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Dennis Miller Bunker (1861 – 1890) was one of earliest painters in America to adopt the new innovative impressionistic style in the late nineteenth century. His career promptly spiraled up to the top of the art world and then came to crashing halt, as he died unexpectedly from meningitis at the young age of twenty-nine. At the time of his death he was well respected and personal friends with

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Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956) was born in Cody, Wyoming. He was one of the first American painters to become an international star and he lived up to the “rock star” reputation with living recklessly and drinking excessively. He was famed for his notorious drip paintings, including his nickname from Time magazine as “Jack the Dripper”. (Pollock, Jackson. Blue Poles, Number 11. c. 1952. oil on

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 – 1806) was born in Grasse, France to a family of shopkeepers and glove-makers. He was the last of the Rococo movement in France before the Neoclassical style took root. Rococo artists applied a decorative style and embodied a cheerful, optimistic approach to the subject matter that was popular during the Baroque era. Fragonard’s The Swing is one of the most famous

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Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) was born in Paris, France. He worked in a wide range of media, including oil, watercolor, chalk, pastel, pencil, etching, and photography. He is well known for the elegant ballerina dancers that he painted. While most of the artist focused on their stage performance, Degas was unique in that he captured random informal scenes from dance class or their rehearsals. His

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Liz Kenyon is a contemporary artist, born in California. She works in soft pastels and her technique is defined by adding layer upon layer in order to build up texture. Her style is more painterly than linear and she uses as many colors as possible to bring energy into her work.(Kenyon, Liz. Social Hour. soft pastel.) Kenyon graduated from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She worked as a

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Andrea Mantegna (1430-31 – 1506) was born in Isola de Carturo, close to Venice, during the Gothic and Early Renaissance Era. His art is characterized by brilliant compositional solutions with the bold use of perspective and foreshortening. His innovative approach to composition was based on diagonals rather than traditional symmetry, which gave his paintings a certain emotional intensity. (

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Susan Sarback was born in New York. Her paintings are always about light and color, especially the quality of light. She is the founder of the "School of Light and Color”. Located twenty miles east of Sacramento in Fair Oaks, California, this school teaches adults at all levels in-depth art instruction in oils, pastels and watercolor. (Sarback, Susan. Tulips On Glass. oil on canvas.) Sarback

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Jeff C. Legg (1959 – present) was born in Joplin, Missouri. His “old master” techniques combined with his inspired contemporary use of chiaroscuro continues to inspire fellow artists and collectors worldwide. (Legg, Jeff. Green Bottle with Apricots. oil on canvas.) Legg was interested in art at an early age and was mentored at the age of thirteen by college art professor, Darrel Dishman, who

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Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906) was born in Aix-en Provence in the south of France. He is regarded as one of the greatest Post-Impressionists and is often referred to as “the father of modern art.” Although Cézanne was a contemporary of the Impressionists, his abrasive intensity and social awkwardness made him the outsider of the group. (Cézanne, Paul. Still Life with Curtain and Flowered Pitcher. c.

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Jia Lu (1954 – present) was born in Beijing, China. She strongly feels that beauty is the final measure of all things. True beauty born of self-knowledge and self-understanding, burns in her art like a beacon. The paintings of Jia Lu seem filled with a spiritual light that announces the undeniable presence of the divine. (Lu, Jia. Halo. c. 1996. oil on canvas.) Jia Lu grew up in a family of

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Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) was a painter and mixed media artist associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. Though he avoided any alliances his work is mostly categorized in as Dada, which was a richly subversive art movement that developed at the time of World War I. The name Dada (French for “hobby horse”) was chosen randomly from a French-German dictionary. This movement began in

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Marco Cutrone was born in the New York City area and was clearly influenced by his environment. Cutrone was brought up in a strict European household with an emphasis from his father, who taught him that you must work hard in order to succeed. (Cutrone, Marco. Purple Daisies. oil on canvas.) (Cutrone, Marco. White Gerberas. oil on canvas.) Cutrone studied at the New York School of Visual

