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Information on The Artists of America bringing to your attention
professional & amateur artists, famous & obscure, their works and their galleries and their museums,
a collage of interesting genres & styles . . .
American Artists, A to Z
A thru F G thru M N thru S T thru Z
Western Culture / Western Art Section
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American Artists, A to Z
Popular Thomas Kinkade [1958-2012] was a no-talent hack,
and these American artists are so much better.
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multimedia artist Doug Aitkenbrowse books official website Wikipedia
"Station To Station" [indep Aug 2015]
 | A group of musicians & artists traveled by train across 4,000 miles of the United States over 23 days in Septem-ber 2013, performing trackside and staging ten 'happenings' that resulted in 62 one-minute short films; the group also staged a 30-day 'happening' in London in June-July 2015 71-minute film co-produced & directed by Doug Aitken; featuring Beck, Jackson Browne, Wes Eisold, Σlafur Eliasson, Thurston Moore, Giorgio Moroder, Cat Power, Patti Smith, Francis Scott Key White & Miss Alex White, painter Ed Ruscha, Mavis Staples, Dan Deacon, Paolo Soleri, Gary Indiana, Cornbread Harris, Ariel Pink & Haunted Graffiti band, Suicide band, Lucky Dragons band, Black Monks of Mississippi band, the Savages band, and the Cold Cave band
Submarine Deluxe/Dogwoof widescreen color DVD [8/2015] for $29.99 full credits at IMDb official movie website watch 6/2015 official trailer [2:02] online at YouTube |
 | "Station To Station" companion book [2015] by Doug Aitken Prestel 10¾x8¾ hardcover [7/2015] for $36.62 |
minimalist sculptor Carl Andre
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photo realist John Baeder
browse books
official website
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John Baldessari of California
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Michael Bedard of Los Angeles, California
official art sales site
IMDb listing
'Sitting Ducks' lithography entry at Wikipedia
won Emmy Award for his made-for-TV movie "The Santa Claus Brothers" [2001] /tt0307410/
"Sitting Ducks" TV series [2001-2003] /tt0368543/
the other Michael Bedard of Utah
L.D.S. art website
plus another Michael Bedard, the fantasy author who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Wikipedia
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realist George Bellows [1882-1925]
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
painter Thomas Hart Benton [1889-1975] Art Page
namesake & great-uncle Sen. Thomas Hart Benton [1782-1858] of Arkansas
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Albert Bierstadt [1830-1902]
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Albert Bierstadt & Richard Diebenkorn [7:10]
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mega-sculptor Gutzon Borglum [1867-1941]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum
Mount Rushmore [built 1927-1941] in South Dakota
massive carving of four U.S. Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt & Abe Lincoln
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore_National_Memorial
Stone Mountain near Atlanta, Georgia
originally designed by Borglum in 1915, worked on 1923-25, then abandoned; the bas relief was later started from scratch and completed in 1972
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain
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painter Eric Bowman of Tigard, Oregon
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sculptor Alexander 'Sandy' Calder [1898-1976]
originator of the mobile, circa 1932, a type of kinetic sculpture (the term was coined by Marcel Duchamp)
"Autobiography With Pictures" [1966] with the help of his son-in-law, Jean Davidson
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painter G. Russell Case of Utah
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impressionist Mary Cassatt [1844-1926]
browse books
Wikipedia
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Mary Cassat & John Singer Sargent [5:28]
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Wm. Merritt Chase [1849-1916]: Wikipedia
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Stan Cline: official site
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Bill Cramer of Arizona: official site
comics artist & burlesque performer & filmmaker Molly Crabapple lives in New York City
browse books
official site
entry at Wikipedia
"Sex In The Comix" 52-minute documentary [ARTE Europe 1/2012] /tt2403427/
an examination of the history and nature of erotic content in sequential art
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Comix-Molly-Crabapple/dp/B074BN8LY3/
"Drawing Blood" [Harper Collins 2015] by Molly Crabapple ISBN 9780062797223
"Brothers of The Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War" [Penguin Random House 2018]
by Molly Crabapple & Marwin Hisham ISBN 9780399590641
"A Message From The Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" short film [The Intercept April 2019] /tt12961728/
Co-produced by Sharp As Knives, Molly Crabapple, Avi Lewis, Lauren Feeney; directed by Kim Boekbinder & Jim Batt;
co-written & narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; co-written by Avi Lewis; illustrated by Molly Crabapple
watch 4/2019 color short film [7:35] online at YouTube
"A Message From The Future II: The Years of Repair" short film [The Intercept Oct 2020]
Executive producer Naomi Klein; produced & co-written by Avi Lewis; co-written & narrated by Opal Tometi; co-directed & music by Kim Boekbinder;
