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Artist Birthday: Asger Jorn (1914-1973 Denmark)

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

Asger Jorn was a leading painter of the European post-war CoBrA artists group. The CoBrA artists sought to distance European abstraction from its tradition of geometric forms, introducing more express ...

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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: Elihu Vedder (1836-1923 US)

Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Karl Cole

The American painter Elihu Vedder is remembered primarily for his Symbolist style of painting, which emphasized Gothic and Romantic fantasy. His early work was soundly within the mid-century Realism m ...

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Artist Birthday: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 France)

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

Impressionism, a painting movement that arose from the earlier Realism movement, was one of the first revolutions in the history of development of painting, wherein artists did not rely solely on comm ...

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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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Artist's Birthday: Gabriele Münter (1877-1962 Germany)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like the American modernist movement Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism was dominated by male artists with strong personalities. But there were many significant women Expressionists in Germa ...

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Artist Birthday: Max Beckman (1884-1950 Germany)

Friday, February 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

Max Beckmann was a German Expressionist who, before World War I (1914-1918) painted in an academic realist style. After experiencing the horrors of that war, his paintings reflected his disgust for th ...

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Artist Birthday: Mori Mariko (born 1967 Japan)

Thursday, February 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

Mariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist whose practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology. She is known for her photographs and videos ...

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Artist Birthday: William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877 Britain)

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | Karl Cole

In the history of the development of the art form of photography, few individuals have contributed more innovative ideas than William Henry Fox Talbot. He perfect many of the optical and chemical aspe ...

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Celebrating African American History Month 2026: Anna Williams

Monday, February 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

The history of African American artists goes back to the earliest days of the US. There are numerous art forms that can trace their lineage back to the African ancestors of African Americans, who carr ...

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Artist Birthday: Fernand Léger (1881-1955 France)

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

The art movement called Cubism -- which incorporated the element of time -- was developed by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) around 1908. While Picasso and Braque moved on to ...

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Artist Birthday: Martin Ramírez (1885/1895-1960)

Friday, January 30, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like most Visionary artists, Ramírez’s works are combinations of fantasy, personal visions, and a obvious joy in either nature or our mutual humanity. In his highly detailed drawings, he ...

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Artist Birthday: Alice Neel

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | Karl Cole

Alice Neel was a great American portraitist. Her portraits were insightfully realistic, although not to the point of Photorealism, for her works tended to emphasize rich color. The most enduring aspec ...

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Artist Birthday: Georges Mathieu (1921-2012 France)

Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

After producing paintings that were copies of postcard views, Georges Mathieu went through what he called his "limbo" period (1944-1946), a time when he developed a completely personal new p ...

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Artist Birthday: Édouard Manet

Friday, January 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Although his realist paintings never approached the point of pure Impressionism, Manet’s work was a great influence on the burgeoning Impressionist artists. He definitely experimented with the e ...

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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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