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 ...
Read ArticleLike many of the Japanese artists born after World War II (1939-1945), the art of Shirō Tsujimura is a reverent combination of honoring ages-old Japanese artistic traditions, and adding contemporary a ...
Read ArticleLike the great Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Albrecht Dürer was a singularly “Renaissance Man.” He was not only an accomplished printmaker and painter who ...
Read ArticleWilliam Thornton was once called “First Architect” because his design for the US Capitol building was accepted by America’s first president. He is one of the architects responsible f ...
Read ArticleGabriele Münter was one of numerous women artists associated with German Expressionism. For some time she was a companion of pioneer abstractionist Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944). There is nothing ...
Read ArticleWhat better way to observe this national day than by visiting family, such as these three adorable children (of ten) of the Lincoln family from New York state? Precious little is known about American ...
Read ArticleLike the American Scene works of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Richard Estes’ Photorealistic views of American cities and towns are virtually devoid of a human presence outside of the evidence of t ...
Read ArticleThe paintings, sculptures and installations of Frank Stella have defied a single stylistic designation throughout his career. He among the many artists who established their mature artistic vision in ...
Read ArticleBeauty Attack Monday 11th of May is also the birthday of major Op Art artist Yaacov Agam (France, born 1928 Palestine [present day Israel]). Agam along with Julio le Parc (born 1928 Argentina) and Jes ...
Read ArticleThere were many Japanese-American artists who served in the US military during World War II (1939-1945) and afterwards became leaders in American modernism. Robert Kobayashi was a unique modernist who ...
Read ArticleThis month's "Gem" is also a 4 May Birthday! Whether Thomas Wilmer Dewing is labeled an Impressionist, Tonalist, or Aesthetics artist, his beautiful portraits, mostly of youngish women, ...
Read ArticleOne of the most interesting developments in American art history was the evolution of an American “school” of landscape painting, as Americans grew to cherish their new country with wildly ...
Read ArticleJonas Lie was a prominent poster artist during the American Poster “Renaissance” in the early 1900s. He is best known for his patriotic paintings of the American effort in World Wars I (19 ...
Read ArticleDuring the turbulent post-World War II (1939-1945) years, it is no surprise that art movements arose – as they did after World War I (1914-1918) – that questioned the validity of entrenche ...
Read ArticleAbstract Expressionism, which developed in the 1940s primarily in New York, was the first original American modernism art movement. Willem de Kooning was one of the leading artists of this group, also ...
Read ArticleWhat better way to dual celebrate Earth Day/Birthday than a landscape! The first original American modernist art movement, called Abstract Expressionism, flourished between the late 1940s into the 196 ...
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