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This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Silhouette. A silhouette (English: / ˌsɪluˈɛt /, [1] French: [silwɛt]) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhouette is usually presented on a light ...
Isabella Beetham, Miss Chambers, ivory miniature portrait, after 1782, Metropolitan Museum of Art. She then studied portrait painting in London with John Smart, who was a successful miniature portrait artist. Beetham painted silhouette portraits on a white background, such as plaster, [1] and often on glass. [1] [7] She made miniature portraits ...
Louise Bourgeois. Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ⓘ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) [1] was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career ...
The Three Graces (1947). Bronze, painted white. 81 × 25 × 12 inches. [2] Persistent Antagonism (1947–1949). Painted wood with metal ring. 68 × 12 × 12 inches. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [3] The Blind Leading the Blind (1947–1949). Bronze, dark patina. 69.25 × 69 × 23 inches.
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came painted by Thomas Moran in 1859. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is a narrative poem by English author Robert Browning, written on 2 January 1852, [1] and first published in 1855 in the collection titled Men and Women. [2]
Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning is an 1853 sculpture by Harriet Hosmer.Plaster casts are in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, [1] and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. [2] As a bronze sculpture, versions are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [3] and in the "Cloister of the Clasped Hands" at Armstrong Browning ...
Beatrice Sherman, later known as Beatrix, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States on January 10, 1894. [1] She studied art from an early age, attending Saturday classes at the Art Institute of Chicago from October 1905 until January 1906. [2] She later went on to attend the Institute's Juvenile School in the fall of 1909.