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Mel Ramos (1935 –) is an American artist, born in Sacramento, California. He, along with other artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, produced art works that celebrated the aspects of popular culture as represented in mass media. His paintings were shown along with theirs in major Pop Art exhibitions both in the United States and in Europe. (Ramos,

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Leonid Afremov (1955 – ) was born in city of Vitebsk, Belarus. Afremov graduated from Vitebsk Art School in 1978. The school was founded by Marc Chagall in 1921. Along with Malevich and Kandinsky, Leonid Afremov is one of the elite members of the famous Vitebsk art school. (Afremov, Leonid. The Loneliness of Automn. c. 2009. oil on canvas.) Afremov built up his portfolio by painting a lot with

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William de Leftwich Dodge (1867 – 1935), also known as W. de Leftwich Dodge was born in Bedford, Virginia. As an American impressionist painter, he is most well known for his murals. Murals, during his time, were regarded as an essential element of most public architecture, theaters, municipal buildings and even privately owned homes. (Dodge, William de Leftwich. Venus in Atrium. c. 1908. oil on

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Roger van der Weyden (1400 – 1464) was one of the leading Flemish Old Masters of the Northern Renaissance during the 15th century, contemporary to Jan van Eyck. He was best known for his colorful triptychs and diptychs panel paintings, mainly on religious subjects. (Weyden, Roger van der. The Deposition (Descent from the Cross). c. 1435. oil on panel. Museo del Prado, Madrid.) Born in Tournai,

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Bec Winnel is an artist and illustrator currently living in Melbourne, Victoria Australia. She works as a full time a graphic designer but, commissions illustrations and has successfully exhibited her own personal artwork. She has a unique style in which she builds layer upon layer of color pencil, graphite and pastel to create extraordinary illusive soft portraits of women, who entice and

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Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758 – 1823) or in english, Proudhon was a draughtsman and a portrait painter, who become one of Napoleon’s favorite artists. He trained in Dijon and then completed his studies in Italy where he became influenced by the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Correggio. Unfortunately he led a depressed after his wife gradually went insane and his mistress committed suicide in his

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Diana Madaras is a widely recognized painter living in Tucson, Arizona. She is one of the very few artists in the country who owns her own art gallery. Voted "Tucson’s Best Visual Artist" for the past two consecutive years, Madaras is well known for her bold, colorful artwork and for her generous charitable giving. (Madaras, Diana. Creekside. Watercolor and Acrylic on canvas.) Madaras is a

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Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510) was highly successful at the peak of his career, although he spent the last decade of his life in obscurity because he was considered outmoded compared to the new generation of artists, such as Leonardo. Botticelli’s work was eventually rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites almost 500 year later and he is now one of the best-loved painters of 15th century early

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849) was born to an artisan family in the Katsushika district of Edo, which is now modern Tokyo, also referred to as the Edo period. He was a towering figure in the field of ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodblock printmaking. He also excelled in all areas of painting and his outstanding images are known all over the world. (Hokusai, Katsushika. The Great Wave off

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Christophe Vacher (1966 - present) is a French artist who has provided backgrounds, visual development and art direction for Walt Disney feature animation films and the animation industry since 1989. Prior to joining Disney’s Paris-based animation unit, Vacher worked in several different animation studios. He has painted backgrounds for such films as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Runaway

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Chuck Close (1940 - present) is a painter and photographer, capturing his subjects using very unusual techniques. He creates works of art based on the faces of his friends, which eventually turn into dramatically over sized portraits that are nine feet tall. In addition to himself, his sitters range from strangers to family to young artist friends. The subjects weren’t supposed to be

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Viktor Mitic is a present day painter and sculptor. He was born in Yugoslavia, located in southeastern Europe. His work is very controversial because he uses firearms to create his art.(Mitic, Viktor. 38 Special. bullets holes from semi-automatic rifle & acrylic on canvas.) He learned to shoot guns by serving in the Yugoslavian military. He then moved to Canada and then graduated from the

