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Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: Ludwig Sander

Friday, July 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

Ludwig Sander was a member of the New York School that established the US as a center for modernist experiment in art. He was an early practitioner of Color Field painting which he stuck with through ...

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Artist Birthday: Joshua Reynolds

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

Joshua Reynolds was part of the important first generation of native British artists who emerged after the Baroque period (1600-1750) that was marked by a dominance by foreign – mostly Flemish & ...

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Arctic Ice Day: Frederic Church

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

Frederic Church, the Hudson River School painter became fascinated with the nature of the Arctic in the 1860s when there began to develop many expeditions from both European and American explorers to ...

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World Watercolor Month: Paul Cézanne

Monday, July 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

What better artist to celebrate World Watercolor Month than Paul Cézanne? His brilliant studies in watercolor clearly lay the foundations of what he called “modulation.” This is the ...

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Artist Birthday: Gustav Klimt

Monday, July 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

Gustav Klimt, along with Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a leading Austrian modernist at the turn of the 1900s. Although noted as a society portrait painter in an Art Nouveau/Byzantine mosaic li ...

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World Watercolor Month: Donald Holden

Friday, July 11, 2025 | Karl Cole

World Watercolor Month began in 2016 as a way to honor the watercolor artists from all over the world. The art of Donald Holden is truly a fitting tribute to this artform, which in many ways can be ve ...

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Artist Birthday: Otto Freundlich

Thursday, July 10, 2025 | Karl Cole

The works of Otto Freundlich reflect the prevalence of geometric abstraction among Western European artists in the period between World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). His ...

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Artist Birthday: Michael Graves

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 | Karl Cole

Michael Graves was a leading proponent of revival of ornament and classical forms in architecture that was a key to the Postmodernism movement in architecture and design. Out the window was the Intern ...

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Artist Birthday: Käthe Kollwitz

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

Unequaled among the German Expressionists are the gritty, powerfully heart-felt drawings, lithographs and woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz. Much of her subject matter concerned working class women, mot ...

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Artist Birthday: Edmonia Lewis

Monday, July 7, 2025 | Karl Cole

Edmonia Lewis was a pioneering African American and woman artist, at a time when it was difficult for either to get an arts education. Lewis skillfully learned the style that was dear to American patr ...

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