American Artists Appreciation Month: Zoe Strauss and Louis Sullivan
August is “American Artist Appreciation Month” continues. Here are two artists on the “cutting edge” of their time. I’ve posted my admiration for Zoe Strauss’ ...
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American Artists Appreciation Month: Frank Weston Benson and Preston Singletary
My series about August as “American Artist Appreciation Month” continues. Here’s some art on the subject of “fish.” ...
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American Artists Appreciation Month: Dr. Samella Lewis and Jeremiah Paul, Jr.
My blog series about American Artist Appreciation Month continues. Here’s some wonderful art by Dr. Samella Lewis and Jeremiah Paul, Jr. ...
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American Artists Appreciation Month: Jim Drain and Sister Gertrude Morgan
August is American Artist Appreciation Month, so I’m rolling out some artists you may never have thought about, or seen for that matter. ...
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Sumidagawa in July: Japanese Woodcuts
The actual festival of Sumidagawa (“Sumida River”) occurs in Tokyo in the last week of August, but there are fireworks in Tokyo from May through August, starting with the Opening of the Su ...
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An Artist of the "Cool School": Ed Moses
Far too often art history texts sum up the pioneering American avant-garde of the mid-1900s with Abstract Expressionism and the New York scene. Believe it or not, there were avant-garde artists all ov ...
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It Isn't All in the Title: Lynda Benglis
I’m always a sucker for color. When I see works that I’ve never seen before by an artist I’ve always admired, and they involve color, then I have a sudden Beauty Attack. When Lynda B ...
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What's New Is Old: Stainless Steel Art
I am a really big fan of art made from stainless steel, particularly in the field of the miscellaneous arts. Stainless steel tableware started being made early in the 1900s. At this time, Bauhaus ...
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Deceiving the Eye: American Trompe-l'Oeil Realism
I’ve written before about the long-standing interest in extreme realism in American painting. Colonial American self-taught artists (“limners”) may not have been schooled in anatomy, ...
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And This Is a Portrait of Whom?
I don’t often laugh about art history (seriously!), but now and then one just can’t help it. With this group of “portraits,” I had to keep in mind that: A) the people who bough ...
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