Artist Birthday: Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli was part of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionism, along with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. His artistic vision, however, was uniquely apart from eit ...
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Artist Birthday: Richard Long
Monday, June 2, 2025 | Karl ColeRichard Long has been a committed environmental artist since Land Art had its beginnings in the 1960s. His works are thoughtful, beautifully arranged, and elegantly simple compositions that reflect hi ...
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Artist Birthday: Audrey Flack
Friday, May 30, 2025 | Karl ColeHaving matured as an artist shortly after the “revolution” of the Abstract Expressionism movement, Audrey Flack became one of the earliest and archetypal Photorealist painters, working fro ...
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Artist Birthday: Marlow Moss
Thursday, May 29, 2025 | Karl ColeMarlow Moss was a major figure in abstraction between the world wars. She was very active in the Abstraction-Creation group of abstract artists in the between-the-wars School of Paris, and she was act ...
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Artist Birthday: Wols (A.O.W. Schulze)
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | Karl ColeWols was a major figure in the School of Paris that developed after World War I (1914–1918). He was a pioneering artist in Lyrical Abstraction, and was a major influence on the Tachisme movement ...
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Artist Birthday: Chunghi Choo
Friday, May 23, 2025 | Karl ColeChunghi Choo works in the ages-old tradition of gold or silver overlay on copper vessels. Like other far Eastern cultures, Korea had a great reverences for all art forms, including those considered &l ...
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Artist Birthday: Leon Polk Smith
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | Karl ColeLeon Polk Smith was an American artist of Cherokee descent who was a pioneer of modernism long before Abstract Expressionism evolved in New York. His works throughout his career emphasized a pure geom ...
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Artist Birthday: Erastus Salisbury Field
Monday, May 19, 2025 | Karl ColeErastus Salisbury Field was an essentially self-taught painter who produced portraits, landscapes, and history subjects in his long career. He was one of the most successful of the great early America ...
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Artist Birthday: Thomas Gainsborough
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | Karl ColeThomas Gainsborough’s art was the epitome of the elegant, sophisticated and generally low-key Rococo style that characterized late 1700s British art. It was a major contrast to the flamboyant, o ...
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Artist Birthday: Peter Henry Emerson
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | Karl ColeAt a time (the 1880s) when photographic processes evolved to handwork and manipulation of prints in development in order to achieve “artistic” photographs, Peter Henry Emerson advocated fo ...
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Artist Birthday: Ynez Johnston
Monday, May 12, 2025 | Karl ColeYnez Johnston’s unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. Johnston also created three dimensional pieces in collaboration with her h ...
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Artist Birthday: Ralph Goings
Friday, May 9, 2025 | Karl ColeThe Photorealism movement, which evolved during the late 1960s as a counterpoint to the pervasive Minimalism, Conceptualism, and abstraction in American art, blossomed fully during the 1970s. Into the ...
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National Skilled Trades Day: Jacob Lawrence
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 | Karl ColeNational Skilled Trades Day was established in 2019 by the National Day Calendar and City Machine Technologies, Inc. Skilled workers are employed in a variety of fields and positions that can be perso ...
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Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Karl ColeGeorge Elmer Browne was an American painter, one of the many who, in the late 1800s, studied painting in Paris at the height of the Impressionist period. His West End School of Art in Provincetown, Ma ...
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Artist Birthday: Donald Sultan
Monday, May 5, 2025 | Karl ColeDonald Sultan is part of the late 1900s New Image art phenomenon. In a break with Minimalism, Sultan wanted his figuration to present a monumental simplicity and directness of abstract art, while main ...
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Artist Birthday: Jules Breton
Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Karl ColeJules Breton was a unique artist of the Realism movement in France in the mid-1800s. Having grown up with poor rural farmers in northern France, he understood their lives and labors. His paintings pre ...
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