Famed Artist Ellsworth Kelly, dead at age 92
Ellsworth Kelly, one of the last of the American masters of abstract art, has died. He was 92. The painter/sculptor died Sunday at his home in Spencertown, N.Y., according to Matthew Marks of the Matthew Marks Gallery in Manhattan. “He was simply one of the great modern painters of our era, certainly of the 20th century,” says Harry Cooper, head curator of...
Byron Browne
Byron Browne was born in Yonkers, New York in 1907. He was a celebrated abstract artist, designer and sculptor. Born George Byron Brown, he would eventually drop his first name, although his name does occasionally appear as George-Byron Browne or George B. Browne. He studied art at the...
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky was born in the village of Khorgom, located on the shores of Lake Van. between 1902 and 1905. (there is some discrepancy as to the actual date of his birth) In 1910 his father moved to the United States to avoid the draft, leaving his family behind. Gorky fled his home town...
Antoni Tapies
Antoni Tàpies is a Spanish painter born in Barcelona on December 13, 1923. He is considered to be one of the most famous European artists of his era. Before devoting himself to being an artist starting from from 1943, he studied law for 3 years. He is perhaps the best-known Catalan...