Edward Hopper was a well-known painter and printmaker in twentieth-century America. Edward was born in Nyack, New York in July 1882. Edward was one of his parents’ two children, educated in a strict Baptist environment, and went to a private school. Edward started showing signs of talent in drawing at the young age of five. …
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Ramon Vilanova is a Spanish painter who is known for countryside Plein Air paintings of Catalonia, Majorca, and Minorca. Being a self-taught painter, Vilanova began studying on his own when his aunt gifted him with a box of paints and an instruction book at the age of 16. Since Ramon’s first exhibition in 1973, his …
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Ada Florek is a Polish artist best known for watercolors that finds beauty in everyday items and ordinary places. Florek studied at the College of Fine Arts in Krosno where she received her diploma in sculpture. Ada also went to Cracow’s Jagiellonian University to study art history. Born in 1976, it was only in 2006 …
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Elenore Abbott was an American Illustrator born in Lincoln, Maine, in 1875. Abbot studied art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women before moving on to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to further her education in art. Elenore also attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, before she moved back to Philadelphia …
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Lucien Delarue was a French painter known for his still-life paintings and watercolors of Paris’s romantic cityscapes. Delarue studied at the Grande Chaumiere studios under maitre Yves Brayer. Born on the November 10th, 1925, Lucien participated in exhibitions early on and received medals for his creations. Delarue received first prize as well as the Vermeil-Medaille …
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Lauren A. Mills is a nationally-acclaimed American painter and sculptor but is is best known as a more-than-two-decades long children’s book illustrator and author. Lauren is an academically trained artist who received the first Master of Arts degree in Illustration from the California State system. Art schools she has attended from 1976 to 2010 include …
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Omar Rayyan is a Jordanian-born artist who is primarily known for his children’s book illustrations of fantasy, fairy tales, and folklore. Initially, Rayyan was taught by Suenteus Po, a Tibetan/Persian collage artist. Eventually, Omar graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 with a BFA in illustration. Since then, Rayyan has produced illustrations …
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The artist Detlev Nitschke is a German contemporary visual artist best known for his picturesque scenes and outdoor paintings (Plein air), which he developed into designs for maps, books, and calendars. Detlev was born in 1935 in Berlin, Germany, where he was trained as a Lithographer. He also studied and graduated with a degree in …
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Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo was an Italian painter who employed the divisionist technique in his paintings. Giuseppe was born on the 28th of July, 1868, in Volpedo, Italy (a city in the Alessandria province in northern Italy). Giuseppe Pelliza first studied at the technical school of Castelnuovo Scrivia, learning the first elements of drawing. …
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Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann was a French furniture designer and interior decorator who symbolized the luxury and modernity of Art Deco. Emile-Jacques was born on the 28th of August, 1879 in Paris, where his father ran a successful business painting and designing the interiors of apartments. After his father died, Emile-Jacques took over the business and started …
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