The Federal Arts Project of the WPA was a lifeline given artists during the Great Depression, and it benefited many African American artists like Wilmer Jennings, as well as promoting the art form of ...
Read ArticleWe all know the famous works by Rodin – The Thinker, and Burghers of Calais with their active surfaces and narrative. Rodin also had a lyrical side, one that came out in pieces like the praying ...
Read ArticleLisette Model’s photographs of snooty, dressed up individuals – both male and female – caught in unguarded moments is the true genius of her photography. Her photographs strip away p ...
Read ArticleBeadwork is one of the most distinctive characteristics of Ojibwa artistic expression. Before European contact, Ojibwe women decorated clothing and regalia with shells, dyed porcupine quills, bird qui ...
Read ArticleWendell Castle was one of the pioneers of the American Studio Furniture/Woodworking movement that emerged after World War II (1939-1945). He is synonymous with finely crafted, unique furniture forms a ...
Read ArticleJoseph DeCamp was one of “The Ten”, a group ten American painters who seceded from the National Academy of Art in New York over its refusal to exhibit American Impressionists’ artwor ...
Read ArticleDon Eddy’s complex, fascinating Photorealist paintings and prints can truly lead to many hours of discovery on close inspection. To say his discerning eye leads to incisive realism would be an u ...
Read ArticleAnnibale Carracci was arguably one of the earliest Italian painters to create landscapes as stand-alone subject matter. Italian artists who painted dedicated landscapes lagged at least 100 years after ...
Read ArticleAll over the world, cultures and countries are able to see their history in the ruins of ancient buildings and cities. That is certainly true in the US, where the ruins of ancient indigenous cultures ...
Read ArticleMany Italian American artists at the turn of the 1900s were influenced by modernist art movements in Europe and inflected nascent American modernism with them. Joseph Stella worked in Futurism, Cubism ...
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