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Akseli Valdemar Gallen-Kallela
Akseli Valdemar Gallen-Kallela , 1865-1931, Finnish painter. He was a student of Bouguereau. His series of stark, linear paintings of the Kalevala epic are among the finest Finnish works on national folk themes. Most of Gallen-Kallela's work is in Helsinki.... Read more |
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Marisabina Russo
Russo, Marisabina 1950-PersonalBorn May 1, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Michele Russo (a naval architect) and Sabina Heliczer (a businesswoman); married Whitney W. Stark (a teacher), October 4, 1975; children: Hannah, Samuel, Benjamin. Education: Mount Holyoke College, B.A., 1971 (studio art);... Read more |
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Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo , 1907-54, Mexican painter, b. Coyoacán. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five... Read more |
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Stark Young
Stark Young Stark Young (1881-1963) was a drama critic, editor, translator, painter, playwright, and novelist. Stark Young was born in Como, Mississippi, on October 11, 1881, the son of a physician in a family which traced its ancestry in the United States back to 1795. Young received his... Read more |
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, memorial to the victims of the Holocaust . Designed by architect James Ingo Freed, it opened in 1993. Using a stark, harsh architectural vocabulary of industrial forms and unadorned materials, the building itself... Read more |
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Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper 1882-1967, American painter and engraver, b. Nyack, N.Y., studied in New York City with Robert Henri . Hopper lived in France for a year but was little influenced by the artistic currents there. His early paintings had slight success; he gained a reputation, however, through his... Read more |
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Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent 1882-1971, American painter, muralist, wood engraver, lithographer, book and magazine illustrator, and writer, b. Tarrytown, N.Y. Kent studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri . He lived in Labrador, Alaska, Greenland, and Tierra del Fuego and painted vigorous, exotic... Read more |
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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch , 1863-1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist. He studied in Oslo and under Bonnat in Paris and traveled in Europe. He abandoned impressionism and in the 1890s, from a profound personal sense of isolation, visually examined such primal themes as birth, death, thwarted love, sex,... Read more |
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Simone Martini
Simone Martini , or Simone di Martino , c.1283-1344, major Sienese painter. His art is admired for its Gothic spirituality combined with a vibrancy and a great elegance of line. A follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna, his earliest known work (1315) was a fresco depicting the Maestà (... Read more |
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Alan Uglow
...During the late 1980s Uglow revisited an idea he had...London and in 1998 at the Stark Gallery in Manhattan...Gimpel said: "I liked Alan immensely. He was tough...A bilingual monograph, Alan Uglow, edited by Martin Hentschel... |