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Artist Birthday: Sekino Junichirō

Thursday, October 23, 2025 | Karl Cole

Sekino Junichirō was a woodblock printmaker in the sōsaku hanga movement, in which the artists draws the subject, cuts the woodblock, and prints the image themselves. These artists often incorpora ...

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Artist Birthday: Larry Walker

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Larry Walker was born in Georgia but raised from one year of age in Harlem, New York, in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. A consummate abstractionist, he also devoted his life to art edu ...

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National Apple Day: Art by Yokoi Tomoe

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | Karl Cole

There are about 7000 varieties of apple in the world. Apples have been a favorite element of still life since still life became an accepted stand-alone subject matter in Western art. The unique pr ...

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An October Gem: John La Farge

Monday, October 20, 2025 | Karl Cole

John La Farge is a fascinating and multi-faceted artist in late 1800s American art. Trained in painting, he branched out into mural painting, and particularly stained glass. In fact, La Farge received ...

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Artist Birthday: Hugh Bolton Jones

Monday, October 20, 2025 | Karl Cole

Hugh Bolton Jones was one of the many American artists whose painting was influenced by the French Realist Barbizon school in the late 1800s. He enthusiastically embraced the technique of en plein ...

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Artist Birthday: Otto Müller

Thursday, October 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

Otto Müller was a German Expressionist artist, member of the artists’ group Die Brücke, and best known for his brilliant palette and scenes of bathers. His type of Expressionism le ...

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Artist Birthday: Matsuzaki Kenichi

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

Kenichi Matsuzaki exemplifies the richness of the contemporary ceramic art of Japan. His rough surface stoneware works pay tribute to the centuries old traditions of Japanese ceramics, one of the ...

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Artist Birthday: William Larson

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

Photographer William Larson was a pioneer of many unique experiments in his art form. These included printing photos on unusual materials, experimenting with photography through fax machines, and ...

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Artist Birthday: Charles Worth

Monday, October 13, 2025 | Karl Cole

Charles Frederick Worth was undoubtedly one of the most influential fashion designers in the West in the latter half of the 1800s. He is credited with making the hoop skirt (crinoline) popular, an ...

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Artist Birthday: Jean-Antoine Watteau

Friday, October 10, 2025 | Karl Cole

The paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau typified the rather Baroque-lite character of French art in the first fifty years of the 1700s. After the death of Louis XIV (1715), French painting trended towar ...

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Artist Birthday: Frank Duveneck

Thursday, October 9, 2025 | Karl Cole

At the same time Impressionism was developing in France, a parallel movement was blossoming among American ex-patriate artists in Germany and Italy. Frank Duveneck was a pioneer in this style call ...

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Daylight Savings Time: Pierre Roy

Monday, October 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

Now you see it, now you don’t. Daylight Savings Time ends in about a month, and I’ll finally have a little light in the morning to see the bunnies in the yard at city hall. The paintings o ...

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Artist Birthday: Le Corbusier

Monday, October 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

If any one architect’s body of work sums up the development of the International Style, it would be that of Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier filled the world with elegant, geometric and organic, l ...

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Artist Birthday: Pierre Bonnard

Friday, October 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

Surely one of the greatest colorists in French painting right up there with Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pierre Bonnard’s intimate, highly personal vision of his world is expressed with gestur ...

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Artist Birthday: Shirley Jaffe

Thursday, October 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

Shirley Jaffe is a fascinating American abstractionist who briefly flirted with Abstract Expressionism, early on (1950s) believed it had become formulaic, and pioneered her own unique abstract vis ...

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Artist Birthday: Marianne Brandt

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | Karl Cole

Between 1919 and 1933, Germany was the site of one of the first art schools that emphasized contemporary modernist style in fine arts being applied to industrial arts. Marianne Brandt was a pioneer in ...

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