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Artist Birthday for 13 March: Maximilien Luce (1858-1941 France)

Friday, March 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

Maximilien Luce was an Post-Impressionist/Neo-Impressionist painter who most likely was the most dedicated to the Pointillist technique of broken color. After about 1920 he adopted a less strict Point ...

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Artist Birthday: Fitz Henry Lane

Thursday, December 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

At the same time the Hudson River School was flourishing in the Northeast US, some artists sought to add a spiritual aspect to American landscape painting by concentrating on light and atmosphere. ...

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Artist Birthday: Stephen Holl

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | Karl Cole

Stephen Holl is part of the generation of architects in the late 1900s who began focusing on a more humanistic approach to designing buildings for the Earth’s ever-growing major cities. He combi ...

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Artist Birthday: Sekino Junichirō

Thursday, October 23, 2025 | Karl Cole

Sekino Junichirō was a woodblock printmaker in the sōsaku hanga movement, in which the artists draws the subject, cuts the woodblock, and prints the image themselves. These artists often incorpora ...

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Artist Birthday: George Bellows

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

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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Gem of the Month: Shirō Kasamatsu

Monday, October 28, 2024 | Karl Cole

Ukiyo-e was a woodblock print aesthetic that was popular from the late 1600s to the mid 1800s. The genre developed a visual vocabulary that documented the entertainments of Japanese urban centers, par ...

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A Collaborative Art Educator Mural

Monday, September 2, 2024 | Karl Cole

Since the beginning of the summer, the Davis Art Gallery has displayed a mural/collage created by sixteen art educators from around the United States and Canada. The mural was created during a worksho ...

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Caribbean American Heritage Month: Abelardo Morell

Monday, June 13, 2022 | Karl Cole

Caribbean peoples have had a major impact on culture in the Americas since forever, and that holds especially true in the arts. ...

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The Iconoclast (?): Zhan Wang

Monday, September 18, 2017 | Karl Cole

It would probably take me forever to be able to say that I had “seen it all” in the world of art. You know the old expression, “just when you thought you’d seen it all,” ...

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