Derrick Adams
Asa Shatkin 2020-10-19T11:14:48-04:00Derrick Adams is an American artist whose work focuses on the joyful aspects of community and family life as a Black American.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Asa Shatkin 2018-02-02T09:38:20-05:00Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of America's brightest, most talented and original artists. His works currently command some of the highest prices at auction around the world. Andy WarholJean-Michel Basquiat, 1982 Early Life and Education Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn on December 22, 1960. Basquiat had two younger sisters. His older brother died shortly before Basquiat [...]
Peter Beard
Asa Shatkin 2020-10-14T13:18:23-04:00Peter Hill Beard was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.
Elizabeth Catlett
Asa Shatkin 2019-10-15T11:01:27-04:00Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915[2] – April 2, 2012) was an American and Mexican graphic artist and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience. She was born and raised in Washington, D.C. to parents working in education, and was the grandchild of freed [...]
Marc Chagall
Asa Shatkin 2018-01-19T09:37:24-05:00Marc Chagall | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Marc Chagall painted a world filled with color, light and fantasy and brought an inimitable style of his own to twentieth century art. Early Life and Education Marc Chagall was born Moishe Segal in 1887 in the city of Vitebsk, now part of Belarus. He was the [...]
Chuck Close
Asa Shatkin 2018-01-24T08:51:27-05:00Chuck Close was born in Monroe, Washington in 1940. His father, Leslie Close, worked at a hardware store and also as a sheet metal worker when Close was born.
Richard Diebenkorn
Asa Shatkin 2017-11-05T13:33:27-05:00Richard Diebenkorn was born April 22, 1922 in Portland, Oregon. Richard Diebenkorn was an American abstract expressionist painter, who marched to the beat of his own drummer, ignoring art trends and painting the light and landscapes that he glimpsed from his Ocean Park studio. Early Life and Education Richard Diebenkorn was born in Portland, Oregon [...]
Walton Ford
Asa Shatkin 2018-11-06T08:40:26-05:00Walton Ford in his studio, 2017 Walton Ford is an American artist, whose works combine history, science and mythology to explore the effects that humans and the environment have on birds and mammals. Early Life and Education Walton Ford was born in Larchmont, New York in 1960, one of four children. Walton's father, Enfield Berry [...]
Richard Estes
Asa Shatkin 2016-10-11T12:48:39-04:00Richard Estes was born in 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois, but moved to Chicago at an early age. He remained there to study at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1950s, where his training centered on figure drawing and traditional academic painting, the style that interested him most. Estes is one of the foremost proponents of the Photo-Realist movement, [...]
Keith Haring
Asa Shatkin 2018-12-11T09:16:02-05:00Keith Haring in 1985.Photo by David Howard Keith Haring was an American street artist and activist, whose easily recognizable work has been inspirational to his admirers around the world. Early Life and Education Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1958 and raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest, and only son, of [...]
David Hockney
Asa Shatkin 2019-12-17T08:37:47-05:00David Hockney at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which has an exhibition of newly painted portraits. "When I’m in the studio, I feel like I’m 30," he says. "But when I leave it, I know I’m 80." (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Early Years and Education David Hockney was born in the [...]
Reggie Burrows Hodges
Asa Shatkin 2021-02-19T15:51:39-05:00Reggie Burrows Hodges was born in Compton, California in 1965. His childhood in Compton has been the inspiration for many of his paintings. He attended the University of Kansas, where he studied theater and film. Hodges worked at various jobs in television and film production. He spent time in Brooklyn, where he became co-owner of Bass Mind Recording Studio and also co-founded the reggae dub band Trumystic. Hodges played the bass and wrote songs for the band.
Robert Indiana
Asa Shatkin 2019-01-23T11:52:20-05:00Robert Indiana in 2013 in front of one of his famous “LOVE” designs at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. (Lauren Casselberry/AP) Robert Indiana is one of America’s most renown contemporary artists. His iconic works are recognized throughout the world. Early Life and Education Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana in 1928. [...]
Alex Katz
Asa Shatkin 2018-11-18T17:52:50-05:00Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn in 1927, raised in Queens, and has lived in his SoHo loft since 1968. His parents, who emigrated from Russia, encouraged Katz’s interest in the arts. He attended Woodrow Wilson High School, whose curriculum allowed him to study academic subjects in the morning and arts in the afternoon.
KAWS
Asa Shatkin 2021-03-19T09:09:41-04:00Brian Donnelly (born 1974), known professionally as Kaws (stylized as KAWS), is an American artist and designer.
Ellsworth Kelly
Asa Shatkin 2017-11-05T13:03:44-05:00Ellsworth Kelly photographed in 1965 Ellsworth Kelly was an American artist whose work opened the door for post-war artists to explore minimalism, hard-edge, Color Field paintings and Pop Art. Early Life and Education Ellsworth Kelly was born in Newburgh, New York in 1923 and raised in the small town of Oradell, New Jersey. He [...]
Scott Kelley
Asa Shatkin 2021-01-18T16:25:34-05:00Scott Kelley is an artist and naturalist living on Peaks Island, Maine Scott Kelley is an American artist, whose focus is on the birds and landscapes surrounding his home in Maine. Early Life and Education Scott Kelley was born in Binghamton, New York in 1963. “Having grown up as an only child,” he says, “I [...]
Jeff Koons
Asa Shatkin 2017-11-05T13:18:00-05:00Jeff Koons, 2014 Jeff Koons is one of America’s most successful and controversial artists. Early Life and Education Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1955. His father was an interior designer, his mother a seamstress. Koons showed an interest in art at a young age. One of his teenage idols was Salvador [...]
