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Arts > Painters

17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st century

England, UK, USA

Akse P19 UK

Akse is a French born

Graffiti Artist of Vietnamese heritage,

based in Manchester since 1997.

Akse started painting in 1992

and is a member of the P19 Graffiti Crew.

Over the last few years

Akse has focused on freehand

High-Definition HD photo-realism

graffiti portraits.

His work around the Manchester

always commands people's attention

and often reflects the social,

political and cultural mood of the city.

https://www.greatermancunians.blog/
akse-p19-street-artist-manchester - 17 March 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/17/
revealed-disputed-medical-terms-used-
to-explain-dozens-of-deaths-after-police-restraint-in-uk

Henry Taylor USA

Installation view of “Henry Taylor: B Side”

at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

From left, “i’m yours” (2015);

“Man, I’m so full of doubt,

but I must Hustle Forward, as my daughter Jade would say,” 2020;

“Untitled,” (2022);

“Wegrett, 2006”;

and “Cora, (cornbread),” 2008.

Photograph: Karsten Moran

The New York Times

Henry Taylor’s ‘B Side’ Is Full of Grade-A Paintings

The artist brings an energy to painting

that reverberates through his exuberant yet sobering survey

at the Whitney Museum.

NYT

Published Oct. 17, 2023

Updated Oct. 18, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/
arts/design/henry-taylors-b-side-whitney.html

Futura, born Leonard McGurr USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/
arts/design/futura-graffiti-gallery-fashion.html

Claerwen James

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2015/mar/21/
here-come-the-girls

Mik Artistik

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/apr/13/
drawing

Will Self

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/05/
will-self-thames-trudges

Gary Hume UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/may/18/
gary-hume-tate-britain-interview

John Devane

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/apr/23/
two-studies-family-bp-portrait-award

Suzanne du Toit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/apr/23/
two-studies-family-bp-portrait-award

Cecily Brown UK

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/
arts/design/cecily-brown-metropolitan-museum-painter.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/17/
cecily-brown-brings-apocalypse-uk-to-pomp-of-blenheim

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/15/
blenheim-palace-to-display-paintings-of-broken-england-by-cecily-brown

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/dec/08/
art-weekly-iggy-pop-turner-prize-cecily-brown

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jun/10/
cecily-brown-review

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/20/
guide-to-painting-cecily-brown

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/jul/03/
art1

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/jun/28/
1

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/jun/12/
art1

Alex Katz USA

“Vincent and Tony” (1969),

at the Guggenheim Museum.

Photograph: Alex Katz

Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY;

George Etheredge for The New York Times

Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress

His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim

is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks

— some fresh from the studio —

and celebrated spiral.

NYT

Oct. 20, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/
arts/design/alex-katz-guggenheim-museum-painter.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/
t-magazine/alex-katz.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/29/
alex-katz-interview-painter-banksy

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/08/
alex-katz-quick-light-review-serpentine-gallery-lucid-direct-moving

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/26/
alex-katz-black-paintings-review-artist-exhibition

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2012/nov/12/
alex-katz-video-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/may/11/
art-weekly-alex-katz-andy-warhol

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/may/04/
alex-katz-pictures-of-pleasure

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/may/04/
alex-katz-in-pictures

Humphrey Ocean

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/nov/22/
humphrey-ocean-painting-national-portrait-gallery

Jenny Saville

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
jenny-saville

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/25/
jenny-saville-painter-artist-gagosian-gallery-london-interview-charles-saatchi-yba

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jun/22/
jenny-saville-first-uk-solo-show

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jun/10/
jenny-saville-paintings-oxford-solo-show

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jun/09/
jenny-saville-painter-modern-bodies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/sep/29/
jenny-saville-feminist-art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2005/oct/30/art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/oct/22/art.friezeartfair2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2003/apr/20/thesaatchigallery.art10

Julian Opie

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/12/
julian-opie-editions

Joseph Kosuth

a founder of Conceptual Art

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/
arts/design/in-chelsea-picasso-justin-samson-kenneth-noland.html

Justin Samson

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html
?res=9C02E0DC1138F933A25755C0A9639C8B63

Stan Douglas

filmmaker and installation artist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Douglas

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/arts/design/
in-chelsea-picasso-justin-samson-kenneth-noland.html

illustrator > Angela Barrett

http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/apr/14/
childrens-books-8-12-years

graffiti artist > Momo

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/arts/design/18momo.html

Richard Wright

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/richard-wright

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/may/31/young-british-art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/07/turner-prize-winner-richard-wright

Grayson Perry

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/grayson-perry

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/06/
hogarth-rakes-progress-david-hockney-grayson-perry

Gilbert and George

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gilbertandgeorge

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/gilbertandgeorge/

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_52.html

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jul/16/
gilbert-and-george-scapegoating-pictures-white-cube

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2011/jan/14/gilbert-and-george-urethra-postcards

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/12/gilbert-george-phonebox-sex-postcards

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jul/10/
gilbert-and-george-jack-freak-pictures?picture=350077736

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/24/gilbert-george-white-cube

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/08/art.artnews

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/feb/13/art.gilbertandgeorge

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/03/art.art

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/feb/15/comment.art

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/09/italy.arts

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/feb/18/art.gilbertandgeorge

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/jan/28/art.gilbertandgeorge

Sex and banality:

Jeff Koons at the Serpentine Gallery 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun/29/
jeff-koons-popeye-serpentine?picture=349507488

Dan Graham USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/arts/design/28kenn.html

Richard Long

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-long-1525

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/03/richard-long-exhibition-tate

Sarah Morris

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jul/30/
art.olympicgames2008

