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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…
Read MoreEdith 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…
Read MoreJudy Chicago is an American artist as well as an author and educator. She has had an incredibly active career for five decades, pioneering the Feminist art movement in the…
Read MoreBarlett was born in Long Beach, CA, and studied at Mills College in Oakland, CA, and Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT. While at Yale she became acquainted…
Read MoreRuth Asawa was an American artist famous for both her sculptures and large public works such as the fountains in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square. She was educated at Black Mountain…
Read MoreA painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, writer, teacher, and lecturer, Faith Ringgold has worked across a wide range of media but is best known for her story quilts. She…
Read MoreLee Krasner was an American artist, best known for her work with collage paintings and the abstract expressionism movement. She was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants and showed a propensity and…
Read MoreElizabeth Catlett (born April 15, 1915), was an American and Mexican graphic artist and sculptor. Much of her work focuses on the experience of African-American life and political struggle during…
Read MoreAlfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz…
Read MoreBorn 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…
Read MoreN.C. Wyeth was an American illustrator and painter. Wyeth is best known for his prolific work as an illustrator just after the turn of the 20th century. He was born…
Read MoreB. 1961 Catherine Opie is a contemporary American photographer who explores the ways in which photography can document and highlight how people experience, interact with, and respond to various social…
Read MoreNorman Rockwell’s love for both painting and his country became evident at a very young age. While still a teenager, he was commissioned to illustrate “The Boy Scout’s Hike Book”,…
Read MoreSolomon “Sol” LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late…
Read MoreDale Chihuly (born September 20, 1941), is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. His works are considered unique to the field of blown glass, “moving it into the realm of…
Read MoreJasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike…
Read MoreLouise Nevelson was a pioneering American artist at a time when few women were recognized in the art world, or had works exhibited at, or acquired by museums. She developed…
Read MoreKara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary African-American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux…
Read MoreAmerican artist, engineer, draftsman, and sculptor Alexander “Sandy” Calder (July 22nd, 1898- November 11th, 1976) was born in 1898 in Lawton, Pennsylvania. As a child, he grew up surrounded by…
Read MoreCaleb P. Purrington (1812-1876) was an American artist. He is most remembered for his collaboration with the painter Benjamin Russell. Little is known about Purrington’s life. He was friends with…
Read MoreRomare Bearden was an artist, teacher, musician, printmaker, and an influential member of the Harlem, New York art scene. Collage is what Bearden is best known for today; he felt…
Read MoreThomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of…
Read MoreMark Tobey’s (b. 1890 – d. 1976) career reflected his mission to represent the mystical and to combine it with the worldly. Tobey continually drew inspiration from artforms and belief…
Read MoreJames Wells Champney (b. 1843 – d. 1903) was an American artist who focused on creating portraits, rural scenes, and images that depicted the nature of home life in the…
Read MoreFrederick Childe Hassam, more known as Childe Hassam, was an American impressionist artist, very well known for his city landscape scenes. He was born in Boston in 1859 and showed…
Read More\”Frank Lloyd Wright changed the way we build and the way we live.\” – The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation After dropping out of university, he discovered his passion for architecture.…
Read MoreRoy Fox Lichtenstein (pronounced /ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn/; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among…
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