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. 

Combining a pop star's persona with that of a visual artist, the Australian artist, Brett Whiteley, is best known for a series of paintings inspired by the British mass murderer John Christie.

Leading artist of Australia's avant-garde movement, Whiteley was born on April 7, 1939, in Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in Longueville, a quiet suburb on the northern shores of Sydney harbour.