Tag Archives: Printmaker
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/17~
This artist was the leading painter of Roman monuments and ruins during the 18th century, especially popular with English and French visitors who desired souvenirs of their travels in Rome.
This artist is renowned for his visual explorations of metamorphosis, complex architectural mazes involving perspectival games, and the representation of impossible spaces.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/17/june-17/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/25~
This German-born artist was the first American sculptor to win a Gold Medal at the Paris Salon
This 20th century American artist was best known for paintings and prints created in his distinctively flat, stylized manner.
.Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/25/may-25/
Norma Bassett Hall, American printmaker: Born May 21, 1889
Norma Bassett Hall was an American woodblock printmaker who often depicted landscapes and outdoor scenes. She was born in Halsey, Oregon. In 1910, she become a member of the inaugural class of the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon. After leaving Portland, she briefly taught in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before continuing her education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1915-1918. She also studied privately with the noted British printmaker Mabel Royds, who introduced Norma to the Japanese method of printing woodcuts on rice paper with transparent watercolors. While studying at the SAIC, Norma Bassett met and would later 
marry Arthur William Hall, a fellow student and artist. Following their marriage, they made their home in Kansas, becoming deeply involved with the state’s flourishing printmaking culture and helping to found the Prairie Print Makers. Hall, the only female among the group’s eleven charter members, designed their distinctive logo, a monogram set within a stylized sunflower. Hall and her husband divided their time and subjects between the rolling hills of Kansas and the dramatic vistas of New Mexico. In 1944 the couple permanently relocated to New Mexico, living first in Santa Fe and eventually purchasing an estate near Alcade from which they operated an art school. Bassett Hall continued to work and teach from their estate until her death in 1957. ~Wikipedia
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art~
http://jsma.uoregon.edu/jordan-schnitzer-museum-art-opens-first-solo-exhibition-norma-bassett-hall-1957
Biographies~
http://beyondbutler.wix.com/beyondbutler#!norma-bassett-hall-bio-link-/ccrh
http://casewardprintmaker.com/Mentor/Norma_Bassett_Hall.html
Artnet~ http://www.artnet.com/artists/norma-bassett-hall/past-auction-results
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/21~
Which German artist of the Renaissance period revolutionized printmaking, elevating it to the level of an independent art form?
Which artist, best known for his paintings teeming with exotic flora and fauna, actually never left France despite stories to the contrary?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/21/may-21/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/18~
This 17th Century etcher and draftsman, who created thousands of drawings and prints, was basically self-taught.
This contemporary American realist artist is known for her large still lifes, many depicting light bouncing off reflective surfaces.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/18/may-18/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/12~
This painter, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was also a poet, illustrator, and translator.
This artist—noted for his work in the minimalism, hard-edge painting, and post-painterly abstraction movements—continues to live and work in New York.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/12/may-12/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/6~
This artist contributed to development of the genre “monkeys’ kitchens”, allegorical scenes of monkeys enacting human vices popular in Flemish painting in the 16th and 17th centuries.
This artist was one of the founders of Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/06/may-6/
Odilon Redon: Born April 20, 1840
Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916)
Brief Biography~ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/odilon-redon-2243
A better understanding of Redon. Extracts from writings~
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/around-redon.html#c52029
Collection at MoMA~ http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/4840?locale=en
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/19~
This artist’s most successful prints were produced during 1930 to 1938, with over forty colour linocuts as well as a collaboration on a series of posters for the London Passenger Transport Board.
This photographer/filmmaker/performance artist died, or disappeared, in 1975 at the age of 33 attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a 13 foot sailboat.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/19/april-19/
