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Artist Birthday: William Thornton (1759-1828 US)

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | Karl Cole

William 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Gabriele Münter (1877-1962 Germany)

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | Karl Cole

Gabriele 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 ...

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National Visit Your Relatives Day

Monday, May 18, 2026 | Karl Cole

What 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Richard Estes (born 1932 US)

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Frank Stella (1936-2024 US)

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

The 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 ...

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A Weekly Beauty Attack

Monday, May 11, 2026 | Karl Cole

Beauty 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Robert Kobayashi (1925-2015 US)

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

There 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 ...

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Gem of the Month: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938 US)

Monday, May 4, 2026 | Karl Cole

This 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, ...

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Artist Birthday: William Bradford (1823-1892 US)

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | Karl Cole

One 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Jonas Lie (1880-1940 US, born Norway)

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | Karl Cole

Jonas 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Yves Klein (1928-1962 France)

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | Karl Cole

During 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997 US, born Netherlands)

Friday, April 24, 2026 | Karl Cole

Abstract 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Richard Diebenkorn / Happy Earth Day

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | Karl Cole

What 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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Artist Birthday: Pippin Barr (born 1979 New Zealand)

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 | Karl Cole

Contemporary video games, like those designed by artist Pippin Barr, are the direct descendant of the combination of film and artworks that occurred widely starting  in the late 1950s and early 1 ...

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Artist Birthday: Jimoh Buraimoh (born 1943 Nigeria)

Friday, April 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

In the early 1900s, Western artists became fascinated by African art, and the potential to use it as a springboard to abstraction. To the present day, there are many African artists who have continue ...

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Artist Birthday: Hans Wegner (1914-2007 Denmark)

Thursday, April 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

When thinking about the impact Scandinavian modernism had on furniture design, it is impossible to not consider the work of Hans Wegner. He was a prolific designer of all types of chairs, many of whic ...

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