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  • Foresight

    Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer. Julia Margaret Cameron began taking photos on her 48 birthday and when photography was still in its infancy. Not only was she among the first to use photography as an…

  • Dignity

    Sharecropper by Elizabeth Catlett, 1957. Elizabeth Catlett has always felt it was very important for her to present images of Black America with a straight forward dignity and pride so other people around the…

  • No Hesitation

    Jean-Paul Riopelle, Chicago II 1958 One of Canada’s best known 20th century artists, Riopelle’s career took him all over the world. His work was strongly influenced by the Surrealists and was known for it’s…

  • You Never Know Who’s Canadian

    Maurice Prendergast, Landscape with Figures, 1921. Originally posted in 2010. I am currently getting ready to make a trip up to Nova Scotia and Québec and in looking-up Canadian artists I discovered that one…

  • Shell Game

    Sailor’s Valentine. The story goes that 19th century sailors made these for their loved ones while they were out at sea, but in reality most of them were made by women on the islands…

  • Strength in Subtlety

    Burn by Kara Walker, 1998. Kara Walker takes a close look at race in America and makes strong statements about what she sees. In this instance, her artwork is done as a silhouette and…

  • “Miss Perry’s Pottery”

    Classic shape and colors, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI The Pewabic pottery was founded by Mary Chase Perry Stratton in 1903 in Detroit and the building they built to house the pottery in 1915 is…

  • Floating

    Black, White, and Ten Red by Alexander Calder, 1957, NGA, Washington. Calder was from a family of artists but chose to himself to train as an engineer; skills that would serve him well when…

  • Save the Wrapping

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Arc de Triomphe, Paris 2021 Conceived and proposed in 1961, the vision of the artist’s has finally been realized. Unfortunately, neither of them are still alive to see it complete. It…