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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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National Picnic Day: Art by Mori Keiko (born 1939 Japan)

Thursday, April 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Keiko Mori is a National Living Cultural Treasure in Japan. Her ceramics celebrate the centuries old traditions in ceramic arts. Although ceramic picnic baskets do not strictly speaking exist in the W ...

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Artist Birthday: Hans Wegner (1914-2007 Denmark)

Thursday, April 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

When thinking about the impact Scandinavian modernism had on furniture design, it is impossible to not consider the work of Hans Wegner. He was a prolific designer of all types of chairs, many of whic ...

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Artist Birthday: Toni von Horn

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 | Karl Cole

Antonie (“Toni”) von Horn Roothbert was a German emigré to the US who made a big name for herself as a fashion photographer. Her elegant, glamorous compositions established a style ...

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Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor

Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

Although in the early 1980s Kapoor’s work was consciously absorbing aspects of Indian culture, in the late 1980s into the 1990s he began to formulate an abstract visual language that transcends ...

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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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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: Esteban Vicente (1903-2001 US, born Spain)

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | Karl Cole

Esteban Vicente was part of the vibrant Abstract Expressionism scene in American art after World War II (1939-1945). His work reflects the type of biomorphic abstraction influenced by Surrealism seen ...

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Artist Birthday: Nathan Oliveira

Friday, December 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

The work of painter Nathan Oliveira is an interesting example of how the West Coast of the US nurtured its own forms of modernist experiments, including abstract figuratioin, that were quite apart ...

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Artist Birthday: Jayson Musson

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

 Jayson Musson is an artist and art historian whose work is informed in unique ways by media and past art movements. ...

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