Franz Kline
Franz Jozef Kline was born May 23 1910 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He studied at Girard College before attending Boston University. He then took art courses at the Art Students League in Boston from 1931 to 1935 and traveled abroad to London from 1936 to 1938 and studied at the...
Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly was born 1928 in Lexington, Virginia. He studied art in Boston, New York and at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met other notable artists like John Cage, Robert Motherwell and Robert Rauschenberg. Cy traveled to North Africa and Europe as a young man and...
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...