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Artist Birthday: Auguste Herbin

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

Auguste Herbin was one of the many French artists who were, before World War I, greatly influenced by the development of Cubism. His zest for abstraction did not abate after the war, when he became a ...

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Artist Birthday: Liubov Popova

Thursday, April 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

Liubov Popova was one of the many women artists active in the avant garde art during the period of the Russian Revolution (1917). Not only did she experiment in all of the most recent modernist styles ...

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Artist Birthday: Peter Doig

Thursday, April 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter who has lived in Canada, London, Trinidad for 20 years, and now back in London. He focuses on both landscapes and figures, melding art historical and personal referenc ...

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Women's History Month 2011 IV

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | Karl Cole

For my last posting for Women’s History Month, I am leaving you with what has to be my all time favorite painting in the Worcester Art Museum. It is well worth the climb up three flights of stai ...

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An Early Feminist Artist: Florine Stettheimer

Monday, April 5, 2010 | Karl Cole

Always on the lookout for artists who have been neglected by mainstream art history, I enjoy when a previously neglected artist finds new appreciation and reevaluation of her work. One such artist is ...

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Pioneer American Modernist: Marsden Hartley

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | Karl Cole

Every now and then my landscape painter alter-ego forces me to focus on a painter who is renowned for his or her landscapes. One of my all-time favorites in that department is Marsden Hartley. I espec ...

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