Richard Prince

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/arts/design/28prin.html

Damien Hirst UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
damienhirst

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
damien-hirst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Damien_Hirst

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/27/
damien-hirst-and-the-dates-that-dont-add-up-
podcast - Guardian podcast

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/20/
damien-hirsts-shark-changed-my-life-
now-he-has-taken-a-chainsaw-to-his-glorious-past

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/
1128292149/artist-damien-hirst-burned-1000-paintings-nft-non-fungible-tokens

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/18/
damien-hirst-i-flirted-with-the-idea-of-pickling-people

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/21/
damien-hirsts-preserved-carcasses-leaked-formaldehyde-gas-study-claims

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/30/
damien-hirst-what-have-i-done-ive-created-a-monster

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/29/
damien-hirst-art-abc-picture-book-children

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/
damien-hirst-leaves-gagosian/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/22/
damien-hirst-two-weeks-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2012/apr/16/
damien-hirst-tate-modern-exhibition-tour-video

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/damien-hirst - 2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/11/
damien-hirst-tate-retrospective-interview

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/07/05/cy-twombly.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/apr/19/
british-early-20th-century-art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/24/damien-hirst-nothing-matters

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/13/
damien-hirst-painting-exhibition-art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/sep/15/
damien-hirst-portrait-cartrain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jan/26/
evolution-charles-darwin

Jeff Koons

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
jeff-koons

Tracey Emin UK

‘Coming from my background, speaking the way I do,

I really have achieved something’

… at the Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate.

Photograph: Martin Godwin

The Guardian

Interview

‘An apparition came towards me’:

Tracey Emin on seeing a ghost and building a new life in Margate

Mon 25 Apr 2022 06.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/25/
tracey-emin-ghost-apparition-new-life-margate-cancer-nudes

Photograph: Anthony Wallace

AFP/Getty Images

Tracey Emin:

'The stone I married is beautiful and dignified

– it will never let me down'

Tuesday 24 May 2016 12.30 BST

Last modified on Tuesday 24 May 2016 16.04 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/24/
tracey-emin-the-stone-i-married-is-beautiful-and-dignified-it-will-never-let-me-down

‘I went through something quite horrific’ …

Emin’s self-portrait Like The Moon You Rolled Across My Back.

Photograph: Tracey Emin

Courtesy of Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate

Interview

‘An apparition came towards me’:

Tracey Emin on seeing a ghost and building a new life in Margate

Mon 25 Apr 2022 06.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/25/
tracey-emin-ghost-apparition-new-life-margate-cancer-nudes

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
emin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tracey_Emin

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/03/
tracey-emin-billy-childish-romance-biography

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/11/
tracey-emin-speaks-about-her-cancer-at-opening-of-her-exhibition-in-rome

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/25/
tracey-emin-ghost-apparition-new-life-margate-cancer-nudes

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jan/06/
tracey-emin-to-launch-revolutionary-art-school-in-margate

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/may/13/
tracey-emin-on-beating-cancer-
you-can-curl-up-and-die-or-you-can-get-on-with-it

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/09/
tracey-emin-cancer-love-exhibitions-pyjamas-birdsong

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/16/
tracey-emin-artist-1998-installation-my-bed-tate-liverpool-merseyside

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/24/
tracey-emin-
the-stone-i-married-is-beautiful-and-dignified-it-will-never-let-me-down

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/dec/02/
buy-tracey-emin-print

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2012/may/30/
tracey-emin-margate-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/feb/18/
tracey-emin-louise-bourgeois-collaboration

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/jun/15/
tracey-emin-drawings-white-cube

street artist Cartrain UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/sep/15/
damien-hirst-portrait-cartrain

Frances Stark USA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/24/
artist-frances-stark

Jasper Johns USA

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
jasper-johns

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/16/
arts/design/jasper-johns-memory-of-my-feelings.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/
arts/design/jasper-johns-regrets-a-new-series-at-moma.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/09/
arts/0109-JOHN_index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/04/09/
arts/20080410_JASPER_SLIDESHOW_index.html

Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
howard-hodgkin

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/04/howard-hodgkin-painting-new-york

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/28/howard-hodgkin-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/jun/27/howard-hodgkin-artist-q-and-a

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/dec/18/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Jeremy Deller UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
jeremy-deller

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/13/artist-industrial-revolution-popular-culture

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/17/jeremy-deller-hayward-retrospective

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/oct/10/
art.turnerprize2004

Stuart Pearson Wright

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/30/monarchy.arts

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/may/18/1

Bill Viola

https://www.billviola.com/

Sue Coe UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sue_Coe

Frank Auerbach Germany, UK 1931-2024

Head of Helen Gillespie II, 1962.

Frank Auerbach’s early charcoal portraits look deep into human life – in pictures

For this series of large-scale charcoal portraits made between 1956 and 1962,

the German-British painter Frank Auerbach drew his sitters over and over again,

erasing the image after each session so that only a ghostly outline remained.

He repeated the process

until he felt he had captured the person’s essence;

often the paper would rip.

“What is so captivating about the drawings is

how Auerbach could elicit such complex responses

using just a piece of charcoal and a stick of chalk,”

says curator Barnaby Wright,

who has brought the portraits together for the first time for an exhibition.

“We are so saturated by superficial images of people

that these drawings offer us an enriching alternative,

something deeply human and full of vitality.”

Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads is at the Courtauld, London, 9 February-27 May

Kathryn Bromwich

Sat 13 Jan 2024 18.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jan/13/f
rank-auerbachs-early-charcoal-portraits-look-deep-into-human-life-in-pictures

Born in Berlin in 1931,

Frank Auerbach dedicated himself

to his work 364 days a year,

capturing himself and his surroundings

in vivid works.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/12/
frank-auerbach-life-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
frank-auerbach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Frank_Auerbach

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/16/
frank-auerbach-interview-art-british-painter-bbc-john-wilson

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/12/
frank-auerbach-life-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jan/13/
frank-auerbachs-early-charcoal-portraits-look-deep-into-human-life-
in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/14/
frank-auerbach-twenty-self-portraits-review-hazlitt-holland-hibbert-london

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/18/
frank-auerbach-how-artist-drew-himself-for-covid-plague-years-drawings

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/01/
frank-auerbach-unseen-review-art-
that-restores-a-sense-of-what-it-is-to-be-human

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/07/
frank-auerbach-exhibition-tate-britain-review

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/30/
frank-auerbach-sitters-interviews-tate

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/16/
frank-auerbachs-london-the-extraordinary-life-and-loves-in-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/21/
frank-auerbach-constable-turner-and-me-interview

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/29/
frank-auerbach-painters-painter-freud-tate-retrospective

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/aug/26/
frank-auerbach-art-london-tate-britain

Frank Stella USA 1936-2024

champion of abstract art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Frank_Stella

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/05/
frank-stella-influential-american-artist-dies-aged-87

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/04/
1112027057/frank-stella-dead-art-minimalist

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/
arts/frank-stella-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/
arts/design/the-whitney-taps-frank-stella-for-an-inaugural-r

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/01/
frank-stella-art-money-whitney-retrospective

Robert Moskowitz USA 1935-2024

abstract painter of New York’s skyscrapers

He depicted the Empire State Building,

the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly,

the World Trade Center.

Those paintings took on new meaning

after 9/11.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/
arts/robert-moskowitz-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Robert_Moskowitz

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/
arts/robert-moskowitz-dead.html

Chuck Close USA 1940-2021

Charles Thomas Close

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Chuck_Close

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/
arts/design/chuck-close-pace-gallery-arne-glimcher.html

Mary Lee Abbott USA 1921-2019

Mary Abbott

(...)

was at the heart of the Abstract Expressionist

movement in New York in the 1940s and ’50s

but, like other women painting in that genre,

received far less recognition than

her male counterparts

(...)

Ms. Abbott painted bold, colorful works,

often inspired by nature or music,

and traveled in the same circles

as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning

and other artists who were redefining

painting in the years after World War II.

De Kooning in particular, 17 years her senior,

became a friend, lover and protector,

including from some of the other male artists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/
arts/design/mary-abbott-dead.html

James Albert Rosenquist USA 1933-2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/
arts/james-rosenquist-dead-pop-art.html

Arnold Mesches USA 1923-2016

socially conscious painter whose political activities

were recorded by the F.B.I. for more than 25 years

in a thick dossier that he later used for his series

“The F.B.I. Files”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/
arts/design/arnold-mesches-artist-who-was-recorded-by-the-fbi-dies-at-93.html

Walter Darby Bannard USA 1934-2016

Walter Darby Bannard, a Color Field painter

whose elegant, severe abstract paintings

of the late 1950s and early ’60s

were the springboard for a lifetime’s exploration

of color, form and the physicality of paint

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/design/darby-bannard-dead.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/
arts/design/darby-bannard-dead.html

Ellsworth Kelly USA 1923-2015

Paul Allen Reed USA 1919-2015

last surviving member

of the Washington Color School,

who explored the complexities of color and form

in vibrant biomorphic

and hard-edge abstract paintings

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/
arts/design/paul-reed-painter-of-the-washington-color-school-dies-at-96.html

Noah Marcus Davis USA 1983-2015

Jane Wilson USA 1924-2015

painter whose best-known works

were landscapes that occupied a niche nestled

between representation and abstraction

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/arts/design/jane-wilson-artist-of-the-ethereal-dies-at-90.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/
arts/design/jane-wilson-artist-of-the-ethereal-dies-at-90.html

Marjorie Virginia Strider USA 1931-2014

Marjorie Strider

Photograph: Fred W. McDarrah

Getty Images

Marjorie Strider, Sly Pop Artist, Is Dead at 83

By RANDY KENNEDY NYT SEPT. 5, 2014

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/
arts/design/marjorie-strider-sly-pop-artist-is-dead-at-83.html

Pop artist who slyly subverted

her male counterparts’ takes

on consumerism and the female form,

creating images of packages

that oozed their contents

and women whose curves

jutted from the picture plane

(...)

Ms. Strider was among the first wave

of New York Pop artists

and was included in

“The First International Girlie Show”

at the Pace Gallery in 1964,

along with several

soon-to-be stars of the movement,

including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein

and Tom Wesselmann.

She said she did not initially

think of her works as Pop,

but had grown bored

in the 1950s making paintings

that were perspectivally

flat and began adding things

like cardboard and wood to the surface

to make them more sculptural.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/
arts/design/marjorie-strider-sly-pop-artist-is-dead-at-83.html

Norman Cornish UK 1919-2014

last surviving alumnus of the Pitman's Academy,

a pioneering miners' art group

in the north-east of England

who spent 33 years working underground

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/03/
norman-cornish-pitman-painter-dies-94-coal-miner

John Bellany UK 1942-2013

Scottish painter

whose work was characterised

by brutality, torment and compassion

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/02/john-bellany

Richard Ernst Artschwager USA 1923-2013

painter and sculptor

whose witty, contradictory

mixing of artistic genres

made him one of the most critically

admired artists to emerge in the 1960s

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/arts/design/richard-artschwager-painter-and-sculptor-dies-at-89.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/arts/design/
richard-artschwager-painter-and-sculptor-dies-at-89.html

