Which artist painted 'The Seagram Murals'?
"D.C. During the period in which Rothko worked on his murals, the Four Seasons rented Jackson Pollock's masterpiece ""Blue Poles"" from its then-owner, art collector Ben Heller. John Logan's Tony Award-winning 2010 play ""Red"" dramatizes Rothko's time working on the Seagram Murals. From 1975 until 1985 four paintings by Ronnie Landfield from the collection of Philip Johnson were installed on the wall that had been initially planned for the Mark Rothko commission. In 1985 the artist James Rosenquist was commissioned to install a permanent mural on the wall; the Landfield paintings were returned to Philip Johnson. A major Richard Lippold"
"and his wife Mell (1921–1970) separated on New Year's Day 1969, and he moved into his studio. On February 25, 1970, Oliver Steindecker, Rothko's assistant, found the artist in his kitchen, lying dead on the floor in front of the sink, covered in blood. He overdosed on barbiturates, and cut an artery in his right arm with a razor blade. There was no suicide note. He was 66. The Seagram Murals arrived in London for display at the Tate Gallery on the day of his suicide. Shortly before his death, Rothko and his financial advisor, Bernard Reis, had created a"
"had trained as a painter), also led to important works being donated to the Gallery. Mark Rothko's Seagram Mural, and work by Barbara Hepworth (Reid later acted as one of her executors), Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and Henry Moore were all gifted to the Tate largely as a result of the personal respect the artists had for Reid. He established the gallery's conservation department, the Exhibitions and Education department, and was involved in founding the Friends of the Tate, the American Friends of the Tate, and the Paintings in Hospitals charity. Reid is widely regarded as the foremost of the"
"sculpture is installed in the Front Bar, which hangs from the ceiling. The large curtain designed by Pablo Picasso for the Ballets Russes ballet ""Le Tricorne"" (1919) has been hung between the Grill Room and the Pool Room since the restaurant opened. The curtain is a portion of a Picasso tapestry used as a prop for the ballet that was purchased in 1957 by Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of the founder of Seagram, and installed in the entryway to the restaurant for its opening in 1959. In 2014, the curtain was removed permanently from that location, and is currently in"
"of its future patrons, the motives for his abrupt repudiation remain mysterious. A temperamental personality, Rothko never fully explained his conflicted emotions over the incident. One reading is offered by his biographer, James E.B. Breslin: the Seagram project could be seen as an acting-out of a familiar, in this case self-created ""drama of trust and betrayal, of advancing into the world, then withdrawing, angrily, from it ... He was an Isaac who at the last moment refused to yield to Abraham."" The final series of ""Seagram Murals"" was dispersed, and now hangs in three locations: London's Tate Modern, Japan's Kawamura"
"Picasso's Regjeringskvartalet murals In the late 1950s and the early 1970s the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso designed five murals (""The Beach"", ""The Seagull"", ""Satyr and Faun"" and two versions of ""The Fisherman"") for the Regjeringskvartalet ('Government quarter') buildings in central Oslo, Norway. The designs by Picasso were executed in concrete by Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, and were Picasso's first attempt at monumental concrete murals. The buildings onto which the murals were executed are known as the 'H-block' or Highrise (1959) and 'Y-block' (1968); they were designed by the Norwegian architect Erling Viksjø. The largest mural, ""The Fisherman"" (1970) is on"
"Georgette Seabrooke Georgette Seabrooke (aka Georgette Seabrooke Powell; August 2, 1916 – December 27, 2011), was an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist, non-profit chief executive and educator. She is best known for her 1936 mural, ""Recreation in Harlem"" at Harlem Hospital in New York City, which was restored and put on public display in 2012 after being hidden from view for many years. Early life and education Seabrooke was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the only child of George and Anna Seabrooke. Her family moved to New York City in 1920. George died when Georgette was a young child."
"the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Johnson joined Mies van der Rohe as the New York associate architect for the 39-story Seagram Building (1956). Johnson was pivotal in steering the commission towards Mies by working with Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of the CEO of Seagram. The commission resulted in the iconic bronze-and-glass tower on Park Avenue. The building was designed by Mies.The interiors of the Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants were designed by Johnson Following the Seagram Building He built several smaller projects in a more personal, expressive style, with ornament touches and features far from the sobriety"
"Mural (1943) Mural is a large painting by American artist Jackson Pollock. Although signed and dated 1943, the signature and date were not added until 1947, and the work was probably completed in early 1944. It was made with oil paint (and an off-white water-based paint) on linen, and is Pollock's largest canvas, measuring . The work was commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for the long entrance hall of her townhouse at 155 East 61st Street in New York City. The work marks an important transitional moment in Pollock's artistic career, from his earlier works of surrealist abstraction towards action painting."
"in Washington, D.C. Others are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the Columbia Museum of Art, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. His unpublished autobiography, ""An Unvarnished Tale"", along with his family papers are preserved in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. Xanthus Russell Smith Xanthus Russell Smith (February 26, 1839, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 2, 1929, Glenside, Pennsylvania) was an American marine painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,"
"at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, in 1961 at the College of the City of New York, and in three exhibits at New York's Spanierman Gallery between 1997 and 2000. Abraham Bogdanove Abraham Jacob Bogdanove (September 2, 1888- August 1946) was an American artist, mural painter, and teacher best known for his seascape paintings of the Maine coast, particularly around Monhegan Island. Bogdanove was born in Minsk, (Russian Empire now Belarus), on September 2, 1888, and moved with his family to New York City on December 25, 1900. For the next ten years he studied, first from 1901-1903"
"Memorial Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This episode was the main basis for John Logan's 2009 play ""Red"". In October 2012, ""Black on Maroon"", one of the paintings in the Seagram series, was defaced with writing in black ink, while on display at Tate Modern. Restoration of the painting took eighteen months to complete. The BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz explained that the ink from the vandal's marker pen had bled all the way through the canvas, causing ""a deep wound, not a superficial graze"", and that the vandal had caused ""significant damage."" Rothko's first"
"Sunrise with Sea Monsters Sunrise with Sea Monsters is an unfinished oil painting by English artist J. M. W. Turner. It is in the permanent collection of Tate Britain. Turner created this painting in the coastal town of Margate, in about 1845, near the end of his career. The painting, which measures , depicts a hazy yellow sunrise over a turbulent grey sea. Lurking in the lower left corner are pink and red swirls usually identified as the eponymous sea monsters. Beyond these basic elements, though, interpretations of the painting are the source of much study and open to speculation."
"Xanthus Russell Smith Xanthus Russell Smith (February 26, 1839, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 2, 1929, Glenside, Pennsylvania) was an American marine painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of painters William Thompson Russell Smith and Mary Priscilla Wilson, he was educated at home by his mother, who also gave him drawing lessons. Between 1851 and 1852, he accompanied his parents and sister Mary Russell Smith on the family's tour of Europe. After returning home, he studied chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, before enrolling at the Pennsylvania Academy of the"
"their plight but also imbued them with humanity. Near the end of her life, Seabrooke moved to Palm Coast, Florida. Though she became too ill to continue making art, she remained involved in art therapy and art fundraising until her death, due to cancer, on December 27, 2011. Seabrooke's work appeared in 72 major exhibitions between 1933 and 2003 in the United States, Senegal, Venezuela, and Nigeria. Her works hang in distinguished collections around the United States. Georgette Seabrooke Georgette Seabrooke (aka Georgette Seabrooke Powell; August 2, 1916 – December 27, 2011), was an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist,"
"The Storm at Sea Storm at Sea is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in c. 1569. It is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In the past doubts have been raised about the attribution of this painting to Bruegel: the name of Joos de Momper, a landscape painter who became a master in the Antwerp guild in 1581, has been mentioned. However, not only is this painting superior to any by de Momper; its similarity to a drawing by Bruegel and its originality of composition and delicacy of execution have made it generally"
"seen in Showtime's ""House of Lies"". The building is seen in the movie ""Hitch"". In the poem ""Steps"" by Frank O'Hara, featured in his famous book of poetry ""Lunch Poems"", the poet mentions the Seagram Building, saying that it's ""no longer rivalled in interest/not that we need liquor (we just like it)"". Seagram Building The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The integral plaza, building, stone faced lobby and distinctive glass and bronze exterior were designed by German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe."
