Artist: William Foster (1772 - 1812)
Nationality: British
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Joseph Badger - Dr. William Foster 1755 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Joseph Badger - Eleanor Wyer Foster (Mrs. Isaac Foster) 1755 oil on bed ticking National Gallery of Art American
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Joseph Badger - Isaac Foster, Jr. 1755 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Joseph Badger - Captain Isaac Foster 1755 oil on bed ticking National Gallery of Art American
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Myles Birket Foster Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London: W. Kent & Co., 1859) book with thirty etchings 1859
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Myles Birket Foster Illustration for the poemSonnet to a Redbreast by William Drummond on page 69 in the book Odes and Sonnets Illustrated (London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1863) color wood engraving 1863
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Myles Birket Foster Illustration for the poem Sonnet by William Shakespeare on page 97 in the book Odes and Sonnets Illustrated (London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1863) color wood engraving 1863
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Myles Birket Foster Illustration for the poem Sonnet by William Wordsworth on page 35 in the book Odes and Sonnets Illustrated (London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1863) color wood engraving 1863
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Myles Birket Foster Illustration for the poem Sonnet by William Shakespeare on page 89 in the book Odes and Sonnets Illustrated (London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1863) color wood engraving 1863
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Myles Birket Foster "And add to these retired Leisure..", third etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 22 on page 16 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London
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Myles Birket Foster "And may at last my weary age..", eleventh etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 30 on page 24 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London:
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Myles Birket Foster "And when the sun begins to fling..", ninth etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 28 on page 22 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (Londo
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Myles Birket Foster "Or, usher'd with a shower still..", eighth etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 27 on page 21 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (Londo
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Myles Birket Foster "But let me due feet never fail..", tenth etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 29 on page 23 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London:
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Myles Birket Foster "Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among..", fourth etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 23 on page 17 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (
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Myles Birket Foster "Then to the spicy nut-brown ale..", sixteenth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration17 on page 11 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London:
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Myles Birket Foster "Or let my lamp, at midnight hour..", seventh etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 26 on page 20 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (Londo
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Myles Birket Foster "Find out some uncouth cell...", first etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 2 on page 1 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London: W. Kent
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Myles Birket Foster "And, missing thee, I walk unseen..", fifth etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 24 on page 18 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London:
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Myles Birket Foster "Oft on a plat of rising ground..", sixth etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 25 on page 19 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London:
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Myles Birket Foster "To hear the lark begin his flight...", third etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 4 on page 3 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London:
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Myles Birket Foster "But hail, thou goddess sage and holy..", first etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 20 on page 14 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (Lon
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Myles Birket Foster "And the jocund rebecks sound..", fifteenth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration16 on page 10 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London:
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Myles Birket Foster "Lap me in soft Lydian airs..", eighteenth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration19 on page 13 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London: W.
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Myles Birket Foster "Some time walking, not unseen...", sixth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 7 on page 5 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London: W. Ke
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Myles Birket Foster "Haste thee nymph and bring with thee...", second etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 3 on page 2 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London:
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Myles Birket Foster Thee, bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore..", second etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 21 on page 15 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (Lond
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Myles Birket Foster Watering Sheep ET 1882
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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
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Myles Birket Foster Venice 19th century
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Myles Birket Foster The Bridge of Gondo 19th century
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Nature morte au plateau noir (1989) by FOSTER-BAILEY Charles
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Myles Birket Foster Turnbury Castle Ayrshire Scotland 19th century
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Myles Birket Foster "Oft listening how the hounds and horn...", fifth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 6 on lower portion of page 4 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birk
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Myles Birket Foster "Where, perhaps, some beauty lies...", twelfth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration13 on lower portion of page 8 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket F
