Artist Birthday: Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978 US)
Alma Woodsey Thomas was a pioneering African American abstract painter and art educator. Any art historian who is a nut about color as I am certainly knows her work! ...
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Hispanic American Heritage Month: Carlos Rodriguez (MARE 139, born 1965 US)
Hispanic 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 ...
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Artist Birthday: Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born 1938 US)
A large part of the early body of art work by Sylvia Plimack Mangold put the “real” in Photorealism. For awhile now, she has been producing lyrical studies of landscape and nature around h ...
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Artist Birthday: Gabor Peterdi (1915-2001 US, born Hungary)
Besides being conversant in a number of modernism movements in the first half of the 1900s, Gabor Peterdi was very influential in exploring printmaking processes in modernist takes on landscape. &n ...
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Artist Birthday: Jean Arp (1886-1966 France)
Jean Arp was truly an artist who was in the right place at the right time when it came to helping discover the Dada art movement during World War I (1914-1918). His truly imaginative and unique works ...
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This Day in History 15 September, 1584: Completion of Palace of San Lorenzo el Real
In old timey days when secular rulers had absolute power over their subjects, it was not at all unusual for kings and queens to commission monstrous, oversized palaces (think Louis XIV and Versailles) ...
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Gem of the Month for September: Tone Vigeland (1938-2024 Norway)
Did you ever go “Wow!” when you see a certain work of art (something I do probably on a daily basis)? Well, that’s what I did when I saw the stunning jewelry by Tone Vigeland. She ha ...
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Artist Birthday: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915 Japan)
Kiyochika Kobayashi was undoubtedly one of the late, great masters of the Ukiyo-e style in the late 1800s Japan. He brilliantly blended tradition with Western influences. ...
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Artist Birthday: Robert Arneson (1930-1992 US)
Robert Arneson was part of the West Coast version of the Pop Art scene. He was also part of the studio pottery movement, which helped raise the profile of ceramics to the level of fine art. ...
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September Contemplated with Claude Monet (1840-1926 France)
You might know I would use any excuse to show a Monet. This may be one Monet with which you are not familiar, but it is a wonderful prefiguration of his rapidly developing Impressionist style and pale ...
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