Jack Whitten (1939-2018)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Jack Whitten was born in Bessemer, Alabama in 1939. While a pre-medical student at the Tuskegee Institute, the pursuit of discovery by the inventor George Washington Carver—who also painted—impressed Whitten. He left Tuskegee in 1959; and the following year he went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to study at Southern University. In Baton Rouge, he became involved in a civil rights demonstration inspired by Dr.
Lee Ufan (b. 1936)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Writer and artist Lee Ufan was born in Haman, Gyeongnam province in South Korea. Lee studied painting at the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University for just two months and, in 1956, moved to Japan where he earned a degree in philosophy in 1961. While studying philosophy, Lee painted in a restrained, traditional Japanese style, eschewing the expressive abstraction of the Gutai movement.
William Michael Harnett (1848-1892)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
William Michael Harnett was born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland in 1848, and his family emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania soon thereafter.
Nancy Spero (1926-2009)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder (1944–1945), received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1949), and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Atelier André L’Hote in Paris (1949–1950). In 1951, she married the visual artist Leon Golub (b.
Nobuo Sekine (b. 1942)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Among the most influential contemporary artists working in Japan throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Nobuo Sekine influenced the evolution of Japanese visual art. Born in Saitama, Sekine studied oil painting at Tama University of Art. While attending university, Sekine was mentored by Yoshishige Saito, who is widely regarded as one of the most significant Japanese abstract sculptors of the 20th century.
Viktor Schreckengost (1906-2008)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born June 23, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost influenced many generations of artists and industrial designers, as both a teacher and an independent contractor for commercial goods.
Gabriel Orozco (b. 1962)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Gabriel Orozco was born in 1962 in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. He studied at both the Escuela Nacional de Arte Plasticas in Mexico City (1981-84) and the Circula de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain (1986-1987). Invited by the Artists-in-Berlin Residency Program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Orozco also lived and worked in Berlin as a DAAD Artist-in-Residence (1994-95).
Eva Zeisel, (1906-2011)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in Hungary, Eva Zeisel worked in Germany and Russia before coming to the United States in 1938, later obtaining a teaching post at Pratt Institute in New York. The strongly opinionated Zeisel gained stature in the design field through her teaching, lecturing, and writing. Following her creation of Stratoware (ca.
Wright, Russel (1904-1976)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Russel Wright, born in Lebanon, Ohio in 1904, was a 20th century American industrial designer. His successful forty-year career spanned from the 1920s through the 1960s. During which time, he introduced modern design into the American home by creating household objects that were both aesthetically unique and commercially successful with the post-war consumer.
Wright began his training while still in high school at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
George Inness Sr. (1825-1894)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A pivotal figure in the history of American landscape painting, George Inness developed the tenants of Hudson River School naturalism into a subjective and spiritual Tonalist approach that was widely influential by the end of the century. Born on a farm in Newburgh, New York, in 1825, Inness was afflicted with epilepsy. Unable to pursue a formal education, he decided at an early age to paint.