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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893 - 1967) - United States (Ashtabula)
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9, 1893 - January 10, 1967) was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. His paintings are in the collections of many major museums in the USA and have been the subject of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Amer...... |
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Gene Davis (1920 - 1985) - United States (Washington)
Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 - April 6, 1985) was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color. Davis was born in Washington D.C. in 1920 and spent nearly all his life there. Before he began to paint in 1949, he worked as a sportswriter, covering the Washington Redskins and other local teams. Workin...... |
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Will Barnet (1911 - 2012) - United States (Beverly)
Social Realism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Realism
Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds. Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a ...... |
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Joan Brown (1938 - 1990) - United States (San Francisco)
Joan Brown (February 13, 1938 – October 26, 1990) was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. In the late 1950s, Joan Brown was a maturing artist who helped make California, and the Bay Area in particular, an important artistic cente...... |
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Ceri Giraldus Richards (1903 - 1971) - United States (Dunvant)
Ceri Giraldus Richards, CBE (6 June 1903 – 9 November 1971) was a British painter, print-maker and maker of reliefs. Richards was born in 1903 in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea, the son of Thomas Coslett Richards and Sarah Richards (born Jones). He and his younger brother and sister, Owen and Esther, were brought up in a highly cultured, work...... |
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Henry Bacon (1866 - 1924) - United States (Watseka)
Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866 – February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–22), which was his final project. Henry Bacon was born in Watseka, Illinois. He studied briefly at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1884), but left to begin his architectural car...... |
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John Wheatley (1892 - 1955) - United States (Abergavenny)
John Laviers Wheatley ARA (23 January 1892 – 17 November 1955) was a British painter, art teacher and museum director who also served as a war artist in both World War One and in World War Two. Wheatley was born in Abergavenny in Wales and attended the Slade School of Art during 1912 and 1913, having previously taken art lessions from both Stanhope...... |
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Ian John Hornak (1944 - 2002) - United States (Philadelphia)
Ian Hornak (January 9, 1944, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 9, 2002, Southampton, New York) was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker associated with the Hyperrealist and Photorealist art movements. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to parents who immigrated from Slovakia, Ian Hornak moved to Brooklyn, New York at the age of 2 an...... |
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Dwinell Grant (1912 - 1991) - United States (Springfield)
Dwinell Grant (Clarence Dwinell Grant, 1912, Springfield, Ohio - 1991, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) was an American visual artist known for his pioneering contributions to the field of art film. Grant began studying landscape painting at an early age with his grandfather Paul Emilio Henking. In 1931, he enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, where he f...... |
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Eldzier Cortor (1916 - 2015) - United States (Richmond)
Eldzier Cortor (January 10, 1916 – November 26, 2015) was an African-American artist and printmaker. His work typically features elongated nude figures in intimate settings, influenced by both traditional African art and European surrealism. Cortor was born in Richmond, Virginia, to John and Ophelia Cortor. His family moved to Chicago when Cortor w...... |
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Frank Gohlke United States (Wichita Falls)
Frank Gohlke (born April 3, 1942) is an American landscape photographer. He has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar Grant. His work is included in numerous permanent collections, including those of Museum of Modern Art, New York the Metropolitan Museum of Art and...... |
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George James Coates (1869 - 1930) - United States (South Melbourne)
George James Coates (8 August 1869 – 27 July 1930) was an Australian painter. Coates was born in Emerald Hill (now South Melbourne, Victoria), the son of John Coates, an artist-lithographer of English stock, and his wife Elizabeth, a daughter of Ephraim Irwin who came from Ireland. George Coates was educated at St James Grammar School, then at the ...... |
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Robert Goodnough (1917 - 2010) - United States (Cortland)
Robert Goodnough (October 23, 1917 – October 2, 2010) was an American abstract expressionist painter. A veteran of World War II, Goodnough was one of the last of the original generation of the New York School (although he has been referred to as a member of the "second generation" of Abstract Expressionists), even though he began exhibiting his wor...... |
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Carmen Lomas Garza United States (Kingsville)
