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New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more |
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American Museum of Natural History (New York New York)
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in New York City is the largest natural history museum in the world. It displays more than 30 million specimens from all branches of natural history along with a wealth of anthropological artifacts in a vast complex of... Read more |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848-1933, American artist, decorative designer, and art patron, b. New York City; son of Charles Lewis Tiffany. He studied painting with Inness and in Paris and painted oils and watercolors in Europe and Morocco. Later he established the interior-decorating firm in New York... Read more |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York New York)
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, is an international showplace for twentieth-century art, that is committed to the exhibition of nonobjective art and a movement "from the materialistic to the... Read more |
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Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson 1894-1982, English painter; son of Sir William Nicholson. Nicholson's geometric abstractions of landscapes and still lifes are discreetly colored and lyrically expressed. In works such as Relief (1939; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) Nicholson developed the purism of de Stijl ... Read more |
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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 |
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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 |
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Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin (Agnes Bernice Martin), 1912-2004, American painter, b. Macklin, Canada. She moved to the United States in 1931, became a U.S. citizen in 1950, and emerged as an important artist in the late 50s and early 60s. Martin is best known for her spare, abstract all-over grid paintings.... Read more |
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Paul J Sachs
Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the... Read more |
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Warhol, Andy
...became a commercial artist in New York City. He designed book jackets...created his first silkâscreen paintings of mechanically processed subject...seventh Street studio, painted silver from floor to ceiling and dubbed...See also Consumer Culture; ... |
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ART & HISTORY: NEW SHOW AT CAM FEATURES ART OF AMERICA'S PAST\ PAINTINGS,...
...exquisitely joined in a new decorative arts...handsomely crafted silver, a Gilbert Stuart...immensely popular painting "The Spirit of...artistry found in the paintings, furniture, silver...Museum of Art (New ... |
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'Major' Silver Creek painting restored for local display
...display in the Silver Creek library...that he went to New York City to study painting and, while there...later offered painting lessons from his...photography business and painting are all listed...both for his ... |
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Silver Dolphin Books to debut first two titles in new art activity book...
...Publishers Group: Silver Dolphin Books to debut first two titles in new art activity book...and Fine Art Studio Painting(C)1994-2005...Booth #2967), New York, NY - February 20...simultaneously in New York ... |
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Marcos Auctions Okayed;Court Clears Sales of Paintings, Silver
...today and tomorrow of some $10 million in old-master paintings and silver once owned by Marcos and her late husband, Ferdinand...But James Paul Linn, Imelda Marcos's attorney in New York, said, "I think it's just as risky for Christie... |
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The Philippine Collection brings more than $20 million; old master paintings...
...AND MAGNIFICENT SILVER SOLD AT CHRISTIE'S NEW YORK, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire...important Old Master paintings and Magnificent...Christie's New York today for $20...record price for a painting by Raphael ... |
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Silver, by Georg!(ON THE BLOCK: PAINTINGS/SILVER)
Georg Jensen silver is always in demand. The influential...Jensen (1866-1935) turned up at Doyle New York in a September sale at prices ranging...fine example of Jensen's work at Doyle New York's sale was a "Blossom" pattern coffee... |
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Fed: Historic parliamentary painting celebrates a silver jubilee
...Historic parliamentary painting celebrates a silver jubilee CANBERRA...The Tom Roberts painting - grandly titled...of Cornwall and York, 9 May 1901- has...of Cornwall and York, the governor...members of the new Commonwealth ... |
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New MFA wing showcases local artists ; From 17th to 20th century, North Shore...
...visiting the new Art of the Americas...Boston and New York. "Let them...20th-century paintings. Start on the...of furniture, silver, and portrait paintings, some of which...s circa 1855 painting, ... |
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Canvasing the Silver Screen; If the Movie Isn't a Work of Art, Check Out the...
...graces a wall in the New York office of art impresario...Friday. But this painting of a lounging 19th...snapped up by New York's Metropolitan...Milk Duds School--paintings created solely to...Paintings Ltd. ... |
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GAETANO LAROCHE: PAINTING AS ART ON OCT. 11 - DEC. 10 AT SILVER CENTER
...Gaetano LaRoche: Painting as Art Oct. 11-Dec. 10 at the Silver Center for the Arts...lives and works in New York City. The art he...Cooper Union in New York, and a master's...children and teens in New ... |