AAPI Heritage Month 2025: Tadashi Sato
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I’m featuring the work of Tadashi Sato. Sato was an American artist of Japanese descent who introduced traditional Japanese ...
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Artist Birthday: Erastus Salisbury Field
Erastus Salisbury Field was an essentially self-taught painter who produced portraits, landscapes, and history subjects in his long career. He was one of the most successful of the great early America ...
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National Love a Tree Day: Sylvia P. Mangold
Mangold is very fond of the trees that were on her country property and they became frequent subjects of her paintings. She would definitely approve of National Love a Tree Day, which encourages every ...
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International Families Day: Alice Mizrachi
During the 1980's, the United Nations began focusing attention on issues related to the family. In 1993, the General Assembly decided in a resolution that 15 May of every year should be observed as Th ...
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Artist Birthday: Ynez Johnston
Ynez Johnston’s unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. Johnston also created three dimensional pieces in collaboration with her h ...
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Artist Birthday: Ralph Goings
The Photorealism movement, which evolved during the late 1960s as a counterpoint to the pervasive Minimalism, Conceptualism, and abstraction in American art, blossomed fully during the 1970s. Into the ...
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National Skilled Trades Day: Jacob Lawrence
National Skilled Trades Day was established in 2019 by the National Day Calendar and City Machine Technologies, Inc. Skilled workers are employed in a variety of fields and positions that can be perso ...
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Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne
George Elmer Browne was an American painter, one of the many who, in the late 1800s, studied painting in Paris at the height of the Impressionist period. His West End School of Art in Provincetown, Ma ...
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Gem of the Month: Pasquale Santo
I had a sudden “beauty attack” last week when I looked closely at this artist’s work for the first time. Being a painter myself, I am always flabbergasted by how many artists come an ...
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Artist Birthday: Donald Sultan
Donald Sultan is part of the late 1900s New Image art phenomenon. In a break with Minimalism, Sultan wanted his figuration to present a monumental simplicity and directness of abstract art, while main ...
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