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Kees Van Dongen (1877 – 1968) was a Dutch painter. He was born in Delfshaven and trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam. In 1897 he moved to Paris where he spent much of the rest of his life. He first worked in a somewhat Impressionist manner, but over time his paintings became increasingly colored and bold. By 1906 he had joined a group of artists called Les Fauves, or “the

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Rene Magritte (1898 – 1967) was a Belgian painter. He was one of the leading figures of the Surrealist movement. Most of his career was spent in Brussels, apart from the three years he lived in the suburbs of Paris. His alter ego, who frequently appears in his pictures, was an anonymous bowler-hatted clerk, who lived as Magritte did – in a Brussels suburb.(Magritte, Rene. The Son of Man c.

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Alexia Sinclair (1976 – present) was born in Newcastle. She is an award winning Australian photographic and digital artist. Her photographic and illustrative artworks are housed in important art collections throughout Australia. She has been exhibiting since the early 90s and her distinct style is also celebrated in magazines throughout the world.(Sinclair, Alexia. Elizabeth I - The Virgin

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Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970) was originally born in Russia. His family emigrated to the United States in 1913, were he eventually became an Abstract Expressionist. His emotionally resonant use of color led him to be categorized as a Color Field painter which was an abstract style characterized by its use of large expenses of solid color. Many Color Field paintings were intended to create

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Sir Peter Lely (1618 – 1680) was born into a Dutch family that was living in Germany and was originally named Pieter van der Faes. He trained in Haarlem, but in the 1640s he moved to England, where he spend most of his working life. (Lely, Sir Peter. Diane Kirke, later Countess of Oxford. c. 1665. oil on canvas. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, US.) His early English

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 – 1867) found fame as the champion of the classical tradition in France. After training briefly with the famous artist, David, Ingres spent his early career in Italy, where he earned a good deal of his living with exquisite pencil portraits. From the beginning of his career, Ingres freely borrowed from earlier art, using poses from Roman statues and adopting

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Humberto Calzada (1944 - present) was born in Havana, Cuba on May 25, 1944. He is known principally for acrylic paintings showing architectural images or themes of the infinite in a hard-edge style, as in his series of the 1980s A World Within, which employs a 'painting-within-a-painting' technique. (Calzada, Huberto. Years of Discourse. [Right Panel] c. 1990. acrylic on canvas.) Calzada

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Mary Cassatt (1844 – 1926) was an American painter and printmaker who settled in Paris in 1874, which was the year that the first Impressionist exhibition took place. Cassatt met the famous artist, Degas three years later and, through him, became a member of the Impressionist group. Cassatt came from a well-connected family and, in her later years, she did much to aid the Impressionists’ cause

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Henry Fuseli (1741 – 1825) born Johann Heinrich Fussli was a Swiss painter. He hoped to follow a career in the church, but his unconventional views soon landed him in trouble and we was obliged to leave Zurich. (Fuseli, Henry. The Nightmare. c. 1781. oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, US.) He settled in London in 1764, still uncertain of his future direction. It was only after

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Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) was born Domenico di Curradi di Bigordi. He was nicknamed after the golden garland necklaces made by his father. Ghirlandaio was a religious painter first and foremost and was also one of the most popular and proficient portrait painters of the 15th century in Florence. (Ghirlandaio, Domenico. Giovanna Tornabuoni nee Albizzi. c. 1488. oil on panel.

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Chicago artist Tom Fedro creates art that makes you smile out loud. A combination of urban landscapes and pop art faces that focus on composition and color. (Fedro, Thomas. Stare Down F736. c. 2009. Acrylic.) Tom's bright colored, bold whimsical art warms the heart and celebrates the joy brought to our lives by the diverse nature of our species.(Fedro, Thomas. Sleep Walkers. c. 2009. Acrylic.

