100 Notable alumni of
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is 516th in the world, 197th in North America, and 182nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Thomas Alva Edison
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- 1875-1879 studied chemistry
- Occupations
- mathematicianengineerscreenwriterfilm directorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory.
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Patty Jenkins
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- writerscreenwritertelevision directordirectorfilm director
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Patricia Lea Jenkins is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. She has directed the feature films Monster (2003), Wonder Woman (2017), and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). For the film Monster, she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and the Franklin J. Schaffner Award of the American Film Institute (AFI). For the pilot episode of the series The Killing (2011), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and the Directors Guild of America award for Best Directing in a Drama Series. In 2017, she occupied the seventh place for Time's Person of the Year.
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Bob Kane
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- writerpencillerdrawerscreenwritercomics artist
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Robert Kane was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created Batman (with Bill Finger) and most early related characters for DC comics. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Daniel Libeskind
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- architect
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Daniel Libeskind is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.
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Alice Wetterlund
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- actorcomedianfilm actortelevision actor
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Alice Wetterlund is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and podcast host. She played Carla Walton on the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, and currently plays D'Arcy Bloom on the SyFy TV series Resident Alien.
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Lee Krasner
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- illustratorprintmakerpainter
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Lenore "Lee" Krasner was an American abstract expressionist painter, with a strong speciality in collage. She was married to Jackson Pollock. Although there was much cross-pollination between their two styles, the relationship somewhat overshadowed her contribution for some time. Krasner's training, influenced by George Bridgman and Hans Hofmann, was the more formalized, especially in the depiction of human anatomy, and this enriched Pollock's more intuitive and unstructured output.
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Shigeru Ban
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- restorerarchitectinternational forum participant
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Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Many of his notable designs are structures which are temporary, prefabricated, or incorporate inexpensive and unconventional materials in innovative ways. He was profiled by Time magazine in their projection of 21st-century innovators in the field of architecture and design.
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Emile Berliner
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- entrepreneurengineerinventorelectrical engineerindustrialist
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Emile Berliner originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894; The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897; Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898; and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904). Berliner also invented what was probably the first radial aircraft engine (1908), a helicopter (1919), and acoustical tiles (1920s).
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Milton Glaser
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- graphic designerillustratorgraphic artistdesignertypographer
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Milton Glaser was an American graphic designer. His designs include the I Love New York logo, a 1966 poster for Bob Dylan, and the logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University, and Brooklyn Brewery.
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Joel-Peter Witkin
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in art of sculpture
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features. Witkin is often praised for presenting these figures in poses which celebrate and honor their physiques in an elevated, artistic manner. Witkin's complex tableaux vivants often recall religious episodes or classical paintings.
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Calvin Lockhart
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- stage actoractor
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Calvin Lockhart was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor. Lockhart was perhaps best known for his roles as Reverend Deke O'Malley in the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem and Biggie Smalls in the 1975 Warner Bros. film Let's Do It Again.
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Evan Hunter
- Occupations
- authorscreenwriterprosaistwriternovelist
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Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino, was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film Blackboard Jungle was based.
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Occupations
- sculptor
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. From a French-Irish family, Saint-Gaudens was raised in New York City. He traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study. After he returned to New York, he achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil War, many of which still stand. Saint-Gaudens created works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, Abraham Lincoln: The Man, and grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals: General John Logan Memorial in Chicago's Grant Park and William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of New York's Central Park. In addition, he created the popular historicist representation of The Puritan.
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George Segal
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- sculptorillustratorphotographergraphic artistpainter
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George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the pop art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.
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Augusta Savage
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- human rights activistartistsculptor
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Augusta Savage was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts.
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Victor Papanek
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- designeranthropologistart theoristuniversity teacherteacher
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Victor Josef Papanek was an Austrian-born American designer and educator, who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. His book "Design for the Real World", originally published in 1971 and translated into more than 24 languages, had lasting international impact.
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb
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- caricaturistcomics artistcomics creator
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an American underground comics artist. Kominsky-Crumb's work, which is almost exclusively autobiographical, is known for its unvarnished, confessional nature. In 2016, Comics Alliance listed Kominsky-Crumb as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. She was married to cartoonist Robert Crumb, with whom she frequently collaborated. Their daughter, Sophie Crumb, is also a cartoonist.