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Myles Birket Foster "Then to come, in spite of sorrow...", fourth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 5 on upper portion of page 4 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket F
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Myles Birket Foster "While the ploughman, near at hand...", seventh etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 8 on upper portion of page 6 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket
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Myles Birket Foster "Where throngs of knights and barons bold..", seventeenth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration18 on page 12 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foste
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Myles Birket Foster "And then in haste her bower she leaves..", fourteenth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration15 on lower portion of page 9 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by
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BERCE PAR UN FLOT MURMURANT ; OU BERCE PAR LE MURMURE D'UN RUISSEAU (1899) by FOSTER Ben
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Myles Birket Foster "Towers and battlements it sees...", eleventh etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration12 on upper portion of page 8 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Fos
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Myles Birket Foster "And the milkmaid singeth blythe...", eighth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 9 on lower portion of page 6 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Fo
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Myles Birket Foster "Mountains, on whose barren breast...", tenth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration11 on lower portion of page 7 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket F
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Johann Martin Bernigeroth Reverend Mr. James Foster 18th century
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Myles Birket Foster "Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes..", thirteenth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration14 on upper portion of page 9 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Bir
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Myles Birket Foster "Russet lawns and fallows grey...", ninth etching for the poem L'Allegro, which is illustration 10 on upper portion of page 7 in the book Milton's L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Fos
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Artist: Laura Foster Nicholson Title: Bounty and Thrift Date: 1989 Medium: wool, silk, rayon, cotton
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Laura Foster Nicholson Title: Bounty and Thrift Date: 1989 Medium: wool, silk, rayon, cotton
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Laura Foster Nicholson Title: Bounty and Thrift Date: 1989 Medium: wool, silk, rayon, cotton
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H. van Kruiningen Your rays foster all gardens. . . all eyes behold you facing them, etc. Color lithograph 20th century
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Myles Birket Foster Sheep feeding, plate 14 in the book, The Etcher (London: Sampson Lowä, 1880), vol. 2 [bound in same volume as vol. 1, 1879] etching 1880
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Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron, French, 1848-1901 French Soldiers in the Snow Oil on panel 24.1
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Pic de Ténérife, vu du Newcastle, 30 avril 1816 (19e siècle) by FOSTER
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Henry Lerolle, French, 1848-1929 By the Riverside Oil on canvas 470.9 x 300 cm (185
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Myles Birket Foster Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets (London: Ward and Lock, [1856?]) book with 16 color wood engravings 1856
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Porto-Oratavo, île de Tenerife, vu du Newcastle, 30 avril 1816 (19e siècle) by FOSTER
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Chauncey Foster Ryder - Sand and Sky n.d. oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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Myles Birket Foster Title page vignette in the book Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets (London: Ward and Lock, [1856?]) color wood engraving 1856
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Myles Birket Foster Sunday Morning, frontispiece in the book Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets (London: Ward and Lock, [1856?] color wood engraving 1856
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Myles Birket Foster Illustration for the poem The Sabbath by Cunningham on page 35 in the book Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets (London: Ward and Lock, [1856?]) color wood engraving 1856

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Frye Art Museum: Tony Foster: World Views
Foster focuses his energy on painting fragile wilderness regions with an eye to conservation: My work is about wilderness, a celebration of the fact that even on our overcrowded and increasingly polluted planet there exist places o...
BYU Museum of Art: isenchanted Forest: Contemporary Art by Johnston Foster
“Disenchanted Forest: Contemporary Art by Johnston Foster,” consists of seven sculptures — six of which are equipped with animatronics — made from everyday objects. Through these sculptures, Foster explores the often mistrustful and sometimes host...
South Tipperary Arts Centre: No Flight Plan: Ciara Foster
Ciara Foster is a Visual Artist. She completed a first class honours degree in design at NCAD, where she specialised in embroidered textiles and a Masters in Design also at NCAD. She has exhibited in many group exhibitions both within Ireland and ...
Cairns Regional Gallery: New Australiana: Work by 11 Australian Photographers
When I first came to Australia in 1998, I was keen to find out more about my new home, Foster said. My research took me to ... various bookshops, but what I found there did not equate with the life I saw around me, he said. So I set out to ...
Art and Soul Radio: Catherine Foster and Sheryl Allen CoHost New Radio Show
View Caterine Foster's work in her portfolio at absoltuearts.com absolutearts.com/cmbfgallery November is Artist's Marketing Month! They kicked off the artist in business th...
Black and White Gallery: Reliable Disappointment: Megan Foster and OUT:Tom Kotik
Focusing on the American suburban experience, Megan Foster omits the figure from the canvas, leaving vacant interiors to stand out as a sign of something hidden. By depicting parts of households that are familiar to us such as the empty couch, the...
Lawrence Gallery Sheridan: Catherine Foster: Peace Prevails Project
From Foster's Artist Statement, "My true passion is the creative process. From the moment of inspiration to the development in my mind to the actual creation I maintain a dialogue with the artwork and my inner self. It is that special time betwee...
