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Artist Birthday: Catherine Murphy (born 1946 US)

Thursday, January 22, 2026 | Karl Cole

Catherine Murphy follows the  cherished American artistic tradition of carefully observed realism in her fabulous, Photorealist paintings. Her aesthetic also transcends countries and time periods ...

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Artist Birthday: Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friday, November 7, 2025 | Karl Cole

Vordemberge-Gildewart was a major figure in the Concrete Art that developed in Europe in many countries as a form of pure abstraction. It encompassed many individual movements, including Construct ...

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Artist Birthday: James Siena

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

James Siena is renowned for his intricate, circuit board-like geometric abstractions. Like many contemporary abstractionists, Siena follows a highly personal process in his colorful abstractions. ...

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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: Shirley Jaffe

Thursday, October 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

Shirley Jaffe is a fascinating American abstractionist who briefly flirted with Abstract Expressionism, early on (1950s) believed it had become formulaic, and pioneered her own unique abstract vis ...

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Artist Birthday: Alvin Loving, Jr

Friday, September 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

Alvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...

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Artist Birthday: Hananiah Harari

Friday, August 29, 2025 | Karl Cole

Hananiah Harari was both an abstract painter and a commercial artist who designed advertising campaigns and magazine covers. Never a doctrinaire abstractionist, his work went freely between geometric ...

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Artist Birthday: Ludwig Sander

Friday, July 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

Ludwig Sander was a member of the New York School that established the United States as a center for modernist experiment in art. He was an early practitioner of Color Field painting which he stuck wi ...

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Artist Birthday: Richard Long

Monday, June 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

Richard Long has been a committed environmental artist since Land Art had its beginnings in the 1960s. His works are thoughtful, beautifully arranged, and elegantly simple compositions that reflect hi ...

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Artist Birthday: Leon Polk Smith

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | Karl Cole

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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