Artist Birthday: John Koch (1909-1978 US)
Since the 1500s, genre paintings – scenes of everyday life – have become a standard part of fine art’s repertoire of subject matter. Genre painting is fascinating not just because it ...
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August is for artist Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949 US)
I would use any excuse to show you the paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack, so I’ll go by his name. If you will pardon my pun, his paintings are very august. I have never been able to decide if I ...
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World Watercolor Month: Art by Lewis Lomay (Lomayesva, 1916-1996, Hopi Pueblo, Arizona)
I’m always a little sad when World Watercolor Month is over, because there are so many fantastic watercolors in the Davis collection that I want to show you! Lewis attended the Santa Fe School,& ...
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Artist Birthday: Raymond Pettibon (born 1957 US)
Raymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...
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July Interpreted by Larry Rivers (1923-2002 US)
Did you ever look at a work of art and something in the work evokes vivid feelings about an event in your own life, or just a general feeling you get when you visit a certain country or place? Well, m ...
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Happy Summer: Art by Edward Potthast (1857-1927 US)
I’m not sure I’d want to loll around on a beach in street clothes, but, there is definitely something very relaxing about spending a day at the beach! And there is something very soothing ...
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Artist Birthday: Thomas Sully (1783-1872 US, born Britain)
After the dominance of classical revival mania in American art during the Revolution (1775-1783) and Federal periods, a softened, more dramatic realism emerged in the form of the Grand Manner Style. T ...
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18 June is National Go Fishing Day: Art by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906 US)
The genre paintings of Eastman Johnson reveal the prevalence of an unvarnished realism in American art in the first half of the 1800s. His work mirrors the interest of another 1800s American realist W ...
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Artist Birthday: Violet Oakley (1874-1961 US)
Violet Oakley is one of the standout women artists of the American Renaissance. She can truly be called a “Renaissance Woman,” being accomplished in many different media, and working as a ...
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National Older Americans Month: Art by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828 US)
Older Americans Month was started in 1963 by President Kennedy as “Senior Citizens Month” to celebrate the achievements of older Americans, while emphasizing healthy living and activity ch ...
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