Peabody Essex Museum: Accidental Mysteries: Beyond the Keepsake - Snapshot Photography
"We are delighted to show these compelling images from the Foster Collection at the museum," says PEM Chief Curator, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, "They are excellent representations of found photography in which the artist in all of us—trained, or other...
Artists of America: Apollo - Internationally Renown Environmental Artist Named Director of Environmental Art
Apollo (http://www.apolloworldgalleries.com or www.absolutearts.com/apollo) will be helping to create Visual Arts Programs that can be implemented nation wide for both children and profes...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West
Well-known early photographers such as Carleton E. Watkins, William H. Jackson, and Eadweard Muybridge are represented, along with contemporary photographers including Karen Halverson, Mark Klett, Gus Foster, Robert Dawson, Stuart Klipper, Cath...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Curated by Diane De Grazia with Carter Foster, the exhibition will travel to the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. National City is the international sponsor of Master Drawings from the Cle...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: The Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes And Dobell Drawing Prize
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Creative Visions Television: Creative Visions Televisions Second Call for Artists
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Artwise.com.au: A Home for Sculpture
The strength of this site will be the passion and commitment apparent in the work of the artists who choose to show here, and the community they generate together. As far as possible, this service remains entirely free of cost to the artist...
LFL Gallery (Lawrence/Feuer/LaMontagne): Land of Many Uses: Jules de Balincourt
In the sculpture "Global Warming Souvenir", the artist recreates in miniature his old Los Angeles neighborhood, Malibu Lake inside of a large wooden tub. The house- covered valley is bisected by a small stream, but as time passes (approximately 40...
Carnegie Museum of Art: The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1979-1999
The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1979-1999 is organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and is made possible by The Hyatt Foundation. ...
Australian Center for Photography: PHOTO TECHNICA AWARD for NEW AUSTRALIAN PHOTO-ARTIST of the YEAR

This year's judges will be Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Jonathan Morris, Publisher, 3D World Publishing and Alasdair Foster, Director, Australian Centre for Photography. Artists included are:
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American Academy in Rome: The Rome Prize 2002
Rome Prize winners pursue independent projects, which vary in content and scope, for periods ranging from six months to two years at the Academy. Stipends range from $10,000 to $20,000 (depending on the terms of the fellowships). To complement the...
American Academy in Rome: Deadline: The Rome Prize
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 1999 Rome Prize winners pursue independent projects, which vary in content and scope, for periods ranging from six months to two years at the Academy. Stipends range ...
Escape Bar and Art: Holding Things Together: Borbonesa, Gemma Bruce, James Fergusson, Gary Foster, Alexe Dillworth
As we live our lives, each and every one of us accumulate a hoard of memories, both pleasant and otherwise. This vast store of recollections takes shape as our lives progress, and becomes a likeness of the way in which we live. Although highly ...
Museum of the City of NewYork: Renewing a Block and the Spirit of Its People: Photographs of Carmel Hill, Harlem by Bill Foley
Foley has also skillfully captured the change in attitudes among the block’s residents, a transformation from despair to hope, pride in accomplishment, and the spirit necessary to make it t...
Barbara Januszkiewicz: Education Programs and Promotion of the Arts in the Community
The Phantom  Alexandria Arts Safari Mask Ball,  fine art poster is available for $ 35.00 and all monies will be uses to support art education programs and promotion of the arts in the community . We are delighted to have Barbara Januszkiewicz as ...
Spertus: Call to Artists: Spertus Prize, a biennial, juried competition for the creation of Jewish ceremonial art
The object to be created for the upcoming Spertus Prize competition is the mezuzah (container for parchment with a biblical inscription). The winner and finalists will be awarded in the year 2002, and will be featured in an exhibition at Spertus ...
ARTworkSF - Mezzanine Gallery: Road Trip: Memories of Places by 17 Artists
Taking the road less traveled brings the promise of new experiences and the feelings of adventure that accompany exploration often result in the most rewarding and life changing chapters of our lives. Just as rewarding, following the well-traveled...
Side Street Projects: Projections: intermission images VIII - HMO/SUV/IPO
The exhibiton at the Laemmle Grande Fourplex Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, located on Figueroa between Third and Fourth Streets includes artists: C. Ian White; Barbara Strasen; Andrea Katz-Evans; Nizan Shaked; Manya Tan; Rebeca Puga; Michele ...
