An Awesome "Find": Yun Gee
In the annals of art history—and I mean the standard art history texts used for high school and college—obviously thousands of significant artists are left out. Well, as I’ve said be ...
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A Breath of Spring: Kenneth Noland
What better way to celebrate the beginning of April than to see COLOR. Kenneth Noland’s (1924–2010) painting named for this month makes me think of blue skies with a bright sun and the sme ...
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Women's (Art) History Month: Kajiwara Aya
I like to feature pioneering women during National Women’s (Art) History Month. The arts are obviously no exception to the fields in which women have pioneered and excelled. This is as true in J ...
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Women's (Art) History Month: Florence Knoll
It took a heck of a lot of work, but after World War II (1939–1945) a group of artists yanked the United States away from the love of “all things past” toward modern design. Many of ...
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National Plant a Flower Day: Margherita Caffi and Helen Hamilton
Not only is it National Women’s [Art] History Month, but Monday is National Plant a Flower Day. Due to the two major nor’easters that have rocked the Northeast, I would like to feature a h ...
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The Receptive Eye: Francis Michael Celentano
Every now and then one comes across an artist who tends to get bypassed in art history books. Obviously, those books can’t cover every artist that participated in significant art movements. So, ...
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African American History Month: Henry Taylor and Carmen Cartiness Johnson
One of the avenues of expression in the flourishing of African American art since the Harlem Renaissance (ca. 1920s–1940) has been the exploration of subject matter concerning the contemporary B ...
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African American History Month: Sam Gilliam
Whenever you’ve got a massive case of the “sads” in winter, it’s always helpful to seek color to give you a lift. What am I saying? Even if you don’t have a case of the s ...
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African American History Month: Thomas Gross, Jr. and Moses Williams
Let us not forget that African American artists have existed since the founding of America. Unfortunately, they were not colonists, but forced here as slaves on Dutch, Portuguese, French, Spanish, and ...
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African American History Month: Alma Woodsey Thomas
I have decided to apply officially to change the name of one of this month’s official designations to include African American Art History Month (although I haven’t really). When one looks ...
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