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  • Alma Thomas: The Painter of Joyful Abstraction

    Alma Woodsey Thomas, is famous as a major painter of the Washington Color Field School, who achieved widespread recognition late in her lifetime for her colorful, exuberant abstract paintings.

    Celebrated as the first African-American woman to hold a solo show at Whitney, Thomas was born on September 22, 1891, in Columbus, Georgia. 

  • CY TWOMBLY: THE PAINTER OF CHILDLIKE DOODLING

    Depicting the high culture of the past in a radical language of highly colored stains and energetic brushwork to forge a distinctive body of work, the American artist, Cy Twombly, is best known for combining the history of Western civilization as well as the process oriented aspects of Abstract Expressionism.

    Famous for his childlike doodling unsophisticated graffiti, blackboard chalk drawings and bathroom tagging, Twombly was born Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. on April 25, 1928, in Lexington, Virginia. 

  • MAX WEBER: THE PIONEER OF CUBISM IN AMERICA

    Bringing the knowledge of Parisian avant-garde, including its dynamism, abstraction and emotion, to the burgeoning circle of American modernists, the Russian-born American painter, printmaker and sculptor, Max Weber, is famous for introducing European art movements as Fauvism and Cubism to the United States.

    Celebrated as one of the first American Cubist painters, Weber was born on April 18, 1881, in the Polish city of Bialystok, then part of the Russian Empire.