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This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Bob Thompson (June 26, 1937 – May 30, 1966) [1] was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were influenced by the Old Masters. His art has also been described as synthesizing Baroque and Renaissance masterpieces with the jazz -influenced Abstract Expressionist movement.
Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting, 1910-1940, a show celebrating the Group of Seven and Emily Carr, among others, and shown in Frankfurt, was organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in combination with the National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Ontario in 2021 [55] and the catalogue while acknowledging the 'bold ...
Known for. Painting. William Robinson Thomson RBA, ARCA (born 24 January 1926 [1] – 1988) was a British artist within the Modern British school of the late twentieth century. He is known for his portraiture and paintings of the female nude. Major influences on his work included Rembrandt, Degas and Cezanne.
Of artists listed, there are only 18 women, including Rosalba Carriera, Mary Cassatt, Angelica Kauffmann, Judith Leyster, Georgia O'Keeffe, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, and Marguerite Zorach. For the complete list of artists and their artworks in the collection, see the website www.nga.gov.
Tom Scott (1928–2013) [1] was an American Abstract painter, teacher and arts administrator.His career, spanning six decades, included architecture, sculpture, furniture design, photography and video and demonstrated an underlying conviction that painting needed to embrace change to remain vital. [2]
The West Wind is a 1917 painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson. An iconic image, the pine tree at its centre has been described as growing "in the national ethos as our one and only tree in a country of trees". [1] It was painted in the last year of Thomson's life and was one of his final works on canvas. The painting, and a sketch for the ...
The Canadian painter Tom Thomson died on 8 July 1917, on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. After Thomson drowned in the water, his upturned canoe was discovered later that afternoon and his body eight days later. Many theories regarding Thomson's death—including that he was murdered or committed ...