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Mark Voris
Mark Voris (1907–1974) was an American born artist and ceramicist who had a significant impact on the artistic development of Tucson and Arizona, both through his leadership with the Work Progress Administration (WPA) and his tenure as a professor at the University of Arizona. Life and Art Born in Franklin, Indiana on September 10, 1907 Voris received considerable schooling in art during a period before degrees. He attended Franklin College from 1924-25. Voris moved to Tucson in 1923 and worked as a commercial artist and received many prizes for his works in oil, watercolor and ceramics. Enrolling in the University of Arizona from 1926-1929 he ultimately obtained at Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona in 1956. Voris spent four winters studying with Paul Dougherty (artist), Paul Dougherty. The early Voris paintings are Arizona landscapes that glow and flow in ways that show the influence of European artists blending in a visual magnificence when combi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeYoung Museum
The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California. Located in Golden Gate Park, it is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, along with the Legion of Honor. The de Young is named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young. History The museum opened in 1895 as an outgrowth of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 (a fair modeled on the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of the previous year). It was housed in an Egyptian revival structure which had been the Fine Arts Building at the fair. The building was badly damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and was closed for a year and a half for repairs. Before long, the museum's steady development called for a new space to better serve its growing audiences. Michael de Young responded by planning the building that would serve as the core of the de Young facility through the 20th century. Louis Christian Mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Art Project Artists
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People From Franklin, Indiana
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists From Tucson, Arizona
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Deaths
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey, Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the Germany national football team, German national team won the championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Arts Project
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects. It was created not as a cultural activity, but as a relief measure to employ artists and artisans to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. The WPA Federal Art Project established more than 100 community art centers throughout the country, researched and documented American design, commissioned a significant body of public art without restriction to content or subject matter, and sustained some 10,000 artists and craft workers during the Great Depression. According to ''American Heritage'', “Something like 400,000 easel paintings, murals, prints, posters, and renderings were produced by WPA artists dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Norton
Louise Norton (June 19, 1888 – September 6, 1941) was a Kansas City-born American artist who was a founding member of the arts colony in Tucson, Arizona, in the early part of the twentieth century. She was a pioneering female painter who helped shape the culture of Arizona and the Southwest. Life and Art Norton was born to Ruth Moore and John W. Norton. Her family moved to a ranch five miles outside of Prescott, Arizona, when she was four years old. She attended Prescott High School and graduated with honors from the University of Missouri. She then attended the Kansas City Art Institute. She traveled abroad throughout Europe and Tahiti to paint. She was lauded for her portraits and still life paintings. During World War I she was in government service in Washington D.C. Norton was one of the original four members of the Pallet and Brush, the original art colony of the south-western city of Tucson. She also served on the first board of directors of the Tucson Fine Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Drake Marlow
Lucy Clare Marlow (''née'' Drake; September 23, 1890 – July 6, 1978) was an American artist. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, she studied at the Catlin Art School and the Arts Students League for New York. For two years she was a pupil of George Elmer Browne in the West End School of Art at Provincetown, Massachusetts. She later studied portraiture in New York under Ernest L. Blumenschein and Eugene Speicher, and studied life painting for three years under Norwood McGilvary and illustration and design with Edmund Marion Ashe at Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Career Marlow organized a summer art school Blooming Valley, Pennsylvania. She studied with Giovanni Romagnoli and exhibited in Erie Pennsylvania working principally in figure and portraits and she was a member of the board of the Associated Arts Society of Pittsburgh. In 1927 Marlow opened a home in Tucson, Arizona and moved from Pittsburgh to the "Old Pueblo". In the late 1920s she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Roca
Stella McLennan Roca (1879–1954) was an American-born artist who influenced the artistic development of Tucson and Arizona. Roca was an early member of Tucson's Art Colony, worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and exhibited throughout the United States. Life and art Born to William and Margaret Frances Brown McLennan, Stella grew up in Nebraska City, Nebraska, graduating from St. Joseph's Academy. She attended the Art Institute of ChicagoArizona Daily Star, Second Annual Arizona Artist Exhibit Is Outstanding Achievement, April 13, 1924 for five years earning her certificate from there in 1908 and the Omaha Institute. She married shortly after graduating from the Chicago Art Institute. She and her mother were vacationing in Portland, Oregon, and Stella received an offer through the Art Institute to teach at a large hacienda near Durango, Mexico. She accepted that position and spent two years in New Mexico. After moving to Tucson in 1918 Roca became a key membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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