Will Barnet USA 1911-2012

printmaker and painter

known for elegantly stylized portraits

and classically composed visions

of beautiful women and children

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/arts/design/will-barnet-painter-dies-at-101.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/
arts/design/will-barnet-painter-dies-at-101.html

William Paul Jenkins USA 1923-2012

colorful

Abstract Expressionist

who came of age

during the heyday

of the New York School

and for several decades

carried on

its highly physical tradition

of manipulating paint

and canvas

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/arts/design/paul-jenkins-abstract-expressionist-painter-dies-at-88.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/
arts/design/paul-jenkins-abstract-expressionist-painter-dies-at-88.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/11/14/
arts/artsspecial/20121114BARNET.html

Frederick James Brown USA 1945-2012

American artist

who explored the relationship

between music and painting

in portraits of hundreds

of jazz and blues artists

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/arts/design/frederick-j-brown-painter-of-musicians-dies-at-67.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/
arts/design/frederick-j-brown-painter-of-musicians-dies-at-67.html

Harold John Golding UK 1929-2012

English art critic,

scholar and painter

who courted abstraction

in every facet of his career,

seeking to define it

in the work of others

and to produce it in his own

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/
arts/design/john-golding-critic-and-scholar-of-the-abstract-dies-at-82.html

Mike Kelley USA 1954-2012

one of the most influential

American artists

of the past quarter century

and a pungent commentator

on American class,

popular culture

and youthful rebellion

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/arts/design/mike-kelley-influential-american-artist-dies-at-57.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/
arts/design/mike-kelley-influential-american-artist-dies-at-57.html

Lucian Freud UK 1922-2011

James Rizzi USA 1950-2011

The American pop artist

James Rizzi

(...)

was no creative trailblazer,

but he achieved renown

for his linear, childlike style,

vibrant colours

and zany imagery.

His work was described

by the critic Glenn O'Brien

as a cross between Picasso

and Hanna-Barbera,

combined with an evocation

of Native American friezes.

Rizzi himself listed his idols

as Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet,

Keith Haring, Andy Warhol

and Bugs Bunny.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/dec/30/
james-rizzi

Helen Frankenthaler USA 1928-2011

lyrically abstract painter

whose technique

of staining pigment

into raw canvas

helped shape

an influential art movement

in the mid-20th century

and who became

one of the most admired artists

of her generation

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/helen-frankenthaler-abstract-painter-dies-at-83.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/
helen-frankenthaler-abstract-painter-dies-at-83.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/28/
helen-frankenthaler

Patricia Passloff 1928-2011

abstract Expressionist painter

whose canvases vibrate

with unpredictable line

and thick, luminous color

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/
arts/pat-passlof-abstract-expressionist-painter-dies-at-83.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/arts/
pat-passlof-abstract-expressionist-painter-dies-at-83.html

Stephen Mueller USA 1947-2011

New York painter

who expanded and refined

the vocabulary of 1960s

Color Field painting

into deliriously buoyant

mystical-comic works

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/arts/design/stephen-mueller-color-field-painter-dies-at-63.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/arts/design/
stephen-mueller-color-field-painter-dies-at-63.html

Richard Hamilton UK 1922-2011

British painter and printmaker

whose sly, trenchant take

on consumer culture

and advertising made him

a pioneering figure in Pop Art,

and who designed the cover

of the Beatles’ “White Album”

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/
arts/design/richard-hamilton-british-painter-and-a-creator-of-pop-art-dies-at-89.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/richard-hamilton

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/07/
richard-hamilton-called-him-daddy-pop

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/08/late-works-richard-hamilton

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/may/14/
richard-hamilton-marcel-duchamp-national-gallery

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/10/
richard-hamilton-painting-posthumous-exhibition

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/20/
richard-hamilton-honoured-memorial-exhibition

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/arts/design/
richard-hamilton-british-painter-and-a-creator-of-pop-art-dies-at-89.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/13/
richard-hamilton-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/sep/13/
richard-hamilton-pop-art-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/13/
richard-hamilton-artist-dies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/14/
richard-hamilton-interview-serpentine-cooke

Elliott Budd Hopkins USA 1931-2011

Abstract Expressionist artist who

— after what he described

as a chance sighting

of something flat, silver,

airborne and unfathomable —

became the father

of the alien-abduction movement

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/arts/design/budd-hopkins-abstract-artist-and-ufo-author-dies-at-80.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/arts/design/
budd-hopkins-abstract-artist-and-ufo-author-dies-at-80.html

Ronald George Murray Bone 1950-2011

highly accomplished artist

who was making the transition

from serene interiors

to portraiture

when cancer intervened.

(...)

His meticulous detail

earned him comparisons

to Andrew Wyeth,

but the quiet rooms

he loved to paint

were animated

by his lifelong curiosity.

