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Anna Atkins was a botanist who became interested in photography to record her specimens. Her book, “British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions”, may be the first published books of photography and she is considered one of the first women photographers. Atkins produced her images through the cyanotype process which produces a cyan…
John James Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a…
Milton Avery is known for the large simplified forms in beautiful colors that described a scene— landscape, portrait, or still life—without focusing on the details. He and his wife, artist Sally Michel Avery, moved to New York in 1925 to be part of the thriving art community there. They became…
Francis Bacon was a self-taught British painter, best recognized for his geometrically shaped backgrounds and his unsettling portrayal of the human body. Born in Dublin, Ireland to an English family, Bacon would not begin his career as an artist until he was in his late twenties, after seeing Pablo Picasso’s…
