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Artist Birthday: Toni von Horn

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 | Karl Cole

Antonie (“Toni”) von Horn Roothbert was a German emigré to the US who made a big name for herself as a fashion photographer. Her elegant, glamorous compositions established a style ...

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Bringing Women's History Month to a Close

Monday, March 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

There are many of what I consider “art heroes” among artists, and if anyone deserves such a title, it would be the late Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015, US, born Canada). She was a key player i ...

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March is Women's History Month

Monday, March 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

There was a period in the early 1900s, before World War I (1914-1918) when many American artists looked to European painting for inspiration and modern modes of expression, including abstraction. Even ...

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Artist Birthday: Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878 US)

Friday, March 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

Anna Claypoole Peale was a member of the first established “dynasty” of American painters that started with Charles Willson (1741-1827) and James (1749-1831) Peale of Philadelphia. The las ...

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March 2026 is Women's History Month

Monday, March 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

I have always maintained that there is no period in history anywhere in the world when women artists did not play a significant role in the world’s cultures. Up until about fifty years ago, howe ...

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Artist Birthday: Eleanor Antin (born 1935 US)

Friday, February 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

Eleanor Antin is a performance artist, filmmaker, conceptualist artist and college professor. Her body of work dates back to the early days of the Women’s Art Movement of the early 1970s. Her pi ...

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Artist's Birthday: Gabriele Münter (1877-1962 Germany)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like the American modernist movement Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism was dominated by male artists with strong personalities. But there were many significant women Expressionists in Germa ...

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Artist Birthday: Mori Mariko (born 1967 Japan)

Thursday, February 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

Mariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist whose practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology. She is known for her photographs and videos ...

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Celebrating African American History Month 2026: Anna Williams

Monday, February 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

The history of African American artists goes back to the earliest days of the US. There are numerous art forms that can trace their lineage back to the African ancestors of African Americans, who carr ...

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Artist Birthday: Alice Neel

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | Karl Cole

Alice Neel was a great American portraitist. Her portraits were insightfully realistic, although not to the point of Photorealism, for her works tended to emphasize rich color. The most enduring aspec ...

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Artist Birthday: Catherine Murphy (born 1946 US)

Thursday, January 22, 2026 | Karl Cole

Catherine Murphy follows the  cherished American artistic tradition of carefully observed realism in her fabulous, Photorealist paintings. Her aesthetic also transcends countries and time periods ...

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Artist Birthday: Paula Chamlee

Friday, December 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Paula Chamlee is renowned for her series on a variety of different subjects from landscapes to factory interiors. Her series definitely rely on the repetition of simple forms that render her natur ...

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Artist Birthday: Nancy Rubins

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

Through sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...

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December is National Pear Month

Monday, December 1, 2025 | Karl Cole

In 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared December as “National Pear Month.” I did not realize that pears have as much potassium as bananas. And they are certainly interesting a ...

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Artist Birthday: Brook Reynolds

Tuesday, November 25, 2025 | Karl Cole

Photographer Brook Reynolds considers her photographs of aspects of Nature to be Enso photography. Enso photographs are inspired by the practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and influenced by the tra ...

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Native American Heritage Month

Monday, November 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

National Native American Heritage Month is drawing to a close.  Since 1990, the US has celebrated National Native American Heritage Month in November to commemorate indigenous peoples’ s ...

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