He sought a way

to express stillness

and tranquillity on canvas,

an aim beyond

the technical challenges

that make some of his paintings

similar to the virtuoso still lifes

of 17th-century Dutch

vanitas artists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/18/ron-bone-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/18/
ron-bone-obituary

Cy Twombly USA 1928-2011

(born Edwin Parker Twombly Jr)

his spare, childlike scribbles

and poetic engagement

with antiquity

left him stubbornly

out of step with the movements

of postwar American art

even as he became

one of the era’s

most important painters

https://www.moma.org/artists/5988

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
cy-twombly

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/
arts/design/sally-mann-cy-twombly-remembered-light.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/06/cy-twombly-obituary

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/07/05/cy-twombly.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/05/artist-cy-twombly-dead-at-83

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/06/cy-twombly-appreciation-painting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/06/cy-twombly-close-encounter-tacita-dean

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jul/06/cy-twombly-life-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jun/17/art.culture

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/jun/03/
cytwomblytheonlygraffitia

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/19/arts/art-in-review-cy-twombly.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/
arts/art-review-the-changing-seasons-of-cy-twombly.html

Leonora Carrington UK 1917-2011

British-born Surrealis

and onetime romantic

partner of Max Ernst

whose paintings

depicted women

and half-human beasts

floating in a dreamscape

of images drawn from myth,

folklore, religious ritual

and the occult

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/arts/design/leonora-carrington-surrealist-dies-at-94.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/
arts/design/leonora-carrington-surrealist-dies-at-94.html

Hedwig Lindenberg / Hedda Sterne Romania, USA 1910-2011

artist whose association

with the Abstract Expressionists

became fixed forever

when she appeared

prominently

in a now-famous 1951

Life magazine photograph

of the movement’s

leading lights

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/arts/design/hedda-sterne-artist-of-many-styles-dies-at-100.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/
arts/design/hedda-sterne-artist-of-many-styles-dies-at-100.html

John Harvey McCracken USA 1934-2011

West Coast artist

who brought a New Age openness

to Minimalist sculpture,

along with a vocabulary of bright,

sleek slabs, blocks and columns

that balanced teasingly

between painting and sculpture

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/
arts/design/john-mccracken-sculptor-of-geometric-forms-dies-at-76.html

George Clair Tooker Jr. USA 1920-2011

painter

whose haunting images

of trapped clerical workers

and forbidding government offices

expressed a peculiarly

20th-century brand

of anxiety and alienation

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/
arts/design/george-tooker-painter-capturing-modern-anxieties-dies-at-90.html

Alan Philip Uglow July 19, 1941-2011

abstract painter

of light-filled geometries

whose expansive fields,

bordered with notched lines,

reflected in part

his passion for soccer

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/arts/design/02uglow.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/
arts/design/02uglow.html

Kenneth Clifton Noland USA 1924-2010

Kenneth Noland's

brilliantly colored concentric circles,

chevrons and stripes

were among the most recognized

and admired signatures

of the postwar style

of abstraction known as

Color Field painting

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/arts/06noland.html

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/
kenneth-noland-color-field-artist-is-dead-at-85/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/jan/11/
kenneth-noland-obituary-letter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/08/
kenneth-noland-obituary

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/06/
arts/review-art-31-years-of-color-and-shape-in-a-kenneth-noland-show.html

Nassos Panagiotis Daphnis 1914-2010

Greek-American artist

who deployed brilliantly

colored geometric forms

in precise formal relationships

to create nervous,

dynamic paintings

on a heroic scale

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/arts/design/13daphnis.html

Nathan Joseph Roderick 1928-2010

leading Bay Area artist

who achieved

national prominence

fusing Abstract Expressionism

and figuration

in psychologically charged

canvases that explored

human isolation and alienation

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/arts/design/19oliveira.html

Jack Levine USA 1915-2010

unrepentant

and much-admired realist artist

whose crowded history paintings

skewered plutocrats,

crooked politicians

and human folly

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/arts/10levine.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/arts/10levine.htm

Robert Arthur Goodnough 1917-2010

painter

whose stylistic evolution

from vibrant,

Cubist-inspired abstractions

to Color Field canvases

made him one

of the least definable members

of the second-generation

Abstract Expressionists

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/arts/design/13goodnough.html

Stephen Pace USA 1918-2010

second-generation

Abstract Expressionist

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/arts/design/07pace.html

Lester Frederick Johnson 1919-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/
arts/design/09johnson.html

Arnold Friberg USA 1913-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/arts/design/04friberg.html

David Slivka 1914-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/arts/design/04slivka.html

Nancy Spero USA 1926-2009

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/
arts/design/20spero.html

Andrew Wyeth USA 1917-2009

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/16/
andrew-wyeth-death-art-usa

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/arts/design/17deba.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/arts/design/17wyeth.html

Michael Mazur USA 1935-2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/nyregion/30mazur.html

Grace Hartigan USA 1922-2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Grace_Hartigan

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/
arts/design/18hartigan.html

Robert Rauschenberg USA 1925-2008

Beryl Cook UK 1926-2008

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/may/28/
art.obituaries

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/
beryl-cook-painter-of-pub-life-is-dead-aged-81-835849.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/28/artsnews

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/jul/24/
art

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/05/women_as_they_really_are.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2008/may/28/art?picture=334430290

David Whitaker UK 1938-2007

The work

of David "Whit" Whitaker

is instantly recognisable.

Using straight lines, simple shapes

and a palette of just seven colours

- two yellows, cadmium red, magenta,

viridian and two blues -

he explored a seemingly

unlimited range of optical effects.

The resulting oils

and watercolour paintings

shimmer with colour

and combinations of colour.

The effect is almost hallucinatory,

forcing the viewer

to walk backwards and forwards,

or side to side,

to try and make sense

of what he is seeing.

Over the course of Whitaker's career,

this near obsessive,

single-minded pursuit

amounted to an astonishing

technical achievement.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/mar/29/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/apr/22/
exhibitionist-art-shows#/?picture=373903706&index=3

Sol LeWitt USA 1928-2007

Sol LeWitt ('s)

deceptively simple geometric

sculptures and drawings

and ecstatically colored

and jazzy wall paintings

established him as a lodestar

of modern American art

(...)

Mr. LeWitt helped establish

Conceptualism and Minimalism

as dominant movements

of the postwar era.

A patron and friend

of colleagues young and old,

he was the opposite

of the artist as celebrity.