co-directed by Jim Batt; illustrated by Molly Crabapple; also narrated by Gael Garcνa Bernal, Nnimmo Bassey, Emma Thompson
watch 10/2020 color short film [8:57] online at YouTube
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Willem de Kooning [1904-97]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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John Decker [1895-1947]
notorious 'Painter to the Stars', who made perfect knock-offs of classic paintings for living rooms and for film sets
no entry at Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
March 2005 blog article by Richard Rushfield
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Richard Diebenkorn [1922-93]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Albert Bierstadt & Richard Diebenkorn [7:10]
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Douglas R. Diehl of Arizona: official site
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Maynard Dixon [1875-1946] Art Page
 | "Maynard Dixon: Art & Spirit" docufilm [indep 2007]
Screened at the Pasadena Museum of California Art 5/2007 and at Santa Fe, NM 9/2008; co-produced, co-written & directed by Jayne McKay; co-written by Daniel Dixon; narrated by Diane Keaton; voice-over by Don Edwards; music by John McEuen Cloud World widescreen color DVD-R [2008] for $25.99 via Amazon full credits at IMDb official movie site |
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Thomas Eakins [1844-1916]
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Thomas Eakins: John Biglin In A Single Scull, c. 1873 [4:50]
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Eyvind Earle [1913-2000]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
credits at IMDb
Wikipedia
 | "The Complete Graphics of Eyvind Earle and Selected Poems, Drawings & Writings, 1940-1990" [1993]
Books Nippan 13x10¼ hardcover [4/93] out of print/used "The Complete Graphics of Eyvind Earle and Selected Poems, Drawings & Writings, 1991-2000" [2001] 1st Impression Publng 15½x11¾ hardcover [10/2001] for $94.50 |
 | "Horizon Bound On A Bicycle: The Autobiography of Eyvind Earle" [1991] self-published 10x8½ hardcover [4/91] out of print/used |
pin-up artist Gil Elvgren [1914-80]
browse books Artcyclopedia Wikipedia
http://happyjolly.com/elvgren/elvgren.htm
The Elvgren Collection, Pin-Up Poster Book /0963520253/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Elvgren-Reid-Stewart-Austin/dp/1561401617/
http://www.amazon.com/Elvgren-Life-Max-Allan-Collins/dp/1888054050/
Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups (2008) ISBN 978-3-8228-2930-1
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illustrator R. Farrington Elwell [1874-1962]
http://www.pulpartists.com/Elwell.html
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poster artist Shepard Fairey
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illustrator James Montgomery Flagg [1877-1960]
'Uncle Sam wants you' & other posters
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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cover artist Frank Frazetta [1928-2010]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frazetta
http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Paintings-Drawings-Frank-Frazetta/dp/1599290189/
"Fire and Ice" animated feature [Fox 1983] /tt0085542/
http://www.ralphbakshi.com/films.php?film=fireandice
"Frazetta: Painting With Fire" [2003] /tt0363621/
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graphic artist & childrens book author Don Freeman [1908-78]
http://www.donfreeman.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Freeman
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painter David C. Gallup of California° °
painter Allen Garns of Mesa, Arizona
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Charles Dana Gibson {the 'Gibson Girls'} [1867-1944]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Leon Golub [1922-2004]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
his wife Nancy Spero [1926-2009]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Painter-Darkness-Leon-Golub-Times/dp/0670819794/
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R.C. Gorman [1931-2005]
gallery
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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D.J. Hall
2008 exhibit at Palm Springs Art Museum
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figurative painter Steve Hanks [1949-2015]
official website
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impressionist Childe Hassam [1859-1935]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Childe Hassam: Allies Day, May 1917 [6:22]
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Winslow Homer [1836-1919]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Augustus Saint-Gauden & Winslow Homer [6:32]
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Edward Hopper [1882-1967] Art Page
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painter Timothy Horn of Fairfax, CA
Horn Design official site
Wm. Lester Gallery in California
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watercolorist Peter Hurd [1904-84]
of San Patricio, New Mexico
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painter Wilson Hurley
official site
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realist painter Walt Johnston of Albuquerque, NM
official website
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Raymond Jonson [1891-1982]: Artcyclopedia
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Frida Kahlo [1907-54] Art Page
