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Charles Dellschau 1830–1923
Charles August Albert Dellschau (4 June 1830 Brandenburg, Prussia – 20 April 1923 Houston, Texas) was a Prussian-American who gained posthumous fame after the discovery of his large scrapbooks that ...
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G. Peter Jemison 1945–
G. Peter Jemison (born 1945) is a Native American artist, curator, educator, and author. He is a citizen of the Seneca Nation of Indians He is the founding curator of the American Indian Community ...
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James Brooks 1906–1992
James David Brooks (October 18, 1906 – March 9, 1992) was an American Abstract Expressionist, muralist, abstract painter, art teacher, and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts.
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Bernard Karfiol 1886–1952
Bernard Karfiol (May 6, 1886 – August 16, 1952) was an American painter and watercolorist. His work was indebted to French modernism and wished to synthesize Hellenic classical painting and modernist ...
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Daniel Joseph Martinez 1957–
Daniel Joseph Martinez has implemented nearly every available artistic medium— text, photography, painting, sculpture, video, performance, and even motorized animatronic self-portraits—in works that ...
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Nell Blaine 1922–1996
Nell Blair Walden Blaine (July 10, 1922–November 14, 1996) was an American landscape painter, expressionist, and watercolorist. From Richmond, Virginia, she had most of her career based in New York ...
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Byron Kim 1961–
Byron Kim (born in 1961 in La Jolla, California) is an American contemporary artist. He is Korean American, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In the early 1990s he produced minimalist ...
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Robert Beauchamp 1923–1995
Robert Beauchamp (1923 – 22 March 1995) was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with ...
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Richard Merkin 1938–2009
Richard Marshall Merkin (October 9, 1938 – September 5, 2009) was an American painter, illustrator and arts educator. Merkin's fascination with the 1920s and 1930s defined his art and shaped his ...
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Nancy Holt 1938–2014
Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art. Throughout her career, Holt also produced ...