Norman Bluhm
Norman Bluhm was born on March 28, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. He studied architecture under Mies van der Rohe at the then Armour Institute of Technology before enlisting for service in the U.S. army in 1941 as a B-26 pilot. He returned to the U.S. after his tour of duty for a brief time...
Michael Mazur
Michael Mazur was born November 2, 1935 in New York City. He was a celebrated academist who received his Bachelors Degree from Amherst College in 1957 and his Masters Degree from the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1961. He received his first teaching assignment in 1965 at the...
Mark Tobey
Born December 11, 1890 in Centerville, Wisconsin, Mark Tobey was a painter, composer and a poet. His experimentation with abstract painting and calligraphy had a tremendous impact on future art movements, particularly Abstract Expressionism. Tobey began his studies at the Art Institute of...
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Russia in 1903. His father, Jacob Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and an intellectual, who provided his children with a secular and political, rather than religious, upbringing. Unlike Jews in most cities of Czarist Russia, those in Dvinsk had been...