Frida Kahlo was married to muralist Diego Rivera
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Rockwell Kent [1882-1971]
all books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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sculptor Ed Kienholz [1927-94]
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watercolorist Dong Kingman [1911-2000]
http://www.dongkingman.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Kingman
"Dong Kingman: An American Master" [2000] by Monte James ISBN 0-9658333-0-5
"The World of Dong Kingman" [1953 short] /nm0455449/
directed by James Wong Howe
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painters Kerry Kinman & Linda Lee of Dexter, Oregon
official website
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painter John Koch [1909-78] of New York City
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/koch_john.html
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa615.htm
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa95.htm
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children's illustrator Lois Lenski {Covey} [1893-1974]
browse Lois Lenski Store at Amazon
Wikipedia
archive at Illinois State University Milner Library
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illustrator J.C. Leyendecker [1874-1951]
BP's bio page
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
 | "J.C. Leyendecker" biography [2008] by Laurence S. Cutler & Judy Goffman Cutler {co-founders of the National Museum of American Illustration} Abrams 11x9¾ hardcover [11/2008] for $31.50 |
 | "J.C. Leyendecker: The Great American Illustrator" [indep 2000] 45-minute documentary produced & directed by Amy Stone; narrated by Ossie Davis Kultur Video color DVD [9/2002] for $17.99 credits at IMDb |
Roy Lichtenstein [1923-97]
"Roy Lichtenstein: Retrospective" coffee table book
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George Lois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Loishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lois
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Robert A. Maguire [1921-2005]
official website
Wikipedia
 | "Dames, Dolls & Gun Molls: The Art of Robert A. Maguire" [2009] by Jim Silke Dark Horse 12x9 pb [6/2009] for $16.47 |
Western watercolorist William Matthews of Denver, Colorado
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painter Scott Mattlin of Denver, Colorado
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painter Derek McCrea of Brevard, Florida
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children's book illustrator Wendell Minor of Washington, CT
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folk artist Grandma Moses [1860-1961]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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illustrator Donna J. Neary of Broadway, Virginiapersonal website studio website
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conceptual & performance artist Lorraine O'Grady [b. 1934] 
official website
Wikipedia
profile article at The New Yorker Magazine in September 2022
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986] Art Pages
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artist Diana Paradise lives in Santa Barbara, California
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watercolorist Phil Paradise [1905-97]
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illustrator Maxfield Parrish [1870-1966]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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California painter Tony Peters
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Jackson Pollock [1912-56]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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"Pollock" feature film [Sony Dec 2000] Produced & directed by and starring Ed Harris; co-starring Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Jennifer Connelly, Bud Cort, John Heard, Val Kilmer, Robert Knott, David Leary & Amy Madigan; won Oscar for Best Supporting Actress [Harden], Oscar nomination for Best Actor Sony widescreen color DVD [7/2001] for $14.99 Sony color VHS [12/2001] out of stock/used Rounder soundtrack CD by Jeff Beal [2/2001] for $17.98 full credits at IMDb; official movie site |
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
illustrator Howard Pyle [1853-1911] Page
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marine painter Peter Quidley: ArtNet
Quidley & Co. Gallery in Nantucket, MA
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Frederic Remington [1861-1909] Art & Prose Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
illustrator Norman Rockwell [1894-1978] Art Pages
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Mark Rothko [1903-70]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Edward Ruscha
Beat Museum bio page
website {parked}
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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"Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonnι of the Paintings Volume One, 1958-1970" [2003] Gagosian Gallery/Steidl Publng slipcase hardcover [3/2004] for $128.78 "Volume Two, 1971-1982" [2005] Gagosian Gallery/Steidl Publng slipcase hardcover [8/2005] for $133.03 "Volume Three, 1983-1987" [2007] Gagosian Gallery/Steidl Publng slipcase hardcover [7/2007] for $147.00 "Volume Four, 1988-1992" [2009] Gagosian Gallery/Steidl Publng slipcase hardcover [10/2009] for $175.50 |
"Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonnι of Works On Paper" [announced]
to be published by Gagosian Gallery in 2010?
