Leigh Suggs’ work typically involves repetition. The artist focuses on a single technique or strategy—whether it is cutting, stitching, marking, or, as here, employing collage—until
Larry Schwarm photographs the ecological prairie fires of his native Kansas. Although the image depicts an actual landscape, Schwarm abstracted the spectacle into what becomes
Jennifer Bartlett’s artworks fuse conceptualism and painterly figuration. Here she depicts the rudimentary icon of a house—rectangle with a triangle atop—situated in a simple landscape.
Born in Sweden, Nordfeldt emigrated in 1898 to Chicago, where he studied for a year at the Art Institute. In 1919, along with a number
In 1913, Henry Schnakenberg visited the Armory Show in New York where he had his first exposure to modernist art, a life-changing experience for him.
Sloan’s nude pays homage to the grand western tradition of the reclining nude female by such renowned artists as Titian, Francisco de Goya, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,
Born in Poland, Elie Nadelman came to America in 1914, already well known as a modernist. He was interested in all kinds of art: ancient,
After his election in 1932, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used his New Deal programs to bring national attention to the plight of American workers. Photographers
Over the years, Cindy Sherman has represented herself as a range of female stereotypes and characters, to examine the construction of identity within Western society.
Directly inspired by classical athletic figures, Manship’s Spearthrower shows the same attention to detail and awareness of how the body moves and balances as the
This image depicts Claribel when she was 64 years old, at the height of her formidability and only a year before her death. The high
Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. While best known for his oil paintings, he also was a proficient watercolorist, draftsman, and printmaker.