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Norman Bridwell
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- illustratorauthor
- Biography
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Norman Ray Bridwell was an American author and cartoonist best known for the Clifford the Big Red Dog book series.
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Russell Alan Hulse
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- physicistastronomerastrophysicistresearcher
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Russell Alan Hulse is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".
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Miriam Cooper
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- actorfilm actor
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Miriam Cooper was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D. W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1924 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films.
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John Hejduk
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- university teachersculptorgraphic artistpainterpedagogue
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John Quentin Hejduk was an American architect, artist and educator of Czech origin who spent much of his life in New York City. Hejduk is noted for having had a profound interest in the fundamental issues of shape, organization, representation, and reciprocity.
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William Wallace Denslow
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- comics artistillustratorwriterchildren's writer
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William Wallace Denslow, professionally W. W. Denslow, was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics, which has fueled political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Mitch Epstein
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- journalistphotographerphotojournalistcinematographer
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Mitchell Epstein is an American fine-art photographer. His books include Property Rights (2021), In India (2021), Sunshine Hotel (2019), Rocks and Clouds (2018), New York Arbor, (2013) Berlin (2011); American Power (2009); Mitch Epstein: Work ( 2006); Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988 (2005); Family Business (2003), which won the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award, and Vietnam: A Book of Changes (1997).
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Angela Hill
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- Thai boxerkickboxermixed martial arts fighter
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Angela Patrice Hill is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the strawweight division. She was formerly signed with the Invicta Fighting Championships, of which she was the strawweight champion. She is also a former World Kickboxing Association champion. Hill currently fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of May 2, 2023, she is #14 in the UFC women's strawweight rankings.
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Joshua Lionel Cowen
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- inventor
- Biography
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Joshua Lionel Cowen, born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and the cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains.
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Prabda Yoon
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- screenwriterwritertranslator
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Prabda Yoon is a Thai writer, novelist, filmmaker, artist, graphic designer, magazine editor, screenwriter, translator and media personality. His literary debut, Muang Moom Shak (City of Right Angles), a collection of five related stories about New York City, and the follow-up story collection, Kwam Na Ja Pen (Probability), both published in 2000, immediately turned him into "...the talk of the town..." In 2002, Kwam Na Ja Pen won the S.E.A. Write Award, an award presented to accomplished Southeast Asian writers and poets.
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Elizabeth Diller
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- architect
- Biography
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Elizabeth Diller, also known as Liz Diller, is an American architect and partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which she co-founded in 1979. She is also an architecture professor at Princeton University.
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Ashley Bryan
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- illustratorwriterpainterchildren's writer
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Ashley Frederick Bryan was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009. His picture book Freedom Over Me was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a Newbery Honor.
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P. Buckley Moss
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- painter
- Biography
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Patricia Buckley Moss, also known as P. Buckley Moss, is an American artist. She was born on May 20, 1933, in Richmond County (Staten Island Borough) of New York City. Raised on Staten Island, she was the second of three children of an Irish American-Sicilian marriage.
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George Frederick Kunz
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- mineralogist
- Biography
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George Frederick Kunz was an American mineralogist and mineral collector.
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Palmer Hayden
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- painterdrawer
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Palmer C. Hayden was an American painter who depicted African-American life, landscapes, seascapes, and African influences. He sketched, painted in both oils and watercolors, and was a prolific artist of his era.
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Victor David Brenner
- Occupations
- medalistsculptor
- Biography
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Victor David Brenner was an Lithuanian sculptor, engraver, and medalist known primarily as the designer of the United States Lincoln Cent.
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Ellen Lupton
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- 1981-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- curatormuseum professionalwritergraphic designer
- Biography
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Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, curator, writer, critic, and educator. Known for her love of typography, Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and was named Curator Emerita after 30 years of service. She is the founding director of the Graphic Design M.F.A. degree program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. She has written numerous books on graphic design for a variety of audiences. She has contributed to several publications, including Print, Eye, I.D., Metropolis, and The New York Times.
