Artist: Samuel Cooper (1609 - 1672)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
After learning the technique of miniature painting from his uncle, John Hoskins, Samuel Cooper became the most renowned painter of his genre. Cooper was also known to be a skilled musician and writer. He was commissioned by the Commonwealth and produced portraits of Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II. Cooper also painted on ivory and parchment, designed coins, and was a talented draughtsman.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Charles II (1630-1685), King of England Style of Samuel Cooper (British, probably after 1672)Vellum laid
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Myles Birket Foster Portrait of Milton (from the picture by Samuel Cooper), title page vignette and illustration 1 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London: W. Kent & Co., 1859) et
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Henry Carey (1596-1661), Second Earl of Monmouth, 1649 Samuel Cooper (British, 1608?–1672)Vellum on prepared card;
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Samuel Palmer "Christmas" etching in Samuel Palmer, a memoir by A. H. Palmer etching 19th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Copied after John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Samuel Cooper after 1769 Oil on canvas 76.52
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Lucy Percy (1600?–1660), Countess of Carlisle, 1653 Samuel
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Samuel Palmer The Bellman ET 1879
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Samuel Palmer Moonlit Scene graphite 1863
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior Samuel Whitbred, Esq. Mezzotint 18th - 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Willow ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Sepulchre ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Skylark ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Cypress Grove etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer The Cypress Grove ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Homeward Star ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Willow etching 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Herdsman, or The Weary Ploughman 1865
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Samuel Palmer The Rising Moon ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Early Ploughman ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer Moeris and Galatea ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer Opening the Fold; or, Early Morning ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) book with 5 etchings and 9 photogravures after drawings 1883
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Washington Allston - Samuel Williams c. 1817 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Eastman Johnson - Samuel W. Rowse c. 1881 oil on board Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Thomas Lawrence - Samuel Woodburn c. 1820 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Benjamin West - Dr. Samuel Boude 1755 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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William Dunlap - Samuel Griffin c. 1809 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Samuel Palmer The Herdsman's Cottage; or sunset ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Sleeping Shepard; Early Morning ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer Opening the Fold; or, Early Morning ET 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Herdsman's Cottage or Sunset etching from a steel plate 1850
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Samuel Palmer "O fortunate old man...",first illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 18 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "O fortunate old man...",second illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 20 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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William Dunlap - Mrs. Thomas A. Cooper n.d. oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Walter Ufer - Portrait of Samuel Lustgarten c. 1925-1927 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Winthrop Chandler - Mrs. Samuel Chandler c. 1780 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Samuel Palmer "Thy very cradle quickens...", illustration for Eclogue 4, opposite page 48 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Henry Dexter - Samuel Atkins Eliot 1837 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum American
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Gilbert Stuart - Samuel Alleyne Otis 1811-1813 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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John Trumbull - Judge Samuel Livermore 1792 oil on panel Currier Museum of Art American
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Leopold Seyffert - Samuel Henry Kress 1953 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Samuel Palmer "Pan came, Arcadian shepherd ever good...", first illustration for Eclogue10, opposite page 92 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "And while the troubled moon shrunk in and out...", second illustration for Eclogue 8, opposite page 82 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Ripe apples are our supper...",third illustration for Eclogue 1, opposite page 22 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Come fairest, if thou care for me at all..," illustration for Eclogue 7, opposite page 70 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Tis gentle Phillis I love best of all...", illustration for Eclogue 3, opposite page 40 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Pan came, Arcadian shepherd ever good",second illustration for Eclogue10, opposite page 94 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Untimely lost and by a cruel deathä", illustration for Eclogue 5, opposite page 54 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "_till Vesper bade the swain...", illustration for Eclogue 6, opposite page 64 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "But see, the weary-pacing oxen, slow...", illustration for Eclogue 2, opposite page 30 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Then, to our goats at milking time return..", illustration for Eclogue 9, opposite page 88 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Samuel Palmer "Scarce with her rosy fingers had the dawn...", first illustration for Eclogue 8, opposite page 76 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) etching 1883
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Augustus Saint Gaudens - The Puritan (Deacon Samuel Chapin) 1899 bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Winthrop Chandler - Captain Samuel Chandler c. 1780 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Shade of Samuel Invoked by Saul
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Samuel Palmer The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) book with 12 etchings 1889
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Benjamin West - Mary Bethel Boude (Mrs. Samuel Boude) 1755-1756 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Samuel Ely Hamlin Porringer pewter 1801 - 1856
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Samuel Williamson Sugar urn silver circa 1800
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Samuel Lovett Waldo Mrs. C. F. Lindsley oil on canvas 1844
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Diaries of Samuel P. Avery, 1871-1882 Author: Samuel Putnam Avery (American, 1822-1904)Bound manuscript; 5 vols.;
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior Hagia Yousuph Effendi Mezzotint 1795
