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Henry Wolf (1925 - 2005) - Austria (Vienna)
Henry Wolf (May 23, 1925 - February 14, 2005) was an Austrian-born, American graphic designer, photographer and art director. He influenced and energized magazine design during the 1950s and 1960s with his bold layouts, elegant typography, and whimsical cover photographs while serving as art director at Esquire, Bazaar, and Show magazines. Wolf ope...... |
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John Kyffin Williams (1918 - 2006) - United Kingdom (Llangefni)
Sir John "Kyffin" Williams, KBE, RA (9 May 1918 – 1 September 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey. Williams is widely regarded as the defining artist of Wales during the 20th century. Williams was born in Llangefni, Anglesey into an old landed Anglesey family. His father was a bank man...... |
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Dorothea Tanning (1910 - 2012) - United States (Galesburg)
Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 – January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. Dorothea Tanning was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois. In 1926 Tanning attended Galesburg public schools. When she was attending high school Tanning "skipped" two grades, ...... |
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Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) - Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Christiaan Karel Appel (pronounced [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈkaːrəl ˈɑpəl] ( listen) 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and ha...... |
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Wu Guanzhong (1919 - 2010) - China (Yixing)
Wu Guanzhong (simplified Chinese: 吴冠中 traditional Chinese: 吳冠中 pinyin: Wú Guànzhōng 29 August 1919 – 25 June 2010) was a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as a founder of modern Chinese painting. He is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters. Wu's artworks had both Western and Eastern influences, such as the ...... |
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Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011) - United Kingdom (Clayton-Le-Woods)
Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011 ) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Leonora Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico...... |
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Chu Teh Chun (1920 - 2014) - China (Xiao County)
Chu Teh-Chun or Zhu Dequn (24 October 1920 – 26 March 2014) was a Chinese-French abstract painter acclaimed for his pioneering style integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art. Chu and his schoolmates Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-Ki were dubbed the "Three Musketeers" of modernist Chinese artists trained in China and F...... |
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Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017) - United Kingdom (Hammersmith)
Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932 in Hammersmith, London, the son of Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1973), a manager for the chemical company ICI and a noted amateur horticulturist,...... |
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Antoni Tàpies (1923 - 2012) - Spain (Barcelona)
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies (Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ˈtapi.əs] 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. The son of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni Tàpies Puig was born in Barcelona on 13 December 1923. ...... |
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Nathan Oliveira (1928 - 2010) - United States (Oakland)
Nathan Oliveira (December 19, 1928 – November 13, 2010) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to immigrant Portuguese parents. Since the late 1950s Oliveira has been the subject of nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in addition to having been included hundreds of group exhibitions, in important museums and ...... |
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Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012) - France (Boulogne-Sur-Mer)
Georges Mathieu (27 January 1921 Boulogne-sur-Mer – 10 June 2012 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French abstract painter, art theorist and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism. Mathieu was born in 1921 in Boulogne-sur-Mer. His father Adolphe Georges M...... |
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Jose Luis Cuevas (1934 - 2017) - Mexico (Mexico City)
José Luis Cuevas (February 26, 1934 – July 3, 2017) was a Mexican artist and was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralism movement as a prominent member of the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation). He was a mostly self-taught artist, whose styles and influences are moored to the darker side of life, often depictin...... |
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Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002) - Canada (Montreal)
Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC GOQ (7 October 1923 – 12 March 2002) was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He became the first Canadian painter (since James Wilson Morrice) to attain widespread international recognition. Born in Montreal, Riopelle began drawing lessons in 1933 and continued through 1938. He studied engineering, architecture and ph...... |