 | "Ed Ruscha" [2003] monograph by Richard D. Marshall
Phaidon Press 11½x9¾ pb [6/2005] out of print/used Phaidon Press 11½x10 hardcover [11/2003] out of print/used |
 | "Ed Ruscha and Photography" [2004] by Sylvia Wolf Whitney Museum/Steidl Publng 11¼x8¼ hardcover [8/2004] out of print/used |
 | "Ed Ruscha: Photographer" [2006] by Margit Rowell Steidl Publng 10½x8¼ hardcover [6/2006] for $25.55 |
 | "Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting" [2010]
exhibition catalog [2/2010] for $40.95 Hayward Gallery, London U.K. exhibition official 'minisite' |
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Charles M. Russell [1864-1926] of Montana
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
Charles M. Russell Museum [est. 1953] in Great Falls, MT
"Charlie Russell's Stagecoach" fansite {with annoying music}
C.M. Russell art posters at AllPosters.com
 | "Remington and Russell: The Sid Richardson Collection" [1982] by Brian W. Dippie Univ TX Press Revised Edition pb [1994] for $25.53 Univ TX Press hardcover [7/82] out of print/many, many used |
industrial realist painter Joe Santos
of Buena Park, California
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John Singer Sargent [1856-1925]
browse books
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Mary Cassat & John Singer Sargent [5:28]
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California Luiseρo artist Fritz Scholder [1937-2005]
of Arizona & New Mexico
browse books
official website
Wikipedia
 | "Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian" art book [2008] by Lowery Stokes Sims, Truman T. Lowe & Paul Chaat Smith Prestel USA 9¼x12¼ hardcover [11/2008] for $42.00 |
sculptor Richard Serra
browse books
official website
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
Serra article in Time Magazine
PBS Artists In The 21st Century page about Richard Serra
 | "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years" [2007] contributors include Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, John Rajchman & Benjamin Buchloh Museum of Modern Art in NYC 10½x10x¼ hardcover [6/2007] for $47.25 MoMA exhibit {June-Sept 2007} website |
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Dr. Seuss {Theodor Geisel 1904-91} Page
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landscape painter Laurence Sisson [1918-2015]
lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico
8/2015 obituary no entry at Wikipedia
homepage at Michael Wigley Gallery in Santa Fe, NM
watch 2/2012 edited "Complete Interview" [30:21] at Vimeo
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modern cowboy artist Gordon Snidow of Ruidoso, NM
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Gilbert Stuart [1755-1828]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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Archie Boyd Teater [1901-78]lived with his wife, Patricia in Jackson, Wyoming and Bliss, Idaho and Carmel-by-the Sea, California.
The Usonian-style Archie Teater Studio was built in 1952 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] in Hagerman/Bliss, Idaho.
official website artist entry at Wikipedia studio entry at Wikipedia
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Louis Comfort Tiffany [1848-1933]
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Louis Comfort Tiffany & James McNeill Whistler [6:19]
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painter Robert Townsend
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Alberto Vargas [1896-1982] & 'Varga Girls' Art Pages
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Lynd Ward [1905-85]: Wikipedia
Perhaps the most provocative graphic storyteller of the XXth Century. — Will Eisner
 | "Lynd Ward: "Gods' Man" [1929], "Madman's Drum" [1930], and "Wild Pilgrimage" [1932] - Three Novels In Woodcuts" [2010] Edited by Art Spiegelman Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2010] for $25.20 "Lynd Ward: "Prelude To A Million Years" [1933], "Song Without Words" [1936], and "Vertigo" [(1937] - Three Novels In Woodcuts" [2010] Edited by Art Spiegelman Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2010] for $25.20 "Lynd Ward: Six Novels In Woodcuts" Boxed Set [2010] Library of America 8½x5½x4" {5.1 pounds!} hardcover [10/2010] for $44.10 |
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Andy Warhol [1928-87]
"The essence of Warhol's genius was to eliminate the one aspect of a thing without which that thing would, to
conventional ways of thinking, cease to be itself, and then to see what happened." – culture critic Louis Menand
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
"The Sleepworker" [] by Cyrille Martinez, trans. by Joseph Patrick Stancil
Coach House Books, $17.95 paperback, 9781552453025
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visual artist June Claire Wayne of West Hollywood, CA
official website
Wikipedia
founder Tamarind Institute [est. 1960; moved 1970] at UNM
 | "June Wayne: The Art of Everything - A Catalogue Raisonnι, 1936-2006" [2007] by Robert P. Conway Rutgers Univ Press 12¼x12¼ {7.4 pounds!} hardcover [2/2007] for $104.00 |
Michael Whelan [b. 1950]: American artist of imaginative realism
official website
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
