Albert Pinkham Ryder was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes,as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of color with tonalist works of the time,it was unique for accentuating form in a way that some art historians regard as modernist.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington,D.C.,part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum,the Renwick Gallery,SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art,from the colonial period to the present,made in the United States. The museum has more than 7,000 artists represented in the collection. Most exhibitions take place in the museum's main building,the old Patent Office Building,while craft-focused exhibitions are shown in the Renwick Gallery.
Sven Birger Sandzén,known more commonly as Birger Sandzén,was an American painter best known for his landscapes. He produced most of his work while working as an art professor at Bethany College,Lindsborg,Kansas.
The Spencer Museum of Art is an art museum operated by the University of Kansas in Lawrence,Kansas. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums,the Spencer Museum seeks to "...present its collection as a living archive that motivates object-centered research and teaching,creative work,and transformative public dialogue."
The Wichita Art Museum is an art museum located in Wichita,Kansas,United States.
Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism,however,she is best known for her abstract dripped,splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings,which she started in the 1980s,and for her later site-specific wall drawings.
James Ormsbee Chapin was an American painter and illustrator. He was the father of jazz musician Jim Chapin and grandfather of folk singer Harry Chapin.
Achelous and Hercules is a 1947 mural painting by Thomas Hart Benton. It depicts a bluejeans-wearing Heracles wrestling with the horns of a bull,a shape the protean river god Achelous was able to assume. The myth was one of the explanations offered by Greco-Roman mythology for the origin of the cornucopia,a symbol of agricultural abundance. Benton sets the scene during harvest time in the U.S. Midwest.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1896–1986) was an American curator,museum director,and art historian known for her longtime leadership of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Mary Cassatt scholarship.
Joyce J. Scott is an African-American artist,sculptor,quilter,performance artist,installation artist,print-maker,lecturer and educator. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016,and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019,Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form,off-loom beadweaving techniques,similar to a peyote stitch. Each piece is often constructed using thousands of glass seed beads or pony beads,and sometimes other found objects or materials such as glass,quilting and leather. In 2018,she was hailed for working in new medium —a mixture of soil,clay,straw,and cement —for a sculpture meant to disintegrate and return to the earth. Scott is influenced by a variety of diverse cultures,including Native American and African traditions,Mexican,Czech,and Russian beadwork,illustration and comic books,and pop culture.
Vance Hall Kirkland was a painter and educator in Denver,Colorado. His paintings,from 1926 to 1981,range from realist and impressionist watercolors,to surrealist deadwood worlds,to abstract expressionist mixtures of oil paint and water to richly textured dot paintings in oil. Commenting on Kirkland's works from 1954 to 1981,the director of the Museum of Modern Art,Vienna,Lóránd Hegyi,stated,“... in his later work,he developed a visionary art which mystically empathized with the entire universe,gave cosmic universality visual form in explosive images and used panel painting to convey the perpetually changing state of the universe.”After his death Kirkland Museum of Fine &Decorative Art was founded in his name.
Beth Lipman is a contemporary artist working in glass. She is best known for her glass still-life compositions which reference the work of 16th- and 17th-century European painters.
Jodi Anne Hauptman is an American art historian and curator. Hauptman is the Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art.
Martha P. Tedeschi is an American art historian and curator. Tedeschi currently serves as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums. She is a scholar of nineteenth-century American and British prints and drawings,especially works by artists such as Winslow Homer,John Marin,and James McNeill Whistler.
Charles "Charlie" Child Eldredge is an American art historian,educator,and curator. Eldredge is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture Emeritus at the University of Kansas. He also served as Director of the Spencer Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum during his career.
Stephanie Antoinette Franziska Stebich is a German-born American art historian and curator. Stebich is currently the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Jessica F. Nicoll is an American museum director and curator and an authority on American art and culture. She serves as Director and Louise Ines Doyle '34 Chief Curator of the Smith College Museum of Art. She was previously the Chief Curator and Curator of American Art of the Portland Museum of Art.
Leon Gilmour (1907–1996) was an American artist,designer,teacher,illustrator and laborer. He is best known for his social realist,wood engravings featuring laborers or California landscape and nature. His work is often associated with the Regionalist artists.
Janet E. Turner (1914–1988) was an American artist known for her printmaking.
The Academy Art Museum is an art education and exhibition complex in Easton,Maryland. Its mission is to promote the knowledge,practice,and appreciation of the arts and to enhance cultural life on the Eastern Shore.
