(1956 – ) New York, Mod Figure, Collage, Assemblage Alison Saar, like her mother Betye Saar, is a sculptor and assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956 of a White father–an artist, conservator–and Black, Irish, Native American mother, Alison Saar’s work tends to reflect the cultural aspects of her mother. The artist now [...]
Wall Painting with Stripes, 1944 (The Art Institute of Chicago) (1915-1991) New York/Connecticut, Abstract Expression, Collage American painter, Robert Motherwell, was one of the founders and principal exponents of Abstract Expressionism, who was among the first American artists to cultivate accidental elements in his work. A precocious youth, Motherwell received a scholarship to study art [...]
(1917-1986) Colorado/Minnesota, Genre, Figure, and Marine Painting, Graphics Arnest served both as head of the Art School and Professor of Art at Colorado College, 1957-1971, and was a widely recognized artist. He was born in Denver, Colorado and studied at the Fine Arts Center. He was a student of Boardman Robinson and Henry Varnum Poor. In 1940 he was [...]
(1877-1943) Maine, Modern Sea-Land Imagery, Still-Life Painting Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting showed a focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms, and his unique style has been described by [...]
(1940-1995) New York, Mod Sculptor, Mod Figure Painter A sculptor of animals and American Indian shamanistic objects, filmmaker, and painter, Nancy Graves had a highly successful and varied career, primarily in New York City. In her abstract work, she united her interest in anthropology, totemic objects, cartography, and biomorphic shapes. She was born in Pittsfield, [...]
(1848-1929) Colorado/Canada, Landscape, Illustration Leslie J. Skelton, a highly popular late 19th and early 20th century artist, was born in Canada and came to Colorado Springs in the 1890′s for his health. He studied in Paris. Prior to 1885, his work was exhibited in Paris, London, New York and Montreal. He organized the first art [...]
(1866-1944) Russian Federation/France, Constructivist Sculptor; Abstract and Non-objective Painting Wassily Kandinsky lived in Moscow from 1914 to 1921. In 1918 he was invited by both Soviet cultural bureaucrats and his colleagues to teach at the Svomas (Free State Art Schools), the radically oriented institutions that had replaced the traditional art schools swept away by the [...]
(1887-1986) New Mexico/New York, Mod Botanic, Landscape, Structure Born and raised in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe became one of the first American modernists, the first woman to gain recognition for that style, and a signature painter of Southwest landscape and structures. Although she was by far the most famous, other members of her family [...]
b. 1948 New Mexico, Modern Indian Symbolism, Mural Poteet Victory’s natural talent was recognized at an early age by Harold Stevenson, one of the foremost figures of the modern pop art movement. Stevenson, whose abstract expressionism first shocked the New York art scene in the 1950s and ’60s alongside Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jackson Pollock, [...]
b. 1932 Colorado, Portrait, Ethnic Figure, Sculptor Dolores Anita (Dee) Burgess Toscano, a painter and sculptor of Indians and other Western subjects, was born February 19, 1932, in Fort Worth, Texas, growing up there and in Lubbock and Odessa, Texas. She moved to Hobbs, New Mexico, in 1950, then Albuquerque, New Mexico, through 1955, when she [...]
(1897-1946) Kansas/Connecticut, Rural Genre, Landscape and Figure Painting, Regionalism John Steuart Curry attended Winchester High School where he was an outstanding athlete. Except for one winter in Arizona, he spent his youth on the farm. At the end of his junior year in high school, he entered Kansas City Art Institute (1916) and then went [...]
(1881-1973) Spain And France, Cubist Painting and Printmaking A painter and printmaker who revolutionized western art, Pablo Picasso was born in Spain and lived most of his life either there or in France. The 1920s are regarded as one of the most productive periods of Picasso’s career. He did paintings with vivid coloration expressing his [...]
(1903-1991) New Mexico/California, Native American Motif Painting, Teaching In 1928, Dorothy Dunn traveled to New Mexico for the first time, where she taught second grade at the Santo Domingo Pueblo Day School, located south of Santa Fe. In 1930, she moved to Shiprock, New Mexico to teach at the San Juan Boarding School at the [...]
(b 1930) New York, African-American Themed Mixed-Media Sculpture Dedicated to innovative art forms that express black cultural awareness, Faith Ringgold uses soft sculpture figures and painted hanging pieces in performance art. Her sculptures displayed together give the appearance of being African masks with much finished work of beading, stitchery, and fabrics. She was born and [...]
(1861-1909) New York and Kansas, Western Painting and Sculpture, Illustration Born at Canton, New York, Frederic Remington became the foremost turn-of -the-century illustrator, painter, and sculptor of western action-packed subjects with cowboys, Indians, horses, soldiers, and other frontier characters. His style was realistic, and much of his work was narrative with strong implication that the [...]
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