Anne Diggory (b.1951 [1] ) is an American artist.
Diggory received a BA from Yale University in 1973, and an MFA from Indiana University in 1976. [2] [3] In 1977 she moved to Saratoga Springs, New York and began work inspired by local landscapes including the Adirondack Park and Saratoga Springs. [4]
In 2001 The New York Times chronicled a painting and backpacking trip to the Adirondacks by Ms. Diggory and others. [5]
In addition to numerous smaller paintings, she has executed multiple large-scale pieces, including murals for the Adirondack Trust Company, Five Seasons of the Adirondacks in 1998 [6] and The Flume in 2001, [7] and a frieze (with Alice Manzi and Beverly Mastrianni) for the facade of the Saratoga Springs Amtrak Station in 2003. [8]
Her painting Layers of Clarity and Ambiguity was featured in the October, 2001 issue of American Artist magazine. [9]
Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and action painting, since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided the critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects. In 2016, Pollock's painting titled Number 17A was reported to have fetched US$200 million in a private purchase.
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Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,700 at the 2010 census. The name was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls referring to a large waterfall in the Hudson River at the southern end of the city.
Bridget Louise Riley is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.
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Harold Weston was an American modernist painter, based for many years in the Adirondack Mountains, whose work moved from expressionism to realism to abstraction. He was collected by Duncan Phillips, widely exhibited in the 1920s and 1930s, and painted murals under the Treasury Relief Art Project for the General Services Administration. In later life he was known for his humanitarian food relief work during World War II and his arts advocacy that led to the passage of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965. Weston's most recent museum exhibition was at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, and his most recent gallery exhibition was at Gerald Peters Gallery in New York City.
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Horace Day, also Horace Talmage Day, was an American painter of the American scene who came to maturity during the Thirties and was active as a painter over the next 50 years. He traveled widely in the United States and continued to explore throughout his life subjects that first captured his attention as an artist in the Thirties. He gained early recognition for his portraits and landscapes, particularly his paintings in the Carolina Lowcountry.
Marion Greenwood was an American social realist artist who became popular starting in the 1920s and became renowned in both the United States and Mexico. She is most well known for her murals, but she also practiced easel painting, printmaking, and frescoes.
Rita Letendre, LL. D. was a Canadian painter, muralist, and printmaker associated with Les Automatistes and the Plasticiens. She was an Officer of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Governor General's Award.
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