When this artist died in 1986 her ashes were scattered over New Mexico’s unique and vibrantly colored landscape, which she had painted for so much of her life.
This artist’s best-known works are paintings of everyday items such as sandwiches, gumball machines, cakes, and pies rendered in thick paint and and bright pop-art colors.
This 20th century American artist’s time as a volunteer restoring Native American clay vessels inspired his own hand-built pieces, which he would build, break, and reassemble after painting and glazing them.
One of the most famous Neoclassical artists in 19th century Europe, this Danish/Icelandic sculptor spent forty years in Italy and celebrated the date of his arrival there as his “Roman birthday.”
In 1880, this artist received a commission to create a pair of bronze doors for a new decorative arts museum in Paris; the museum was never built and the doors were not completed in his lifetime.
This Brooklyn photographer and digital pioneer uses her art as a means of storytelling, working as a freelancer for the Village Voice, The New York Times, LIFE magazine, and more.
This 18th century Russian Neoclassical sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, and teacher vacillated for quite some time before settling on sculpture as his primary life’s work.
This German-born Uruguayan artist and academic moved to NYC in 1964, where he and fellow artists Liliana Porter & José Guillermo Castillo founded the New York Graphic Workshop.
This 18th century Venetian artist’s frescoes for the Ca’ Sagredo palace met with terrible critical reception, which may have led to his shift toward small genre paintings of everyday life.
This Cubist sculptor studied medicine at the University of Paris but gave up school for a career in art, previously an avocation, when rheumatic fever forced him to abandon his studies.
This Italian Baroque artist created easel paintings and large decorations in Rome, Naples, Mantua, and Bologna for patrons including Pope Paul V and Italy’s top royalty.
This 20th Century artist would work for as long as it took to realize his vision, sculpting without looking at the clock and saying, “I’m in no hurry. It’ll take a year if need be.”
What painter created a series in the late 1940s called Little Images: grid-like structures filled with markings that look like symbols or letters, none larger than three feet?
What celebrated Pop artist gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find, and then go on to alter or improve it?
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