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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/5~

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This French painter, whose training was grounded in decorative arts, was initially influenced by Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, and the Fauves but by 1910 he had gravitated toward Cubism.

In late December 2017, allegations of sexual harassment surfaced against this American artist who is famous for his massive-scale photorealistic portraits.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/4~

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Which American etcher and lithographer was also a writer. producing numerous books as both author and illustrator, many of them in collaboration with his wife?

Which Italian painter experienced a turning point in his career when in 1928 he was inspired by the Etruscan collection seen while visiting Rome’s Villa Giulia?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/3~

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What painter had a nearly sixty-year career on two continents, moving from Boston to London in 1774 and adapting his successful American portrait style to the more painterly British approach?

What Hungarian artist was a painter but earned his living from poster and graphic design works, writing and publishing extensively about commercial art?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/2~

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What Hungarian-born photographer, who had a profound effect on hand-held photography, died in New York in 1985 leaving behind 100,000 negatives, many of which to this day remain unseen?

What designer, typographer, & painter wanted to be a chemist but when his parents couldn’t afford tuition turned to art, eventually co-founding one of Switzerland’s best-known ad agencies?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/1~

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In 1904 this painter and illustrator left New York City to stay with his parents in Clark’s Cove, Maine, and experienced a turning point in his career.

This painter was one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists, a New York organization active during the 30s and 40s that embraced non-objective subjects based on pure form and color.

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July 1~ Willie Dixon & James Cotton

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Willie Dixon was born July 1, 1915, in Vicksburg, MS.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/willie-dixon-mn0000959770/biography
Illustration: William Stout / Legends of the Blues

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Cotton was born July 1, 1935, in Tunica, MS.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/james-cotton-mn0000131841/biography
Illustration: Jack Coughlin / A Brush with the Blues: 26 Portraits

 

 

 

 

Willie Dixon and James Cotton with Muddy Waters, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Spann, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Mable Hillery in 1966 at the Canadian CBC Television studio, recording a portion of a CBC “Festival” series:

http://www.allmovie.com/movie/masters-of-the-blues-v204117

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/30~

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What artist, a member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, originally worked in construction as a pipe fitter’s assistant while sculpting and painting at night?

What Louisiana artist executed a series of black-and-white woodcut prints in 2002 and 2003 with imagery of New Orleans that looks as if it was created immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/29~

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This sculptor produced lifelike portrait busts such as Andrew Jackson — and idealized figures such as The Greek Slave (1843) which helped to overcome the public’s dislike of female nudity in art.

This African-American photographer who lived in NYC during the Harlem Renaissance had a gift for capturing the most influential individuals and riveting artistic moments of the era.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/27~

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What painter and printmaker in the New York School progressed from realism to abstraction and later to a highly influential style of cartoon realism?

What artist, metalsmith and educator approached metal like a collage artist, casting a series of elements and then assembling them in compositions?

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