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Sir Matthew Smith
Smith, Sir Matthew (1879–1959). British painter, born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the son of Frederick Smith, a successful wire manufacturer. Frederick was a cultivated man who wrote poetry and collected violins, but he was apprehensive about Matthew's passion for art, especially because he... Read more |
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Andre Derain
André Derain , 1880-1954, French painter. He studied for a short time under Carrière. Derain's friendship with Vlaminck and Matisse led to his association c.1905 with the fauves. Forceful in his application of pure, bright patches of color, he was for a while prominent as an exponent... Read more |
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse , 1869-1954, French painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Along with Picasso , Matisse is considered one of the two foremost artists of the modern period. His contribution to 20th-century art is inestimably great. Matisse began to study law and, during an illness in 1890, took up... Read more |
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Othon Friesz
Othon Friesz (Achille Émile Othon Friesz) , 1879-1949, French painter. He studied under Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts, along with Matisse, Marquet, and Rouault. Early influenced by impressionism, he adopted the bold, colorful style of the painters involved in the development of ... Read more |
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Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr
Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. 1902-81, American art historian, b. Detroit. Barr taught art history at several colleges and was the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. He organized more than 100 museum exhibitions and wrote a number of standard art history texts. These include ... Read more |
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Ambroise Vollard
Ambroise Vollard , 1867-1939, French art dealer, collector, and publisher. He was noted for his early recognition and sponsorship of leading artists of the school of Paris , especially Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso (for whom he held the first one-man exhibitions), and Rouault. He made... Read more |
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Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau , 1826-98, French painter. He was known for his pictures of the weird and mystical. The recipient of many honors, he refused to sell his paintings except to friends. Moreau was professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, where his pupils included Matisse and Rouault. After his... Read more |
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Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen , 1879-1973, American photographer, b. Luxembourg, reared in Hancock, Mich. Steichen is credited with the transformation of photography into an art form. At 16, while apprenticed as a lithographer, he taught himself photography and painted in his spare time. Studying art in Paris, he... Read more |
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Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy , 1877-1953, French painter, illustrator, and decorator, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. After meeting Matisse he abandoned his early impressionist style and turned c.1905 to the more spontaneous expression of fauvism . For a time he designed fabrics for the dressmaker Paul... Read more |
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Barnes Foundation
Barnes Foundation museum in Merion, Pa. Founded in 1922, it houses the impressive art collection amassed by Albert Coombs Barnes, 1872-1951, a wealthy Philadelphia physician, patent-medicine inventor, and pharmaceutical manufacturer. Introduced to art by a schoolmate, the painter William ... Read more |
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