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Following World War II an interest in fine art and the enthusiasm surrounding Peirce’s work and classes he began teaching came to an apex. In 1949 the Tucson Watercolor Guild was organized at the home of Margaret Sanger with a mission foster, promote and encourage creative artistic activates in the Southwest.
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Art historian Britta Benke argues that due to "its meditative contemplation of individual objects", Summer Days is closer to a still life composition than to a landscape painting. [11] Author Marjorie P. Balge-Crozier suggests that there is an art historical precedent to O'Keefe's combination of still life and landscape imagery seen in Summer Days.
Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes. Stephen Robert Frankel (editor). New York: Adelson Galleries; New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services; and Texas: Meredith Long & Company. pp. 11– 13. ISBN 978-0-9741621-7-1. Harvey, Eleanor Jones (2002). The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece ...
Mel (Melvin H.) Pekarsky (born September 18, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist and art educator.He is best known for his paintings and drawings of the desert, and is recognized by art critic Donald Kuspit as "one of the most significant contemporary landscape artists."