On this date, the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library was opened to the public. Called by the city the “palace of the people”, the library was the first public building in the Beau ...
Read ArticleThere 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 ...
Read ArticleAnna 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 ...
Read ArticleAsger Jorn was a leading painter of the European post-war CoBrA artists group. The CoBrA artists sought to distance European abstraction from its tradition of geometric forms, introducing more express ...
Read ArticleEleanor 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 ...
Read ArticleThe American painter Elihu Vedder is remembered primarily for his Symbolist style of painting, which emphasized Gothic and Romantic fantasy. His early work was soundly within the mid-century Realism m ...
Read ArticleSelf-taught artists are often well into their middle age when they begin to take up their artistic practice. Having reached their middle years, many of them bring to their work valuable practical know ...
Read ArticleJosiah Johnson Hawes was part of the successful photography duo of Southworth and Hawes, which had a flourishing Daguerreotype business in Boston from 1843 to about 1863. After the firm dissolved in 1 ...
Read ArticleThe term “Harlem Renaissance” indicates the period between ca. 1918 and 1930 when the Harlem neighborhood of New York experienced a flourishing of African American art, music, and culture. ...
Read ArticleThe 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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