Grant Wood – The Famous American Artist that Planted Art in Iowa
Grant Wood Born on February 13, 1891, in Anamosa, Iowa, was a regionalist painter and best known for his paintings of the rural American…
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Jackson Pollock – From “Drips” to Millions
Jackson Pollock – Jack the Dripper Jackson Pollock nicknamed ‘Jack the Dripper’ was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. Throughout his childhood,…
Dale Chihuly: The Master of Fine Art Glass
“I used to think that it was the glass that was so mysterious, and then I discovered that it was the air that went…
Milton Glaser- A Visionary Purveyor of Visual Culture
Milton Glaser (b. June 26th 1929 – d. June 26, 2020) is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. Milton Glaser…
Robert Vickrey – Mystery In The Commonplace
Robert Vickrey (August 26, 1926 – April 17, 2011) was a crucial figure in the mid-twentieth-century renaissance of egg tempera, a demanding “old school”…
A Notorious Woman – Rosa Bonheur
In a century that did its best to keep women “in their place,” Rosa Bonheur defined herself outside of the social and legal codes…
Preaching With His Brush – American Artist Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry C Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an African-American artist born into an family of nine children. His father was…
Mary Cassatt – An Independent Woman
An Independent Woman – Feminist Ideas and the Bohemian Behavior Considered an Impressionist, Cassatt exhibited with such artists as Monet, Pissarro, and her close…
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…
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…