Artwise Sculpture Gallery: Call for Links from Sculptors
The strength of this site will be the passion and commitment apparent in the work of the artists who show here, and the community they generate together. As far as possible, this service remains entirely free of cost to the artist. A free p...
Architecture Foundation: Integrity: Building with Honesty
It will explore the concept of Anti-Facadism, a campaign against the retention of facades alone, in historic areas, which obscure new building schemes and which has been actively pursued for three years by Lord Rogers, Sir Richard MacCormac and...
Second Street Studio: Call For Entries: Creative Vision Television
The deadline for open call is August 15. We are going to identify all featured artists for 1999-2001 seasons from this pool. Initial reviews will by performed through slide selection by committee. Head judges are Catriona Fraser, renowned fine ...
Chicago Botanic Garden: Endangered Plants of Japan: A Florilegium
Seventy-two of these paintings, each by a different artist, travels to the United States for an exhibit at the National Arboretum, Washington, D.C., and later at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It is the first exhibition of the paintings in North Amer...
Gallery C: See California Now: Unpredictability of California's Vast and Varied Landscape
Gallery C has transformed the soaring spaces of the 1923 Bijou Theater into a dynamic new gallery. With nearly 6,500 square feet of exhibition space and ceilings that soar up to 28 feet, Gallery C has a luxury of space and light not often offered ...
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons at Herbst International Exhibition Hall: eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art
Artwork will include painting, drawing, prints, photography, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, crafts, functional art and mixed media, all reflecting the artists‚ personal emotion, be it hope, freedom, strength, pain, anger, frustration, wellness ...
Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida: Spotlight: Margaret Stone
The purpose of the Visual Arts Center is to foster excellence, diversity and vitality of the visual arts, to broaden the availability and appreciation of such excellence, diversity, and vitality through education and exhibitions, and to serve as a...
Museum of the Americas: 7 Women from 7 Countries
The MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS (MoA) is one of the few art institutions in Florida to foster and promote both established and emerging contemporary artists of every origin. Located in the City of Doral (Miami-Dade County area), MoA serves as an import...
Global Arts Village: Call for Artists: Fellowship Applications 2006
Creative people of all types including fine artists and craftspeople, writers, performing artists, art administrators can apply for the full or partial fellowships. All of our programs are designed to foster awareness and enhance your creative pr...
Textile Museum of Canada: e-textiles: Work of 11 Prominent Artists from Canada, the United States, Australia and Japan.
Participating artists are Junichi Arai (Japan); Lia Cook (USA); Frances Dorsey (Canada); Emily DuBois (USA); Laura Foster Nicholson (USA); Ruth Scheuing (Canada); Cynthia Schira (USA); Liz Williamson (Australia); Hideo Yamakuchi (Japan); and B...
Creative Vision Television: A new visual showcase: Remembering the Present
Filmed at The Kreeger Museum Washington DC. with guest host and curator of the exhibition Jack Rasmussen, PhD Executive Director Maryland Art Place in July 2000. Art work from Clarke Bedford, Ed Bisese, Betsy Damos, Robert Devers, Tom Green, Lee E...
Photographer's Gallery: Altered States of America: Julius Shulman
A self-taught photographer, Shulman's career began when he met the architect Richard Neutra in 1936. Neutra had been brought to Los Angeles to assist fellow Austrian architect Rudolph Schindler, who was overseeing the construction of Fra...
Art Center Nabi: Call for Aritsts: International Competition for the Digitalization of the Intangible Heritage Nabi Centre (Seoul) in Cooperation with UNESCO and AVICOM
In line with the 21st General Assembly of ICOM (International Council of Museums) (2-8 October 2004, Seoul, Republic of Korea), Art Centre Nab is organizing this digi...
Governor's Gallery: Tamarind Institute: Creation, Education, and Collaboration
Included will be historically significant prints by Andrew Dasburg, Clinton Adams, and Garo Antresian as well as recently completed editions by Valerie Arber, Juane Quick to See Smith, and Johnnie Winona Ross. Tamarind Institute was founded in ...
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon: Call for Artists: Electronic and Digital Media
DIGITAL_LAB is part of the wider Projects Office programme, open to agents in the culture industry on an open ongoing basis. It produces and exhibits at LABoral a selection of the projects it receives. It was created with a mission to facilitate t...

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