Carmen Lomas Garza (born 1948) is an American artist and illustrator. She is well known for her paintings, ofrendas and for her papel picado work inspired by her Mexican-American heritage. Her work is a part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Mexican...... |
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Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865 - 1940) - United States (Brooklyn)
Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865–1940) was an American Romantic landscape painter and is widely considered one of Alaska's most important historical artists. Sydney Mortimer Laurence was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the Art Students League of New York. He married Alexandrina Fredricka Dupre in 1889. He exhibited regularly by the late 188...... |
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George Wright (1872 - 1951) - United States (Fox Chase)
George Hand Wright (1872–1951) was an American painter, illustrator and printmaker. Born in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a blacksmith, he attended the Spring Garden Institute, a local technical school, and was apprenticed to a lithographer. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Robert Vonno...... |
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Richard Benson (1943 - 2017) - United States (Newport)
Richard Mead Atwater Benson (November 8, 1943 – June 22, 2017) was an American photographer, printer, and educator who utilized photographic processing techniques of the past and present. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Benson began teaching photography at Yale University in 1979 and was dean of the Yale School of Art from 1996 to 2006. Benson had a...... |
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Vincent Evans (1896 - 1976) - United States (Ystalyfera)
Vincent Evans (1896–1976) was a Welsh artist who had a varied career as a painter, printmaker and art teacher and is known for his depictions of mine workers. Evans was born in Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley in South Wales. Evans was born into a large family of seven children and from the age of thirteen worked as a coal miner. After ten years wo...... |
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Andrea Modica United States (Brooklyn)
Andrea Modica (born 1960, in Brooklyn, NY) is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. Modica is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera. Andrea Modica earned her BFA in Visual Arts and Art History from State University of New York College (S...... |
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Arline Fisch United States (Brooklyn)
Arline Fisch is an American artist and educator, who works with metal as her medium. Arline Fisch (born 1931) was born in New York City. She learned to sew and weave from her mother and picked up a passion for the color red from her father while growing up in New York. She studied at Skidmore College, receiving her B.S. in Art in 1952. She received...... |
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Arnold Blanch (1896 - 1968) - United States (Mantorville)
Arnold Blanch (June 4, 1896 – October 3, 1968), was born and raised in Mantorville, Minnesota. He was an American modernist painter, etcher, illustrator, lithographer, muralist, printmaker and art teacher. His modernist paintings are associated with the Social Realist movement. Blanch met his first wife the painter Lucile Blanch, (born Lucile Lundq...... |
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Cady Wells (1904 - 1954) - United States (Southbridge)
Cady Wells (1904–1954) was a painter and patron of the arts who settled in New Mexico the 1930s. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, during his life and posthumously, as well as the 2009 book Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism. OCLC 317824650. . Henry Cady Wells was born in 1904 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, the son of Channin...... |
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Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984) - United States (Baldwyn)
Elijah Pierce (1892-1984) was a renowned wood carver throughout the 1900s. Pierce was the youngest in his family born from a former slave on a farm in Baldwyn, Mississippi on March 5, 1892. He began carving at a young age using a pocket knife. He first started carving animals because of his prior life of growing up on a farm. Pierce was honored wit...... |
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Peter Brown United States (Blue Island)
Peter Brown (born July 11, 1953, in Blue Island, Illinois) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Brown was a popular performer in the late 1970s and early 1980s with hits that included "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me" (the original version of which was recorded in his bedroom) and "Dance With Me". He was introduced to a somewhat youn...... |
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Laurel Nakadate United States (Austin)
Laurel Nakadate (born December 15, 1975) is an American video artist, filmmaker, and photographer living in New York City. Laurel Nakadate was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Ames, Iowa. Nakadate's 2005 solo show at Danziger Projects, "Love Hotel and Other Stories", was featured in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Flash Art. Art criti...... |
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Alice Trumbull Mason (1904 - 1971) - United States (Litchfield)
Alice Trumbull Mason (1904–1971) was an American abstract painter. She was descended from renowned history painter John Trumbull through her father. She travelled throughout Europe when she was young. Beginning in 1921, she studied art in Rome, attending the British Academy in 1923. She settled in New York by 1927 and was influenced by early abstra...... |
