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National Hat Day: Art by Tom Price

Thursday, January 15, 2026 | Karl Cole

Since at least 1983, schools, libraries, and museums have observed National Hat Day. People are invited to wear their favorite type of hat. The date also commemorates the day in 1797 when the first to ...

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Artist Birthday: Burgoyne Diller

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

Burgoyne Diller was a true pioneer in American abstraction. During the period when Abstraction Expressionism dominated American modernism, Diller quietly pursued geometric abstraction that was inf ...

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This Day in Art History: Earliest photographic process introduced

Friday, January 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

On 9 January, 1839, Louis Daguerre (1787-1851 France) introduced his groundbreaking daguerreotype photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. In early 1838 he had used the process to photo ...

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This Day in Art History: Passing of Giotto

Thursday, January 8, 2026 | Karl Cole

Giotto is largely credited as being a leader of the early (“Proto-“) Renaissance in Italian painting. His cycle of frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, is one of the earliest commi ...

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Artist Birthday: Robert Longo

Wednesday, January 7, 2026 | Karl Cole

Robert Longo is a painter, filmmaker, photographer and musician. He first came to prominence in the 1980s, part of the Neo-Expressionism aesthetic with his Men in Cities series of works which cast ...

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National Apple Tree Day, Jan. 6: Worthington Whittredge

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

There’s no shortage of gorgeous 1800s American paintings of apples at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but this is one of my favorite to celebrate National Apple Tree Day. Nation ...

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Beauty Attack = Gorgeous Gauguin

Monday, January 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

If you are as taken with the color of the most prominently written about Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) paintings, then you will simply drool over this early still life. The background colors are particular ...

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Happy and Healthy New Year!

Monday, December 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

I cannot image a better way than saying “goodbye” to 2025 than with the uplifting, positive sentiments reserved for the pine tree in Japanese and Chinese cultures. There are very few e ...

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Artist Birthday: Nathan Oliveira

Friday, December 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

The work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...

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Artist Birthday: Fitz Henry Lane

Thursday, December 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

At the same time the Hudson River School was flourishing in the Northeast US, some artists sought to add a spiritual aspect to American landscape painting by concentrating on light and atmosphere. ...

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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Cobonpue

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

Kenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...

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Yay! Winter is Here!

Monday, December 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

We already had our first and second snowfalls and they created a lovely, white landscape all over. Autumn and winter are my favorite seasons of the year, so you know I won’t be moving to Flo ...

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Artist Birthday: Paula Chamlee

Friday, December 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Paula Chamlee is renowned for her series on a variety of different subjects from landscapes to factory interiors. Her series definitely rely on the repetition of simple forms that render her natur ...

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Artist Birthday: Sato Koichi

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Sato’s poster work shows just how fully Japanese graphic designers have absorbed Western modernist aesthetics and combined them with traditional Japanese sensibilities. Japanese poster art d ...

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Artist Birthday: Stephen Holl

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | Karl Cole

Stephen Holl is part of the generation of architects in the late 1900s who began focusing on a more humanistic approach to designing buildings for the Earth’s ever-growing major cities. He combi ...

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Gem of the Month: Ergil Vallo, Ceramic Art

Monday, December 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

A flourishing of ceramic arts is one of the historic traditions of the indigenous American cultures of the Southwest US. These cultures are collectively addressed as “Pueblo”, a refere ...

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This Day in Art History: Earliest photographic process introduced

This Day in Art History: Passing of Giotto

Artist Birthday: Robert Longo

National Apple Tree Day, Jan. 6: Worthington Whittredge

Beauty Attack = Gorgeous Gauguin

Happy and Healthy New Year!

Artist Birthday: Nathan Oliveira

Artist Birthday: Fitz Henry Lane

Artist Birthday: Kenneth Cobonpue

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Artist Birthday: Stephen Holl

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