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Andy Warhol grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the son of a construction worker. At the age of eight, he had a liver disease that would cause him to spasm. During his childhood, his first art teacher was his mother. He would take his interest in art to study at Carnegie Melon University. Soon after graduation, he moved to the Big Apple to pursu...
Jackson Pollock was born in 1812 in Cody, Wyoming. When he was 18, he decided to move to New York to study his interest in art. Shortly after, he began painting with a job through the New Deal. In 1943, he would land a significant contract with a well-known art gallery. Throughout the 1950’s he would continue to evolve his painting, and he would be...
Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1887. As Georgia was growing up, she was quite reserved and shy but was always fascinated with nature and beauty. She knew very early in life that she wanted to be an artist. O’Keeffe would spend a portion of her life being an art teacher. In 1917, she would finally get the chance to show her ...
Originally from Russia, Mark Rothko was born in 1903. He moved to the United States when he was ten, and Rothko would ultimately attend Yale University in the early 1920s. Despite his Russian origins he is still considered an American artist due to spending his formative years there. He would settle in New York in 1925 and study painting at The Art...
On July 22, 1882, Edward Hopper was born in New York. Hopper would go on to study at the New York School of Art. In 1924, he decided to make painting his full-time focus. After studying under Robert Henri, nearly all of Hopper’s work depicted everyday scenes in the city life. Some examples of his subjects would include the city streets, Victorian h...
Keith Haring was born in 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Much of his early influence came from Walt Disney, and he would spend hours drawing with his father. As a result, Haring became more interested in pop art like cartoons and comics. His art career began in the 1980s in New York and became known as a “subway artist.” Much of his work is known fo...
Roy Lichtenstein, born in 1923, has an interest in art in the early portion of his life even though his high school did not offer art classes. After he finished high school, he attended Ohio State University and would soon begin teaching art classes following graduation. He is known for combining commercial art with the outlines typically found in ...
Norman Rockwell is an American artist who grew to fame with his 300+ Saturday Evening Post cover pages he compiled over a career of nearly 50 years. He was born in New York City in 1894 and began art training in his teenage years at the National Academy of Design. At the time of World War II, Rockwell also began to work as an artist. After his work...
Born in Augusta, GA, Jasper Johns was an influential artist in the early portion of the twentieth century. He grew up in a somewhat unstable life, but he knew early on that he wanted to be an artist. In 1951, Johns was drafted into the army to serve and came back to New York City two years later. One of his first artistic successes came from a drea...
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. He was encouraged much from his mother for starting artistic interest, but unfortunately, his mother developed mental problems and Basquiat would leave home at 17. It’s interesting to note that Basquiat didn’t have any specific training as an artist, but the ingenuity in his work combined...
Recognizing the country’s most compelling artists in all disciplines including Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theater & Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art, and Writing.
Apr 12, 2024 · Many of the most iconic artists in history have been made in the USA. As a country with rich cultural diversity and a focus on individualism and identity, these unique features have shaped dynamic creatives who broke boundaries, pushed evolution, and challenged the very meaning of ‘art’.
United States Artists (USA) is a national arts funding organization based in Chicago. USA is dedicated to supporting living artists and cultural practitioners across the United States by granting unrestricted awards.
Jan 23, 2024 · United States Artists announced its 2024 USA Fellows, awarding 60 artists and collectives across 10 creative disciplines. Hailing from 22 states and Puerto Rico, the recipients will each receive a $50,000 unrestricted cash award.
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Dec 28, 2016 · The contemporary art scene in the USA is bursting with talented individuals making their mark. Read our art guide to discover some amazing American artists...