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior The Fisherman's Dog mezzotint 18th - 19th century
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Samuel Prout At York 1821
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John Singleton Copley - Elizabeth Gray Otis (Mrs. Samuel Alleyne Otis) c. 1764 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior The Death of Cicero Mezzotint 18th - 19th century
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior John Opie Mezzotint 18th - 19th century
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Samuel Williamson Coffeepot silver, wood circa 1800
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior The Chapeau de Paille Mezzotint 18th - 19th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
John Smibert, American (born in Scotland), 1688-1751 Judge Samuel Sewall 1729 Oil on canvas 76.2
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood, Esq. 18th - 19th century
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John Wesley Jarvis - Portrait of Captain Samuel Chester Reid, 1783-1861 1815 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: John Wesley Jarvis Title: Portrait of Capt. Samuel C. Reid Date: 1815 Medium: oil
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Samuel Howitt The Hare and the Tortoise Etching 1809
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Samuel Marsden Brookes Fish oil on panel circa 1870
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Samuel Edmund Waller The Poacher's Daughter lithograph 1886
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Samuel A. Robb Indian Maiden zinc and paint 1870
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Samuel Sartain The Last Prayer etching 19th - 20th century
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Samuel Sangster The Victim etching and engraving 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Autographs and Sketches from Artist Friends to Samuel P. Avery, 1874-1880 Author: Samuel Putnam Avery
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Samuel Walker Mrs. Mary Jane White oil on canvas 1871
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Samuel Ireland Portrait of William Hogarth 1764
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Samuel MacIntyre Game table mahogany early 19th century
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior William, Youngest Son of Lord William Russell Mezzotint 18th - 19th century
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Samuel Palmer Lycidas, illustration to the poem Lycidas, opposite page 2 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer The Curfew, first illustration to the poem Il Penseroso, opposite page 22 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Chamberlain The Old Town - Antibes graphite circa 1930
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W.G. Jackman Samuel Lover 19th century
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Samuel Prout Lymnouth 18th - 19th century
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Samuel Bellin David Cox 18th - 19th century
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Samuel Palmer The Prospect, second illustration to the poem L'Allegro, opposite page 14 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer The Bellman, second illustration to the poem Il Penseroso, opposite page 26 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior Miss Stephens as Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro Mezzotint 18th - 19th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 The Drummer Boy about 1862 Oil on canvas 91.76 x
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Dr. Samuel Johnson oil on canvas 18th century
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Samuel Palmer The Eastern Gate, first illustration to the poem L'Allegro, opposite page 10 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer The Dell of Comus, second illustration to the poem Comus, opposite page 60 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Samuel Palmer A Towered City, third illustration to the poem L'Allegro, opposite page 18 in the book The Shorter Poems of John Milton (London: Seeley & Company, 1889) etching with photogravure 1889
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Charles Samuel Keene Harbor Scene pen and black ink 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Boy Style of Samuel Shelley (late 18th century)Ivory; Oval, 1 1/4 x

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Call for Aritsts: The Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency Program
Application deadline
Friday, March 4, 2005 For more information and an application please visit our website: www.cooper.edu/artsummer On campus housing is available. Financial ...
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Exhibition of Works by Sculptor Franca Ghitti
Ghitti has been working with the theme of maps through an art since the 1960s and, by utilizing salvaged wooden planks, the bottoms of large barrels, iron cables and scraps of old notebooks, she tried to define a relationship between habita...
Haunch of Venison: Thomas Joshua Cooper: Point of No Return
Cooper’s most ambitious project is The World’s Edge – The Atlantic Basin Project, an epic endeavour begun in 1990 to map the extremities of the land and islands that surround the entire Atlantic Ocean. The Haunch of Venison exhibition, point of ...
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Call for Artists: Second Annual Summer Residency Program
Residents of The Cooper Union Summer Residency Program have the option of participating in a wide range of seminars and events, including critiques. A staff of master technicians, who are also practicing artists, provide valuable technical supp...
Siam Art Space: 1+2, a crappy exhibition in too many parts
Though 1+2 takes the style of silent, black and white films, it references many universal and contemporary themes such as domestic violence, love and hate and more recently the uncompromising struggle between Western and Arab cultures. 1+2 views...
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: Solos: Future Shack
The second installment of Cooper-Hewitt's Solos exhibition series, which explores groundbreaking, innovative international and contemporary architecture and design works, spotlights FutureShack because it represents a departure from what we think ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Milton Glaser: Graphic Design
Born in 1929 in New York City, Mr. Glaser studied at The Cooper Union Art School and later, as a Fulbright Scholar, attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy. Throughout a celebrated career, he has ...
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: The Opulent Eye of Alexander Girard
His stores, showrooms, exhibitions, and houses introduced modern design to millions of Americans, while his restaurants dazzled the public with their theatricality. ...
Presentation House Gallery: TELEPHONES: CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
IMAGE:
Christian Marclay,
Telephones, 1995,
video still. ...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision 5
The exhibition will challenge perceptions of the Victorians. Paul Atterbury, curator of the exhibition, says: “The world of the Victorians relates to our world far more than...
Art Dealers Association of Greater Washington: Art At The Millenium: Part II
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Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg: Ladislav Sutnar: Designer in Two Worlds
Having immigrated to the United States in 1939, he continued to play a role as one of the foremost personalities in the Euro-American avant-garde. His futuristic vision paved the way for the development of today’s principles of information design....
