The abstractions of Morton Schamberg have numerous sources among the modernist movements of the first two decades of the 1900s. Among the strongest influences were Cubism and Futurism. ...
Read ArticleNavy Secretary Admiral Zumwalt declared October 13 the US Navy’s birthday in 1972. The Continental Congress established the US Navy in 1775. At the time, the colonies only had two ships with a t ...
Read ArticleRosa Ibarra was born in Puerto Rico, spent her childhood in Old San Juan, and went to high school in Paris. Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries across the country and abroad. Ibarr ...
Read ArticleThe paintings of Larry Poons lie somewhere between Color Field and Minimalism, with a dash of action painting thrown in at some times. His paintings of the last 30 years have revealed exciting, lively ...
Read ArticleHispanic American Heritage Month is 15 September to 15 October, 2026. I will say unequivocally, that there have been few if any periods in American art history that American people of Hispanic heritag ...
Read ArticleSince the 1500s, genre paintings – scenes of everyday life – have become a standard part of fine art’s repertoire of subject matter. Genre painting is fascinating not just because it ...
Read ArticleI would use any excuse to show you the paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack, so I’ll go by his name. If you will pardon my pun, his paintings are very august. I have never been able to decide if I ...
Read ArticleI’m always a little sad when World Watercolor Month is over, because there are so many fantastic watercolors in the Davis collection that I want to show you! Lewis attended the Santa Fe School,& ...
Read ArticleRaymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...
Read ArticleDid you ever look at a work of art and something in the work evokes vivid feelings about an event in your own life, or just a general feeling you get when you visit a certain country or place? Well, m ...
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