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Walasse Ting (1929 - 2010) - China (Shanghai)
Walasse Ting (Chinese: 丁雄泉, October 13, 1929 – May 17, 2010) was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals. He was born in Shanghai in 1929. He left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong...... |
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George Rickey (1907 - 2002) - United States (South Bend)
George Warren Rickey (June 6, 1907 – July 17, 2002) was an American kinetic sculptor. Rickey was born on June 6, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana. At a 1985 retrospective show, he later recalled that as a very small child, he was fascinated by the window latches in his home. These latches, which can be found in many historic South Bend homes, operate co...... |
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Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006) - South Korea (Seoul)
Nam June Paik (Korean: 백남준, July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with an early usage (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" in application to telecommunications. Born in Seoul in 1932, the youngest of five siblings, P...... |
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George Harrison (1943 - 2001) - United Kingdom (Liverpool)
George Harrison,[nb 1] MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Hinduism and helped broaden the horizons of his bandmates as well as their American audience by in...... |
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John Hoyland (1934 - 2011) - United Kingdom (Sheffield)
John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters. John Hoyland was born on 12 October 1934, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, to a working-class family, and educated at Sheffield School of Art and Crafts within the junior art department (1946–51) before progressing to S...... |
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Jacob Kainen (1909 - 2002) - United States (Waterbury)
Jacob Kainen (December 7, 1909 – March 19, 2001) was an American painter and printmaker. He is also known as an art historian, writing books on John Baptist Jackson (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1962) and the etchings of Canaletto (Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC, 1967). In addition, Kainen was a collector of German Expressionis...... |
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Leroy Neiman (1921 - 2012) - United States (Saint Paul)
LeRoy Neiman (born LeRoy Leslie Runquist, June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screen prints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events. Neiman was born in 1921 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of Lydia Sophia (née Serline) of Braham, Minnesota and Charles Julius Runqu...... |
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Grace Hartigan (1922 - 2008) - United States (Newark)
Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 – November 15, 2008) was a second-generation American Abstract Expressionist painter and a member of the New York School. Born in Newark, New Jersey, of Irish-English descent, Hartigan was the oldest of four children. Encouraging her romantic fantasies, her father and grandmother often sang songs and told her stories....... |
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Jennifer Bartlett (1941 - 2022) - United States (Long Beach)
Jennifer Losch Bartlett (born March 14, 1941) is an American artist. She is known for paintings and prints that combine the system-based aesthetic of Conceptual art with the painterly approach of Neo-expressionism. Many of her pieces are executed on small, square, enamel-coated steel plates that are combined in grid formations to create very large ...... |
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Pacita Abad (1946 - 2004) - Philippines (Basco)
Pacita Abad (October 5, 1946 – December 7, 2004) was born in Basco, Batanes, a small island in the northernmost part of the Philippines, between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more than 30-year painting career began when she traveled to the United States to undertake graduate studies. She exhibited her work in over 200 museums, galleries and other venues, i...... |
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Helen Levitt (1913 - 2009) - United States (Brooklyn)
Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 – March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time." Levitt grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. Her father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant with a wholesale knit-goods...... |
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Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930 - 2020) - United States (Erie)
Richard Anuszkiewicz (pronounced Aah-Nuss-KAY-Vitch born May 23, 1930, Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Richard Anuszkiewicz trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio (1948–1953), and then with Josef Albers at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut (1953–1...... |
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John Bellany (1942 - 2013) -
John Bellany CBE, RA (18 June 1942 – 28 August 2013) was a Scottish painter. Bellany was born in Port Seton. His father and grandfather were fishermen in Port Seton and Eyemouth near Edinburgh. During the early 1960s, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art, here he met with other young Scottish artists to begin lifelong friendships and share ideals...... |
