools. […]

Reiji Ezaki (1970 - 1970)

Photographer. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Jack Martzell (1937 - 2007)

Attorney at Law. He was known for his trademark black cowboy hat and skill in representing high-profile clients. Among his notable clients are Muhammad Ali, U.S. Congressman Rick Tonry, fried-chicken magnate Al Copeland, Glenn Haydel, and Civil District Judge C. Hunter King. Martzell, who headed the New Orleans firm Martzell and Bickford, also won the […]

Wilson Eyre, Jr (1858 - 1944)

Architect. He was enrolled in the architectural program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then spent five years in the office of Philadelphia architect James Peacock Sims. He took over the office upon Sims’s death in May 1882. He was known for his picturesque assemblies of calculated asymmetries and his welcoming, informal planning. Eyre’s […]

Sir Edward Marshall-Hall (1858 - 1927)

Attorney. He was council for the defence in many notorious murder cases. He was educated at Rugby School and Cambridge, and intended to enter the priesthood. He soon decided to pursue a career as an actor, but was unable to memorize scripts and so instead trained in law, being called to the bar in 1888. […]

Minnie Evans (1892 - 1987)

Visionary Folk Artist. Recognized as one of the most important visionary folk artists of the 20th century, her work is highly collected by many museums and collectors all across the world. She began to draw and paint at the age of 43, creating her first pieces of artwork on a scrap of paper bag. Five […]

Peter Malkin (1927 - 2005)

Israeli Intellegence Agent. He was the veteran Israeli Mossad agent who in 1960 captured Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust, from a street outside Buenos Aires. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, living under an assumed name, with the greeting “un momentito, señor” before wrestling him to the ground and into […]

William Etty (1787 - 1849)

Painter. Studying in England and Venice, Etty became famous for painting nudes (he was once considered the ‘first pornographer’!). His work is exhibited in many major British galleries and often incorporate mythological themes. Although much of his work was created in London, Etty later moved to York where a statue of the artist now stands […]

George Isaac Maledon (1830 - 1911)

Western Lawman and Executioner. He immigrated from Bavaria to America in 1859, settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas where he served as a policeman and deputy sheriff. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army as a member of 1st Battery Arkansas Light Artillery. After the war he signed on and worked in the […]

Antoine Etex (1808 - 1888)

Sculptor. Born in Paris, the son of a decorative sculptor, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1824 as a pupil of Charles Dupaty, moving in 1825 to the studio of James Pradier Ingres who also took an interest in his education.  He first exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1833, his work including […]

Christian “Chris” Madsen (1851 - 1944)

Deputy US Marshal and Folk Figure. Little is known of his early life in Denmark, but before migrating to America, he was a member of the Danish Army. He served in the Danish-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars and served in the Foreign Legion in Algeria. Upon immigrating to the United States, he joined the Fifth Calvary […]

Viredo Espinosa (1928 - 2012)

Exiled cuban painter born in Regla, and member of the “Group of Eleven”, which marked the emergence of abstract expressionism in Cuba. He was marginalized by the revolutionary government after refusing to sign the necessary political form to join the National Association of Painters, Sculptors and Recorders established in 1959, so that he was denied […]

George Lawrence Mabson (1970 - 1885)

First black Attorney in State of North Carolina. Served in the North Carolina House of Representatives, North Carolina Senate, represented New Hanover County, North Carolina, in the Constitutional Convention of 1875. Later, served as Vice President of the Colored Education Convention in Raleigh, North Carolina, was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth and Fifth Battalions, […]

José Escobar (1908 - 1994)

Noted Spanish comic book artist. He created “Zipi y Zape,” “Carpanta,” and “Petra, Criada Para Todo.” (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)

One of the world’s greatest Artists,  Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden, Holland.  In his youth he enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem.  He developed a knack for graphic art, as he had shown his drawings and linoleum cuts to his graphic teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, […]

Kenneth Eugene Lyon (1933 - 2004)

Police Officer. Born in Dallas, Texas. Kenneth was a US Army veteran, serving in the Korean War. He also served in the US Coast Guard. Kenneth was a career police officer, retiring after thirty years from the Dallas Police Department as a Lieutenant. Kenneth was a Dallas plain-clothes police officer who helped apprehend Lee Harvey […]

Max Ernst (1891 - 1976)

Artist.  A philosophy student with no formal art training,  he became a founder of the Dada and Surrealist movements.  Ernst pioneered the graphic novel with his book “The Woman with 100 Breasts” (1929),  a strange narrative consisting entirely of collages.  He also developed a technique he called “frottage”,  using paint,  charcoal,  and pencil rubbings over […]

Ramón Lorenzo Falcón (1855 - 1909)

Argentinian Military Officer. He was the chief of police between 1906 and 1909. This year he was murdered by an anarchist while he traveled in his carriage with his secretary Alberto Lartigau. (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

Jimmy Ernst (1920 - 1984)

Rebel Artist. Son of surrealist artist, Max Ernst.  Family links:  Spouse:  Edith Dallas Bauman Ernst (1923 – 2011)* *Calculated relationship

Brockholst Livingston (1757 - 1823)

United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. He was born on a Friday to William Livingston and Susanna French and given the name Henry Brockholst Livingston. He would soon drop the first name in both his professional and private lives. He was the nephew of Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and brother-in-law […]

Edvard Eriksen (1876 - 1959)

Artist. One of Denmark’s most prominent sculptors. His most famous work is “The Little Mermaid” statue that sits in the harbor at Langelinie in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hans Achim Litten (1903 - 1938)

German Lawyer. Hans Litten was the eldest son of Friedrich Litten – a Jew who converted to Lutheranism to further his career as a law professor.  Hans had a difficult relationship with his father, believing his conversion was opportunistic. Although baptized a Christian, Hans studied Judaism and learned Hebrew. He was interested in art history, […]

Arthur Charles Erickson (1924 - 2009)

Architect,  Urban Planner. Internationally recognized, he was considered to be Canada’s most accomplished modernist architect. Born in Vancouver, he studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia. In 1943 he joined the Canadian Army and served in India, Ceylon and Malaysia. By the end of World War II, he was a captain in the […]

Barry Levin (1947 - 2001)

Lawyer. Levin was a high-profiled Attorney from Los Angeles, California. Levin’s famous clients included Erik Menendez, who was convicted of killing his parents along with his brother Lyle, actor Robert Blake who was charged with the shooting death of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley, and also Los Angeles police Sgt. Edward Ortiz who was convicted […]

Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959)

Jacob Epstein was born in New York City of Jewish parents. His ambition was to become a painter, and he began by sketching the characters of the ghetto. Unfortunately, he had to abandon this because of his poor eyesight, and decided to become a sculptor instead. In 1902, he moved to Paris in order to […]

Joe Shelby “Joe” LeFors (1865 - 1940)

Western Lawman. Born Joseph S. LeFors in Paris, Texas, he began his career in law enforcement in 1887, as a Wyoming Livestock Inspector recovering rustled cattle. In 1899, he was appointed a Deputy US Marshal and led a posse to capture Butch Cassidy’s gang for train robberies in the territory. He is perhaps most noted […]

James Sydney Ensor (1860 - 1949)

James Ensor is one of the most surprising artists of the 19th century. (Although he in fact lived until after World War 2, his finest work dates from the period 1880-1905).  Born in the Belgian seaside town of Ostend, to an English father (an unsuccessful engineer) and a Belgian mother (from a family of proprietors […]