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Gift of Jayson D. Pankin Raphael Soyer came to the United States from Russia in 1912. In the 1950’s, along with fellow artists including Edward Hopper and Ben Shahn, Soyer founded the art magazine Reality. His work remained realistic throughout his career, even amidst the popularity of abstract art. Soyer was a life-long friend of…
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The American artist Alex Katz, now in his 80’s, lives and works in New York. He is best known for his portraits, especially those of his wife Ada. The cropped, flatly colored, and close-up image found in this lithograph is a distinction of his work.
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Gift of Lisa Qualls and Matthew Scheiner. Ron Adams is a renowned contemporary printmaker who trained widely in a variety of technical printmaking methods and techniques. While studying at the University of Mexico in the late 1960s, Adams designed the decorations for the Mexico City Olympic Stadium. He also notably collaborated with the likes of…
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Don Cincone was born Don Wills in a sharecropper’s home in Alto, LA. When he was seven, his family moved to Monroe. As a young man, Cincone spent three years traveling throughout Europe studying the work of master painters in Europe’s great museums and cathedrals. After returning to the U.S., Cincone studied fashion design and…
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The New Orleans native is known for his colorful paintings and prints of his city’s neighborhoods and celebrations. Brice designed the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival poster in 1970 and was a permanent fixture at Jazz Fest each and every year after that. The artist also painted several large murals in the French…
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Prussian-born Käthe Kollwitz developed an aesthetic vision centered around the plights of workers and peasants, and especially women of the working class. In an art world dominated by men, Kollwitz was excluded from the Academy and educated instead at a Berlin art school for women. Here, she studied the prints and writings of Max Klinger….
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Audubon was born in present day Haiti in 1785, the son of a French naval officer and planter. As a young child he had a passion for exploring the countryside and drawing wildlife; his interest in nature intensified in 1803 when he came to the United States and was confronted by the pristine and bountiful…
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Julian Stanczak became a leading pioneer of Op Art, despite having lost the use of his right arm in a soviet concentration camp as a child. Op Art arose as a global movement in the early 1960s, influenced by the Bauhaus, a school founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany. The school integrated the fine arts,…
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Born in Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton’s childhood was shaped by discussions of Mid-Western ideals. In 1908 he moved to Paris to study at the Academie Julien, where he was influenced by Cubism and by the distorted and elongated figures in El Greco’s paintings. He returned to the United States and soon became a central figure…
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This image of Missouri’s infamous James Brothers was included in Benton’s mural entitled The Social History of the State of Missouri, which is in the state’s Capitol building. The Missouri House of Representatives commissioned the artist to create the mural on the four walls of the House Lounge, a large meeting room. This particular image…
