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Most commonly associated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and 1970s, Barbara Jones-Hogu (1938-2017) spent her life deeply rooted in Chicago. Born in the city and spending a majority of her early life there, she relocated to the Washington, DC area to attend Howard University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts…
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Alma Woodsey Thomas was an African American painter, best known for her abstract paintings and Expressionist style. Her exuberant work is noteworthy for their pattern, rhythm, color. She was born in Columbus, Georgia as the oldest of four children. When she was sixteen, her family moved to Washington D.C. to avoid the racial violence in…
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Born in Manhattan, New York, Frissell trained as an actress before switching careers to photography. She began taking fashion photographs for Vogue after being encouraged to do so by the magazine’s editor. From 1941 to 1950, Frissell’s focus shifted from fashion photography to photojournalism. During World War II, Frissell became the official photographer for the…
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Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License Abbott spanned the cultural worlds of both New York and…
Read More Mary Jane Peale, a New York native, was an American painter. Peale is known for her still-life and portraiture works. Coming from a family of painters including Rubens Peale, Charles Willson Peale, and Rembrandt Peale– Mary Jane Peale is known as the last famous painter of the family. Mary Jane Peale is credited for teaching…
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(B. November 20, 1929) Wadsworth Jarrell is an African American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Jarrell attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and after graduation, joined the local Chicago arts scene. His art depicts the working life of African Americans in Chicago and was inspired by the sights and sounds of jazz music. In the late…
Read More Johanna Goodman is a New York based American artist who works primarily in illustration and collage. Her on-going body of work, “The Catalogue of Imaginary Beings”, explores fashion, history, and pop culture through surrealism, magical realism, and symbolism. It combines her own drawings with found images to create her signature elongated female forms.
Read More Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1880, Lilian Westcott Hale was an American impressionist painter. She painted a variety of subjects, including interiors, landscapes, and still lifes, but she is most known for portraiture, especially of women and children. Hale often worked in charcoal and graphite. She has associated with the Boston school of American Impressionists,…
Read More Joan Mitchell was one of the few female American Abstract Expressionist painters to gain wide acclaim. Although she spent the majority of her career in France, during her early career in New York she was one fo five women artists included in the groundbreaking “Ninth Street Show” of 1951 that remains famous today. Her work…
Read More Nan Goldin is an American photographer whose work captures intimate, vulnerable, and emotional moments. Many of her subjects are LGBTQ individuals, and through their experiences, her work also explores social histories like the HIV crisis and opioid epidemic. To Goldin, photography is both a political tool and a way to honor personal relationships between the…
Read More Theora Hamblett is an American painter, born in Paris, Mississippi in 1895. She was raised on a chicken farm which would later inspire a lot of her artwork. As a young woman, Hamblett was a teacher in the local school. In fact, Hamblett’s art career only began much later, at the age of 55, when…
Read More B. 1945 Dorothea Tanning is an American surrealist painter whose early career was greatly inspired by artists such as Eileen Agar and René Magritte. Another inspiration of hers was Max Ernst, whom she later married and lived with between Arizona and France. Her earlier surrealist work was often inspired by her own dreams, and later…
Read More An American conceptual artist, Elaine Sturtevant addressed the theme of reproduction in her work. She reproduced the works of the famous Pop artists raising questions of originality, ownership, and appropriation. Some of the artists whose work she created “repetitions” of encouraged her practice, but she angered others like Claes Oldenburg after reproducing a sculpture of…
Read More Lezley Saar, daughter of artist Betye Saar, is a Contemporary painter and mixed-media artist. Much of her work is narrative and inspired by literature or history, and Saar has commented that she wants the reader to be sucked into her art like a good book. Saar uses materials ranging from paint to fabric to found…
Read More Betye Saar is an African American artist best known for her assemblages that combine found objects and traditional art materials that tell stories. She began her career studying design and became an accomplished printmaker, but later in her career moved toward the sculptural assemblages that tied in themes such as spiritualism, history, time, and folk…
Read More The daughter of artist Betye Saar, the Los Angeles based artist Alison Saar reflects on blackness and femininity and their marginalization in her paintings, sculptures, and large scale installations. She uses a combination of found objects and traditional art materials as well as the theme of the human body to shape her practice. Her work…
Read More Susan Rothenberg was a contemporary American painter who is best known for her imagery of the horse. She did many other paintings of animal and human figures which are described as “glyph-like” and often include bold dark outlines that highlight the materiality of paint. She began her career in New York, but once she moved…
Read More Sophie Ristelhueber is a French photographer born in 1951. Her work mainly focuses on the impacts of war around the world. While many of her photographs do not include humans, their documentation of physical destruction is haunting. The photographs explore themes of memory and resistance in the natural world.
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Rose Theodora Piper was an American painter and textile designer. A New York native she first became known for her semi-abstract, blues, and folk music-inspired oil paintings. Piper gained critical national acclaim after her 1947 exhibition at the Roko Gallery in New York. The show– called Blues and Negro Folk Songs– was Piper’s first solo…
Read More Widely considered one of the most influential Conceptual artists alive, Adrian Piper’s work is informed by her work as a philosopher and addresses topics such as ethics, racism, and ostracization. She is an American and began her career in the United States, but now works in Berlin and in 2002 founded the Adrian Piper Research…
Read More Hannah Borger Overbeck was one of the four Overbeck sisters, known for their pottery, Arts and Crafts Movement membership, and establishing Overbeck Pottery in their Cambridge City, Indiana. Overbeck initially studied photography and then studied at Indiana State Normal School (present-day Indiana State University) in Terre Haute, Indiana, and graduated in 1894. The following year…
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(1812 – April 27, 1888) Daughter of the famous American portraitist Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), Jane took over her father’s business when she was just 16. Despite her father’s refusal to teach her, Jane was considered a prodigy and would become her father’s best copyist, learning by watching him and adopting his technique. The youngest of…
Read More Although she was the sister of the famous artist Georgia O’Keeffe and sister-in-law to the gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, Ida O’Keeffe’s career was not supported by either and she has only recently been critically considered outside the lens of her sister’s work. Her paintings feature bold colors and lines and play with symmetry. Later in her…
Read More Also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, Corita Kent was a Roman Catholic religious sister and teacher. After teaching herself screen printing, she used the medium as a way to spread her political activism and messages of love and peace during the social tumult of the 60s and 70s. Her combined use of advertising slogans…
Read More Grace Hartigan was an Abstract Expressionist painter and active contributor to the New York School during the 50s and 60s, although she did not like her work being defined by any category or genre. She once described her work, which is gestural and abstracted, as “emotional pain remembered in tranquility”. She saw recognition very early…
Read More Jay DeFeo associated with the community Beat artists, musicians, and writers in San Francisco during the 50s, but the breadth of her work cannot be contained by one movement or style. Her most famous work is a painting titled The Rose, which has a sculptural quality due to the building up and scraping away of…
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Edith Lake Wilkinson was an American artist who lived and painted in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the early decades of the 20th century. She was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and she moved to New York at the age of twenty to study art in the Arts Student League of New York. She remained at the…
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