Artist Birthday: Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz was an extraordinary early modernist sculptor who worked in the Cubist idiom longer than most other artists associated with the style. Eventually his style incorporated the monume ...
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Artist Birthday: Jules Breton
Jules Breton was a unique artist of the Realism movement in France in the mid-1800s. Having grown up with poor rural farmers in northern France, he understood their lives and labors. His paintings pre ...
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Artist Birthday: Jean Hélion
Jean Hélion was a member of a number of artists’ groups between World Wars I and II which advocated for total, non-objective abstraction. Ironically, after World War II he lost his tenaci ...
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Happy Birthday Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
April 11th is the birthday of one of the leading women artists of pre-Revolutionary France, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. A fantastic portraitist, she’s right up with her contemporary &Ea ...
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Happy Fourth of July Week
I would really have liked to have been around when George Washington was our first president! That must have been such an exciting (and challenging, to be sure) period in which to live. Everything abo ...
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New Acquisitions: Treasured Renaissance Book
I’ve really admired the work of manuscript illuminators since I went to the Newbury Library at the University of Chicago while in grad school. I got to actually hold some of these precious works ...
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