Gem of the Month: Mary White
As long as I’m pining for the greenery of spring to emerge, I’ll indulge in one of the wonderful art works in our collection that brings that pining to mind. As you know, I’m a big f ...
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Spring Is in the Air: Xia Chang
Please come on spring, that’s what I say! And what better way to anticipate the blooming and blossoming than a gorgeous impression of early spring? ...
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Women's (Art) History Month: Vera Klement
I have always been fascinated by how progressive (i.e., abstract) styles have continually found their footing as a counterpoint to the pervasive tradition of realism in American art since the early 19 ...
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Women's (Art) History Month: Erika Blumenfeld
Women’s Art History Month continues with a look at an artist who has a totally unique body of work, pursuing with photography what artists have done since its inception in the 1840s: the use of ...
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Women's (Art) History Month: Isabel Bishop
If anyone documented the human (women’s) condition extensively, it was artist Isabel Bishop. Her sensitive paintings and prints of working women during the Great Depression (1929–1940) and ...
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Women's (Art) History Month: Sofonisba Anguissola
Although there are records of women artists from antiquity, women artists between the 1400s and 1700s in the West were either considered anomalies or miracles. The advent of artists' guilds during the ...
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A Great Art Teacher: Alice Tavani
The annual National Art Education Association (NAEA) convention is later this week—held virtually this year—and it's the start of Women's History Month, so I’m introducing you to a d ...
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Black History Month: Hughie Lee-Smith
For my ongoing celebration of African American History month, let’s honor the life and work of Hughie Lee-Smith. He was one of many artists who matured during the Harlem Renaissance (1918– ...
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Black History Month: Nick Cave
February 4th was artist Nick Cave’s birthday, so let’s celebrate his art for African American History Month. ...
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Black History Month: David Butler
Let’s begin honoring African American History Month this year with the work of vernacular artist David Butler. His art reflects the long tradition of African-Caribbean influence in the art of ma ...
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