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Artist Birthday: Erastus Salisbury Field

Monday, May 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

Erastus Salisbury Field was an essentially self-taught painter who produced portraits, landscapes, and history subjects in his long career. He was one of the most successful of the great early America ...

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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: 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: Antonio Frasconi

Monday, April 28, 2025 | Karl Cole

Antonio Frasconi is an internationally known woodcut artist. He has published hundreds of prints and illustrated many books. Although much of his work has registered political protest, his subjects ra ...

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American "Primitive": Ammi Phillips

Monday, February 9, 2009 | Karl Cole

Did you ever wonder about the stylistic term “American Primitive?” Well, I have. “Primitive” is usually a term used in Western art to describe an aesthetic that is not sophisti ...

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