As a young man he traveled to Paris to work with sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and he went on to develop his own
unique career as an artist in New York.
Not exact matches
«The exhibition John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island, is a
unique opportunity to explore the work of an
artist who has hovered on the margins of the Modernist narrative for more than a half - century, when he isn't forgotten altogether... Maverick Modernist takes a deep dive into Graham's background
as an
artist, a
career he began in earnest when, at the age of 35, he enrolled in the class of the Ashcan School painter John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City.»
On view from June 21 to Sept. 6, 2015, the exhibition will trace Katz's
unique artistic treatment of the landscape throughout the trajectory of his
career, from his 1950s collages that use the environment
as a setting for the human figure, to the
artist's later works, which illustrate Katz's shift to landscape
as the dominant subject.
Sharrer's colorful canvases, with their
unique blending of Social Realism and Surrealism, established the
artist early in her
career as a new American voice.
The first project to explore the visual art, poetry and music of one of America's most inventive yet under - recognized contemporary Native American
artists, this exhibition will survey Cannon's highly productive but short
career; his development of a
unique and hybrid visual vocabulary; and his combination of irony and wit with a reverence for community and tradition to interrogate American history and popular culture;
as well
as the issues wrought by colonialism, hegemony, and historical amnesia — all through his Native lens.
Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the
career and life of the
artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the
artist's success
as an American expatriate
artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role
as a leader of an
artist's colony in the rural France and his
unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.