He tried to suppress

all interest in him

as opposed to his work;

he turned down awards

and was camera-shy

and reluctant to grant

interviews.

He particularly

disliked the prospect

of having his photograph

in the newspaper.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/design/09lewitt.html

https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2007/apr/10/
art

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2007/apr/10/
obituaries.michaelmcnay

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/10/
artsobituaries.obituaries

Jules Olitski Ukraine, USA 1922-2007

painter and sculptor

who became a widely admired

and controversial member

of the second generation

of American abstract artists

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/arts/05olitski.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/
arts/05olitski.html

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/13/
guardianobituaries.usa

Elizabeth Murray USA 1940-2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/
arts/design/in-chelsea-picasso-justin-samson-kenneth-noland.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/
arts/design/13murray.html

Angela Mary Burfoot 1934-2006

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/may/04/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Tom Wesselmann USA 1931-2004

Tom Wesselmann

American, b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1931-2004

Bedroom Painting No. 38,978.

Oil on canvas. 84 x 97 in. (213.3 x 246.4 cm.)

Gift of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation,

1985 (85.24 )

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/search.asp?Artist=Wesselmann&hasImage=1

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/index.asp

prominent Pop artist

best known for modernizing

the classic female nude

into a flat, enigmatic,

billboard-friendly silhouette

(...)

Along with Andy Warhol,

Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg,

James Rosenquist and Jim Dine,

Mr. Wesselmann belonged to

a generation of artists who gave

American art and culture

a new sense of itself.

They found inspiration,

source materials

and even working methods

in areas beyond art

- in advertising, movies,

food labels, household appliances,

newspaper front pages

and in commercial art techniques

like silkscreen, Benday dots

and billboard painting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/arts/design/20wess.html

Juliet Pannett UK 1911-2005

portrait painter who chronicled

the changing face of Britain

and its people for more than 50 years

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/06/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/06/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Patrick Caulfield UK 1936-2005

Caulfield, who lived in London,

rose to prominence in the 1960s

as one of the "new generation"

of British painters.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/oct/01/arts.artsnews

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/01/
arts.artsnews

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/01/
arts.artsnews1

Norman Edward Albert Adams UK 1927-2005

Norman Adams

(...)

said it was his ambition

to paint profoundly religious pictures,

although he was not a churchgoer

and held no particular

religious beliefs.

He called himself

"a sort of freelance agnostic",

yet there was always

a spiritual intensity

underlying his paintings

of the natural world,

as well as the specifically

religious subjects.

Norman's work continued

a rich tradition

of romantic visionary painting

more frequently encountered

in Britain than elsewhere.

There are close links between his output

and that of earlier English painters,

such as Blake and Turner.

As a young painter,

Norman wanted to fuse

the qualities of these

two great predecessors;

although he recognised

that Blake never had

much feeling for paint,

he admired "the poetry

and political verse,

his intensity and his integrity".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/mar/15/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/mar/15/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

The British surrealist movement of the 1930s

Conroy Maddox 1912-2005

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/19/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Nancy Mona Carline UK 1909-2004

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/nov/19/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Fermin Rocker UK 1907-2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/oct/26/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

John Patrick Grome 1911-2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/oct/27/
guardianobituaries.italy

William Gear UK 1915-1997

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/19/
william-gear-towner-gallery-eastbourne-review

Roy Fox Lichtenstein USA 1923-1997

Forget It! Forget Me!

Roy Lichtenstein

1962

Oil and Magna on canvas.......80 x 68 inches

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University

Waltham, Massachusetts

www.brandeis.edu/rose

http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/frames.htm

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/12/
532597956/art-collector-sells-lichtenstein-for-165-million-to-fund-criminal-justice-reform

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/23/roy-lichtenstein-heresy-to-visionary

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/feb/18/
roy-lichtenstein-tate-modern-retrospective

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/18/roy-lichtenstein-pop-art-tate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/feb/18/roy-lichtenstein-tate-modern-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/nov/05/
roy-lichtenstein-pop-art-retrospective

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/sep/21/roy-lichtenstein-tate-modern

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/
arts/design/roy-lichtenstein-a-retrospective-at-the-national-gallery-of-art.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/10/19/arts/design/20121019-LICHTENSTEIN.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/10/warhol-double-elvis-sells-auction

Helen Chadwick UK 1953-1996

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/may/21/
1

Francis Bacon UK 1909-1992

Robert Motherwell USA 1915-1991

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/18/
obituaries/robert-motherwell-master-of-abstract-dies.html

Keith Allen Haring USA 1958-1990

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/06/
492836459/in-an-nyc-stairwell-one-of-keith-harings-murals-may-be-in-peril

Robert Mapplethorpe USA 1946-1989

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/10/
obituaries/robert-mapplethrope-photographer-
dies-at-42.html

Jean-Michel Basquiat USA 1960-1988

Romare Bearden USA 1911-1988

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/romare-bearden

Andy Warhol USA 1928-1987

Henry Spencer Moore UK 1898-1986

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/oct/04/
exhibition.art.henry.moore

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/22/
features11.g23

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe USA 1887-1986

Jimmy Ernst Germany, USA 1920-1984

Abstract expressionist painter,

Jimmy Ernst, with his paintings.

Location: US

Date taken: December 1954

Photograph: Fritz Goro

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=2a4daab3fac201be - broken link

Jimmy Ernst Germany, USA 1920-1984

(born Hans-Ulrich Ernst)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Ernst

Alice Neel USA 1900-1984

Ben Nicholson UK 1894-1982

Ben Nicholson OM 1894–1982

Foxy and Frankie (1)

1933

Medium Oil paint and relief print on paper

Dimensions Support: 159 x 149 mm

Tate

Acquisition Purchased 1976

Reference P07201

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ben-nicholson-om-1702

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/
ben-nicholson-om-1702

Philip Guston Canada, USA 1913-1980

Philip Guston in New York, in 1952,

when he was on the rise

as a painter of vigorous abstraction.

