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Jewish American Heritage Month: Gandy Brodie

Monday, May 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jewish American Heritage Month is celebrated in May to recognize and honor the contributions of Jewish Americans to the United States. It's a time to celebrate the diverse experiences and rich history ...

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Artist Birthday: Ynez Johnston

Monday, May 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Ynez Johnston’s unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. Johnston also created three dimensional pieces in collaboration with her h ...

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Artist Birthday: Ralph Goings

Friday, May 9, 2025 | Karl Cole

The Photorealism movement, which evolved during the late 1960s as a counterpoint to the pervasive Minimalism, Conceptualism, and abstraction in American art, blossomed fully during the 1970s. Into the ...

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National Iris Day: Muhammad Zaman

Thursday, May 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

The iris is a beautiful flower that was first planted in the United States in Virginia in the 1600s. The flower started being commercially imported around 1869. The iris is the symbol for the city of ...

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National Skilled Trades Day: Jacob Lawrence

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 | Karl Cole

National Skilled Trades Day was established in 2019 by the National Day Calendar and City Machine Technologies, Inc. Skilled workers are employed in a variety of fields and positions that can be perso ...

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Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

George Elmer Browne was an American painter, one of the many who, in the late 1800s, studied painting in Paris at the height of the Impressionist period. His West End School of Art in Provincetown, Ma ...

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Gem of the Month: Pasquale Santo

Monday, May 5, 2025 | Karl Cole

I had a sudden “beauty attack” last week when I looked closely at this artist’s work for the first time. Being a painter myself, I am always flabbergasted by how many artists come an ...

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Artist Birthday: Donald Sultan

Monday, May 5, 2025 | Karl Cole

Donald Sultan is part of the late 1900s New Image art phenomenon. In a break with Minimalism, Sultan wanted his figuration to present a monumental simplicity and directness of abstract art, while main ...

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National Brothers and Sisters Day: Sturtevant Hamblin

Friday, May 2, 2025 | Karl Cole

The majority of Hamblin's known works are portraits of children. This was no doubt more attractively priced than portraits of adults, and, there was a certain formula that itinerant painters such as H ...

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Artist Birthday: Jules Breton

Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Karl Cole

Jules Breton was a unique artist of the Realism movement in France in the mid-1800s. Having grown up with poor rural farmers in northern France, he understood their lives and labors. His paintings pre ...

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