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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
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- painter
- Biography
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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist, and illustrator. Brownscombe studied art for years in the United States and in Paris. She was a founding member, student and teacher at the Art Students League of New York. She made genre paintings, including revolutionary and colonial American history, most notably The First Thanksgiving held at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She sold the reproduction rights to more than 100 paintings, and images of her work have appeared on prints, calendars and greeting cards. Her works are in many public collections and museums. In 1899 she was described by New York World as "one of America's best artists."
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Chuck Hoberman
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- businesspersonarchitectengineerinventor
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Chuck Hoberman is an artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere.
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Nina Tandon
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- scientistbusinesspersoninternational forum participantengineer
- Biography
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Nina Marie Tandon is an American biomedical engineer. She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone. She currently serves as an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union and is a senior fellow at the Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia. She was a 2011 TED Fellow and a 2012 senior TED Fellow.
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Conrad Marca-Relli
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- painterdesigner
- Biography
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Conrad Marca-Relli was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.
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Shirley Jaffe
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- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Shirley Jaffe was an American abstract painter. Her early work is of the gestural abstract expressionist style, however in the late 1960s she changed to a more geometric style. This change was initially received with caution by the art world, but later in her career she was praised for the "idiosyncratic" and individual nature of her work. She spent most of her life living and working in France.
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Joan Semmel
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- printmakerpainter
- Biography
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Joan Semmel is an American feminist painter, professor, and writer. She is best known for her large scale realistic nude self portraits as seen from her perspective looking down.
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Sagi Haviv
- Occupations
- graphic designerdesigner
- Biography
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Sagi Haviv is an Israeli-American graphic designer and a partner in the design firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Called a "logo prodigy" by The New Yorker, and a "wunderkind" by Out magazine, he is best known for having designed the trademarks and visual identities for brands and institutions such as Discovery, Inc.'s online streaming service Discovery+, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum, the US Open tennis tournament, Conservation International, Harvard University Press, and L.A. Reid's Hitco Entertainment, and tech and electric car company Togg.
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Jan Jakub KotÃk
- Years
- 1972-2007 (aged 35)
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Jan Jakub KotÃk was a Czech artist and rock drummer.
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Thom Fitzgerald
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer.
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Toshiko Mori
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York-based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at the GSD.
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A. Harry Moore
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Arthur Harry Moore was an American Democratic politician and attorney who was the 39th governor of New Jersey, serving three nonconsecutive three-year terms between 1926 and 1941. As of 2023, Moore remains the longest-serving modern Governor of New Jersey and the only governor popularly elected to three terms in office. He also served a partial term as United States Senator from 1935 to 1938, before stepping down to begin his third term as governor.
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Sara Plummer Lemmon
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- botanical illustratorenvironmentalistmountaineerscientific illustratornurse
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Sara Allen Plummer was an American botanist. Mount Lemmon in Arizona is named for her, as she was the first white woman to ascend it. She was responsible for the designation of the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) as the state flower of California, in 1903. A number of plants are also named in her honor, including the new genus Plummera (now placed as a subgenus within Hymenoxys), described by Harvard University botanist Asa Gray in 1882.
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Philip Taaffe
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- illustratorpainter
- Biography
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Philip Taaffe is an American artist, who has shown his works all around the world. His work sometimes blended motifs from multiple cultures.
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Nir Hod
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- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Nir Hod is an Israeli artist based in New York.
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Lou Dorfsman
- Occupations
- graphic designer
- Biography
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Louis Dorfsman was an American graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in his 40 years with the network.
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William M. Calder
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Musgrave Calder I was an American politician and architect who served as a member of both chambers of the United States Congress from New York.
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Emily Mason
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- painter
- Biography
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Emily Mason was an American abstract painter and printmaker. Mason developed her individual approach to the Abstract Expressionist and color field painting traditions with her veils of color and spontaneous gestural mark. Mason was born and raised in New York City, where she lived and worked until her death.
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C. B. J. Snyder
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- architect
- Biography
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Charles B. J. Snyder was an American architect, architectural engineer, and mechanical engineer in the field of urban school building design and construction. He is widely recognized for his leadership, innovation, and transformation of school building construction process, design, and quality during his tenure as Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education between 1891 and 1923.
