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The United States Commission of Fine Arts recommended F. Luis Mora to paint the portrait of Warren G. Harding. The portrait was painted from photographs. Two portraits of Harding painted by 'foreign artists' in the White House were rejected for inferior artistic merit and insufficient likeness. [10] The painting was hung in the White House in ...
US president Barack Obama in the Oval Office (2014) with two of Hopper's 1930s South Truro works, Cobb's Barns (upper) and Burly Cobb's House. Since 1930, Hopper and Jo had spent every summer in South Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where Hopper began focusing on the Cape's unique sunlight and, in 1930 alone, painted such works as South Truro Church, Corn Hill, Hills, and South Truro. [1]
Ken Marschall (born October 28, 1950) [1] is an American painter and illustrator notable for his paintings of famous ocean liners, such as the RMS Titanic, RMS Lusitania, and HMHS Britannic, and other transportation vessels including the Bismarck, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg.
A native of Madison Heights, Michigan, Wyland began painting as a child and attended Detroit's Center for Creative Studies in the 1970s. [1] His connection with whales began when he was 14 on a visit with his family to Laguna Beach, California where he saw the ocean for the first time and witnessed several gray whales migrating down the California coast towards Mexico. [2]
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
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Her works often focus on important women from history, as shown in her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” which represents 39 significant figures in the history of women artists (The ...
It is no secret that Black visual artists and painters in history have often been leaders of artistic innovation, and the 15 named below are but a few examples from a much longer list. These ...