Navy Secretary Admiral Zumwalt declared October 13 the US Navy’s birthday in 1972. The Continental Congress established the US Navy in 1775. At the time, the colonies only had two ships with a t ...
Read ArticleMarguerite Kumm was an artist involved in the transition of printmaking into a highly respected art form during the Great Depression (1929-1940). Her work is typical of the inward-looking artwork that ...
Read ArticleTourists were the main consumers of photographic views of far-off places during the early days of photography. The camera was considered the best chance to record exotic far-off places “beyond a ...
Read ArticleMeikaku Kusakabe unfortunately was born too early to be voted a Living National Treasure in Japan, an honor inaugurated in 1953, that he surely merited. But he was a universally recognized as a callig ...
Read ArticleRosa Ibarra was born in Puerto Rico, spent her childhood in Old San Juan, and went to high school in Paris. Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries across the country and abroad. Ibarr ...
Read ArticleIvan Kudryashov was active in the exciting period of Russian modernism that blossomed right before the Russian Revolution (1917), and continued into the 1920s, the last decade before avant-garde art w ...
Read ArticleThe paintings of Larry Poons lie somewhere between Color Field and Minimalism, with a dash of action painting thrown in at some times. His paintings of the last 30 years have revealed exciting, lively ...
Read ArticleUlrich Rückreim’s experience as a stonecutter helping to renovate Cologne Cathedral led to a career as a sculptor. The pristine stone that is worked in the quarry into slabs and blocks is w ...
Read ArticleMinoru Niizuma came to the US after WW II to further investigate modernism. He quickly became one of the more significant abstract sculptors. His respect for materials and reflection of Japanese aesth ...
Read ArticleRaise your hand if autumn is your favorite season. My hand is raised. There are so many different interpretations of this season in art history. Rather than show trees changing color, I’m showin ...
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