Later, he would switch gears.

Photograph: Martha Holmes

The LIFE Images Collection,

via Getty Images

Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion

Guston’s Ku Klux Klan paintings

are but one facet of an incendiary artist’s storied career,

stretching from social realism to abstraction and back.

NYT

Oct. 2, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/
arts/design/guston-painter-career.html

American Abstract Expressionist painter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Philip_Guston

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/
arts/design/guston-cartoons-los-angeles-times-klan.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/
arts/design/philip-guston-museum-fine-arts-boston-klan.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/
arts/design/philip-guston-review.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/
arts/design/guston-painter-career.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/jan/20/
1

Norman Rockwell USA 1894-1978

Lawrence Stephen Lowry UK 1887-1976

Artist LS Lowry (1887-1976)

on a note-taking expedition around Manchester,

April 1958.

Photograph: Frank Martin

BIPS/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Castro, Lowry, Dench and more:

Guardian photographer Frank Martin – in pictures

A look back at the career of photographer Frank Martin.

Frank became interested in photography

after national service in the RAF photographic unit

and joined the Guardian in 1964

after working for Bernsen’s International Press Service (BIPS),

a Fleet Street news agency.

He retired from the Guardian in 1997,

after covering everything from foreign and domestic news

to fashion and arts for the newspaper

Fri 8 Apr 2022 18.23 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/apr/08/
castro-lowry-dench-and-more-guardian-photographer-frank-martin-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
ls-lowry

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/27/
ls-lowry-station-approach-manchester-painting-auction

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/05/
lowry-early-painting-display

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/15/
tate-britain-exhibition-homage-lowry

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/nov/01/
ls-lowrys-125th-birthday-google-doodle

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/18/
ls-lowry-tate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/17/
ian-mckellen-tate-lowry-exclusion

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/sep/29/
arttheft.art

Mark Rothko USA 1903-1970

From 1949,

when his early figurative pictures

finally liquefied

into stains of translucent color,

Rothko painted with no allusions,

no particulars.

Over and over,

in soft-edged blocks layered

on filmy backgrounds,

he modeled a commitment to abstraction

that charged at the hardest questions

of life and art

through refusal of the easy path.

A lot of people find

his large paintings consoling,

or seek the Romantic sublime

in the depths of his reds and violets.

Rothko never thought of them

as peaceable.

“Behind the color lies the cataclysm,”

he said in 1959

— a citation that rarely make

the auction preview catalogs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/
arts/design/mark-rothko-review-paris.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
rothko

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/
arts/design/mark-rothko-review-paris.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/12/02/
457118704/hidden-for-decades-pollocks-rothkos-and-more-go-on-display-in-iran

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/09/16/
mark-rothko-finds-his-style-at-the-columbia-museum-of-art-photos.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/sep/08/
rothko-in-britain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/28/
art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2008/sep/26/
rothko.tate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/24/
rothko.tatebritain

Laura Knight UK 1877-1970

Dame Laura Knight

was one of the most popular and pioneering

British artists of the twentieth century.

Her artistic career took her

from Cornwall to Baltimore,

and from the circus

to the Nuremberg Trials.

She painted dancers

at the Ballets Russes

and Gypsies at Epsom races,

and was acclaimed for her work

as an official war artist.

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/laura-knight-portraits/exhibition.php

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jul/14/
laura-knight-national-portrait-gallery

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jul/13/
laura-knight-national-portrait-gallery

Edward Hopper USA 1882-1967

Pauline Boty UK 1938-1966

a founder of the British pop art movement

and Britain's most notable

female pop art painter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/apr/27/pauline-boty-pictures#/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/apr/27/
pauline-boty-pictures#/

Franz Kline USA 1910-1962

Abstract expressionist painter,

Franz Kline,

in studio with his black and white paintings.

Location: New York, NY, US

Date taken: December 1954

Photograph: Fritz Goro

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=c708b77bed2459f3 - broken link

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/
arts/art-in-review-franz-kline.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/19/
arts/art-view-franz-kline-a-legacy-in-black-and-white.html

Gwen John (1876-1939)

and Augustus John (1878-1961)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/aug/29/
art

Vanessa Bell UK 1879-1961

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/
2009/feb/23/vanessa-bell-courtauld-institute

Marjorie Jewel "Marlow" Moss UK 1889-1958

one of Britain’s

most important Constructivist artists

(...)

Prior to the First World War,

Moss produced highly abstract painted

compositions similar

to the work of Mondrian,

with whom she is often associated

and who she was close to

for much of her life.

Later, her practice developed

toward the production

of all-white reliefs

and sculptural works.

Moss lived and worked

between Paris and Cornwall

for much of her life,

changing her name

and permanently adopting

a masculine appearance in 1919.

