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Katie Hofgard
Katie Hofgard’s digital paintings are built upon a love of nature, animals, and fantasy. From these small, loosely painted portraits to grand, finely detailed dreamscapes, Hofgard’s paintings express personality at…
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Charles White
Charles White (American, 1918–1979) Mary McLeod Bethune, 1978 Groundbreaking educator and civic leader Mary McLeod Bethune is the statuesque central figure in Charles White’s mural for the Los Angeles…
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William H. Johnson
William H. Johnson (American, 1901–1970) Harriet Tubman, c. 1945 Harriet Tubman’s striking, resolute figure stands at attention in this painting by William H. Johnson, part of his 1945 Fighters…
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Winslow Homer
Wild energy fills Winslow Homer's idyllic schoolhouse scene in Snap the Whip. This nostalgic work is a product of post-Civil War America, idolizing life away from cities and towns…
Makoto Nakamura
Makoto Nakamura (Japanese, b. 1947) is one of the foremost tessellation artists in the world. He was inspired by the works of M. C. Escher and began creating his own…
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Alma Thomas
Alma Thomas (American, 1891–1978) The Eclipse, 1970 Freshly inspired by the 1969 Moon landing, Alma Thomas created the glowing, mosaic-like work The Eclipse, part of her Space paintings…
Archibald Motley
Archibald J. Motley Jr. (American, 1891–1981) Black Belt, 1934 Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood is alive with Jazz Age glam in Archibald Motley’s Black Belt. Motley sought social change through…
Charley Harper
Charley Harper’s The Desert was originally featured on a poster commissioned by the US National Park Service. The painting includes an abundance and variety of flora and fauna
Joseph Stella
Joseph Stella (American, b. Italy, 1877–1946) Purissima, 1927 A vision of fertility, Purissima is Joseph Stella’s futurist madonna. All things in this garden are at the height of life—ripe…
Tino Rodriguez, Virgo Paraiso
Tino Rodriguez (Mexican-American) & Virgo Paraiso Spring Eternal, 2020 Spring blooms eternal in this skull painting by Mexican American artists Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paraiso. Their surrealist calaveras are…
Matthew Bohan
Matthew Bohan has been painting wildlife since he was a kid. Birds are his passion, and he has created a fanciful flock of six different species in Whites and Blues…
Gregory L. Blackstock
More Colorful Egg Pattern Favorites to Go For, 2005, by Gregory L. Blackstock (American, b. 1946) Graphite, crayon, permanent marker, and colored pencil on paper, 256.5 x 124.5 cm (101…
Mattie Lou O'Kelley
Memory painter Mattie Lou O’Kelley based all of her artwork on her youth in rural Georgia. In My Parents’ Farm, she transforms her childhood home into a patchwork quilt of…
Colin Campbell Cooper
The lively street scene in Colin Campbell Cooper's New York Public Library reflects the spirit of the nation in the early 20th century. Sunshine, blue sky, and an abundance of…
Alfredo Arrequin
Nurtured by the grandfather who provided his first art supplies and the grandmother who nourished his mind with stories, Alfredo Arreguín is a painter whose art approaches poetry. Born in…
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud (American, 1920-2021) Valley Streets, 2003 With broad brush strokes in the blues, greens, and golds of California, Wayne Thiebaud created a dizzying street scene on a sunlit…
ARCHIBALD MOTLEY
Archibald J. Motley Jr. (American, 1891–1981) Nightlife, 1943 It’s near 1:00 a.m. and time to dance in Archibald Motley’s Nightlife, a bustling cabaret in 1940s Chicago. Drawing from…
Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007) We Think the World of Birds With dazzling color and barely contained energy, Charley Harper’s We Think the World of Birds shows all the birds that…
JOHN SIMPKINS
Animal and human, light and dark, earthly and spiritual, John Simpkins’ artwork is a study in contrasts and comparisons, and the edges between them. Simpkins is the sole human resident…
