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(November 12, 1823 – April 14, 1903) Thomas Waterman Wood was an American painter born in Montpelier, Vermont. Thomas Waterman Wood’s father, John Wood, came to Montpelier from Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1814. The Wood family was of Puritan descent, and it was from Lebanon that John Wood, the father of the artist, married his wife Mary Waterman. John Wood and…

(30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for…

(born November 26, 1951) Stoney Lamar studied wood technology at Appalachian State University, then started a woodworking shop to make and sell furniture with his wife, Susan. After borrowing a friend’s lathe he began to turn wood and liked the spontaneity that this allowed. He attended workshops given by David Ellsworth, and Mark and Melvin…

(born November 25, 1972) Beth Cavener, also known as Beth Cavener Stichter, is an American artist based out of Montana. A classically trained sculptor, her process involves building complex metal armatures to support massive amounts of clay. Cavener is best known for her fantastical animal figures, which embody the complexity of human emotion and behavior. Cavener addresses…

(24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter,  printmaker,  draughtsman,  caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those times. Born into the aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec broke…

(November 23, 1920 – April 9, 2015) Rafael Soriano was a Cuban painter who lived in the United States. Soriano was born on November 23, 1920, in Cidra, Matanzas Province, Cuba. He was studied at the San Alejandro Art Academy in Havana. During his studies, he met the critic José Gómez-Sicre and painters Víctor Manuel and Fidelio Ponce. With them he had a close friendship. He has started…

(November 22, 1806 – February 7, 1863) Francis William Edmonds was an American painter of genre subjects. He often painted in the style of 17th century Dutch painters. He kept up his painting career as well as a career in banking.

(21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) René Magritte (born November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium—died August 15, 1967, Brussels) Belgian artist, one of the most prominent Surrealist painters, whose bizarre flights of fancy blended horror, peril, comedy, and mystery. His works were characterized by particular symbols—the female torso, the bourgeois “little man,” the bowler hat, the apple, the castle, the…

(November 20, 1874 – July 21, 1970) James N. Rosenberg was an American lawyer, artist, humanitarian, and writer. In law, he is remembered for his handling of the collapsed business empire of the so-called “Swedish Match King,” Ivar Kreuger. In art, he is remembered for two types of pictures, on the one hand, realist landscapes of…

(November 19, 1912 – February 11, 1998) Lily Harmon was an American visual artist. She studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts in New Haven, and then went on to the Académie Colarossi in Paris, and lastly at the Art Students League of New York. While studying in Paris, she would often get up at 6:30 in the morning,…