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Robert Ryman, a revered abstract artist who experimented with the most basic elements of painting — including the shape and material of a canvas, the fixtures that hold it to a wall and the movement of a brush over its surface — while working primarily with a single color, white, died Feb. 8 at his home…

In 1971 Grayson Mathews, traveling in his Chevy pickup on the highways and back roads of the American West, began a two-year photographic project to document the lifestyles of professional rodeo cowboys. With his Leicas and Nikon F cameras loaded with Kodak Tri-X and 1,000 ASA speed 2475 Recording Film (fastest black and white film…

Art plays a key supporting role in the the recent hit horror-thriller Midsommar. Once you get to the end of the film, it becomes clear that director Ari Aster has laid artistic breadcrumbs in the background that, upon closer consideration, reveal how the dark climax was being set up from the start.

Georges Rouault was a French artist whose work melded Fauvism and Expressionism with its jewel-like tones and bold graphic lines. Alongside Henri Matisse, André Derain, Rouault culled from his spiritual fervor and knowledge of medieval stained glass to produce resonating portraits, landscapes, religious scenes, and still lifes. In one of his hallmark works The Old King (1916-1936), the painter poetically…

Best known for her iconic photograph Migrant Mother, photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) had a career that spanned more than four decades. In 1919 at the age of 23 she daringly opened a portrait studio in San Francisco. Meeting her husband, the painter Maynard Dixon, who was 20 years her senior, exposed her to the bohemian art…

Shige Yamada, American artist. Certified teacher, Hawaii. Designated Living Treasure of Hawaii, Honpa Hongwangi Mission of Hawaii. With United States Army, 1956-1958. Background Yamada, Shige was born on May 25, 1933 in Wailuku/Maui, Hawaii, United States. Son of Masao and Misao Yamada. Education Bachelor, University Hawaii, 1955. Bachelor of Education, University Hawaii, 1956. Master of…

Charles Napier Hemy RA was a British genre and marine painter. He was born to a musical family in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and trained in the Government School of Design, Newcastle, followed by the Antwerp Academy and the studio of Baron Leys. Hemy returned to London in the 1870s, and in 1881 moved to the coastal town of Falmouth in Cornwall. He produced painted figure- and…

James Prosek is an American artist, writer and naturalist. He was born in Connecticut and grew up in the town of Easton, CT where he still lives. His father was born in Santos, Brazil and his mother in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is a 1997 graduate of Yale University.

Simka Simkhovitch was a Russian artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the…

Albrecht Dürer sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian…