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Samuel F. B. Morse - Inventor - Biography.com  Jan 6, 2016 ... Samuel F. B. Morse was an accomplished portrait painter before he became the inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code. ... Samuel Morse was an American artist and inventor best remembered for his invention of the ... also working on the invention, and it is possible Morse knew about these, but no one...
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Gabriel Allon - Wikipedia  Gabriel Allon is the main protagonist in Daniel Silva's thriller and espionage series that focuses ... Michael is the highest [angel], but you, Gabriel, are the mightiest. ... In the aftermath, he left the Office and under the cover of an Italian art ... To Allon and his team, he's known as the Memuneh (Hebrew for 'the one in charge').
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'The Face Of Britain' Tells A Nation's History Through Portraits : NPR  Sep 19, 2016 ... Art historian Simon Schama shares the stories behind the artworks  from the portrait that made an 18th-century actor into a star, to the one Winston ... when he has a bad night and he's visited by the ghosts of his many victims. ... But this wasn't good enough because when the portrait was given to the...
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The Most Fascinating Profile You'll Ever Read About a Guy and His ...  Aug 7, 2014 ... He's munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long ... Stewart (Butterfield) is well known in certain circles as the founder of the ... Flickr was a treasure chest of innovation, but Stewart never even intended ... Slack is the one mutual platform where all those things come together.
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The Imitation Game - Wikipedia  The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum, ... The machine is eventually finished, and Turing names it Christopher, but it ... She comforts him by saying that his work saved millions of lives. ..... that it's a "performance for the ages ... proving he's one of the best actors working...
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Eugene Atget | International Photography Hall of Fame  Eugene Atget was a French photographer noted for his photographs ... It is quite possible, if Berenice Abbott had not discovered Eugene Atget, he and his images may have ... When he refers to his work as a wholeThis enormous artistic and .... Abbott who first discovered Atget in the studio of Man Ray in 1925, that his...
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Jasper Johns - Wikipedia  Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop art. ... Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South ... Johns is best known for his painting Flag (195455), which he painted after having a dream...
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Winslow Homer - Wikipedia  Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836  September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. .... Homer composed this painting from sketches he had made while traveling...
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Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the collections of George ...  His images contain characters, settings, and situations that viewers recognize .... Rockwell is best known for the Saturday Evening Post covers he painted from...
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by t i m o, via Flickr | the portrait artist | Pinterest | Photos  Author Unknown The most relaxing thing to do is to get inspired by nature and portray it! ...... In 1939, the book 'Portrait of a Painter:The Authorized Life of Philip de Lszl ...... Double exposure portraits by Spanish-based artist Antonio Mora (a.k.a. ...... but here's one from The Picture of Dorian Gray that I certainly relate to: "To...
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Jackson Pollock - Wikipedia  Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912  August 11, 1956), known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. .... In 1999, physicist-artist Richard Taylor used computer analysis to show...
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A History of Graphic Design: Capter 74: Photographers and Graphic ...  His work without any doubt is genuine and immortal art. ..... He instead chose to publish the photograph that allowed him to draw the conclusions he wished to...
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Ansel Adams | Photography Schools  Mar 25, 2016 ... This art form was well exemplified by Adams' landscape photos. Throughout ... Adams's efforts as an artist-activist were recognized by Jimmy Carter in 1980, when he awarded Adams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Rembrandt Peale Portrait Of Brother Headed For Sale - Collections  Oct 20, 1985 ... Rembrandt. Rubens. Titian. Raphael.Just say the celebrated names and one is ... so that American colonial painter Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827), ... most talented of the Peale sons and is remembered in the history of art for his ... the last stop of a major traveling exhibition of American painting -- A New...
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I'm grateful for this honest, hardworking, and wise man of faith ...  This artwork of President Abraham Lincoln, his wife, and two sons, Robert and Tad, was .... reuniting lost family members and soldiers, etc. through on-the-job training during some of ...... Birth Name Thomas Woodrow Wilson Nickname The Professor The Schoolmaster in Politics The Phrasemaker Coiner of Weasel Words.
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American artist Andrew Wyeth dies - The Boston Globe - Boston.com  Jan 17, 2009 ... ... America's most popular living artist and whose 1948 painting "Christina's World" became one ... Perhaps no American painter has ever had as strong a hold on the popular imagination as Mr. ... He was the first artist to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1963.
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Article: Charles M. RussellIcon of the West - Gilcrease Museum  Jan 27, 2016 ... At his death on October 24, 1926, artist Charles M. Russell left ... Legislature to place the artist's likeness in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. ... Finally, in 1959, a bronze likeness of the Montana artist, rendered by ... by other western masters such as Frederic Remington, Alfred Jacob...
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John Singer Sargent - Wikipedia  John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 ... His parents were American, but he was trained in Paris prior to moving to London. Sargent...
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John Singer Sargent - Wikipedia  John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his ... They generally avoided society and other Americans except for friends in the art ..... Here he became friends with painter Dennis Miller Bunker who traveled to ... Sargent painted a series of three portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Painter Andrew Wyeth Dies at Age 91 | PBS NewsHour  Jan 16, 2009 ... Andrew Wyeth, one of the most famous figures in American art, died early Friday ... His most famous painting, Christina's World, was inspired by the sight of ... He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, and in 1970 he became the first living artist to have a solo show at the White House.
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The Most Famous Poster (Memory): American Treasures of the ...  James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) ... a copy of the poster, Flagg remarked that he had been his own model for Uncle Sam to save the modeling fee.