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Allan Rohan Crite (1910 - 2007) - United States (North Plainfield)
Allan Rohan Crite (March 20, 1910 – September 6, 2007 ) was a Boston-based artist born in North Plainfield, New Jersey. He won several honors, such as the 350th Harvard University Anniversary Medal. Crite's mother, Annamae, was a poet who encouraged her son to draw. He showed promise early, enrolling in the Children's Art Centre at United South End...... |
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Alexandre Hogue (1898 - 1994) - United States (Memphis)
Alexandre Hogue (February 22, 1898 – July 22, 1994) was an American artist active during the 1930s through the 1960s. He is a realist painter associated with the Dallas Nine the majority of his works focus on Southwestern and Midwestern landscapes during the Dust Bowl. Hogue was born on February 22, 1898 in Memphis, Missouri, to Reverend Charles Le...... |
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Mildred Thompson (1936 - 2003) - United States (Jacksonville)
Mildred Thompson (1936–2003) was an American artist who worked in the media of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography. She was also a writer and, beginning in 1987, was an associate editor for the magazine Art Papers in Atlanta, Georgia. Critics have related her art to West African textiles and Islamic architecture they have also...... |
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Joyce Kozloff United States (Somerville)
Joyce Kozloff (born 1942) is an American artist whose politically engaged work has been based on cartography since the early 1990s. Kozloff was one of the original members of the Pattern and Decoration movement and was an early artist in the 1970s feminist art movements. She has been active in the women's and peace movements throughout her life. Sh...... |
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Ogden Pleissner (1905 - 1983) - United States (Brooklyn)
Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905–1983) was an American painter, specializing in landscapes and war art related to his service in World War II. Pleissner was born on April 29, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York. His father was very interested in the arts, especially music, and his mother was an accomplished violinist who had studied in Germany. When he was elev...... |
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Neil Williams (1934 - 1988) - United States (Bluff)
Neil Williams (1934 – March 28, 1988) was an American painter. Williams was an abstract painter primarily known for his pioneering work with shaped canvases in the early 1960s. His paintings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are associated with geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting, color field, and lyrical abstraction, although he did not readily ...... |
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Mabel May Woodward (1877 - 1945) - United States (Providence)
Mabel May Woodward (September 28, 1877 – August 14, 1945) was a prominent Rhode Island impressionist painter during the late 19th and early 20th century. Woodward was born to a stable, affluent family in Providence, Rhode Island, where she spent most of her life, except for a brief period in San Francisco and many summers in Ogunquit, Maine. Her fa...... |
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Henry Lee Mcfee (1886 - 1953) - United States (St. Louis)
Henry Lee McFee (April 14, 1886 – March 19, 1953) was a pioneer American cubist painter and a prominent member of the Woodstock artists colony. McFee was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1886. From 1902 to 1905, he attended Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri. In 1907, he inherited a large sum of money, allowing him to enroll in the Stevens...... |
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Ralph Humphrey (1932 - 1990) - United States (Youngstown)
Ralph Humphrey (April 14, 1932 – July 14, 1990) was an American abstract painter whose work has been linked to both Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. He was active in the New York art scene in the 1960s and '70s. His paintings are best summarized as an exploration of space through color and structure. He lived and worked in New York, NY. He is...... |
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Sonia Gechtoff United States (Philadelphia)
Sonia Gechtoff (born 1926, Philadelphia, USA) is an American abstract expressionist painter. Her primary medium is painting but she has also created dozens of drawings and prints. Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia to Ethel (Etya) and Leonid Gechtoff. Her mother managed art galleries, including her own East West gallery in San Francisco. Her f...... |
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Mabel Woodward (1877 - 1945) - United States (Providence)
Mabel May Woodward (September 28, 1877 – August 14, 1945) was a prominent Rhode Island impressionist painter during the late 19th and early 20th century. Woodward was born to a stable, affluent family in Providence, Rhode Island, where she spent most of her life, except for a brief period in San Francisco and many summers in Ogunquit, Maine. Her fa...... |
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Ernest Briggs (1923 - 1984) - United States (San Diego)
Ernest Briggs (1923–1984) was an active participant in the later wave of Abstract Expressionism, the revolution in abstract painting that secured New York City's position as the art capital of the world in the post-World War II period. Ernest Briggs was born 1923 in San Diego, CA. He went on to serve in the U.S. Army during World War II (1943–1946)...... |
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