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Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was born to a family of artists in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, from which his name was derived and where he worked all of his life. Although some of his paintings are fairly traditional, he also created pictures that rank among the most powerful imaginative fantasy scenes in the history of art. (Bosch, Hieronymus. The Garden of Earthly Delights. c. 1500. oil on panel. Prado

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Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was ridiculed in his own lifetime, but posthumously achieving his ambition of having his work exhibited in the Louvre, he is nowadays considered a talented Naïve painter. With the revolutionary changes in art in the start of the 20th century came a reappraisal of previously dismissed genres, including Naïve painting. (Rousseau, Henri. The Dream. c. 1910. oil on

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Peter Callesen (1967 - present) was born in Demark. His paper works are literally results of folding – and cutting. On top of a story that include various symbols that we recognise from fairy tales and other archetypical storytelling, and thus integrating all those narratives that we know from reading books and watching films about castles and princesses and monsters and darkness and a lot of

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Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker and is now regarded as one of modern art's most influential and electrifying protagonists. He was born in a rustic farmhouse in Loten, Norway. In 1879 Munch enrolled in a technical college to study engineering, where he excelled in physics, chemistry, and math. He learned scaled and perspective drawing, but frequent illnesses

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Artist and Composer Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles in 1960 to Estonian immigrants. He was raised in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton. (Kostabi, Mark. Bored on the Ball c. 2007. oil on canvas.) In 1982 he moved to New York and by 1984 he became a leading figure of the East Village art scene. During that time he also developed

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Laura Cassetti was born in Vercelli, Italy in 1979. She paints with the influence of Tamara de Lempicka, Keith Haring and Gina de Dominiscis. Riccardo Roma a curator from one of her many exhibits states the following. (Cassetti, Laura. dormiente. c. 2007. acrylic on canvas.) "An elegant and sensual, figurative search, where they boast clear and elaborate ancestries, deco and liberty;

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Frances Lai Wang is a contemporary artist, whose style is heavily influenced by Modernism and the Cubist style. The following text are quotes from her about her work. (Wang, Frances Lai. Studio Table 3. c. 2006. oil on canvas.) "Trained as a chemist, however, I found my passion in art. I took early retirement from teaching chemistry and went back to school. I received my B. A. in fine art at

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Jens Juel (1745 – 1802) was a danish painter primarily famous for his portrait painting. He was born in Balslev on the island of Fyn in Denmark. He showed a great interest in painting at an early age, so his parents arranged for him to study in Hamburg as an apprentice to the painter, Johann Michael Gehrman. (Juel, Jens. Portrait of a Noblewoman with her son. c. 1799. oil on canvas.) Soon

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Leonardo da Vinci (1492 – 1519), is featured in the current exhibit, “Leonardo: 500 Years into the Future” which at the Tech museum of Innovation in San Jose, California USA and will be showing until January 25, 2009. If you are in the area, and you are interested in science and engineering, I highly recommend it. For more information, see TheTech.org. Leonardo’s studies in science and

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 – 1593) was a famous court painter to the Hapsburg emperors. His work enjoyed a resurgence of popularity when Arcimboldo's eccentric “vegetable” portraits were rediscovered by the Surrealist in the 20th century. (Arcimboldo, Giuseppe. Summer. c. 1563. Oil on limewood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna.)His early artistic career was conventional. He

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Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) was a French painter, who teamed up with Andre Derain to form the Fauvists, a group of artists who were often ridiculed and discredited by the public for their emphasis on color over the structure and perspective of a painting. (Matisse, Henri. La Raie Verte "The Green Line." c. 1905. Oil & tempera on canvas. Statens Musseum for Kunst, Copenhagen.)Matisse once

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Argentine artist, Miguel Avataneo, was born in 1962 in San Cristóbal, Argentina. In 1988 he graduated from La Escuela de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. (Avataneo, Miguel. Muchacha Con Flores "Girl with Flowers") Avataneo is one of the brightest talents in Argentina’s art world. He is a painter of images that combine a love of classicism with the South American tradition of

