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Art Book Review – Mexican Muralists: 240 Pages of Work by Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros

By: Scott Fogdall

Art Inspired by America: Works by Italian Immigrant Artists Stella, Romano and Guglielmi

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Judy Chicago and The Dinner Party: American Artist's Installation Piece an Icon in Feminist Art History

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Future Unveiled by French Artist Suzanne Valadon: Painting Brings Up Feminist Art History and Female Sexuality

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Avant-Garde – Abstraction in Constructivism: Vladimir Tatlin's 'The Monument to the Third International'

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Artist Fairfield Porter: American Realist Painter and Art Critic

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Who Were the Indian Space Painters? How Traditional Native American Art Inspired a 20th-Century Movement

By: Scott Fogdall

Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George: The Artist’s Search for a Shanty of One’s Own

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

The Arizona Desert and Frank Lloyd Wright: Principles of Organic Architecture at Taliesin West

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Henri Matisse and Lorette: The Colorful Dynamic Between Painter and Model

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West: The Creation of an Architectural Fellowship in the Arizona Desert

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Josef Lada: 20th Century Czech Artist: Painter, Illustrator, Satirist and Children's Author

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Was it Murder? The Fate of Artist Tom Thomson: The Death of Thomson in Algonquin Park Remains Unsolved

By: Terry McNamee

Constructivism - The Artist As Worker: The Advertising Legacy Created By An Art Movement

By: Melissa Mostyn

Constructivism: The End Of Painting? A Look At Key Works In 5x5=25

By: Melissa Mostyn

Constructivism - How It Began: The Bolsheviks And The New Russian Avant-Garde

By: Melissa Mostyn

Umberto Romano: Italian-Born American Artist

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

International Klein Blue: The Story of Ultramarine And The Man Who Patented It

By: Melissa Mostyn

Sir William Orpen: Irish-Born Artist and Portrait Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

The Color Red in Three Paintings: In the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Post-Impressionist Cone Collection

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Weeping Woman with Handkerchief by Pablo Picasso: Guernica Collections, Antiwar Masterpieces of 1937

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Cubism: Early Twentieth-Century Art Movements: Picasso and Braque as Modern Art Masters

By: Marc Zeale

Artist Grant Wood: Iowa-Born Regionalist and Painter of American Gothic

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Sonia Delaunay: Music, Expression and Beautiful Color

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Futurism: Umberto Boccioni: Marinetti's Contemporary Shaped Twentieth Century Art

By: Victoria Robinson

Fauvism: Early Twentieth-Century Art Movements: Henri Matisse and Fauvist Influences on Modern Art

By: Marc Zeale

Martin Benka: Slovak Painter and Illustrator: The Father of Slovak Modernist Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

American Artist John Sloan: Ashcan School Painter and Member of The Eight

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Katarzyna Kozyra Polish Artist: A Critical Study Of The Artist's Work "Bath House"

By: Paul Black

Women Artists - Hannah Wilke: Profile of Feminist Performance and Multimedia Artist

By: Shona Black

Artist August Macke: German Expressionist Painter and Member of Der Blaue Reiter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Winter Beauty from The Ashcan School: Snowy Scenes of Painters Henri, Sloan, Glackens and Bellows

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Claude Cahun: French Surrealist Photographer: Rediscovered Contemporary of Man Ray

By: Zuzana Minarikova

American Artist Everett Shinn: Member of The Eight and The Ashcan School of Painting

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Pablo Picasso's Blue Period: The Story Behind the Paintings

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques: A Closer Look at The Artist's Famous Circus Painting

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

John Cooper: Beyond West Kootenay Landscapes: Late 20th-Century Artist Transcends Time & Place in Paintings

By: Simone Keiran

Portraits of The Great Depression: Paintings by Artists Hogue, Dickinson, Guglielmi and Tait

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

American Painter Elaine Fried de Kooning: Abstract Expressionist and Portrait Artist

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Artist Jane Peterson: American Woman Painter of Impressionist and Expressionist Styles

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Artist George Wesley Bellows: Illustrator and Painter of Boxing Matches and American Scenes

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

French Artist Suzanne Valadon: Painter, Renoir Model, and Mother of Artist Maurice Utrillo

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Andy Warhol a Founder of Pop Art: New Direction for American Art of the 1960s

By: Todd Murray

Artist Maria Izquierdo: Mexican Painter and Contemporary of Frida Kahlo

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Abstract-Expressionism: American Painter Jackson Pollock: the "One That Broke the Ice"

By: Todd Murray

Canadian Artist Tom Thomson: Painter of The Jack Pine and Colleague of The Group of Seven

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory: A Closer Look at a Surrealist Masterpiece

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

American Artist Marsden Hartley: Abstract Modernist and Maine Regionalist Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Japanese Artist Hashiguchi Goyo: 20th Century Shin Hanga Woodblock Printmaker and Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Gary Hume: Door Paintings: The YBA Artist At Modern Art Oxford

By: Paul Black

John Kane: American Folk Artist and Painter of Pittsburgh Scenes

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Artist Sir Stanley Spencer: British Painter of The Resurrection, Cookham

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Marc Chagall French Painter: Born in Russia to a Jewish Family, Artist Chagall Painted Magic

By: Feature Writer Mary Rayme

American Artist Alice Neel: Portraitist and Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

American Artist Georgia O'Keeffe: O'Keeffe Painted New Mexico Light Effects Despite Failing Vision.

By: Jennifer Harrison-Konz

American Artist Charles Demuth: Pennsylvania-Born Precisionist Painter of The Figure Five in Gold

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

American Artist Beatrice Wood: From The Mama of Dada to The Pottery Queen of Ojai, California

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

American Artist Charles Sheeler: US Painter and Photographer Made Manhatta Film With Paul Strand

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Horace Pippin: Self-Taught African-American Artist

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Artist Edward Hopper: American Realist Painter of Nighthawks

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

The Painter Francis Bacon: Bacon's Quest for the Abject Interior

By: Catherine Owen

20th-Century Artist Self-Portraits: With Young Girl, With a Self-Portrait, As a Monk, or With Skeleton

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Archibald Motley: African-American Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Robert Henri: American Painter and Art Educator of The Ash Can School

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

20th-Century Artist-Writers: Englishman John Bratby and Spaniard Antonio Tàpies

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Artist Joseph Stella: American Modernist Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Fascination with Elements of War: In Modern artist Giacomo Balla and Irish Painter Daniel Maclise

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

The Erotic Art of Egon Schiele: An Expressionist Painter's Life

By: Catherine Owen

Arthur Dove: American Artist and Early Abstract Painter

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Jacob Lawrence: 20th Century African-American Artist

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Rufino Tamayo: 20th Century Mexican Artist

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Becoming Georgia O'Keeffe: The American Artist's Early Years

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

American Artist Georgia O'Keeffe: 20th Century American Woman Artist Painted in Taos, New Mexico

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Dada Artist Max Ernst: First Used Frottage in His Work in 1925

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Pollock and Lichtenstein: 20th-Century American Painters

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Percy Wyndham Lewis: 20th-Century British Vorticist Painter

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Paul Nash and Yves Tanguy: Two 20th-Century English and French Painters

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Japanese Painter Foujita: Artist of East and West

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Jeanne Hébuterne: Modigliani's Last Muse

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Name the Early-20th-Century Artist: Can You Identify These Early 20th-Century European Painters?

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

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