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Elie Nadelman Elie Nadelman
Elie Nadelman , 1882-1946, Polish-American sculptor, b. Warsaw. He spent some time in Paris and is said to have influenced Picasso. Before he settled (1914) in the United States his work was exhibited in New York City at the Armory Show in 1913. His gracefully rounded sculptures, most often in... Read more
Ralston Crawford Ralston Crawford
Ralston Crawford 1906-78, American painter, b. St. Catherine's, Ont. Crawford's paintings are marked by precise detail, flat color, and the simplification of form. His works portray the American city and industrial machinery. Steel Foundry (1936) and Grain Elevators from the Bridge (1942) are... Read more
Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel shnä´bel , 1951-, American artist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied art at the Univ. of Houston and the Whitney Museum. A neoexpressionist, he became a superstar of the 1980s art world after his first one-man show in New York (1979). Schnabel is particularly noted for large... Read more
Walt Kuhn Walt Kuhn
Walt Kuhn 1880-1949, American painter, b. New York City. At the age of 19 he worked as a cartoonist in San Francisco, contributing later to Life magazine. After travel and study in Europe he devoted himself largely to oil painting. In 1913, in cooperation with his friend Arthur B. Davies, he was... Read more
Ernest Lawson Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson 1873-1939, American landscape painter, b. San Francisco. He studied art in Kansas City, in New York City under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, and in Paris. On returning to New York he joined the independent artists' group called the Eight . His impressionist landscapes won him many... Read more
William Zorach William Zorach
William Zorach , 1887-1966, American sculptor, b. Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States when he was four and settled near Cleveland. After studying at the Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design, New York City, Zorach spent two years in France. Shortly after his... Read more
Robert Smithson Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson 1938-73, American sculptor, b. Passaic, N.J. After first making modular, serial sculpture, Smithson began to design large-scale earthworks (see land art ) in the 1960s. Smithson reshaped the landscape in a way that recalled both the forces of nature and ancient archaeological... Read more
Al Hirschfeld Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld (Albert Hirschfeld) , 1903-2003, American graphic artist, b. St. Louis. He and his family moved to New York City when he was 12, and he studied art there and in Paris. A master of line, Hirschfeld is famous for his witty, perceptive, and joyful caricatures of celebrities from the... Read more
Lucas Samaras Lucas Samaras
Lucas Samaras , 1936-, American artist, b. Kastoria, Greece. Samaras is noted for his unusual assemblages, incorporating such diverse materials as straight pins, multicolored string, plastics, chicken wire, feathers, and mirrors. The resulting works are both visually seductive and implicitly... Read more
Mark di Suvero Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero , 1933-, American sculptor, b. Shanghai. Di Suvero's major works are constructions of massize pieces of steel, huge weathered timbers, tires, chains, and rope. They are remarkable for their large scale, their composition from common materials, and the effect of motion they produce. Di... Read more

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