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...
Louise Nevelson
Born Louise Berliawsky on September 23, 1899 to a Jewish family in what is now known as Keiv in the Ukraine. Her and her parents, Isaac and Minna Berliawsky, immigrated to America and settled in Rockland, Maine when she was just 3 years old. Shortly after graduating high school in 1917,...
Kim MacConnel
Born in Oklahoma City in 1946, Kim MacConnel is an American artist who is best known for his pattern designs painted on furniture (or 3 dimensional canvases as he refers to it). MacConnel was a creative force in the Pattern and Decoration movement that had its heyday in the 1970’s....