Julio Larraz
Debby Dobie 2020-09-01T11:13:03-04:00Julio Larraz is best known for his precise and detailed technique, his imagination, and his unique subtle touch. Julio Larraz was born in Havana, Cuba, on March 12, 1944. The son of a newspaper publisher, he began to draw at a very early age. In 1961 his parents moved to Miami, Florida, taking the whole [...]
Jacob Lawrence
Asa Shatkin 2020-09-24T12:28:58-04:00Jacob Lawrence was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life.
Richard Lindner
Asa Shatkin 2017-06-05T11:23:57-04:00Richard Lindner (1901-1978) was born in Hamburg, Germany and is well known for his quirky POP artworks. His style blends a mechanistic cubism with personal images and haunting symbolism.
Henri Matisse
Asa Shatkin 2016-10-11T12:49:04-04:00French artist, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the [...]
Joan Miro
Asa Shatkin 2019-04-17T16:00:39-04:00"The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humor and in an outburst of liberty and expansion." — Joan Miro Early Life and Education The artist Joan Miró in front of one of his works Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor, Joan Miro, was born in Barcelona in 1893. Miro’s father [...]
Montoya & Ortiz
Asa Shatkin 2020-11-02T15:37:43-05:00Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz have been working together since 1994. Their works are as unique and their collaboration. We asked them to tell us how their partnership came about, and Leslie was gracious enough to tell us about their backgrounds and how, almost twenty five years ago, they serendipitously became one of the most remarkable artistic [...]
Pablo Picasso
Asa Shatkin 2017-11-05T13:29:24-05:00In 1949, Albanian-American photographer Gjon Mili was able to make an appointment with Pablo Picasso at his studio in Vallauris France. Trained as an engineer and self-taught in photography, Gjon Mili was the first to use electronic flash and stroboscopic light to create photographs that had more than scientific interest. “Painting is a blind [...]
Robert Rauschenberg
Asa Shatkin 2016-10-11T12:49:09-04:00Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, [...]
Kent Rockwell
Asa Shatkin 2016-10-11T12:49:12-04:00Growing up in a genteel family in New York City, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was a member of the rugged realist school of landscape painters as well as a popular illustrator and printmaker. His 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick are among his most lasting achievements. He was the first American artist to have work exhibited in the Soviet [...]
James Rosenquist
Asa Shatkin 2018-04-13T13:33:00-04:00James Rosenquist was one of America's most influential Pop artists, known for his enormous compositions relating to consumerism, politics and science. James Rosenquist, Bedford, New York, 2012. Photo © Annie Leibovitz Early Life and Education James Rosenquist was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1933 to parents of Scandinavian descent. The family moved often, his father [...]
Hunt Slonem
Asa Shatkin 2017-06-05T11:23:56-04:00Born in 1951, Hunt Slonem is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of tropical birds, often based on a personal aviary in which he has been keeping from 30 to over 100 live birds of various species. Slonem's works are included in many important museum collections all over the world.
Pat Steir
Asa Shatkin 2020-11-10T16:21:53-05:00Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker, whose fifty year career has led to her being one of the few female artists whose work has sold for seven figures at auction. Early Life and Education Pat Steir, 2019 Pat Steir was born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey. Her father was [...]
Anthony Thieme
Asa Shatkin 2017-11-05T13:00:55-05:00Anthony Thieme (20 February 1888 – 6 December 1954) Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) was born in Rotterdam, Holland. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, Holland, under George Hacker; Garlobini, Guardaciona; and Mancini in Italy. He also studied in Germany. In the 1920's he emigrated to the United States, initially residing [...]
Andy Warhol
Asa Shatkin 2018-09-26T13:32:46-04:00Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian [...]
Tom Wesselmann
Asa Shatkin 2020-09-01T11:57:43-04:00Tom Wesselmann, 1962 Tom Wesselmann was one of America’s most innovative Pop artists. A painter, printmaker and sculptor, his work is as American as the country and western music he sang and wrote. Early Years and Education Tom Wesselmann was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Hiram College and then transferred to the [...]
John Whalley
Asa Shatkin 2017-11-05T12:55:31-05:00John Whalley uses historic photos, objects as inspiration for artworks John Whalley was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, Whalley's mother, herself an artist and graduate of the Pratt Institute, encouraged him to draw and paint from an early age. He completed his first oil painting at eight years of age at his [...]
Jonas Wood
Asa Shatkin 2020-09-21T10:46:47-04:00Jonas Wood was born in Boston in 1977. His father was an architect, his mother was head of the theater department at the progressive Cambridge School of Weston high school, which Wood attended.
Jamie B. Wyeth
Asa Shatkin 2017-06-05T11:23:59-04:00James Browning Wyeth was born, in 1946, into a family of gifted American artists. His father, Andrew Wyeth, grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, and aunt, Carolyn Wyeth all contributed to his art education. Early Life and Education Wyeth was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, home of the Brandywine School, established by artist Howard Pyle. Pyle was the teacher [...]
Stephen Scott Young
Asa Shatkin 2020-10-15T13:05:40-04:00Stephen Scott Young, Born 1957 Stephen Scott Young is one of America’s finest contemporary realist painters. Young’s watercolors and etchings have been compared to those of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. Young is just one of the few living artists whose work has been offered for auction at Christie’s. Early Life and Education Young [...]