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Maurice Esteve (1904 - 2001) - France (Culan (Cher))
Maurice Estève, (2 May 1904, Culan (Cher) - 29 June 2001), was a French painter. Maurice Estève was born in the French town of Culan (Département Cher) on 2 May 1904. In 1913 he moved to Paris with his parents, where he soon began his education as an artist. Estève worked for a year as designer in a textile factory in Barcelona 1923. During his vis...... |
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Jörg Immendorff (1945 - 2007) -
Jörg Immendorff (June 14, 1945 – May 28, 2007) was one of the best known contemporary German painters he was also a sculptor, stage designer and art professor. Immendorff was born in Bleckede, Lower Saxony. When he was 11 years old, his father left the family. This traumatic experience has been used to explain Immendorff's later feelings of inadequ...... |
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Lewis Baltz (1945 - 2014) - United States (Newport Beach)
Lewis Baltz (September 12, 1945 – November 22, 2014) was a visual artist and photographer who became an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s. His work has been published in a number of books, presented in numerous exhibitions, and appeared in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art,...... |
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Beryl Cook (1926 - 2008) - United Kingdom (Egham)
Beryl Cook, OBE (10 September 1926 – 28 May 2008) was an English artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying themselves in pubs, girls shopping or out on a hen night, drag queen shows or a family picnicking by the s...... |
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Bruce Conner (1933 - 2008) - United States (Mcpherson)
Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 – July 7, 2008) was an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among other disciplines. Born in McPherson, Kansas, Conner was raised in Wichita, Kansas, attended Wichita University (now Wichita State University), and received his B.F.A in Art ...... |
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Eleanor Coen (1916 - 2010) - United States (Normal)
Eleanor Coen (October 21, 1916 – July 9, 2010) was an American painter. Eleanor Coen was born October 21, 1916 in Normal, Illinois. Both a student (and later teacher) at the Art Institute of Chicago, Coen studied there with Boris Anisfeld, Francis Chapin and Max Kahn. She married Kahn in 1942. She established her art career during the great depress...... |
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Elizabeth Violet Blackadder (1931 - 2021) - Scotland (Falkirk)
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, DBE, RA, RSA (born 24 September 1931) is a Scottish painter and printmaker. She is the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy. In 1962 she began teaching at Edinburgh College of Art where she continued until her retirement in 1986. Blackadder worked in a vari...... |
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Milton Resnick (1917 - 2004) - Russia (Bratslav)
Milton Resnick (1917-2004) was an American artist noted for abstract paintings that coupled scale with density of incident. It was not uncommon for some of the largest paintings to weigh in excess three hundred pounds, almost all of it pigment. He had a long and varied career, lasting about sixty-five years. He produced at least eight hundred canva...... |
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Edward Paschke (1939 - 2004) - United States (Chicago)
Edward Francis Paschke (June 22, 1939 – November 25, 2004) was an American painter of Polish descent. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. As a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he was influenced by many artists feat...... |
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John Humphrey Spender (1910 - 2005) - United Kingdom (London)
John Humphrey Spender (19 April 1910 – 11 March 2005) was a British photographer, painter, and designer. John Humphrey Spender was the third son of Harold Spender, a journalist and writer. Humphrey's mother, Violet Schuster, came from a German family who had emigrated to Britain in the 1870s. Violet died in 1921 and Harold Spender died in 1926. Hum...... |
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Al Held (1928 - 2005) - United States (Brooklyn)
Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art f...... |
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Ibram Lassaw (1913 - 2004) - Egypt (Alexandria)
Ibram Lassaw (1913–2003) was a Russian-American sculptor, known for nonobjective construction in brazed metals. Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the B...... |
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Chen Peiqiu (1922 - 2020) - China (Nanyang)
Chen Peiqiu (born 1922) is a Chinese guohua painter, the most prominent Chinese woman painter in a field dominated by men. She and her husband Xie Zhiliu are one of the most famous couples in Chinese art. The government of Shanghai has opened a museum in Nanhui New City dedicated to them. Chen Peiqiu was born in 1922 in Nanyang, Henan Province. Dur...... |
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Atsuko Tanaka (1932 - 2005) - Japan (Osaka)
Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko February 10, 1932 – December 3, 2005) was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist. Tanaka was born in Osaka, on February 10, 1932. She went to several local art schools where she worked in mostly figurative mode. The schools she had attended were the Art Institute of Osaka Municipal Museum of Art in 1950, and fr...... |
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Esteban Vicente (1903 - 2001) - Spain (Turégano)
Esteban Vicente Pérez (January 20, 1903 – January 10, 2001), was an American painter born in Turégano, Spain. He was one of the first generation of New York School abstract expressionists. Esteban Vicente was born in Turégano, Spain on January 20, 1903. His mother, Sofia Pérez y Álvarez came from an Asturian family and was born in Valladolid. His f...... |
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David Shepherd (1931 - 2017) - United Kingdom (Hendon)
Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (25 April 1931 – 19 September 2017) was a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes. His wo...... |
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John Hultberg (1922 - 2005) - United States (Berkeley)
John Hultberg (February 8, 1922 – April 15, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist and Abstract realist painter. Early in his career he was related to the Bay Area Figurative Movement he was also a lecturer and playwright. John Hultberg was born in 1922 in Berkeley, California. He had a sister, Helen, and brothers Paul and Dean. Hultberg atte...... |
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Günther Förg (1952 - 2013) -
Günther Förg (5 December 1952 – 5 December 2013) was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His abstract style was influenced by American abstract painting. Förg was born in Füssen, Allgäu. His father, Michael, worked in a customs office. He studied from 1973 until 1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Fred Da...... |
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Gottfried Honegger (1917 - 2016) -
Gottfried Honegger (12 June 1917 – 17 January 2016) was a Swiss artist and graphic designer. He was married to the Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater. He studied shop-window display at the Zurich Kunstgewerbeschule and taught there from 1948. His early work was commercial graphic design. From 1955-1958 he was art director at Geigy. He lived in New Yor...... |
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Chen Yifei (1946 - 2005) -
Chen Yifei (Chinese: 陈逸飞 April 12, 1946 - April 10, 2005) was a famous Chinese classic-style painter, art director and film director. Chen Yifei is a central figure in the development of Chinese oil painting and is one of China's most renowned contemporary artists. Although he was denounced for "capitalist behavior" Chen's obvious talent and master...... |
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Lloyd Mcneill (1935 - 2021) -
Lloyd McNeill (born in Washington, D.C.) is a jazz flutist and visual artist currently based in New York City. He is generally recognized as a jazz flutist of eminent ability, alongside James Newton, Yusef Lateef, Sam Rivers, James Moody, and Eric Dolphy. Having studied Art and Zoology in Morehouse College, Atlanta, he moved on to be the first reci...... |
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Boris Zaborov (1935 - 2021) -
Boris Zaborov (Belarusian: Барыс Абрамавіч Забораў born 16 October 1935 in Minsk) is a Soviet-trained artist. He moved to Paris, France in 1980 to begin a career in painting that has resulted in numerous exhibitions and increasing recognition in European, American and Russian art circles. Zaborov was born in 1935 in Minsk and, with his family, expe...... |
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Bernard Dunstan (1920 - 2017) - United Kingdom (Teddington)
Bernard Dunstan RA (19 January 1920 – 20 August 2017) was a British artist, teacher, and author, best known for his studies of figures in interiors and landscapes. At the time of his death, he was the longest serving Royal Academician. Bernard Dunstan was born in Teddington, Middlesex, in 1920. He studied at Byam Shaw School of Art in 1939, then at...... |
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Horacio Coppola (1906 - 2012) -
Horacio Coppola (31 July 1906 – 18 June 2012) was an Argentine photographer and filmmaker, and the husband of the German photographer Grete Stern. Coppola was born in Buenos Aires, the youngest of 10 children. His parents, Italian immigrants, were well off, and he studied art, music, law and languages. He was about 20 when he began taking photograp...... |
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Antonio Frasconi (1919 - 2013) - Argentina (Buenos Aires)
Antonio Frasconi (28 April 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay – 8 January 2013 in Norwalk, CT, USA) was an Uruguayan - American visual artist, best known for his woodcuts. He was raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, and lived in the United States since 1945. Frasconi was born 28 April 1919 on a boat between Argentina & Uruguay and was raised in Montevideo, Urug...... |
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902 - 2002) -
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 – October 19, 2002, age 100) was Mexico’s first principal artistic photographer and is the most important figure in 20th-century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, his photography is self-taught. His career spanned from the...... |