New Museum of Contemporary Art: World Views Exhibition

The exhibition at the New Museum will include works by Simon Aldridge, Naomi Ben-Shahar, Monika Bravo, Laurie Halsey Brown, Justine Cooper, Lucky Debellevue, Carola Dertnig, Mahmoud Hamadani, Kara Hammond, Jeff Konigsberg, Motonobu Kurokawa, Ge...
Museum of Contemporary Photography: on View: Antonia Contro and Maurizio Pellegrin, David Ireland, Clement Cooper
Originally a painter, Chicago artist Antonia Contro creates intricate installations that explore themes of journey and transformation inspired by her own Venetian heritage. Using a SX-70 Polaroid camera, Contro creates both concrete and ethereal ...
Fogg Museum, Harvard: Philip Guston: A New Alphabet Brings Pivotal Group of Paintings Together for First Time
The exhibition is co-organized by Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art at the Fogg Art Museum, and Joanna Weber, acting curator of European and contemporary art at the Yale Art Gallery, with the help of Laura Greengold, a recent graduate ...
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution: The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
At a critical moment in American history, Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912-1988) Eames responded to emerging postwar consumer needs and demands with experimentation and an aesthetic approach that was a uniquely American interpretation of European...
Organization of Independent Artists: Patterned Behavior - Moku-Hanga: Japanese Waterbase Woodcuts by April Vollmer and Sarah Hauser
April Vollmer received an M.F.A. at Hunter College. In addition to a recent solo exhibit at A.I.R. Gallery, the artist has exhibited at the Islip Art Museum, Goddard Riverside Art Center, Dieu DonnÈ Papermill and other galleries nationally a...
Centre of Attention: Featuring...Curated by Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer
Al+Al
Oreet Ashery
estate of H.W Auden
Simeon Banner
Benedict Carpenter
Rosie Cooper
Greg Daville
Eveleigh and Evans
Nooshin Farhid
A.M. Hanson ('alexcalledsimon')
Jasper Joffe
Tina Keane
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Kabat Wrobel Gallery: Paula Braswell and Dionne Simpson: Urban Decay
Paula Braswell holds an MFA from Florida State University. She has been showing her work in many galleries (public and commercial) across the USA and in Canada. Dionne Simpson's mixed media paintings explore an urbanscape in a contemporary ...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: World Views Open Studio Exhibition
New Museum Henry Luce III Director Lisa Phillips said: It is crucial for cultural institutions to work together now and we felt it was important to support a vital downtown arts institution in need. The exhibition at the New Museum will pres...
Virginia Historical Society: Robert Gwathmey: a Retrospective
Gwathmey developed a two-dimensional style that was uniquely his own. His paintings juxtapose primitive, carefully chosen shapes and angles against startling color, often outlined in black. In choosing color, Gwathmey sometimes arranged co...
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego: A Unique American Vision: The Paintings of Gregory Gillespie
Also on view are portraits, still-lifes, and devotional images that Gillespie calls shrines, which combine tour-de-fo...
ARTSCI'99: BUCKY - a one-man performance
Through the powerful universal principles that Buckminster Fuller discovered and utilized during his lifetime, namely, Synergy, Precession, Ephemeralization, and Acceleration of Acceleration, we can explain and predict some of the fastest mutatin...
Esso Gallery: Francesco Simeti: NOW I KNOW MY ABC's
His patterns show images of conflict, crowds of people or military personnel engaged in non-natural disasters and the words are derived from a media-created language. The ability of Francesco Simeti to subvert a given system by using it's own l...
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings
Drawing upon public and private collections in Europe and America, the exhibition will unite for the first time fifteen of Mondrian's seventeen transatlantic paintings, including works from the Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Modern, The Phillips C...
Rice Unversity Art Gallery: Untitled (Series No. 2): French Sound Artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot
Boursier-Mougenot's installation at Rice Gallery will include three large inflatable swimming pools, each fitted with silent water pumps and filled with floating porcelain bowls of varying size and dimension. Caught in the current of the circula...
Art Gallery of South Australia: 2002 Adelaide Biennial - conVerge: where art and science meet
Each of the artists in the exhibition are actively engaged with scientific research at the beginning of the 21st century. The exhibition explores some of the fundamental issues facing modern Australia, through creative encounters with diverse syst...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: Margaret Morton: The Tunnel
Residents dwell in continual darkness, constructing homes of cinder-block bunkers and freestanding hand-made structures in alcoves and on ledges. With sensitivity and compassion, Margaret Morton has chronicled the lives and living spaces of the tu...
Montclair Art Museum: Whitfield Lovell: Portrayals
Lovells work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the Jersey City Museum.  Whitfield Lovell: Portrayals was organized by T...
Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions
Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions will focus on five sculptures spanning Rosso’s mature career. The works are Aetas aurea (The Golden Age), 1886–87; Grande rieuse (Large Laughing Woman), 1891; Bambino ebreo (Jewish Boy), c. 1892–93; Bookmaker, c. ...

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