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Robert William Wood (March 4, 1889 – March 14, 1979) was an American landscape painter. [1] He was born in England, emigrated to the United States and rose to prominence in the 1950s with the sales of millions of his color reproductions. [2]
Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg; August 17, 1923 – August 14, 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. [1] Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.
Edward Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964) was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century.
Jay Z (on left) with Teck at the MTV studios in New York for ‘Spankin New Music Week’ on DFX. 11/17/00 Photo: Scott Gries/ImageDirect – Credit: Photo Scott Gries / Getty Images Jay-Z was ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Gottlieb, one of the "first generation" of Abstract Expressionists, [3] was born in New York City in 1903 to Jewish parents. From 1920 to 1921 he studied at the Art Students League of New York, after which, having determined to become an artist he left high school at the age of 17 and worked his passage to Europe on a merchant ship.
Kelly was a pioneer of hard-edge painting in the 1940s and 1950s. Kelly's discovery in 1952 of Monet's late work infused him with a new freedom of painterly expression: he began working in extremely large formats and explored the concepts of seriality and monochrome paintings. [21] As a painter he worked from then on in an exclusively abstract ...
The work from his best-known years, the 1930s and 1940s, is characterized by imagery of the urban environment, such as elevated subway tracks, skyscrapers, streets, and bridges. Criss rendered these subjects with a streamlined, abstracted style, devoid of human figures, that led him to be associated with the Precisionism movement.