Artists & Designers

Renée Stout was born in Junction City, Kansas, in 1958 and was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Throughout the twenty years of his artistic career from 1977 to 1997, Martin Kippenberger refused to adopt a specific style or medium. However, the intertwining of high art with the issues and scenes of mass- and sub-cultures runs throughout his varied output, as does humor–whether through incisive social, cultural, and political criticism, or through the wordplay of the titles of his works. 

Semangoy was a Wumbu group artisan from Zokolunga, a small village near Moanda in southeast Gabon, active at the end of the 19th century.

Robert Jenkins Onderdonk was born in Catonsville, Maryland, in 1852. In the early 1870s, Onderdonk attended the College of Saint James in Maryland where his father was headmaster. He then moved to New York to begin his artistic training at the National Academy of Design.

In May 1938, sixteen Texas artists met to create the Lone Star Printmakers, a local organization patterned after the Associated American Artists, an art club and gallery established in 1934 in New York City. Like the AAA, the Lone Star Printmakers served the dual purpose of promoting the creation and collecting of prints.

Conceptual artist Hitoshi Nomura was born in 1945 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He graduated with a BFA, which he followed with a graduate degree from Kyoto City University of Fine Art, Department of Sculpture. Since 2000, he has been a professor at the same university.

The pre-eminent American portraitist of his day, Stuart painted virtually all the country's leading figures and is particularly well known for his different studies of George Washington. By Americanizing the English grand manner tradition, he created a chapter in American art history that is one of its most distinct and distinguished.