February 16~ African-American visual artists

Posted in #BlackHistoryMonth in Visual Arts, African American Visual Artists, Black American Visual Artists by Christy

Ernest Crichlow (1914-2005), African-American painter, illustrator, and graphic artist
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Shoe Shine / 1953 / Oil on Masonite / 16 1/16”x12 1/16”

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Hughie Lee-Smith (1915-1999),
African-American artist and educator
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Untitled (Maypole) / c.1955 / Oil on Masonite /19”x13 1/2″

10Jan2018

Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/10~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

This prominent late 19th/early 20th century illustrator’s most famous poster was a young woman dressed in a Navy uniform with the caption, “If I were a man, I would join the Navy”.

This American artist’s images depicted the flapper era in a way that both satirized and influenced the styles of the time, and have continued to define the jazz age for subsequent generations.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/10/january-10/

19Dec2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/19~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

This German-born American artist, radicalized by the trauma of World War I, said: “During the war I became interested in truth – in bitter truth and the struggle of life in general.”

This artist – often associated with the Bay Area figurative school – resists categorization, working in a wide range of media including paintings, drawings, prints, posters, and sculptures.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/12/19/december-19/

14Nov2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/14~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

Which French Impressionist’s quest to capture nature more accurately also prompted him to reject European conventions governing composition, color, and perspective?

Which American Regionalist started his career as an illustrator of pulp magazines, and eventually won prominence with anecdotal paintings and murals reflecting social attitudes of the 1930s?

Answers here~
https://schristywolfe.com/2015/11/14/november-14/

12Sep2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/12~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

Which American painter and graphic artist gained fame in the early thirties for a series of paintings on the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, beginning a career which constantly addressed various social and political causes?

Which New Deal arts program muralist intentionally manipulated the topography in his 1937 Pittsburgh Panorama for that city’s Federal Courthouse and Post Office so that the finished image would resemble a hammer and sickle?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/12/september-12/

26Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/26~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

What Mexican painter brainstormed with printmaker and publisher Luis Remba to create Mixografia, a bas-relief printing process that results in works that are mural-sized yet three-dimensional in texture?

What 20th Century African-American artist and art educator worked in both figural and abstract styles, with forms inspired by the dynamic compositions of African sculpture, painting, and textile design?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/26/august-26/

20Apr2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/20~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

What artist is best known for creating the massive marble sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial?

What artist was given a Guggenheim International Award for his mural designs in the UNESCO building in Paris?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/20/april-20/

15Apr2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/15~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

This artist, scientist, naturalist and amateur inventor established what became the first public natural history museum in America.

This artist, along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, pioneered the regionalist movement in American art during the 1930s.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/15/april-15/

1Apr2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/1~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

What artist was a former slave, factory worker, and homeless welfare recipient who died leaving behind over 1200 drawings and paintings?

What American artist made a journey to England in 1878, to ensure accuracy for a book illustration job, and remained there for most of his life?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/01/april-1/

31Mar2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/31~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

In addition to his paintings, murals, and stained glass, what artist wrote eight books plus numerous essays?

What painter is sometimes referred to as the “Prince of Montparnasse”?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/31/march-31/

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February 16~ African-American visual artists

Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/10~

This prominent late 19th/early 20th century illustrator’s most famous poster was a young woman dressed in a Navy uniform with the caption, “If I were a man, I would join the Navy”.

This American artist’s images depicted the flapper era in a way that both satirized and influenced the styles of the time, and have continued to define the jazz age for subsequent generations.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/10/january-10/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/19~

This German-born American artist, radicalized by the trauma of World War I, said: “During the war I became interested in truth – in bitter truth and the struggle of life in general.”

This artist – often associated with the Bay Area figurative school – resists categorization, working in a wide range of media including paintings, drawings, prints, posters, and sculptures.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/12/19/december-19/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/14~

Which French Impressionist’s quest to capture nature more accurately also prompted him to reject European conventions governing composition, color, and perspective?

Which American Regionalist started his career as an illustrator of pulp magazines, and eventually won prominence with anecdotal paintings and murals reflecting social attitudes of the 1930s?

Answers here~
https://schristywolfe.com/2015/11/14/november-14/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/12~

Which American painter and graphic artist gained fame in the early thirties for a series of paintings on the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, beginning a career which constantly addressed various social and political causes?

Which New Deal arts program muralist intentionally manipulated the topography in his 1937 Pittsburgh Panorama for that city’s Federal Courthouse and Post Office so that the finished image would resemble a hammer and sickle?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/12/september-12/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/26~

What Mexican painter brainstormed with printmaker and publisher Luis Remba to create Mixografia, a bas-relief printing process that results in works that are mural-sized yet three-dimensional in texture?

What 20th Century African-American artist and art educator worked in both figural and abstract styles, with forms inspired by the dynamic compositions of African sculpture, painting, and textile design?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/26/august-26/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/20~

What artist is best known for creating the massive marble sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial?

What artist was given a Guggenheim International Award for his mural designs in the UNESCO building in Paris?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/20/april-20/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/15~

Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/1~

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/31~

In addition to his paintings, murals, and stained glass, what artist wrote eight books plus numerous essays?

What painter is sometimes referred to as the “Prince of Montparnasse”?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/31/march-31/

This prominent late 19th/early 20th century illustrator’s most famous poster was a young woman dressed in a Navy uniform with the caption, “If I were a man, I would join the Navy”.

This American artist’s images depicted the flapper era in a way that both satirized and influenced the styles of the time, and have continued to define the jazz age for subsequent generations.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/10/january-10/

This German-born American artist, radicalized by the trauma of World War I, said: “During the war I became interested in truth – in bitter truth and the struggle of life in general.”

This artist – often associated with the Bay Area figurative school – resists categorization, working in a wide range of media including paintings, drawings, prints, posters, and sculptures.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/12/19/december-19/

Which French Impressionist’s quest to capture nature more accurately also prompted him to reject European conventions governing composition, color, and perspective?

Which American Regionalist started his career as an illustrator of pulp magazines, and eventually won prominence with anecdotal paintings and murals reflecting social attitudes of the 1930s?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/11/14/november-14/

Which American painter and graphic artist gained fame in the early thirties for a series of paintings on the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, beginning a career which constantly addressed various social and political causes?

Which New Deal arts program muralist intentionally manipulated the topography in his 1937 Pittsburgh Panorama for that city’s Federal Courthouse and Post Office so that the finished image would resemble a hammer and sickle?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/12/september-12/

What Mexican painter brainstormed with printmaker and publisher Luis Remba to create Mixografia, a bas-relief printing process that results in works that are mural-sized yet three-dimensional in texture?

What 20th Century African-American artist and art educator worked in both figural and abstract styles, with forms inspired by the dynamic compositions of African sculpture, painting, and textile design?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/26/august-26/

What artist is best known for creating the massive marble sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial? What artist was given a Guggenheim International Award for his mural designs in the UNESCO building in Paris? Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/20/april-20/

In addition to his paintings, murals, and stained glass, what artist wrote eight books plus numerous essays? What painter is sometimes referred to as the “Prince of Montparnasse”? Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/31/march-31/

Answers here~
https://schristywolfe.com/2015/11/14/november-14/

What artist is best known for creating the massive marble sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial?

What artist was given a Guggenheim International Award for his mural designs in the UNESCO building in Paris?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/20/april-20/

In addition to his paintings, murals, and stained glass, what artist wrote eight books plus numerous essays?

What painter is sometimes referred to as the “Prince of Montparnasse”?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/31/march-31/