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March 2026 is Women's History Month

Monday, March 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

I have always maintained that there is no period in history anywhere in the world when women artists did not play a significant role in the world’s cultures. Up until about fifty years ago, howe ...

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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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African American History Month: Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972 US)

Monday, February 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Self-taught artists are often well into their middle age when they begin to take up their artistic practice. Having reached their middle years, many of them bring to their work valuable practical know ...

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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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African American History Month: James Van Der Zee (1886-1983 US)

Monday, February 16, 2026 | Karl Cole

The term “Harlem Renaissance” indicates the period between ca. 1918 and 1930 when the Harlem neighborhood of New York experienced a flourishing of African American art, music, and culture. ...

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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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National Umbrella Day: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861 Japan)

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 | Karl Cole

The origins of this recognition day is uncertain, but Umbrella Day has been celebrated since 2004. The origins of the contemporary, waterproof umbrella date to the 1700s in France, while umbrellas as ...

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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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February 6, 2026 is National Wear Red Day: Art by Bronzino (1503-1572 Italy)

Friday, February 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

National Wear Red Day was established in 2004 by the American Heart Association as part of their “Go Red for Women “ campaign. The campaign was aimed at calling attention to the under-diag ...

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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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February is National Embroidery Month

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like Mesoamerica, the central Andes Mountains in South America – primarily Bolivia and Peru – developed complex hierarchical societies with rich and varied artistic traditions. Unlike the ...

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