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Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but...

From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a “jaunty romp through American pop-art history” (The Washington Post) about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took in 1963, and how that journey profoundly influenced his life and art. In 1963, up-and-coming artist Andy Warhol, along...

Margaret Keane is one of America's most beloved modern artists. Her influence is seen in everything from Woody Allen's "Sleeper" to Weird Al Yankovic's song "Velvet Elvis." While her paintings are well known, few people know about the trouble life she led or her road to redemption. Find out more about her fascinating life and work in this short biography.

Essential Information The Dixie Chicks started оut wіth sisters Martie (born Oct. 12, 1969) and Emily Erwin (born Aug. 16, 1972), who grеw up attending bluegrass festivals and busking for spare chаnge оn Dallas ѕtrееt corners in 1989. Wіth twо additional womеn іn thе grоup, theу wеrе...

Marc Chagall born Moishe Segal (1887 – 1985) is one of the most famous of Russian Artists of our time. Born in Vitebsk this remarkable artist became a skilled painter, lithographer, designer and etcher. His artworks sell for millions and his book illustrations are in such high demand as most people...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Michelangelo Buonarroti greatest masterpieces, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and...

Discover the True Stories of the Men Behind the Art George PhippenThe family man who fought his shyness and blazed the pathway for Southwest cowboy art with his original and authentic works.Charlie DyeA tough nut that grew up in the cowboy world, earned national recognition...

Fuseli is famous for his paintings and drawings of nude figures caught in strained and violent poses suggestive ofintense emotion. He also had a affinity for inventing chilling fantasies, such as that in “The Nightmare” (1781). He had a noticeable influence on the style of his younger contemporary,...

Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family.  He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.  From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then...

Ivan Kramskoi was a Russian painter and draughtsman, a remarkable art critic and theoretician of art, a talented teacher, one of intellectual leaders of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880.  Influenced by the ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, Kramskoi asserted the high...

We are living in a golden age of cartoon art. Never before has graphic storytelling been so prominent or garnered such respect: critics and readers alike agree that contemporary cartoonists are creating some of the most innovative and exciting work in all the arts.  For nearly a decade Hillary...

For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists' studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent...

  Tiziano Vecellio (known as Titian) was the greatest representative of the Venetian School and he was recognized as a genius in his own time. He has been an inspiration to artists like Rubens, Velazquez, Poussin and many others. In Italy, the woodcut was taken into new land...

  Michael Jackson is one of the most famous musical artists in history. In the decade between 1985-1995, Michael Jackson comfortably earned between $50 and $100 million per year through touring, record sales, endorsements and merchandise.   Even after his death in...