Sidney Janis, They Taught Themselves, American Primitive Painters of the 20th Century, Foreword by Alfred H. Barrdoi:10.1080/15436322.1943.10794989John Fabian KienitzParnassus
Considered a founding figure of the Hudson River school, a mid-nineteenth-century group of American landscape painters, Thomas Cole aimed to elevate landscape painting to an intellectual pursuit, or what he called “a higher style of landscape,” through its potential to convey moralistic narratives...
The supple radiant arms seem to reach out not to a female but to heaven. Given the regularity of crab reproduction, you might well suppose that these decapod crustaceans know what they’re doing. In fact, we know nothing about the heaven of the crab, although there are people who catch...
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By the early 1980s, a group of avant-garde 20th century painters known as the United Graffiti Artists (UGA), founded in 1972 by Hugo Martinez, had expanded its membership to include many of the leading graffiti taggers and sprayers, with a view to showing works in official venues, like ...
(an imaginary painting by a real artist), knowing full well that it is probably going to be used as a forgery. The original is stolen and replaced with the copy. Decades pass. The art forger is now a respected curator and art historian specializing in female Dutch painters of the Golden...
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America’s first museum dedicated to a female artist celebrates Georgia O’Keeffe, who defied gender norms in the first half of the 20th century to become one of the country’s most prolific painters in a field dominated by men.Santa Fe‘sGeorgia O’Keeffe Museumincludes around 150 oil paint...
painters of that era. She is one of the few female painters to have been part of the successful coterie of artists in her own era. A couple of others are Judith Leyster who was a pupil of Frans Hals (she has a really good painting of a man offering a coin to young maiden and the...
dedicated to producing fine reproductions of antique vases. The most arresting room was the one occupied by the tables and tables of fine-work painters, mostly youngish women, who would sit all day under the white light of special bulbs to keep the colours they were seeing pure. They were ...