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Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Read MoreMilton Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965) was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York…
Read MoreBest known for her rendering of flowers, Maria Oakey Dewing began her career at 17, painting still lifes and portraits early on. She studied at Cooper Union School of Design…
Read MoreHelen Maria Turner was a Kentucky-born, Louisiana raised American painter who specialized in portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and miniatures. Her media and technique varied throughout her life. Her work began…
Read MoreThe Asahel Curtis collection, consisting of 50,000 glass plate and nitrate negatives and prints, is a broad visual record of the early twentieth century in the Pacific Northwest. The images…
Read MoreBetty Cleeland, born in 1943, is an American artist. She studied painting at college, earning a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois in 1969, and an M.S.Ed. Art from Southern…
Read MoreCatharine Carter Critcher died at the age of 95, in a nursing home near Farmville, Virginia on Thursday, 11 June 1964. She was never married and had no children. Her…
Read MoreHugh MacRae Morton (February 19, 1921 – June 1, 2006) was a photographer and nature conservationist who developed Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. Morton was a prolific photographer who took…
Read MoreAnsel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been…
Read MoreHerman Maril was a nationally known artist who painted seascapes, interiors, and landscapes in a pure, lyrical, and profound style. Beginning in his teens and throughout his life, he pursued…
Read MoreWayne Thiebaud (born November 15, 1920) is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. He is associated with the Pop art…
Read MoreRobert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his…
Read MoreRobert Henri (24 June 1865 – 12 July 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School of American realism and an organizer…
Read MoreJacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter; he was married to a fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as “dynamic cubism,”…
Read MoreJames Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of…
Read MoreMary Stevenson Cassatt (/kəˈsæt/; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. Learn more in our blog post She lived much of her adult life…
Read MoreGeorgia Totto O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Learn more in our blog post. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe first came to the…
Read MoreJohn Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During…
Read MoreCharles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American painter and commercial photographer. He is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of…
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