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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Artist Birthday: Pierre Bonnard
Surely one of the greatest colorists in French painting right up there with Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pierre Bonnard’s intimate, highly personal vision of his world is expressed with gestur ...
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National Coffee Day: Elizabeth Murray
Cups of coffee appeared frequently in Elizabeth Murray's paintings. National Coffee Day was first celebrated in about 2005, but did not take off as a holiday until September 29, 2009. That&rs ...
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Artist Birthday: Ludwig Sander
Ludwig Sander was a member of the New York School that established the United States as a center for modernist experiment in art. He was an early practitioner of Color Field painting which he stuck wi ...
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Artist Birthday: Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Nay, who was forbidden by the Nazis to paint or even buy art supplies after 1937, painted abstractions secretly in a French sculptor’s cellar while serving as a cartographer in the German army i ...
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National Skilled Trades Day: Jacob Lawrence
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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Abstract Expressionist Paul Jenkins
Some art historians, when discussing an artist’s work, will say “oh, but he’s (or she’s) a brilliant colorist!” I’ve never really known when to use that phrase with ...
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