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William Christenberry (1936 - 2016) - United States (Tuscaloosa)
William Andrew Christenberry Jr. (November 5, 1936 – November 28, 2016) was a photographer, painter, and sculptor who worked with personal and somewhat mythical themes growing out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama. Christenberry received his bachelor's (1958) and master's (1959) degrees in fine arts from the University of Alabama...... |
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Julian Stanczak (1928 - 2017) - Poland (Borownica)
Julian Stanczak (November 5, 1928 – March 25, 2017) was a Polish-born American painter and printmaker. The artist lived and worked in Seven Hills, Ohio with his wife, the sculptor Barbara Stanczak. Julian Stanczak was born in Borownica, Poland in 1928. At the beginning of World War II, Stanczak was forced into a Siberian labor camp, where he perman...... |
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Beverly Pepper (1922 - 2020) -
Beverly Pepper (born December 20, 1922) is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement. She was married to the writer Curtis Bill Pepper. Pepper was born Beverly Stoll on December 20, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. At sixteen, she entered the Pratt Institute...... |
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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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Jack Youngerman (1926 - 2020) - United States (St. Louis)
Jack Youngerman (born March 25, 1926) is an artist known for his constructions and paintings. Youngerman was born in 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri, but moved with his family to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929. He studied art at the University of North Carolina from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program, and graduated from the University of ...... |
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Harry Sternberg (1904 - 2001) -
Harry Sternberg was an American painter, printmaker and educator. He was born in New York City on July 19, 1904 and died in Escondido, California on November 27, 2001. Sternberg's parents had immigrated from Russia and Hungary. Harry, the youngest of eight children, was born in his family's tenement apartment on the Lower East Side of New York. The...... |
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Armando Morales (1927 - 2011) - Nicaragua (Granada)
Armando Morales (January 15, 1927 – November 16, 2011) was an internationally renowned Nicaraguan painter. Morales is considered one of the most important painters in Nicaragua. Morales, who was born in Granada, Nicaragua, received many awards for his works. He received his first award at the Central American Painting Contest "15 de Septiembre" (Se...... |
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Esphyr Slobodkina (1908 - 2002) - Russia (Chelyabinsk)
Esphyr Slobodkina (September 22, 1908 – July 21, 2002) was a popular artist, author, and illustrator, best known for her classic children's picture book Caps for Sale. Slobodkina was a celebrated avant garde artist and feminist in the middle part of the 20th century. Esphyr Slobodkina (ESS-phere sloh-BOD-kee-nah) was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia in ...... |
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Kazuo Shiraga (1924 - 2008) -
Kazuo Shiraga (白髪 一雄, Shiraga Kazuo, August 12, 1924 – April 8, 2008) was a Japanese modern artist who belonged to the Gutai group of avant-garde artists. He was acknowledged internationally only after his death. In the 1940s he studied Nihonga at the Kyoto City University of Arts. In 1953 he founded the group "Zero Kai" with Akira Kanayama, Kaiko ...... |
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Wolf Kahn (1927 - 2020) - Germany (Stuttgart)
Wolf Kahn (born October 4, 1927) is a German-born American painter. Kahn, known for his combination of Realism and Color Field, works in pastel and oil paint. He studied under Hans Hofmann, and also graduated from the University of Chicago. Kahn is a resident of both New York City and, during the summer and autumn, West Brattleboro, Vermont. Wolf K...... |
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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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Florence Resnikoff (1920 - 2013) -
Florence Resnikoff was an artist and educator in the fields of metals and jewelry. Resnikoff began making jewelry in 1948 while attending the Ox-Bow Summer School of Painting, affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago, in Saugatuck, Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in sculpture from the California College of Arts and Crafts...... |
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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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David Goldblatt (1930 - 2018) -
David Goldblatt (born 29 November 1930) is a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid and more recently that country's landscapes. He has described himself as a “self-appointed observer and critic of the society into which I was born.” He has numerous publications to his name and is held in h...... |
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Charles Henri Ford (1908 - 2002) - United States (Brookhaven)
