Artist Birthday: Richard Hunt
Born in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...
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Canadian Modernist Paul-Émile Borduas
In the past few years, I have become very fond of Canadian modernism, particularly from the early to mid-1900s. Paul-Émile Borduas was a pivotal figure in Canadian art. He bridged modernist ten ...
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Artist Birthday: William Bell
The Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the earliest major wars that was extensively documented by the young art form of photography. William Bell started his career as a Daguerreotype photographer ...
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Artist Birthday: Martha Edelheit
Martha Edelheit was active in the Women’s Art Movement of the late 1960s into the 1970s. She is known for her provocative, allegorical paintings of male and female figures, as well as for her in ...
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Another Beauty Attack: Rogier Bissière
I have what I like to call episodes of “Beauty Attack” on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis when I’m struck by the awesomeness of an artist’s work that I never stopped to contem ...
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Artist Birthday: Sarai Sherman
Painter, interior designer, and ceramic artist Sarai Sherman was a Jewish American whose paintings were a combination of reality and reminiscences, producing a unique form of abstraction. ...
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Artist Birthday: Hananiah Harari
Hananiah Harari was both an abstract painter and a commercial artist who designed advertising campaigns and magazine covers. Never a doctrinaire abstractionist, his work went freely between geometric ...
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Artist Birthday: Laura Shechter
Laura Shechter is an extraordinarily gifted, contemporary realist still life artist who is part of the large body of American artists who have persisted in pursuing the cherished American love of obse ...
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Artist Birthday: Marcus Aurelius Root
Marcus Root was one of the first of a group of pioneer Daguerreotype photographers, among the first to open a portrait studio. He was an early advocate of photographers being considered artists. ...
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Artist Birthday: George Bellows
George Bellows was a member of the group who called themselves The Eight, whom critics derogatorily dubbed “Ash Can School.” Those artists revolutionized subject matter in American paintin ...
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