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Jerome Myers
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Jerome Myers was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people. He was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.
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Michel Mossessian
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Michel Mossessian is a French architect of Armenian origin, based in London, UK.
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Liana Finck
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- cartoonist
- Biography
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Liana Finck is an American cartoonist and author. She is the author of Passing for Human and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
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Louis Waldman
- Years
- 1892-1982 (aged 90)
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- In 1916 studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticiantrade unionist
- Biography
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Louis Waldman was a leading figure in the Socialist Party of America from the late 1910s and through the middle 1930s, a founding member of the Social Democratic Federation, and a prominent New York labor lawyer. He was expelled from the New York State Assembly in 1920 during the First Red Scare.
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Henry Scheffé
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- Studied in 1924-1925
- Occupations
- university teacherstatistician
- Biography
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Henry Scheffé was an American statistician. He is known for the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and Scheffé's method.
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Anthony Fiala
- Occupations
- explorer
- Biography
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Anthony Fiala was an American explorer, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and educated at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, New York City. In early life he was engaged in various employments—as lithographic designer, chemist, cartoonist, head of the art and engraving department of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1894–99), and correspondent for that paper while serving as a trooper in the Spanish–American War.
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Morgan Foster Larson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Morgan Foster Larson was an American Republican politician who served as the 40th governor of New Jersey.
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Brad Friedmutter
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Brad Henry Friedmutter, A.I.A. is an architect and founder of Friedmutter Group, a design, architecture, master planning and interior design firm. Friedmutter Group has designed dozens of integrated resorts including The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the fifth-most expensive building in the world. Friedmutter is a registered architect in 43 states. Friedmutter Group has offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, Newport Beach, California, and Macau, China.
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Reynold Ruffins
- Occupations
- graphic designerpainter
- Biography
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Reynold Dash Ruffins was an American painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Seymour Chwast, Ruffins founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. An illustrator of more than twenty children's books, Ruffins is known for his "stylistic versatility, vibrant colors, and penchant for fanciful creatures." He has had many solo exhibitions and been part of group show exhibitions at Paris' Musée du Louvre, and in Milan, Bologna, and Tokyo.
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William Dubilier
- Years
- 1888-1969 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- inventor
- Biography
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William Dubilier was an American inventor in the field of radio and electronics. He demonstrated radio communication at Seattle's Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition on June 21, 1909; ten years before the first commercial station operated. A graduate of Cooper Union, he was the first to use sheets of naturally occurring mica as the dielectric in a capacitor. Mica capacitors were widely used in early radio oscillator and tuning circuits because the temperature coefficient of expansion of mica was low, resulting in very stable capacitance – mica capacitors are still used where exceptional temperature stability is needed.
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Leslie Hewitt
- Occupations
- photographerartist
- Biography
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Leslie Hewitt is an American contemporary visual artist.
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Charles Rosen
- Years
- 1917-2002 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Charles Rosen was a pioneer in artificial intelligence and founder of SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center. He led the project that led to the development of Shakey the Robot, "who" now resides in a glass case at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California.
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Kate Cory
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- photographerpainter
- Biography
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Kate Cory was an American photographer and artist. She studied art in New York, and then worked as commercial artist. She traveled to the southwestern United States in 1905 and lived among the Hopi for several years, recording their lives in about 600 photographs.
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Morris Michael Edelstein
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Morris Michael Edelstein was a Polish-born Congressional Representative and lawyer from the state of New York, serving from 1940 to 1941.
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Javaka Steptoe
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- art educatorlibrarian
- Biography
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Javaka Steptoe is an American author and illustrator. He won the 2017 Caldecott Medal as well as the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award from the American Library Association for his picture book Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Dimitri Hadzi
- Occupations
- printmakersculptor
- Biography
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Dimitri Hadzi was an American abstract sculptor who lived and worked in Rome, Italy for 25 years and later resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he also taught at Harvard University for over a decade.
