Artist Birthday: Fitz Henry Lane
At the same time the Hudson River School was flourishing in the Northeast US, some artists sought to add a spiritual aspect to American landscape painting by concentrating on light and atmosphere. ...
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Artist Birthday: Jayson Musson
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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Yay! Winter is Here!
We already had our first and second snowfalls and they created a lovely, white landscape all over. Autumn and winter are my favorite seasons of the year, so you know I won’t be moving to Flo ...
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Artist Birthday: Tim Hetherington
Tim Hetherington was a bold photojournalist who documented the war in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2008 in the Koragal Valley, where 70 per cent of American bombs were falling when he covered that ...
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Artist Birthday: Santiago Cárdenas
The countries of Central and South America experienced a Renaissance of modernism in art, due in part to influences these artists derived from Europe and the United States, and more importantly, becau ...
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Artist Birthday: Nancy Rubins
Through sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...
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Happy Thanksgiving
What is a more common symbol of Thanksgiving than a turkey? It’s an oft-quoted myth that Ben Franklin (1706-1790) wanted the American wild turkey as the bird for the national seal of the US. He ...
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Native American Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month is drawing to a close. Since 1990, the US has celebrated National Native American Heritage Month in November to commemorate indigenous peoples’ s ...
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Artist Birthday: William Trost Richards
There is nothing more remarkably peace-inducing than a beautiful seascape painting. William Trost Richards was renowned for his beautiful coastal seascapes of the New England coast in all sorts of ...
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Artist Birthday: Neil Jenney
Painter Neil Jenney has been part of what the Whitney Museum called in 1978 New Image Painting. It is neither Pop-oriented or abstract. Jenney’s work emphasizes vigorous, exciting brush work ...
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