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During his career, Philip Guston’s work spanned from the murals he created under the Works Progress Administration, to Abstract Expressionism, to a more representative, almost cartoonish style. The lithograph seen here is typical of his later work and was created only nine years before his death. Images from this time often include shoes, clocks, light…
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Born in Cologne, Germany, Betty Waldo Parrish was a painter and printmaker known for her detailed landscapes and cityscapes. She studied art at the Academie Julian in Paris, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, at the Art Students League in New York under the artist John Sloan. During the Great Depression she worked under the…
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Picasso is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Taught to draw by his father, he showed artistic talent at an extremely early age. He continued to create work until his death at the age of 92. This print is part of the Vollard Suite. This collection of 100…
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Mary Cassatt was the only American to exhibit with the Impressionists. She was invited to show with the group by Edgar Degas, who would remain her close friend. Cassatt is best known for her images of women. Although she was never a mother herself, she frequently painted mothers tending to their children. This image of…
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Marc Chagall was born in the small Russian town of Vitebsk to a devout Jewish family. His hometown and his faith served as an inspiration in his work throughout his life. After completing several commissions for the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, Chagall was asked to create a series of 105 etchings based on the Bible….
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Marc Chagall was born in the small Russian town of Vitebsk to a devout Jewish family. His hometown and his faith served as an inspiration in his work throughout his life. After completing several commissions for the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, Chagall was asked to create a series of 105 etchings based on the Bible….
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Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Leonard Baskin was committed to art at a young age. During his lifetime he studied briefly at NYU’s School of Architecture, Yale’s School of Fine Arts, and beginning in 1950 went overseas to study at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence….
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The American artist Leon Golub was a member of The Monster Roster, a group of Chicago based artists who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their images were known for being unrelated to New York art trends of the time, and were often described as existential, gruesome, and grotesque. Also included…
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Rouault was born in 1871 and witnessed the tragedies of World War I. Inspired by the suffering of fellow human beings and his devout Catholicism, Rouault used his art to express the social turmoil and spiritual corruption he observed. From the Misery volume of the series entitled Miserere et Guerre, or Misery and War, this…
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The American realist Fairfield Porter created his representational work, largely landscapes, during the height of Abstract Expressionism. Although he was never interested in the movement, he was very close friends with, and continually inspired by, Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning. Porter was a painter, a lithographer, a poet, and an art critic for publications such…
