Artist Birthday: Christopher Wilmarth (1943-1987 US)
Christopher Wilmarth, in his tragically short life, was a Minimalist sculptor who created over 150 sculptures, most of them made of glass and steel. ...
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Artist Birthday: Richard Diebenkorn / Happy Earth Day
What better way to dual celebrate Earth Day/Birthday than a landscape! The first original American modernist art movement, called Abstract Expressionism, flourished between the late 1940s into the 196 ...
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Bringing Women's History Month to a Close
There are many of what I consider “art heroes” among artists, and if anyone deserves such a title, it would be the late Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015, US, born Canada). She was a key player i ...
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Artist Birthday: Esteban Vicente (1903-2001 US, born Spain)
Esteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...
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Artist Birthday: Burgoyne Diller
Burgoyne Diller was a true pioneer in American abstraction. During the period when Abstraction Expressionism dominated American modernism, Diller quietly pursued geometric abstraction that was inf ...
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Artist Birthday: Nathan Oliveira
The work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...
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Artist Birthday: Nancy Rubins
Through sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...
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Artist Birthday: James Siena
James Siena is renowned for his intricate, circuit board-like geometric abstractions. Like many contemporary abstractionists, Siena follows a highly personal process in his colorful abstractions. ...
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Artist Birthday: Shirley Jaffe
Shirley Jaffe is a fascinating American abstractionist who briefly flirted with Abstract Expressionism, early on (1950s) believed it had become formulaic, and pioneered her own unique abstract vis ...
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National Coffee Day: Elizabeth Murray
Cups of coffee appeared frequently in Elizabeth Murray's paintings. National Coffee Day was first celebrated in about 2005, but did not take off as a holiday until September 29, 2009. That&rs ...
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