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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Artist Birthday: Alvan Fisher
At the time Alvan Fisher began painting landscapes, the Hudson River School had not yet formed in New England. Fisher was among less than a handful of artists who were dedicated to landscape painting. ...
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National Lighthouse Day: Dong Kingman
It was on this day in 1789 that Congress established funding in support of building of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers. On August 7 of 1989, National Lighthouse Day was established by ...
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Artist Birthday: Jess (Collins)
Jess (Collins) is probably best known for his incredibly complex collages. He was a painter who initially worked as a chemist. He started doing collages in the early 1950s after seeing the works o ...
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Arctic Ice Day: Frederic Church
Frederic Church, the Hudson River School painter became fascinated with the nature of the Arctic in the 1860s when there began to develop many expeditions from both European and American explorers to ...
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World Watercolor Month: Donald Holden
World Watercolor Month began in 2016 as a way to honor the watercolor artists from all over the world. The art of Donald Holden is truly a fitting tribute to this artform, which in many ways can be ve ...
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National Pink Day: Art by CERN
Throughout the world, artists are making urban spaces, and just any drab blank building walls—interior and exterior—dynamic and full of positive energy with murals, i.e. street art. Street ...
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Artist Birthday: Audrey Flack
Having matured as an artist shortly after the “revolution” of the Abstract Expressionism movement, Audrey Flack became one of the earliest and archetypal Photorealist painters, working fro ...
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Artist Birthday: Leon Polk Smith
Leon Polk Smith was an American artist of Cherokee descent who was a pioneer of modernism long before Abstract Expressionism evolved in New York. His works throughout his career emphasized a pure geom ...
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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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