Clarence Holbrook Carter was a painter primarily known for his depictions of American life in the period between world wars (1918-1940). He is particularly well known for his riveting views of rural A ...
Read ArticleInspired by the teachings of the ancient Taoist philosopher Laozi, Wolfgang Laib creates sculptures that seem to connect that past and present, the ephemeral and the eternal. Working with perishable o ...
Read ArticleThe first successful, trained painter to open a studio in the American colonies (in Boston), John Smibert represented the archetypal society portrait painter that the newly prosperous New England colo ...
Read ArticleThere are many of what I consider “art heroes” among artists, and if anyone deserves such a title, it would be the late Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015, US, born Canada). She was a key player i ...
Read ArticleAfter portraiture had dominated the subject matter of colonial, and early American painting, genre scenes, still life, and landscape subjects all asserted importance in the early 1800s.George Caleb&nb ...
Read ArticleAlthough the origin of Let’s Laugh Day is unknown, it has been celebrated since 2019 as a way of stressing “laughter is the best medicine.” The national day stresses the benefit of l ...
Read ArticleCharles Peale Polk faced a rough childhood when both parents died in the same period, but Polk was fortunate to have a successful artist uncle in Philadelphia, with whom he went to live at the age of ...
Read ArticleI have not shown a Childe Hassam (1859-1935 US) since around 2012, and I am such a big fan of his painting, I could not resist celebrating the coming of spring (on 20 March) with this spring green of ...
Read ArticleMaximilien Luce was an Post-Impressionist/Neo-Impressionist painter who most likely was the most dedicated to the Pointillist technique of broken color. After about 1920 he adopted a less strict Point ...
Read ArticleAlthough 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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