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White, John (artist, cartographer, Virginia pioneer)
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...John White, fl. 1585–93, artist, cartographer, and Virginia pioneer, b. probably in England...valuable source materials on the natural history of the North American continent. It is believed, though by no means proved, that......
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Morris, Robert (1931–, American artist)
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...Robert Morris, 1931–, American artist, b. Kansas City, Mo. He settled in New York City in 1960 and was allied in his early work with the simple, impersonal forms......
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Titian
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......Academy, Venice), intended for the artist's own tomb and finished by Palma...explored many pictorial problems. The artist was particularly famous for his...than that of any other Renaissance artist. American CollectionsAlthough most of Titian......
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Joyce, James
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......his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It first appeared...owned by Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate. Its publication...epiphanies. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical...that before he can be a true artist he must rid himself of the......
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La Farge, John
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...John La Farge (lə färzh), 1835–1910, American artist and writer, b. New York City. He studied with...and his easel paintings are in many leading American museums.An eclectic artist and a man of the widest culture, friend of......
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Paik, Nam June
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...Nam June Paik (näm jōōn pīk), 1932–2006, Korean-American artist, b. Seoul. A performance and conceptual artist, Paik worked mainly with video, integrating visual images with music. A characteristic work......
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Fuertes, Louis Agassiz
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......fōōĕr´tēs), 1874–1927, American artist and naturalist, b...in most of the leading American ornithological works...habitat groups at the American Museum of Natural History...Ethiopia (1926–27); Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia......
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Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
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......1746–1828, Spanish painter and graphic artist. Goya is generally...appreciated fully only in Madrid. However, the artist's work is also represented in many European and American collections, notably in the Hispanic Society......
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Frasconi, Antonio
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......Frasconi (äntō´nyō fräskō´nē), 1919–2013, American graphic artist, b. Buenos Aires. His family moved to Uruguay...he has been hailed as probably the finest woodcut artist of his generation. His gaily colored, forceful prints......
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Kirby, Jack
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...Jack Kirby, 1917–94, American comic-book artist famous for the strongly drawn, brilliantly colored, and...for a newspaper syndicate. By 1940 he had teamed up with artist-writer Joe Simon and for 16 years, for such companies......