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Artist Birthday: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945 Germany)

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 | Karl Cole

The deeply empathetic works of German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz reflect not only the sensibilities of a highly sophisticated printmaking artist, but also a compassionate and caring mother deep ...

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Artist Birthday: Gertrud Nätzler (1908-1971, US born Austria)

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 | Karl Cole

After the Arts and Crafts movement of the mid- to late-1800s, several art forms emerged with the status of fine art, because the Arts and Crafts movements stressed the artist’s touch during a pe ...

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Artist Birthday: John B. Storrs (1886-1956 US)

Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

John Bradley Walker Storrs is an example of an American artist who, after exposed to European modernism at the dawn of World War I, he never looked back to realism. He ultimately developed a Cubist ab ...

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Artist Birthday: Ricci Albenda (born 1966 US)

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 | Karl Cole

During the 1960s, many artists experimented with forms of art that transformed the space in which works of art are exhibited, through lighting, placement, and installation. In the 21st century, artist ...

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Artist Birthday: Scott Burton (1939-1989 US)

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Scott Burton was an ingenious sculptor/furniture maker who established a unique body of work that functioned as both sculpture and furniture. Burton’s sculpture-installations often functioned as ...

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Artist Birthday: Thomas Sully (1783-1872 US, born Britain)

Friday, June 19, 2026 | Karl Cole

After the dominance of classical revival mania in American art during the Revolution (1775-1783) and Federal periods, a softened, more dramatic realism emerged in the form of the Grand Manner Style. T ...

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Artist birthday: Mira Schendel (1919-1988 Brazil, born Switzerland)

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 | Karl Cole

Mira Schendel was a painter, sculptor and poet. Her pensive, delicate works (particularly on paper), along with those of her contemporary Brazilian artists Lygia Clark (1920-1988) and Helio Oiticica ( ...

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Artist Birthday: Weegee (Arthur Fellig, 1899-1968)

Friday, June 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

Famed crime scene photographer and artist Weegee was know not only for covering gruesome crime scenes in New York, but also for his carefully orchestrated scenes that evoked discomfort or pity by the ...

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Artist Birthday: Christopher Wilmarth (1943-1987 US)

Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Karl COle

Christopher Wilmarth, in his tragically short life, was a Minimalist sculptor who created over 150 sculptures, most of them made of glass and steel.   ...

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Artist Birthday: Violet Oakley (1874-1961 US)

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | Karl Cole

Violet Oakley is one of the standout women artists of the American Renaissance. She can truly be called a “Renaissance Woman,” being accomplished in many different media, and working as a ...

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Artist Birthday: Amanda Means (born 1950 US)

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

Just as artists in many different media have, in the 21st  century, discovered even more novel ways to use these media in personal expression, so too have photographers, who many decades ago aban ...

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Artist Birthday: Jean Follett (1917-1991 US)

Friday, June 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like the Abstract Expressionists, many other American artists were inspired by European modernist movements that occurred before World War II. Jean Follett was an early abstractionist who was influenc ...

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Artist Birthday: Watanabe Kunio (born 1967 Japan)

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

Long before ceramic arts were recognized as fine art in the West, the art form was revered as a priceless national treasure in Japan. Contemporary artists like Kunio Watanabe continue to build on the ...

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Artist Birthday: Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448/1449-1494 Italy)

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

The Renaissance in 1400s Italy was a restatement of the styles of ancient Greece and Rome, a symptom of a more humanistic view of Christian religious figures in Renaissance painting. Many of the leadi ...

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Gem of the Month June: Art by Norman Foster (born 1935 Britain)

Monday, June 1, 2026 | Karl Cole

June 2 celebrates our Gem of the Month in London, and it also happens to be the birthday of the architect, Norman Foster. Foster’s designs greatly changed the skyline of London in the “mod ...

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Artist Birthday: Arturo Herrera (US, born 1959 Venezuela)

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

Arturo Herrera’s work includes collage, works on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall hangings. His work taps into the viewer’s unconscious—often inter ...

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