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National Coffee Day: Elizabeth Murray

Monday, September 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

Cups of coffee appeared frequently in Elizabeth Murray's paintings.  National Coffee Day was first celebrated in about 2005, but did not take off as a holiday until September 29, 2009. That&rs ...

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Artist Birthday: Alexander Calder

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Alexander is an artist who is renowned in art history for his pioneering exploration of movement in sculpture, and abstraction. He also became renowned for making jewelry which was a combination of mo ...

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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Noland

Thursday, April 10, 2025 | Karl Cole

Kenneth Noland was part of the Post Painterly Abstraction group of Color Field artists who sought to distance themselves from the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. His epiphany moment came, ...

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Renaissance Perspective or Butterfly? Mark Grotjahn

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | Karl Cole

I don’t like to admit to something like this, but when I first saw this work in the MoMA collection, I didn’t pay that much attention to it. When I saw it a second time the other day, I wa ...

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