SOLD – Inner City Blues by Andrew Turner
Inner City Blues by Andrew Turner Size: 72″ x 48″ Approx Original Acrylic on Canvas Andrew Turner was born in l944 in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Temple …
SOLD – Jazz Combo by Andrew Turner
SOLD Jazz Combo by Andrew Turner Original on Canvas Board Size 7″ x 10″ Andrew Turner (1944-2001) was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Temple University’s Tyler …
“Silk” By George Nock
SOLD “Silk” By International Artist George Nock Size 30″ x 12″ Bronze “Theirs are the eyes of visionaries.” —George Nock, on artists Artists and athletes generally inhabit opposite ends of …
Sisters by C. Scott
SOLD Sisters by Cameron Scott Original Acrylic on Canvas Size 48″ x 66″ Approx CAMERON VINCENT SCOTT (1957 – ) Painter and photographer Cameron Scott comes from a family of …
Friends of African and African American Art Celebrate 50 Years At DIA
DETROIT, MI – Where were you during the summer of 1962? ‘…The Friends of African and African Art (originally-African Art Gallery Committee) formed a committee to acquire art to establish …
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Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art
Published on Nov 2, 2012 Larry and Brenda Thompson have amassed a remarkable collection of art by African Americans from around the nation. In 2009, the David C. Driskell Center …
‘Blackboard Wars’ Season Finale: Art Saves Homeless Teen Allen Lefort’s Life (VIDEO)
By OWN Life in New Orleans is rough. Eighteen-year-old John McDonogh High School student Allen Lefort ended up homeless after a series of struggles — his father’s overdose and his …
Andrew Turner 1944 – 2001 – A Passion for Life – Paint Magazine
October Gallery’s Mercer A. Redcross III stands in front of an Andrew Turner painting “Blue Set”. Andrew Turner by October Gallery Staff Inspired by art history’s masters, Andrew Turner painted …
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Queen Portrait Defaced: Westminster Abbey Painting By Ralph Heimans Has Been Vandalized
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was defaced with spray paint Thursday at London’s Westminster Abbey, and police arrested a man at the church on suspicion of vandalism. Fathers 4 …
Gustave Courbet Birthday: Rebellious French Painter Turns 194
In honor of Gustave Courbet’s birthday, we are revisiting a post originally published last year honoring the artist’s life and work. We can think of few artists who embody the …
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Willi Sitte Dead: East German Artist Dies At 92
Willi Sitte, one of East Germany’s most eminent artists and a key representative of Communism’s preferred socialist realism painting style, has died at 92. The head of the Willi Sitte …
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Huge Street Art Murals Transform City Of Lodz In Poland
The city of Lodz in Poland is promoting the work of street artists from around the world as a way of creating a cultural re-invigoration of this city whose population …
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In segregated, wartime America, making art against the odds
In the early 1940s, a young man named John Biggers enrolled at Hampton Institute, a black college near Norfolk, at the same time that Viktor Lowenfeld, a painter and art …
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AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTIST ALLAN ROHANE CRITE WORKS DISCOVERED IN STORAGE UNIT
A story right out of reality television has unfolded for a young couple from western Massachusetts. Last year the couple acquired the contents of an abandoned storage locker at a …
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Diego Velazquez Birthday: Famed Spanish Artist Turns 414
Today we would like to celebrate the birthday of famed portrait artist and friend of Spanish royalty Diego Velazquez. The painter, who The Metropolitan Museum of Artonce described as “the most …
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