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Karl Appel THE IMAGINATION THAT TURNED INTO REALITY museum collections.

THE DREAM THAT CAME TRUE. Karel Appel is the only Dutch artist to have established an international reputation since 1945. Born and raised in Amsterdam,

Alice Neel People Come First – The Met – Virtual Exhibit Walkthrough

Alice Neel Documentary Film 1978

Providing a brief biographical sketch from her early marriage and the Great Depression through her later years in Spanish Harlem, the film also shows Alice Neel at work on a portrait of Lucille Rhodes, who co-directed with Margaret Murphy. Excerpted from Rhodes and Murphy’s “They Are Their Own Gifts” (1978), a triptych of “film portraits” about women artists that also includes chapters on the poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser as well as the dancer and choreographer Anna Sokolow. Cinematography by the legendary Babette Mangolte.

Ernie Barnes’ ‘Sugar Shack’: Why museum-goers line up to see ex-NFL player’s painting

By MAKEDA EASTER LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF WRITER AUG. 28, 2019 At the California African American Museum’s retrospective dedicated to late artist and former

A print is not a reproduction

A print is not a reproduction. A print, in whatever medium, is or should be made and conceived by the artist himself; he will have

Warrington Colescott, Who Etched With a Satirical Edge, Dies at 97

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/obituaries/warrington-colescott-dead.html Warrington Colescott, an innovative printmaker who deftly navigated the intersection between tragedy and high comedy with biting etchings about civil rights, history, politics and