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: Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon was a popular model for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. She was inspired by their work to teach herself drawing an painting and established herself as a successful pa ...
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Artist Birthday: Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Since the 1960s, Sylvia Plimack Mangold has developed a distinctive visual language that is grounded in figuration and transcends representation. Plimack Mangold has remained committed to an explo ...
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Artist Birthday: Sarai Sherman
Painter, interior designer, and ceramic artist Sarai Sherman was a Jewish American whose paintings were a combination of reality and reminiscences, producing a unique form of abstraction. ...
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Artist Birthday: Laura Shechter
Laura Shechter is an extraordinarily gifted, contemporary realist still life artist who is part of the large body of American artists who have persisted in pursuing the cherished American love of obse ...
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Artist Birthday: Betye Saar
The unique assemblages of Betye Saar helped elevate the medium to fine art status when she began producing them in the late 1960s. Her works explore her African American identity, her African heritage ...
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World Watercolor Month: Ann Hall
I have mentioned my trepidation about using watercolors before, and how I find it to be a very unforgiving medium. The fact that there have been and still are such brilliant watercolor artists justifi ...
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Artist Birthday: Käthe Kollwitz
Unequaled among the German Expressionists are the gritty, powerfully heart-felt drawings, lithographs and woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz. Much of her subject matter concerned working class women, mot ...
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Artist Birthday: Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis was a pioneering African American and woman artist, at a time when it was difficult for either to get an arts education. Lewis skillfully learned the style that was dear to American patr ...
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Artist Birthday: Barbara Chase-Riboud
The tradition of African American women sculptors goes all the way back to the 1800s with Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907), continues through the Harlem Renaissance in the person of Augusta Savage (189 ...
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