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Artist Birthday: William Bell

Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Karl Cole

The Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the earliest major wars that was extensively documented by the young art form of photography. William Bell started his career as a Daguerreotype photographer ...

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Artist Birthday: Martha Edelheit

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

Martha Edelheit was active in the Women’s Art Movement of the late 1960s into the 1970s. She is known for her provocative, allegorical paintings of male and female figures, as well as for her in ...

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Artist Birthday: Sarai Sherman

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

Painter, interior designer, and ceramic artist Sarai Sherman was a Jewish American whose paintings were a combination of reality and reminiscences, producing a unique form of abstraction. ...

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Artist Birthday: Hananiah Harari

Friday, August 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

Hananiah Harari was both an abstract painter and a commercial artist who designed advertising campaigns and magazine covers. Never a doctrinaire abstractionist, his work went freely between geometric ...

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Artist Birthday: Kanō Motonobu

Thursday, August 28, 2025 | Karl Cole

The Kanō School artists—the favored group of painters for the nobility and shogunate—worked in a variety of genre, including traditional yamato-e that included bright patterns and gold lea ...

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Artist Birthday: Laura Shechter

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 | Karl Cole

Laura Shechter is an extraordinarily gifted, contemporary realist still life artist who is part of the large body of American artists who have persisted in pursuing the cherished American love of obse ...

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Artist Birthday: Jacques Lipchitz

Friday, August 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jacques Lipchitz was an extraordinary early modernist sculptor who worked in the Cubist idiom longer than most other artists associated with the style. Eventually his style incorporated the monume ...

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Artist Birthday: Christian Schad

Thursday, August 21, 2025 | Karl Cole

Christian Schad was of the generation of artists whose reaction against World War I engendered the Dada movement in art. Dada introduced the reinterpretation of what constituted fine art based on a re ...

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Artist Birthday: Marcus Aurelius Root

Friday, August 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

Marcus Root was one of the first of a group of pioneer Daguerreotype photographers, among the first to open a portrait studio. He was an early advocate of photographers being considered artists. ...

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Artist Birthday: George Bellows

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

George Bellows was a member of the group who called themselves The Eight, whom critics derogatorily dubbed “Ash Can School.” Those artists revolutionized subject matter in American paintin ...

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Artist Birthday: Alvan Fisher

Friday, August 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

At the time Alvan Fisher began painting landscapes, the Hudson River School had not yet formed in New England. Fisher was among less than a handful of artists who were dedicated to landscape painting. ...

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National Lighthouse Day: Dong Kingman

Thursday, August 7, 2025 | Karl Cole

It was on this day in 1789 that Congress established funding in support of building of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers. On August 7 of 1989, National Lighthouse Day was established by ...

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Artist Birthday: Jess (Collins)

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jess (Collins) is probably best known for his incredibly complex collages. He was a painter who initially worked as a chemist. He started doing collages in the early 1950s after seeing the works o ...

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Artist Birthday: Oqwa Pi

Friday, August 1, 2025 | Karl Cole

Oqwa Pi, whose name translates as Katsina Stick, was part of a generation of Native American artists who attended the Santa Fe Indian School, and took painting classes in The Studio. The school wa ...

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Artist Birthday: Erich Heckel

Thursday, July 31, 2025 | Karl Cole

Erich Heckel was a German Expressionist and a member of the important early artists’ group Die Brücke, a group that worked communally from 1905 to 1913. He is renowned for his woodcut print ...

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Artist Birthday: Abram Games

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

A conservative dating of the so-called Golden Age of posters is the 1890s up to World War I (1914–1918). However, poster art continued to develop and flourish through the 1920s into World War II ...

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