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Ikrano Theodorus is a contemporary abstract painter, he uses bold color and interesting inperfect geometric shapes to express himself. He describes the purpoase of his art in the following statement. "I am a self-taught artist with a wholehearted commitment and dedication to master the art of painting, which I realize will be a lifelong learning and striving in effort to achieve even the smallest

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Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) trained as a house decorator before moving to Paris in 1900 to continue his apprenticeship and study art. By 1906, Braque was involved with the Fauve movement, but two events were to lead to a drastic change of style. (Braque, Georges. Cabez de Mujer. c. 1908. Oil on canvas.) In 1907 he was impressed by Cezanne’s retrospective at the Salon d’Automne and he met

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Mari Elsa Giddings is a contemporary artist who was born in Washington, D.C. in 1959. She grew up in Maryland, New York and then studied art at Phoenix College in Arizona with Meryl Mahaffey and Allen Dutton. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University in 1984, where she worked under master printers, such as Dan Britten and Wayne Kimball. (Giddings, Mari. Satori I.

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Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) was a regionalist painter and produced some of the most enduringly popular images in American art. Throughout his career, he created quiet, yet riveting pictures of ordinary people and places, which in his hands became dramatic scenes that express a sense of isolation, anomie, and the bittersweet comfort of being alone.(Hopper, Edward. Nighthawks. c. 1942. Oil on

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Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896) the famous British painter and sculptor was born to a wealthy family in Scarborough, England. He was educated in Frankfurt and London. He spent much of his youth traveling Europe with his family. This coupled with his own tours of the Middle East, exposed him to a wide range or influences.(Leighton, Frederic. The Music Lesson. c. 1877. Oil on canvas. Guild Hall

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Tamara De Lempicka (1898 - 1980) an artist who’s work was famous during the height of the Art Deco period. Her bold style mixed with rich colors captured the elegance of the 1920s, whereas her distinctive block method would later be called “Soft Cubism”. Like all artists that made the history books, De Lempicka never followed the rules. She would prove the modern day the slogan, “Well Behaved

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Expressionism is one of my favorite artistic styles. It is a subjective art form with an emotional and spiritual view of the world. The term often implies emotional angst or intense emotion. The artist has the tendency to distort reality for an emotional effect, using a two-dimensional view without perspective. They use highly charged brushstrokes with contrasting bold colors.Ernest Ludwig

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Brent Lynch has enjoyed a successful career in the arts for over twenty-five years. He has been honored with many national and international awards in both communication and fine art. A powerful landscape and figurative painter, Brent uses mood, light and movement to express his experience. (Lynch, Brent J. Sloop. Oil on canvas)(Lynch, Brent. Street Car Named Desire I. Oil on canvas)(Lynch,

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El Greco (1541 - 1614) which is spanish for ‘the Greek’ was born in Crete. He moved to Spain in 1577 and despite his heritage, he become one of the greatest masters of Spanish painting at that time. Always remaining proud of his national heritage throughout his life, he signed his work using characters from the Greek alphabet.(El Greco. View of Toledo. c.1604-1614. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan

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Ralph Barton (1891 - 1931) was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He lived in New York City, during the 1920s at the height of his career. As an illustrator and a caricaturist, he was in popular demand for magazines such as Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan and Life. He often travelled to Paris. He painted for magazines and publishers. Some of his famous illustrations can be found in “Gentlemen Prefer

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From Joe DeVito's Bio:Joe DeVito was born on March 16, 1957 in New York City. His family later moved to New Jersey where he grew up in the town of Berkeley Heights. It was while in the city, though, that his life-long love of dinosaurs and fantastic creatures began, with his first viewing of King Kong.(DeVito, Joe. War of the Worlds.)A frequent visitor to the Museum of Natural History as a boy,

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Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was from Missouri by 1934, Benton had become one of the most recognized artists in America and was selected to be the first artist featured on the cover of Time magazine. Why was he famous? He put regionalism on the map!(Benton, Thomas Hart. Lewis and Clark at Eagle Creek. c. 1967. The Eitelijorg Museum of American Indians & Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.)

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