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Artist Birthday: Suh Do-Ho (born 1962 South Korea)

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 | Karl Cole

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)

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 | Karl Cole

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)

Thursday, August 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

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)

Monday, August 10, 2026 | Karl Cole

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)

Friday, August 7, 2026 | Karl Cole

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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August is for artist Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949 US)

Monday, August 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

I would use any excuse to show you the paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack, so I’ll go by his name. If you will pardon my pun, his paintings are very august. I have never been able to decide if I ...

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Artist Birthday: F. Holland Day (1864-1933 US)

Thursday, July 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Pictorialism was a late 1800s-early 1900s style of photography which consciously imitated effects of painting. Who better to take a portrait of a Pictorialist artist than another, the “king&rdqu ...

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A Nice Frock for a hot summer day's garden party in the 1920s

Monday, July 20, 2026 | Karl Cole

Being an art historian, I have always considered that studying fashion history is a valuable body of knowledge to have because fashion reflects so often throughout history what is going on in the worl ...

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Artist Birthday: Raymond Pettibon (born 1957 US)

Thursday, July 16, 2026 | Karl Cole

Raymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...

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National Hot Dog Day: Art by Robert Abel (1937-2001 US)

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 | Karl Cole

Because of summer cookouts which often include hot dogs, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council established National Hot Dog Day in 1991 to coincide with a hot dog lunch on Capitol Hill. The observa ...

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