Artist Birthday: Otto Müller
Otto Müller was a German Expressionist artist, member of the artists’ group Die Brücke, and best known for his brilliant palette and scenes of bathers. His type of Expressionism le ...
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Canadian Modernist Paul-Émile Borduas
Monday, September 8, 2025 | Karl ColeIn the past few years, I have become very fond of Canadian modernism, particularly from the early to mid-1900s. Paul-Émile Borduas was a pivotal figure in Canadian art. He bridged modernist ten ...
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Artist Birthday: Laura Shechter
Tuesday, August 26, 2025 | Karl ColeLaura 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: Alvan Fisher
Friday, August 8, 2025 | Karl ColeAt 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 Oyster Day: Osias Beert, the Elder
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | Karl ColeArt historians consider Osias Beert possibly the first significant Baroque Flemish still life painter. The still life medium was just catching on in popularity during his period of activity, ...
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Artist Birthday: Oqwa Pi
Friday, August 1, 2025 | Karl ColeOqwa 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: Juan Sánchez Cotán
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 | Karl ColeJuan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter who helped popularize the still life genre in Spanish Baroque painting. Spanish Renaissance and Baroque art were greatly influenced by th ...
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Artist Birthday: Conrad Marca-Relli
Thursday, June 5, 2025 | Karl ColeConrad 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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National Cheese Day: Clara Peeters
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | Karl ColeAlthough little is known about her upbringing or training, Peeters was one of a growing number of women artists who were widely acclaimed as professional artists. She was also a pioneer in the relativ ...
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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: 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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National Love a Tree Day: Sylvia P. Mangold
Friday, May 16, 2025 | Karl ColeMangold is very fond of the trees that were on her country property and they became frequent subjects of her paintings. She would definitely approve of National Love a Tree Day, which encourages every ...
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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: 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 Iris Day: Muhammad Zaman
Thursday, May 8, 2025 | Karl ColeThe iris is a beautiful flower that was first planted in the United States in Virginia in the 1600s. The flower started being commercially imported around 1869. The iris is the symbol for the city of ...
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