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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National Lighthouse Day: Dong Kingman
Thursday, August 7, 2025 | Karl ColeIt was on this day in 1789 that Congress established funding in support of building of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers. On August 7 of 1989, National Lighthouse Day was established by ...
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August Is Here: Willem de Kooning
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 | Karl ColeIn New England, it is generally said that summer is coming to an end in August. But I have a particular fondness for August because it’s when I discovered the house in Provincetown, Massachusett ...
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Artist Birthday: Jess (Collins)
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 | Karl ColeJess (Collins) is probably best known for his incredibly complex collages. He was a painter who initially worked as a chemist. He started doing collages in the early 1950s after seeing the works o ...
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National Oyster Day: Osias Beert, the Elder
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | Karl ColeArt historians consider Osias Beert possibly the first significant Baroque Flemish still life painter. The still life medium was just catching on in popularity during his period of activity, ...
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Artist Birthday: Oqwa Pi
Friday, August 1, 2025 | Karl ColeOqwa Pi, whose name translates as Katsina Stick, was part of a generation of Native American artists who attended the Santa Fe Indian School, and took painting classes in The Studio. The school wa ...
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Artist Birthday: Erich Heckel
Thursday, July 31, 2025 | Karl ColeErich Heckel was a German Expressionist and a member of the important early artists’ group Die Brücke, a group that worked communally from 1905 to 1913. He is renowned for his woodcut print ...
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World Watercolor Month: Kawakami Ryoka
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 | Karl ColeJapanese artists have been proficient in water-soluble media for centuries. Early forms of water-soluble media included gofun—crushed white clam shells mixed with water and pigments—and di ...
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Artist Birthday: Betye Saar
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 | Karl ColeThe unique assemblages of Betye Saar helped elevate the medium to fine art status when she began producing them in the late 1960s. Her works explore her African American identity, her African heritage ...
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Artist Birthday: Abram Games
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | Karl ColeA conservative dating of the so-called Golden Age of posters is the 1890s up to World War I (1914–1918). However, poster art continued to develop and flourish through the 1920s into World War II ...
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Artist Birthday: Marcel Duchamp
Monday, July 28, 2025 | Karl ColeMarcel Duchamp matured as an artist during one of the most exciting periods in Western art history. Paris was one of the undisputed leaders in avant-garde experiments in art which had repercussions th ...
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Artist Birthday: Alexander Calder
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | Karl ColeAlexander is an artist who is renowned in art history for his pioneering exploration of movement in sculpture, and abstraction. He also became renowned for making jewelry which was a combination of mo ...
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World Watercolor Month: Ann Hall
Monday, July 21, 2025 | Karl ColeI have mentioned my trepidation about using watercolors before, and how I find it to be a very unforgiving medium. The fact that there have been and still are such brilliant watercolor artists justifi ...
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Artist Birthday: Rirkrit Tiravanija
Monday, July 21, 2025 | Karl ColeSince the beginning of the 2000s, contemporary art of Thai artists has taken a prominent role in world art history. Rirkrit Tiravanija is renowned for his installations and sculptures that address num ...
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Artist Birthday: Ludwig Sander
Friday, July 18, 2025 | Karl ColeLudwig 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: Joshua Reynolds
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 | Karl ColeJoshua Reynolds was part of the important first generation of native British artists who emerged after the Baroque period (1600–1750) that was marked by a dominance by foreign—mostly Flemi ...
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