Artist Birthday: Nathan Oliveira
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 ColeAt 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 ColeKenneth 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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Artist Birthday: Paula Chamlee
Friday, December 12, 2025 | Karl ColePaula 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, 2025Sato’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 ColeStephen 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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Artist Birthday: Tim Hetherington
Friday, December 5, 2025 | Karl ColeTim Hetherington was a bold photojournalist who documented the war in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2008 in the Koragal Valley, where 70 per cent of American bombs were falling when he covered that ...
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Artist Birthday: Santiago Cárdenas
Thursday, December 4, 2025 | Karl ColeThe countries of Central and South America experienced a Renaissance of modernism in art, due in part to influences these artists derived from Europe and the United States, and more importantly, becau ...
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Artist Birthday: Nancy Rubins
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | Karl ColeThrough sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...
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Artist Birthday: William Wegman
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | Karl ColeWhile starting out with black and white photography of banal everyday actions, William Wegman is most likely best known for his endearing work with a series of dogs. His photographs of these dogs usua ...
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Artist Birthday: Brook Reynolds
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 | Karl ColePhotographer Brook Reynolds considers her photographs of aspects of Nature to be Enso photography. Enso photographs are inspired by the practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and influenced by the tra ...
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Artist Birthday: Paa Joe
Friday, November 21, 2025 | Karl ColeApprenticed to a coffin-maker at the age of 12, Paa Joe became one of the most honored Ghanaian coffin or abebuu adekai (“proverb boxes”) artists of his generation. ...
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Artist Birthday: Roberto González Goyri
Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Karl ColeSculptor Roberto González Goyri is one of the artists who exemplifies the electric spirit of development of modernism in Central and South American countries during the middle of the 1900s. ...
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Artist Birthday: William Trost Richards
Friday, November 14, 2025 | Karl ColeThere is nothing more remarkably peace-inducing than a beautiful seascape painting. William Trost Richards was renowned for his beautiful coastal seascapes of the New England coast in all sorts of ...
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Artist Birthday: Osuitok Ipeelee
Thursday, November 13, 2025 | Karl ColeThe native arts of the northern First Nations cultures of Canada have the same wide ranging types of art forms as those of the Indigenous cultures of the US. Osuitok Ipeelee participated in a Cana ...
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Artist Birthday: Édouard Vuillard
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | Karl ColeÉdouard Vuillard was a pivotal artist in the transition from representational and abstract art. He was a member of the Nabis group of painters, "nabi" a Hebrew word for prophet, i ...
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