Moss finally settled

in Lamorna Cove in 1939.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/
exhibition/tate-st-ives-summer-2013/tate-st-ives-summer-2013-marlow-moss

broken link

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/25/
marlow-moss-cornwalls-forgotten-art-maverick-tate-britain

Jackson Pollock USA 1912-1956

Walter Richard Sickert UK 1860-1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Walter_Sickert

John Singer Sargent UK 1856-1925

Thomas Eakins USA 1844-1916

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thomas_Eakins

Walter Crane UK 1845-1915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Crane

George Frederick Watts UK 1817-1904

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jun/28/
artsandhumanities.arts

James Abbott McNeill Whistler USA / UK 1834-1903

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/
1186755113/when-whistlers-model-didnt-show-up-
his-mom-stepped-in-and-made-art-history

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/18/
1111069388/whistlers-mother-meet-whistlers-very-very-close-friend-
at-the-national-gallery

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/mar/29/
how-whistlers-mother-became-a-powerful-symbol-of-the-great-depression-in-pictures

John Atkinson Grimshaw UK 1836-1893

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/apr/22/
exhibitionist-art-shows#/

George Caleb Bingham USA 1811-1879

Bingham made his fame

largely through painting images

describing American civil virtues;

his most famous paintings

include a series

on American electioneering

completed before the Civil War

– “Stump Speaking,”

“The County Election”

and “The Verdict of the People” –

which capture

the essence of democracy

in the first half

of the 19th century.

Although some commentators

have seen a critique

of Jacksonian democracy

in Bingham’s depiction

of drunken voters,

the art historian Nancy Rash

argued that the election series

embodied Bingham’s

commitment to democracy

as the supreme expression

of the people’s will.

Even his frontier scenes,

such as “The Jolly Flatboatman”

and “Fur Traders

Descending the Missouri,”

which depict life

on the Western rivers,

reflect his Whig Party

political views.

(...)

Bingham was also

a zealous Unionist.

Although his family

had owned slaves

in Virginia and Missouri,

he considered slavery

doomed.

But he had no love

for the abolitionists either,

whom he considered

as dangerous to the Union

as the Southern fire-eaters.

His election paintings

are dominated by whites

and show African-Americans

only on the periphery,

working or serving drinks

to the voters.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/an-artists-revenge/

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/
an-artists-revenge/

Joseph Mallord William Turner UK 1775-1851

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
jmw-turner

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/09/
turner-fighting-temeraire

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/
arts/design/turner-painter-mfa-museum-boston.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/14/
jmw-turner-sandycombe-house-twickenham-restored

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/
arts/design/in-turner-paintings-at-the-met-the-bloody-business-of-whaling.html

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/05/
mike-leigh-mr-turner-enigmatic-character

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/21/
frank-auerbach-constable-turner-and-me-interview

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/14/
late-turner-painting-set-free-tate-britain-review-prepare-to-be-dazzled

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/08/
late-turner-painting-set-free-tate-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/28/
yorkshire-enlists-turner-attract-tourists

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/
arts/design/04turn.html

John Constable UK 1776-1837

Constable is famous

for his landscapes,

which are mostly

of the Suffolk countryside,

where he was born and lived.

He made

many open-air sketches,

using these as a basis

for his large exhibition paintings,

which were worked up

in the studio.

His pictures

are extremely popular today,

but they were not

particularly well received

in England during his lifetime.

He did, however,

have considerable success

in Paris.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/john-constable

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
constable

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/21/
frank-auerbach-constable-turner-and-me-interview

Gilbert Stuart USA 1755-1828

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/arts/design/11libr.html

William Blake UK 1757-1827

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/18/
tatebritain-williamblake

George Stubbs UK 1724-1806

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/06/
george-stubbs-cook-endeavour-works-saved-maritime-museum

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/picture/2012/sep/17/
george-stubbs-horse-frightened-by-lion

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/06/
george-stubbs-gimcrack-auction-christies

Thomas Gainsborough UK

14 May 1727 (baptised) - 1788

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/17/
gainsborough-james-hamilton-review

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/oct/19/
artsfeatures

Richard Wilson 1713/14 - 1782

Wilson was a pioneer

of landscape painting in Britain.

He visited Italy and,

in Rome,

met the French painter

Joseph Vernet,

who encouraged

his interest in landscape.

Like Vernet,

Wilson was deeply influenced

by the work

of Claude and Gaspard Dughet,

and he interpreted

the English and Welsh landscapes

in their manner

after his return to England.

Wilson is sometimes called

'The English Claude'.

Wilson was born in Wales,

moving in about 1729 to London,

where he trained with Thomas Wright

as a portrait painter.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/richard-wilson

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jul/03/
richard-wilson-wales-museum-landscape-nature-painting-exhibition

William Hogarth 1697-1764

William Hogarth

was an English artist,

satirist and social reformer.

His art was full of innovation.

Hogarth's work

is easily accessible

to modern audiences.

His paintings and engravings

cover themes like crime,

sex and political corruption.

His prints of Europe's

financial turmoil

during the 1720s

would not look out of place

as cartoons in today's

newspapers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-hogarth

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/hogarth

https://artuk.org/discover/artists/hogarth-william-16971764

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/11/
william-hogarth-paintings-restored-st-bartholomews-hospital

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2013/nov/28/
ken-loach-how-william-hogarth-inspired-riff-raff-video

Samuel Cooper 1608 or 1609-1672

The greatest English miniaturist

of the 17th century,

Cooper enjoyed

a prosperous career

and a European reputation

(he is said to have travelled

on the Continent

as a young man).

He worked for both sides

during the Civil War

and Commonwealth,

and his sitters included

Oliver Cromwell

and Charles II.

His portraits are almost always

of the bust only,

but within this limitation

his range is remarkable:

he presents each sitter

(man or woman)

with an individuality

of characterization

that can make

the life-size portraits

of contemporaries such as Lely

appear doll-like,

and his vigorous Baroque

sense of design

marks a complete break

with the tradition of Hilliard

and Hoskins.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/samuel-cooper

https://artuk.org/discover/artists/cooper-samuel-16091672

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/08/
cromwell-portraitist-samuel-cooper-exhibition

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