born Hartford, CT 1826-died New York City 1900
Church and Thomas Cole, the two most esteemed painters of the Hudson River school, were associated from 1844 to 1846 as pupil and master.
born Seneca County, NY 1821/22-died Detroit, MI 1872
born Springfield, OH 1898-died Monson, ME 1991
“Paris was where the 20th century was.” Should the remark so often quoted and attributed to Gertrude Stein prove apocryphal, it would make no difference.
born Charlotte, NC 1911-died New York City 1988
Born in North Carolina; studied in the U.S. and in Paris; lived mostly in New York City.
born San Francisco, CA 1926
Born in San Francisco, Kay Sekimachi studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland from 1946 to 1949.
born Boston, MA 1905-died Washington, DC 1998
Now in her eighth decade as an artist, Lois Mailou Jones has treated an extraordinary range of subjects—from French, Haitian, and New England landscapes to the sources and issues of African-American culture.
born Okayama-ken, Japan 1885-died Berkeley, CA 1975
Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century.
born Columbus, GA 1891-died Washington, DC 1978
Alma Thomas was a teacher and artist who developed a powerful form of abstract painting late in life. From the mid-1960s, she produced brilliantly colored and richly patterned works intimately connected to the natural world.
born Seoul, Korea 1932-died Miami Beach, FL 2006
Nam June Paik (1932–2006), internationally recognized as the “Father of Video Art,” created a large body of work including video sculptures, installations, performances, videotapes and television productions.
born Greenbush (now Rensselaer), NY 1844-died London, England 1907
Edmonia Lewis was the first sculptor of African American and Native American (Mississauga) descent to achieve international recognition. Her father was Black, and her mother was Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian.
born Atlanta, GA 1952-died Seattle, WA 2025
Seattle-based artist Ginny Ruffner trained at the University of Georgia, graduating with honors and an MFA in drawing and painting.
born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937
Working in France after 1891, Henry Ossawa Tanner achieved an international reputation largely through his religious paintings.
born near Pleasant Hill, AL ca. 1853-died Montgomery, AL 1949
Bill Traylor was born around April 1, 1853, on the Alabama plantation of John Getson Traylor in Dallas County, near the towns of Pleasant Hill and Benton. Traylor and his siblings were born enslaved, as their parents had been.
born Atlantic City, NJ 1917-died Seattle, WA 2000
Painter. A social realist, Lawrence documented the African American experience in several series devoted to Toussaint L’Ouverture, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, life in Harlem, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
born Los Angeles, CA 1926
Betye Saar was born in Pasadena, California.
born Florence, SC 1901-died Central Islip, NY 1970
By almost any standard, William H. Johnson (1901–1970) can be considered a major American artist. He produced hundreds of works in a virtuosic, eclectic career that spanned several decades as well as several continents.
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