Wendell Castle was one of the pioneers of the American Studio Furniture/Woodworking movement that emerged after World War II (1939-1945). He is synonymous with finely crafted, unique furniture forms a ...
Read ArticleJoseph DeCamp was one of “The Ten”, a group ten American painters who seceded from the National Academy of Art in New York over its refusal to exhibit American Impressionists’ artwor ...
Read ArticleDon Eddy’s complex, fascinating Photorealist paintings and prints can truly lead to many hours of discovery on close inspection. To say his discerning eye leads to incisive realism would be an u ...
Read ArticleAnnibale Carracci was arguably one of the earliest Italian painters to create landscapes as stand-alone subject matter. Italian artists who painted dedicated landscapes lagged at least 100 years after ...
Read ArticleWhat with the thousands of years of evolution of Japanese ceramic arts --- some of the oldest developments in ceramics on Earth – it is little wonder that the Japanese have introduced the honori ...
Read ArticleSince the development of photography art form in the early 1800s, the medium has been considered ideal for documenting reality. “Reality” includes wars. The earliest wars documented by pho ...
Read ArticleThe abstractions of Morton Schamberg have numerous sources among the modernist movements of the first two decades of the 1900s. Among the strongest influences were Cubism and Futurism. ...
Read ArticleEugenie Baizerman was one of a group of pioneer modernist women artists who received recognition “better late than never” in 1949, before the “star” artists of Abstract Express ...
Read ArticleMarguerite Kumm was an artist involved in the transition of printmaking into a highly respected art form during the Great Depression (1929-1940). Her work is typical of the inward-looking artwork that ...
Read ArticleTourists were the main consumers of photographic views of far-off places during the early days of photography. The camera was considered the best chance to record exotic far-off places “beyond a ...
Read ArticleMeikaku Kusakabe unfortunately was born too early to be voted a Living National Treasure in Japan, an honor inaugurated in 1953, that he surely merited. But he was a universally recognized as a callig ...
Read ArticleIvan Kudryashov was active in the exciting period of Russian modernism that blossomed right before the Russian Revolution (1917), and continued into the 1920s, the last decade before avant-garde art w ...
Read ArticleThe paintings of Larry Poons lie somewhere between Color Field and Minimalism, with a dash of action painting thrown in at some times. His paintings of the last 30 years have revealed exciting, lively ...
Read ArticleUlrich Rückreim’s experience as a stonecutter helping to renovate Cologne Cathedral led to a career as a sculptor. The pristine stone that is worked in the quarry into slabs and blocks is w ...
Read ArticleMinoru Niizuma came to the US after WW II to further investigate modernism. He quickly became one of the more significant abstract sculptors. His respect for materials and reflection of Japanese aesth ...
Read ArticleRoni Horn’s work consistently generates uncertainty to thwart closure. Important across her oeuvre is her longstanding interest to the protean nature of identity, meaning, and perception, as wel ...
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