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Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 – August 22, 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon.
He studied at York School of Art before winning a national scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1886. There he won a gold medal and in 1888 a travelling scholarship to the Académie Julian . On his return to London in the early 1890s, he worked for a time on the staff of The Idler and for Cassell's Magazine as a black-and-white artist.
Terance James Bond (born September 1946 in Suffolk, died April 2023) was a British painter, best known for his paintings of birds, catalogued in his publications Birds: The Paintings of Terance James Bond (1989), Birds: An Artist's View (1997), and A Life in Detail: The Art of Terance James Bond (2006).
Ray Harm (November 9, 1926 – April 9, 2015) was an American artist, best known for his paintings of wildlife, primarily birds.He was also well known for art marketing and is generally credited as the co-creator of the limited edition art print market, which supplanted the traditional method where artists sold original works on an individual basis.
Drip painting is a form of art, often abstract art, in which paint is dripped or poured on to the canvas. [1] This style of action painting was experimented with in the first half of the twentieth century by such artists as Francis Picabia , André Masson and Max Ernst , who employed drip painting in his works The Bewildered Planet , and Young ...
Harold Rosenberg (February 2, 1906 – July 11, 1978) was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. [1] Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. From 1962 until his death, he was the art critic of The New Yorker. [2]
One: Number 31, 1950 is a painting by American painter Jackson Pollock, from 1950. It is one of the largest and most prominent examples of the artist's Abstract Expressionist drip-style works. [1] The work was owned by a private collector until 1968 when it was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, where it has been displayed ...
Rex Brasher (July 31, 1869 [1] – February 29, 1960) was an American watercolor painter and ornithologist in the vein of John James Audubon and Louis Agassiz Fuertes.Brasher's 875 surviving paintings depicted 1,200 species and sub-species of North American birds in accurate detail, representing all the species and sub-species identified in the American Ornithologists’ Union’s Checklist of ...