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Tag Archives: Paris

Happy Birthday Camille Pissarro

by , Director of Art Education in Art

Jul

10

Camille Pissarro was born 7/10/1830 in the Danish West Indies, the son of a French-Portuguese merchant and a Creole woman. At age twelve he was sent to a boarding school in Passy, where he took his first…

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In the Gallery – Marie Victoire Lemoine: Portrait of a Youth in an Embroidered Vest

by , in Art

Jun

19

Lemoine was an artist at a time when women were limited in their subjects. Education for women artists was limited by their exclusion from…

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In the Gallery – Paul Camille Guigou: L’Entree de la Riviere a Lourmarin

by , in Art

Jun

05

French landscape painter Paul Guigou studied painting in Apt and Marseille in his younger years and was later influenced by the Barbizon School and Gustave Courbet after visiting Paris in 1859 when he

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Happy Birthday Mary Cassatt!

by , in Education

May

22

Born on May 22, 1844, Mary Cassatt was the daughter of a wealthy family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although her family objected to her becoming a professional artist, Cassatt received artistic training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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Happy Birthday Frederick Carl Frieseke!

by , in Education

Apr

07

A dancer, sitting legs crossed upon a stool, holds a mirror up to her face. Lifting her hand to her lips, she applies lipstick just before going on stage. She is clothed in a soft pink garment that slips down to reveal her pale shoulder. The woman is surrounded by pink, blue and white floral drapery…

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New Additions: Bob Thompson – The Tempest

by , in Art

Mar

09

As an African American artist in New York City, Bob Thompson was immersed in the cities vibrant surroundings. He visited…

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