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Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art…
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Sam Gilliam was an African American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gilliam was involved with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington,…
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Born around the turn of the century in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minor White was a prominent figure in mid-century American photography as a photographer, poet, critic, and educator. White’s early childhood…
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Mary Edmonia Lewis was the first female sculptor of African American and Native American heritage to gain professional and global recognition. Born to a freed Afro-Haitian father and a Chippewa…
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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…
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Alma 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…
Read MoreNew York High-Fashion Photographer Toni Frissell (1907-1988) made her mark as one of the first photographers to capture women in both wartime and high fashion settings. She began her career…
Read MoreBerenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of 20th century New York City cultural figures, architecture and urban design, in particular through the WPA Federal Art…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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