Artist Birthday: Hugh Bolton Jones
Hugh Bolton Jones was one of the many American artists whose painting was influenced by the French Realist Barbizon school in the late 1800s. He enthusiastically embraced the technique of en plein ...
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Late Summer Idyll with Pierre Bonnard
Loving landscape and pure, bright colors as I do, naturally I am absolutely crazy about the landscapes of Pierre Bonnard. He has been variously called Neo-Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and the Na ...
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Artist Birthday: Alvan Fisher
At the time Alvan Fisher began painting landscapes, the Hudson River School had not yet formed in New England. Fisher was among less than a handful of artists who were dedicated to landscape painting. ...
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Artist Birthday: Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt, along with Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a leading Austrian modernist at the turn of the 1900s. Although noted as a society portrait painter in an Art Nouveau/Byzantine mosaic li ...
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AAPI Heritage Month 2025: Tadashi Sato
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I’m featuring the work of Tadashi Sato. Sato was an American artist of Japanese descent who introduced traditional Japanese ...
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Artist Birthday: Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough’s art was the epitome of the elegant, sophisticated and generally low-key Rococo style that characterized late 1700s British art. It was a major contrast to the flamboyant, o ...
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Gem of the Month: Pasquale Santo
I had a sudden “beauty attack” last week when I looked closely at this artist’s work for the first time. Being a painter myself, I am always flabbergasted by how many artists come an ...
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Artist Birthday: Peter Doig
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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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland was part of the Post Painterly Abstraction group of Color Field artists who sought to distance themselves from the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. His epiphany moment came, ...
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Artist Birthday: William H. Jackson
Jackson took photographs of Shoshone Falls numerous times from every conceivable angle. Like the other photographers who were early chroniclers of the Western territories, Jackson's photographs emphas ...
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