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James McNeil Whistler [1834-1903]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Louis Comfort Tiffany & James McNeill Whistler [6:19]
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light artist Thomas Wilfred [1889-1968]
Wikipedia
http://www.iotacenter.org/store/videos/5_thomas_wilfred
http://www.gis.net/~scatt/clavilux/clavilux.html
"LUMIA: Thomas Wilfred and The Story of Light Art" [2008] /0982128800/
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Grant Wood [1891-1942]
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Paul Revere: Grant Wood & John Singleton Copley [4:57]
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graphic artist Annie Wu of Florida
official website/blog no entry at Wikipedia
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Andrew Wyeth [1917-2009]
books + bios
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
illustrator N.C. Wyeth [1882-1945]
posters illustrated books
all books + bios
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
N.C. Wyeth & Norman Rockwell [7:24]
L i n k s
Artcyclopedia
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Americans For The Arts [est. 1996]
Distinguished Artists Links at Traditional Fine Arts
American Plains Artists [est. 1982]
Illustrators Biographies pages from Bud Plant
California Water Color website
California Paintings Gallery in Beverly Hills, California
Graphic Artists Guild - Directory of Illustrators
American Women Artists exhibit program [est. 1990]
ART: American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century [est. 1992]
Directory of Illustration [est. 1985]
Books & Videos
"The American Impressionists" [1972] by Donelson F. Hoopes
Watson-Guptil mixed [1972+] out of print/many used
Random House hardcover [11/87] out of print/used
"American Impressionism" [1974] by Richard J. Boyle
Bulfinch pb [4/82] out of print/used
Little, Brown hardcover [12/74] out of print/used
 | Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America" [1987] Edited by Charles Miers, Introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell featured artists include painter-illustrator Aaron Douglas, sculptor Meta Warwick Fuller, painters Palmer Hayden & William H. Johnson, and the photographs of James Van Der Zee Harry N. Abrams 11& frac12x8¾ pb [2/94] for $13.49 Harry N. Abrams 11¾x9 hardcover [3/87] out of print/used |
 | "Against The Odds: The Artists of The Harlem Renaissance" [P.B.S. 1993] hour-long documentary centered on the Harmon Foundation [1922-67] of Harlem and artists that it supported; directed by Amber Edwards; info on DVD is scant, but persons featured seem to include W.E.B. Du Bois, John Wesley Hardrick, founder William E. Harmon, Palmer Hayden, Alain Locke, Archibald Motley, Richard Barthι Thompson & Hale Woodruff not listed on IMDb P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [1/2006] for $19.99 P.B.S. Home Video color VHS [1/2001] out of prodn/used |
 | "Paintings of New York, 1800-1950" [2005] by Bruce Weber 97 color images by 79 artists including George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Otto Boetticher, Albertus Del Orient Browere, Elsie Driggs, William Glackens, Francis Guy, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Ernest Lawson, Piet Mondrian, Thomas Moran, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, Ben Shahn, Raphael Soyer, Joseph Stella, George Tooker & Charles Frederic Ulrich Pomegranate Commns 9¼x7½ hardcover [9/2005] for $30.00 |
 | "The Cool School: The Story of The Ferus Art Gallery" documentary [Arthouse Films 2007] This DVD is included with the book just below above Co-produced by Kristine McKenna; directed by Morgan Neville; narrated by Jeff Bridges; interviewees include Frank O. Gehry, Robert Irwin, Edward Ruscha & Dean Stockwell Arts Alliance America widescreen color DVD [7/2008] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb P.B.S. 'Independent Lens' movie site |
 | "The Ferus Gallery: A Place To Begin" [2008] Edited by Kristine McKenna; text by Kristine McKenna & Morgan Neville The Ferus Gallery operated at 736 No. La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles and was the catalyst of modern art in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1966. Exhibitions at Ferus boosted the careers of sculptors Larry Bell & Ed Kienholz, pop artists Roy Lichtenstein & Andy Warhol, and painters John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Moses & Ed Ruscha, and many others. Steidl & Partners 10x10 hardcover with CD [11/2009] for $37.77 MW's Ferus Gallery fansite |
 | "Modern Women: Women Artists At The Museum of Modern Art" [2010] Edited by Cornelia Butler & Alexandra Schwartz Museum of Modern Art, New York City 10¾x9¼ hardcover [6/2010] for $40.95 An important study on two levels: of how MoMA was pressured to address gender issues, and of the women instrumental in advancing the arts to where they are today. Topics & artists covered in 48 essays include Latin American artists, African-American artists, and performance artists; photo-graphers Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron & Nan Goldin; filmmaker Maya Deren; actress Lillian Gish; architect Zaha Hadid; and actress-director Ida Lupino |
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