Artist Birthday: Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978 US)
Alma Woodsey Thomas was a pioneering African American abstract painter and art educator. Any art historian who is a nut about color as I am certainly knows her work! ...
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Hispanic American Heritage Month: Carlos Rodriguez (MARE 139, born 1965 US)
Hispanic American Heritage Month is 15 September to 15 October, 2026. I will say unequivocally, that there have been few if any periods in American art history that American people of Hispanic heritag ...
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Artist Birthday: Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born 1938 US)
A large part of the early body of art work by Sylvia Plimack Mangold put the “real” in Photorealism. For awhile now, she has been producing lyrical studies of landscape and nature around h ...
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Artist Birthday: Gabor Peterdi (1915-2001 US, born Hungary)
Besides being conversant in a number of modernism movements in the first half of the 1900s, Gabor Peterdi was very influential in exploring printmaking processes in modernist takes on landscape. &n ...
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Late Summer Color: Theodore Robinson (1852-1896 US)
This is certainly one of the most French-Impression-like Theodore Robinson paintings that I can show you. He certainly mastered Monet’s “broken color” technique. No wonder he’s ...
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Artist Birthday: Suh Do-Ho (born 1962 South Korea)
The outstanding history of Korean art continues to the present day with a contemporary art scene that is one of the most vital in the current art world. Suh Do-Ho is an amazing artist whose works conf ...
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Artist Birthday: John Koch (1909-1978 US)
Since the 1500s, genre paintings – scenes of everyday life – have become a standard part of fine art’s repertoire of subject matter. Genre painting is fascinating not just because it ...
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Artist Birthday: Dwight Tryon (1849-1925 US)
The Tonalism movement in painting was a late 1800s style which approximated some of the goals of Impressionism, but was more about filmy form and atmospheric precision. Dwight Tryon’s misty land ...
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Gem of the Month: Lino Tagliapietra (born 1934 Italy)
August's Gem of the Month is also this artist's birthday! I have been to the so-called Island of Glass, Murano, off the coast of Venice. I have rarely been so wowed by an art process as I was when I s ...
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National Dog Month: Art by Colima Culture (ca. 800s BCE-1521 Mexico)
During the month of August, National Dog Month celebrates our adorable dog friends, smack in the middle of the dog days of summer. Milk-Bone® brand dog biscuits founded National Dog Month in 2020 ...
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