Since the development of photography art form in the early 1800s, the medium has been considered ideal for documenting reality. “Reality” includes wars. The earliest wars documented by pho ...
Read ArticleInternational Chef Day was established by the World Association of Chefs’ Societies in 2004 to celebrate the culinary profession and to encourage chefs to pass on their knowledge to the next gen ...
Read ArticleNational Day Calendar® created National Sports Day to celebrate the fans, families, and athletes of all the sports as they spend quality time at athletic events. Native Americans had sports all th ...
Read ArticleThe abstractions of Morton Schamberg have numerous sources among the modernist movements of the first two decades of the 1900s. Among the strongest influences were Cubism and Futurism. ...
Read ArticleEugenie Baizerman was one of a group of pioneer modernist women artists who received recognition “better late than never” in 1949, before the “star” artists of Abstract Express ...
Read ArticleNavy Secretary Admiral Zumwalt declared October 13 the US Navy’s birthday in 1972. The Continental Congress established the US Navy in 1775. At the time, the colonies only had two ships with a t ...
Read ArticleMarguerite Kumm was an artist involved in the transition of printmaking into a highly respected art form during the Great Depression (1929-1940). Her work is typical of the inward-looking artwork that ...
Read ArticleRosa Ibarra was born in Puerto Rico, spent her childhood in Old San Juan, and went to high school in Paris. Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries across the country and abroad. Ibarr ...
Read ArticleThe paintings of Larry Poons lie somewhere between Color Field and Minimalism, with a dash of action painting thrown in at some times. His paintings of the last 30 years have revealed exciting, lively ...
Read ArticleUlrich Rückreim’s experience as a stonecutter helping to renovate Cologne Cathedral led to a career as a sculptor. The pristine stone that is worked in the quarry into slabs and blocks is w ...
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