Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican printmaker, painter, and muralist, known for his innovation in lithography, monumental paintings, and vivid use of color. Born on August 26, 1899 in Oaxaca, Mexico, Tamayo briefly trained at the Academia de San Carlos (San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts), before leaving only a year later to teach himself.
Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827)
Born in Maryland but based in Philadelphia for most of his career, Charles Willson Peale is credited with having established Philadelphia as a center of portraiture for the new republic, a tradition ably continued by his brother and children and later contemporaries, notably Thomas Sully. Peale started out apprenticed to a saddler at age nine, but his broad interests and restless curiosity pushed him to explore science and art.
Maria Kipp (1900-1988)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Maria Kipp, one of America's foremost textile designers, produced hand-woven fabrics for drapery and upholstery during the mid-20th century.
Perry Nichols (1911-1992)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A native of Dallas, Perry Nichols was born on November 9, 1911. While at Bryan Street High School, he met William Lester who would also become a well-known Texas artist. Nichols studied with Alexandre Hogue, Frank Klepper, and Frank Reaugh at various intervals after his graduation from high school.
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Russia in 1903, but by 1913 his family had settled in Portland, Oregon. He entered Yale University in 1921 and studied liberal arts, but withdrew in 1923 because he was not sufficiently interested in academic training. By 1925, Rothko had settled in New York and begun to tentatively draw from the model.
William Gale, Sr. (1799-1864)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Billheads and advertising cards of the William Gale, Sr. firm indicate that it was established in 1821 and was for a while perhaps the largest silverware manufacturer in the country. Evidence suggests that William Gale, Sr. (1799-1864), was related to silversmiths Jesse and John L. Gale, listed in the early nineteenth-century New York City directories.
Manowulo (active c. 1935-1960)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Manowulo was a sculptor active from circa 1935 to 1960 in the Baoma chiefdom, north of Jaiama-Bongor and near the town of Bo in Central Mendeland. Many masks carved by Manowulo and his apprentices were still in use in the 1970s when the anthropologist Ruth B.
Rebecca Cauman (1872-?)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Raised in Boston where she attended the Massachusetts Normal School in the late 1890s, Rebecca Cauman became affiliated with the Society of Arts and Crafts where she may have trained with master enameler Lauren Martin, who trained a number of leading Boston-area metalsmiths including Frank Marshall and Elizabeth Copeland. Cauman's work in copper and enamel suggests the influence of these figures: stylized natural f