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Hispanic American Heritage Month: Carlos Rodriguez (MARE 139, born 1965 US)

Monday, September 21, 2026 | Karl Cole

Hispanic American Heritage Month is 15 September to 15 October, 2026. I will say unequivocally, that there have been few if any periods in American art history that American people of Hispanic heritag ...

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Artist Birthday: Rudolf Belling (1886-1972 Germany)

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | Karl Cole

Rudolf Belling is considered the outstanding example of modernism applied to classic sculpture subjects. He was influenced by Cubism, Neo-Plasticism, Constructivism, and De Stijl.     ...

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Artist Birthday: F. Holland Day (1864-1933 US)

Thursday, July 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Pictorialism was a late 1800s-early 1900s style of photography which consciously imitated effects of painting. Who better to take a portrait of a Pictorialist artist than another, the “king&rdqu ...

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July Interpreted by Larry Rivers (1923-2002 US)

Monday, July 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

Did you ever look at a work of art and something in the work evokes vivid feelings about an event in your own life, or just a general feeling you get when you visit a certain country or place? Well, m ...

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National Older Americans Month: Art by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828 US)

Friday, May 29, 2026 | Karl Cole

Older Americans Month was started in 1963 by President Kennedy as “Senior Citizens Month” to celebrate the achievements of older Americans, while emphasizing healthy living and activity ch ...

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National Bring Someone Flowers Day: Art by Joseph Blackburn (ca. 1730-ca. 1778 US)

Friday, May 15, 2026 | Karl Cole

Although the origins of this national day are obscure, National Bring Someone Flowers Day has been celebrated on 15 May to encourage the spur-of-the-moment gesture of giving flowers to someone dear. B ...

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Gem of the Month: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938 US)

Monday, May 4, 2026 | Karl Cole

This month's "Gem" is also a 4 May Birthday! Whether Thomas Wilmer Dewing is labeled an Impressionist, Tonalist, or Aesthetics artist, his beautiful portraits, mostly of youngish women, ...

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Artist Birthday: Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822 US)

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | Karl Cole

Charles Peale Polk faced a rough childhood when both parents died in the same period, but Polk was fortunate to have a successful artist uncle in Philadelphia, with whom he went to live at the age of ...

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Artist Birthday: Eleanor Antin (born 1935 US)

Friday, February 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

Eleanor Antin is a performance artist, filmmaker, conceptualist artist and college professor. Her body of work dates back to the early days of the Women’s Art Movement of the early 1970s. Her pi ...

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Artist Birthday: Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901 US)

Friday, February 20, 2026 | Karl Cole

Josiah Johnson Hawes was part of the successful photography duo of Southworth and Hawes, which had a flourishing Daguerreotype business in Boston from 1843 to about 1863. After the firm dissolved in 1 ...

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