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Artist Birthday: Ivan Kudryashov (1896-1972 Russia)

Friday, October 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

Ivan 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Larry Poons (born 1937 US)

Thursday, October 1, 2026 | Karl Cole

The 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Ulrich Rückreim (born 1938 Germany)

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | Karl Cole

Ulrich 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Niizuma Minoru (1930-1998 Japan)

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | Karl Cole

Minoru 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 ...

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Artist Birthday: Roni Horn (born 1955 US)

Friday, September 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

Roni Horn’s work consistently generates uncertainty to thwart closure. Important across her oeuvre is her longstanding interest to the protean nature of identity, meaning, and perception, as wel ...

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Artist Birthday: Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978 US)

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | Karl Cole

Alma Woodsey Thomas was a pioneering African American abstract painter and art educator. Any art historian who is a nut about color as I am certainly knows her work!   ...

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Artist Birthday: Gabor Peterdi (1915-2001 US, born Hungary)

Thursday, September 17, 2026 | Karl Cole

Besides being conversant in a number of modernism movements in the first half of the 1900s, Gabor Peterdi was very influential in exploring printmaking processes in modernist takes on landscape. &n ...

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Artist Birthday: Jean Arp (1886-1966 France)

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 | Karl Cole

Jean Arp was truly an artist who was in the right place at the right time when it came to helping discover the Dada art movement during World War I (1914-1918). His truly imaginative and unique works ...

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Artist Birthday: Rudolf Belling (1886-1972 Germany)

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | Karl Cole

Rudolf Belling is considered the outstanding example of modernism applied to classic sculpture subjects. He was influenced by Cubism, Neo-Plasticism, Constructivism, and De Stijl.     ...

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Late Summer Color: Theodore Robinson (1852-1896 US)

Monday, August 24, 2026 | Karl Cole

This is certainly one of the most French-Impression-like Theodore Robinson paintings that I can show you. He certainly mastered Monet’s “broken color” technique. No wonder he’s ...

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