Artist Profiles
8 articles
Yosl Bergner: The Austrian-Israeli Artist Who Painted Memory and Displacement
Discover Yosl Bergner, the Austrian-born Israeli artist whose surrealist paintings of Jewish memory and displacement bear witness to 20th-century history.
Oscar de Mejo: The Italian-American Naive Artist Who Captured America's Heart
Discover Oscar de Mejo, the Italian-American naive artist whose whimsical paintings of Americana and dancing figures reside in the Whitney and Brooklyn Museums.
Yasui Sotaro: The Japanese Master Who Bridged East and West
Discover Yasui Sotaro, the pioneering Japanese master who bridged European realism with Japanese sensibility in his refined portraits and still lifes.
The INTERPOL Fugitive Who Became a Painter
In 1985, David Allan Smith appeared in a U.S. Department of Justice guide to INTERPOL — not as an artist, but as a federal fugitive who escaped Terminal Island prison by boat after a shootout with guards. Then he started painting.
Emile Bellet: The French Master of Dreamlike Romance and Fauvist Color
Discover Emile Bellet, the self-taught French master whose Fauvist-inspired paintings and lithographs capture dreamlike romance with saturated color.
H. Andrew Freeth: Britain's Master Etcher Who Captured the Soul of Everyday Life
Discover H. Andrew Freeth RA, the Prix de Rome winner and Royal Academician whose etchings captured the soul of industrial Britain.
Del Swan: The California Botanical Artist Whose Woodcuts Celebrate Nature's Beauty
Discover Del Swan, the California botanical artist whose hand-colored woodcuts of flowers like datura blend traditional printmaking with natural beauty.
Burghild Eichheim-Keller: The German Modernist Who Mastered Geometric Abstraction
Discover Burghild Eichheim-Keller, the German modernist whose 1960s color serigraphs embody the refined precision of post-war geometric abstraction.