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Nicole Grobert
- Occupations
- academicchemist
- Biography
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Nicole Grobert FRSC FYAE is a German-British materials chemist. She is a professor of nanomaterials at the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a Royal Society industry fellow at Williams Advanced Engineering. Grobert is the chair of the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.
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Karen Bausman
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Karen Bausman is an American architect. Bausman is the Eliot Noyes Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of Architecture, Yale University, the only American woman to hold both design chairs.
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Amanda Brewster Sewell
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Lydia Amanda Brewster Sewell was a 19th-century American painter of portraits and genre scenes. Lydia Amanda Brewster studied art in the United States and in Paris before marrying her husband, fellow artist Robert Van Vorst Sewell. She won a bronze medal for her mural Arcadia at The World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. She continued to win medals at expositions and was the first woman to win a major prize at the National Academy of Design, where she was made an Associate Academian in 1903. She was vice president of the Woman's Art Club of New York by 1906. Her works are in several public collections.
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Maria Yoon
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Maria Yoon, a.k.a. Maria the Korean Bride, is a New York-based performance artist and filmmaker. She is best known for her extended performance art project and film where in the course of nine years, she gets married in all 50 of the United States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands.
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Catharine Carter Critcher
- Occupations
- painterartist
- Biography
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Catharine Carter Critcher (September 13, 1868 – June 11, 1964) was an American painter. A native of Westmoreland County, Virginia, she worked in Paris and Washington, D.C. before becoming, in 1924, a member of the Taos Society of Artists, the only woman ever elected to that body. She was a long time member of the Arts Club of Washington.
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Linn Meyers
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Linn Meyers is an American, Washington, D.C.–based artist. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad. She is known for her hand-drawn lines and tracings for site-specific installations.
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Pedro Lasch
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Pedro Lasch is a visual artist born in Mexico City, and based in the U.S. since 1994. He produces works of conceptual art, institutional critique, social practice, and site-specific art, as well as paintings, photographs, prints, and works in traditional media.
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Marisa Lago
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Marisa Lago is an American attorney serving as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade. She previously served as director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission from 2017 to 2021. Before that, Lago served as assistant secretary for international markets and development in the United States Department of the Treasury from 2010 to 2017, and as president and chief executive officer of the Empire State Development Corporation from 2008 to 2009.
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Willard F. Jones
- Years
- 1890-1967 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- marine architect
- Biography
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Willard F. Jones I was an American naval architect, business executive, and philanthropist. He served as a general manager and Vice President of the Gulf Oil corporation during the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Jones was one of the instrumental figures in establishing effective transport of crude oil from Venezuela, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the United States in the first half of the 20th century.
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Grace Renzi
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Grace Renzi, married name Grace Kantuser, was an American painter.
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Leonidas D. Marinelli
- Occupations
- inventorradiologist
- Biography
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Leonidas D. Marinelli was the American radiological physicist who is best known for founding the field of Human Radiobiology and developing the Marinelli Beaker.
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Victor Gustav Bloede I
- Occupations
- inventorchemist
- Biography
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Victor Gustav Bloede I, (pronounced as Blerda) was a chemist and manufacturer of chemicals, president of the Victor G. Bloede Company, and businessman.
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Anthony Jerome Griffin
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- lawyerpolitician
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Anthony Jerome Griffin was an American lawyer, war veteran, and politician from New York. He served ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1918 to 1935.
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Randolph Perkins
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- lawyerpolitician
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Randolph Perkins was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1936.
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Kristin Lucas
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- television producerartistvideo artist
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Kristin Lucas is a media artist who works in video, performance, installation and on the Internet. Her work explores the impacts of technology on humanity, blurring the boundary between the technological and corporeal. In her work she frequently casts herself as the protagonist in videos and performances where her interactions with technology lead to isolation, and physical and mental contamination.
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Jacqueline Moss
- Years
- 1927-2005 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- curatorjournalistart historian
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Jacqueline Moss was an American art historian, lecturer, writer and art critic. She was the curator of education at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (since renamed) and lectured widely on modern and 20th-century art. Her articles and seminars often had a focus on women artists. In the 1980s, she had a travel business touring art and architecture in Europe, Asia and South America.
