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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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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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August Is Here: Willem de Kooning

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

In New England, it is generally said that summer is coming to an end in August. But I have a particular fondness for August because it’s when I discovered the house in Provincetown, Massachusett ...

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A Consummate Realist: Joseph Raffael

Monday, June 23, 2025 | Karl Cole

Photorealism was a style that evolved during the 1960s in reaction to the prevalence of total abstraction seen in Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and Minimalism—movements that dominated tha ...

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Jewish American Heritage Month: Gandy Brodie

Monday, May 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jewish American Heritage Month is celebrated in May to recognize and honor the contributions of Jewish Americans to the United States. It's a time to celebrate the diverse experiences and rich history ...

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Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

George 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: Jules Breton

Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jules 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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Artist Birthday: Cy Twombly

Friday, April 25, 2025 | Karl Cole

Forming his aesthetic during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, Cy Twombly pioneered his own unique brand of modernism. Rather than emphasizing process, he was inspired by art history past, particu ...

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Artist Birthday: Neo Rauch

Friday, April 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

Leipzig-based Neo Rauch is part of the generation of German artists who revitalized German painting starting in the late 1900s. His work is a combination of late East German Socialist Realism, opera-l ...

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National Gardening Day: Arshile Gorky

Monday, April 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

In 1986, President Reagan established National Garden Week, which was first celebrated in 1987 from 12 through 16 April. In 2002 the National Gardening Association insisted that the entire month of Ap ...

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European Abstract Expressionism? Jean-Paul Riopelle

Monday, May 2, 2011 | Karl Cole

What we generally read in art history texts is that during World War II (1939-1945) many European modernist artists fled to the US and ended up in New York. At the same time, many American artists wit ...

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