7 contemporary African American artists
Mark Bradford, Lorna Simpson, Sam Gilliam, Ellen Gallagher, Patrick Earl Hammie, Louis Delsarte and Michael Ray Charles
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R.I.P. Leo Dillon. He and his wife created some of my favorite book covers and children’s book illustrations of all time. Here are their covers for Monica Furlong’s Doran Trilogy. You can view more of their illustrations here.
Some other favorites:
Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton
The Wizard of Oz and Queen Zixi Of Ix, L. Frank Baum
Aida, Leontyne Price
Pish Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch, Nancy Willard
The Sea and the Jungle, HM Tomlinson
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Pierre Bonnard, Ker-Xavier Roussel and Edouard Vuillard, Venice, 1899; Musee d’Orsay, Paris.
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Julia Warhola and son Andy
In 1952 Warhol’s mother left Pittsburgh and moved in with him at his NYC apartment. She wasn’t much of a housekeeper and Andy was a pack-rat so the apartment became piled with junk. They also had a dozen or more Siamese cats. His mother told friends she was staying until Andy met a nice girl and got married. [i]
I love Julia Warhola, and I love her art.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m397dmP3DV1r1bfd7o1_500.jpg "artistandstudio:
Julia Warhola and son Andy
In 1952 Warhol’s mother left Pittsburgh and moved in with him at his NYC apartment. She wasn’t much of a housekeeper and Andy was a pack-rat so the apartment became piled with junk. They also had a dozen or more Siamese cats. His mother told friends she was staying until Andy met a nice girl and got married. [i]
I love Julia Warhola, and I love her art.")
Julia Warhola and son Andy
In 1952 Warhol’s mother left Pittsburgh and moved in with him at his NYC apartment. She wasn’t much of a housekeeper and Andy was a pack-rat so the apartment became piled with junk. They also had a dozen or more Siamese cats. His mother told friends she was staying until Andy met a nice girl and got married. [i]
I love Julia Warhola, and I love her art.
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Jackson Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner at a Long Island beach, July 1952. Archives of American Art.
Abstract expressionists at the beach!
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Left, Sappho, Vinnie Ream, ca. 1870
Right, Portrait of Vinnie Ream, George Healey, ca. 1870
I’ve been interested in Ream and her life since I read the novel Letters from Vinnieas a ten or eleven year old. Sculpting a bust of Lincoln at 16 and being commissioned to do his portrait in the Capitol at 18 = badass Washington art heroine.
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Peter (A Young English Girl), Romaine Brooks, 1922-1924
(The Peter of this portrait being the artist Gluck)
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Richmond Barthe (1901-1989), American sculptor known for his many public works and his association with the Harlem Renaissance. Photograph by Peter A. Juley & Son, Smithsonian
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Clémentine-Hélène Dufau, 1911
(French, 1869-1937)
Dufau was a fine and decorative painter and a member of the Société des Artistes Français and Società Heleno Latina, in Rome. In 1898, she was commissioned by socialist activist Marguerite Durand to create a poster for La Fronde, a groundbreaking proto-feminist periodical run and written entirely by women.
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Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II (Dream II), Italy, 1967. Photo: Photographic Studio, I. Bessi, Carrara.
