Which Swiss-German artist visited Tunisia in 1914 and found it a turning point, awakening his sense of color and giving him the final push toward abstraction?
Which American artist started painting miniatures on ivory while still a student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, which led to her first one-man show 3 weeks after graduating?
What German-born Dutch artist constructed his most famous work — a photomontage created from a collage of two hundred photographs, prints, and postcards pasted and arranged on a secondary support — in 1923?
What 20th century Italian sculptor is most remembered for his monument to Pope Pius XII in St. Peter’s Basilica and for an enormous bronze of a horse outside the headquarters of the state-owned broadcasting system?
Which 19th century painter is best remembered for the huge oil-on-canvas murals he painted for the walls of public buildings such as the Panthéon, the Sorbonne, and the Hôtel de Ville?
Which English painter and critic coined the term “Post-Impressionism”, mounting a controversial show in 1910 that introduced London to artists such as Matisse, Cézanne, and Van Gogh?
This Dutch painter and designer was part of the Dutch modernism movement in the 1920’s, creating lithographic posters for a variety of clients including KLM, Amstel, and the 1928 Summer Olympics.
This Catalan artist began drawing in his teens during a long convalescence from a serious illness contracted in 1940, and later abandoned his law studies to devote himself entirely to art.
What Norwegian painter, associated with the Symbolist and Expressionist movements, would revisit subjects from his earlier years with renewed inspiration and intensity?
What postwar American second-generation abstract painter is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting?
This American modernist mystic painter is most notable for his “white writing” – light calligraphic marks and symbols atop an abstract field composed of thousands of densely interwoven brushstrokes.
This 20th century artist switched from representational sculpted portraits to painting in the 1950’s, innovating the use of plastic resins and synthetic glazes and creating paintings lit from behind in shadow-box frames.
What Russian-born American artist was introduced to lithography — the most important medium in a career that included graphic design, fine art, costume & set design, and illustration — in 1923?
What 20th century painter and leading figure of the Chicago Imagist school observed, “I try to paint the things that everybody sees, things that are just a part of everybody’s experience of life”?