Charles Henri Ford (February 10, 1908 – September 27, 2002) was an American poet, novelist, diarist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. He published more than a dozen collections of poetry, exhibited his artwork in Europe and the United States, edited the Surrealist magazine View (1940–1947) in New York City, and directed an experimental ...... |
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Dadamaino (1930 - 2004) -
Eduarda Emilia Maino, known publicly as Dadamaino (2 October 1930 – 13 April 2004) was an Italian painter. She was a member of the Milanese avant-garde of the 1960s. Dadamaino first completed a medical degree before taking up art at the end of the 1950s. She frequented a group of young artists who followed Lucio Fontana and the spatialism movement....... |
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Bryan Pearce (1929 - 2007) -
Walter Bryan Pearce (25 July 1929 – 11 January 2007) was a British painter. He was recognised as one of the UK's leading naïve artists. Bryan Pearce was born in St. Ives, Cornwall, which remained his home for the rest of his life. His father, Walter, was a butcher in St Ives, played rugby for Cornwall, and was later mayor of St Ives. His mother, Ma...... |
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James Purdy (1914 - 2009) -
James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 – March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Compl...... |
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Marjorie Arnfield (1930 - 2001) -
Marjorie Helen Arnfield, MBE (25 November 1930 – 26 April 2001) was an English artist who specialised in both industrial and rural landscapes, painting in oil, acrylic and watercolour. Her landscapes, particularly her paintings of Provence and Spain, are characterized by vivid colours and an impressionistic style. In an interview in the magazine Ar...... |
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Cliff Holden (1919 - 2020) -
Cliff Holden FCSD (born December 12, 1919 in Manchester, England) is a British painter, designer, and silk-screen printer. Holden was educated at Wilmslow Modern School followed by Reaseheath School of Agriculture, where he studied agriculture and veterinary science. In 1944, Holden met David Bomberg (1890–1957) at the City Literary Institute in Lo...... |
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Norman Stansfield Cornish (1919 - 2014) -
Norman Stansfield Cornish (18 November 1919 – 1 August 2014) is undoubtedly the most celebrated mining artist and one of the most sought-after contemporary painters in the country. For over 50 years his images of the miner's working life and his observation of social activities have intrigued an appreciative audience. Cornish was the last surviving...... |
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Stanley Cornwell Lewis (1905 - 2009) -
Stanley Cornwell Lewis MBE (December 18, 1905 – September 9, 2009) was a British portrait painter and illustrator. Lewis was born in Wales and studied at the Newport School of Art in Wales from 1923 to 1926. He was then awarded a place at the Royal College of Art where he studied from 1926 until 1930. In 1930 he won second prize in the Rome Scholar...... |
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Jimmy Lee Sudduth (1910 - 2007) -
Jimmy Lee Sudduth (March 10, 1910 - September 2, 2007) was a prominent outsider artist and blues musician from Fayette, Alabama (United States). Jimmy Lee Sudduth was born on March 10, 1910. He was raised on a farm at Caines Ridge, near Fayette, Alabama. He began making art as a child, surrounding the porch of his parents' house with hand-carved wo...... |
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Pat Douthwaite (1934 - 2002) -
Pat Douthwaite (July 28, 1934 – July 26, 2002) was a Scottish artist who was notably compared to Amedeo Modigliani and Chaim Soutine, the peintres maudits of early twentieth-century Paris. Douthwaite was born in Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, to mother Winifred Rachael, and father Thomas Leslie Douthwaite. She spent her early life in Paisley. She trave...... |
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Gerome Kamrowski (1914 - 2004) -
Gerome Kamrowski (January 29, 1914 – March 27, 2004) was an American artist and participant in the Surrealist Movement in the United States. He was born in Warren, Minnesota and begun to study art in the early 1930s at the St. Paul School of Art (now Minnesota Museum of American Art - MMAA), and later to the New Bauhaus in Chicago (now Illinois Ins...... |
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Cleve Gray (1918 - 2004) -
Cleve Gray (September 22, 1918 in New York City – December 8, 2004 in Hartford, Connecticut) was as an American Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. He was born Cleve Ginsberg. The family changed their name to Gray in 1936. He attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City ...... |
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Frank Avray Wilson (1914 - 2009) -
Frank Avray Wilson (1914–2009) was a British artist. Born in Vacoas, Mauritius, on 3 May 1914, Wilson was one of the first British artists to use Tachist or Action painting techniques. Wilson graduated from St John's College, Cambridge University with a degree in biology, before studying art in Paris and Norway.[citation needed] In 1953, he met Den...... |
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