Artist Eldzier Cortor- Source of Strength
African American Artist Eldzier Cortor Eldzier Cortor (January 10, 1916 – November 26, 2015) was an African-American artist and printmaker. Early on he dreamed…
American Artists
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Skip Politics and Find the Spider
As politicians spin their web of confusion and Des Moines, Iowa becomes the hub of political activity, ditch politics and find the giant spider….
Sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser – Mistress of Heroic Sized Monuments to Famous Commemorate Coins
Laura Gardin Fraser – Born a Sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser was born Sept 14th, 1889 in Chicago, Ill into a family of 3 girls…
Famous Painter of the Greatest Native American Leaders
Elbridge Ayer Burbank – American Indian Portrait Painter Elbridge Ayer Burbank was an American artist who sketched and painted more than 1200 portraits of…
Finding Your Voice In Art – Frank Fleming
Happy Birthday Frank Fleming born in Alabama on June 17th 1940. Frank Fleming was born on a farm in Alabama in 1940. He was…
Minimalism Art – Barren and Cold or Full of Meaning and Treasure?
Minimalism an American-born movement, began in the 1960s and early 1970s. Minimalism or Minimal Art is a form of abstraction that focuses on the…
George Catlin, Lawyer Turned Creator of Native American Art
Born in 1796 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, George Caitlin was a self-taught artist who was trained in Connecticut as an attorney, mostly following not his…
Howard Finster, Self-Taught Folk Artist and Baptist Preacher Inspired by God to Spread the Gospel Through Art
Born in Valley Head, Alabama in December of 1916, Howard Finster was a man inspired by God from an early age. At the age…
Criminal to Artist – The Magnificent Pretty Boy
Henry Ray Clark (October 12th, 1936 – July 13th 2006) was a folk and visionary artist born in Bartlett, Texas. A school drop out…
Poetic Expression in Nature – Twilight in the Wilderness
If a painting could make a melody, Twilight in the Wilderness, and the work of Romantic Landscape Painter Fredric Church would sound like this…