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Renata Bernal
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- contemporary artist
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Renata Bernal (born February 3, 1937, in Munich, Germany is a contemporary American artist. Her work spans a broad range of media including oil paintings, acrylic paintings, pastel paintings, lithograph, woodcuts, and ink drawings. She has exhibited in New York City, San Francisco, Providence, Rhode Island, and in numerous cities in upstate New York, and her artwork can be seen in permanent collections at the Binghamton University Foundation and the historic Security Mutual Life building in Binghamton, New York.
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Oliver Ingraham Lay
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- painter
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Oliver Ingraham Lay, was an American portrait painter.
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Victor D'Amico
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- teaching artist
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Victor D'Amico was an American teaching artist and the founding Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. D’Amico explored the essence of the art experience as spiritual involvement, and the ability to communicate one's most profound ideas and emotions through aesthetic expression. He considered that the individual's personality had to be respected and developed by providing opportunities for creative experimentation. D'Amico's philosophy was based on the fundamental faith in the creative potential in every man, woman and child. He believed "that the arts are a humanizing force and their major function is to vitalize the living."
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Ella Ferris Pell
- Years
- 1846-1922 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
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Ella Ferris Pell was an American painter, sculptor, and illustrator. She was the niece of William Ferris Pell, who bought the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga in 1820. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and trained as an artist with William Rimmer at Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York City, graduating in 1870.
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Chris Dagradi
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- sculptordrawerpottery painterpainter
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Chris Dagradi is an American artist, who lives and works in the Netherlands since 1978. He works as painter, sculptor and ceramist.
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Louise Brann
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- painter
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Louise Brann was an American painter who worked in the Federal Art Project during the New Deal. She created large public art installations and was a prolific portrait painter in Westchester County, New York, working between 1932 and 1980.
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Alice Cordelia Morse
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- 1863-1961 (aged 98)
- Occupations
- teacher
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Alice Cordelia Morse was an American designer of book covers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work was inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement, and she is often placed as one of the top three book designers of her day.
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Nyeema Morgan
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- conceptual artistcollagistdrawerinstallation artistvisual artist
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Nyeema Morgan is an American interdisciplinary and conceptual artist. Working in drawing, sculpture and print media, her works focus on how meaning is constructed and communicated given complex socio-political systems. Born in Philadelphia, she earned her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and her MFA from the California College of the Arts. She has held artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Smack Mellon. Morgan's works are in the permanent collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Menil Collection.
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Fred Kohler
- Years
- 1920-.. (age 103)
- Occupations
- inventorphilosopher
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Fred Kohler is a German-born American inventor, author, and lecturer. He wrote about the human species becoming a "societal organism" (his original terminology) or super organism (in the popular modern usage) as a further development in the human evolution of life.
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Bessie Callender
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- artist
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Bessie Callender was an American sculptor most well known for her sculptures of wildlife in the style of the French animaliers.
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Ida Isabella Poteat
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- painterartist
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Ida Isabella Poteat was an American artist and instructor.
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Marjorie Kramer
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- artist
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Marjorie Kramer is a figurative painter of al fresco landscapes and feminist self-portraits.
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Sam Vernon
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- visual artist
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Sam Vernon is an installation and performance artist. She works in various media to create her artwork, including sculpture, paintings and photographs. She is interested in "honor the past while revising historical memory" through works that explore her own personal identity. Several of her art pieces also convey a certain narrative, and this is done through Vernon's various Xerox drawings.
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Louise Lawson
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- sculptor
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Louise Lawson was a Neoclassical sculptor and one of the first American women sculptors to have a professional career.
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Adele Williams
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- painterartist
- Biography
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Adele Williams was an American artist who was one of the earliest Impressionist painters in Virginia.
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Jacob Lipkin
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- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Jacob Lipkin, was an American sculptor.
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Ronald Markman
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- drawerartist
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Ronald Markman was an American artist and educator best known for producing large colorful paintings and sculptures in a style that combined elements of Surrealism and pop art with a deep grounding in color theory. He integrated classical and popular culture, humor, as well as whimsy and riotous color to deliver social satire and a deeply personal vision of the world.