"The Sea Monster The Sea Monster (German: Das Meerwunder) is a c. 1498–1500 engraving by the German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. It shows a voluptuous naked middle-aged woman riding on the back of a male creature who is half-man, half-fish. The man wears a beard and antlers, while his body is covered in scales. The woman has seemingly been snatched and dragged away from the river bank; her companions are shown scrambling out of the water in panic, raising their arms in protest or lying down weeping. The woman wears an extravagant Milanese headdress and her mouth is open in"
"OH; the Scarab Club in Detroit, MI and The Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA. Dinckel died at home in Rockport, MA, on 28 June 1976, at the age of 86. He is buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery, Rockport, MA. George Dinckel George Dinckel (1890–1976) was an American artist known for impressionist paintings of New England seascapes, landscapes and harbors. Most are oils, tempera, water paints, and gouache. He produced a large body of work during the 1930s through the 1970s. Dinckel was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1890 (or 1891?), where he attended public schools. He later studied at"
"Guy Seymour Warre Malet Guy Seymour Warre Malet (1900–1973), was an English landscape and figure engraver, printmaker, watercolourist and oil painter. He spent a large portion of his life on the island of Sark and many of his images are of the Channel Islands. Malet studied at the London and New Art School under Eastman and John Hassall, and at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art under Iain MacNab. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Society of Wood Engravers and the New English Art Club. Malet lived in London, Seaford in Sussex and"
"By the Seashore By the Seashore is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir completed in 1883 and now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Renoir made a trip to Italy in 1881-82 and was deeply influenced by Renaissance art. After this trip he began to explore a new manner of painting, different from impressionism. He started to emphasize contours and modeling, abandoned the principle that scenes should be painted outdoors to capture light and atmosphere. Late in the summer of 1883, Renoir spent about a month in St. Peter Port, the capital of Guernsey, and admired"
"works by Soderberg. He continued to remain active painting and illustrating throughout his career and in 1966 illustrated ""Stormalong Goes a Whaling"". Soderberg died in 1972 at the age of 75 in Mystic, Connecticut. Yngve Edward Soderberg Yngve Edward Soderberg (December 21, 1896 – August 6, 1972) was an American artist whose career was centered on Mystic, Connecticut. He is credited with being a painter, etcher, writer, teacher, designer, and lithographer. He is best known for his etchings, America's Cup paintings and maritime watercolors. Soderberg was born in Chicago, Illinois to Swedish immigrants Berlin and Gust Soderberg. He was one"
"Boston; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut; Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia; William A. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; Peabody Essex Museum of Salem; Shelburne Museum, Vermont; and the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts. Robert Salmon Robert Salmon (1775 – ) was a maritime artist, active in both England and America. Salmon completed nearly 1,000 paintings, all save one of maritime scenes or seascapes. He is widely considered the Father of American Luminism. Salmon was born in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England in October or November,"
"1 September 1881 in Camberwell, Surrey. Challen's niece, Florence Mildred Saltmarsh Challen, was married to the organist and composer Henry Thomas Pringuer. Albert Charles Challen Albert Charles Challen (8 October 1847 – 1 September 1881) was a British artist. He is best known as the painter of a portrait of Mary Seacole in 1869, when she was around 65 years old. The rediscovery of the portrait was announced in January 2005, and it is held by the National Portrait Gallery. Born in Islington, the 1871 UK census shows Challen living in Hammersmith, with his profession given as ""art student (painting)""."
"Joe Mangrum Joe Mangrum (born February 10, 1969) is an installation and multiple-medium artist who is particularly known for his large-scale colored sand paintings. He resides in New York City. Using a wide spectrum of components, his work often includes organic materials, such as flowers, food and sand, in addition to deconstructed computer parts, auto-parts and a multitude of found and collected objects. His installations often include mandala-like forms, pyramids, maps, grids and mushroom clouds and the Ouroboros. Joe Mangrum was born in Florissant, Missouri, near St. Louis. He started taking oil painting lessons when he was 8. At age"
"by the work of his younger brother, Thomas Moran, whose career he helped launch. In addition, his sons Edward Percy Moran (born 1862) and Leon Moran (born 1864), his other brother Peter Moran (born 1842), and his nephew Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, also became prominent American artists. Edward Moran Edward Moran (August 19, 1829 – June 8, 1901) was an American artist of maritime paintings. He is arguably most famous for his series of 13 historical paintings of United States marine history. Moran was born to Thomas and Mary Higson of Lancashire, England on August 19, 1829. Following in the"
"works have been on tour around the world for public display. Admired by art critics and his contemporaries, Garin is assured a place in history. Eugene Garin Eugene Garin (30 November 1922, Odesa, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic – 14 June 1994, California, United States) was a contemporary seascape artist. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, (under USSR at the time) Garin was the most influential contemporary seascape artist. He spawned and inspired many of today's great seascapists through his tremendous talent and imagination. Garin was best known for his rendition of the transparent wave. Influenced by the Russian painter Peter Effremovich Fedatov"
"Seagram Museum The Seagram Museum was a museum in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, preserving the heritage of the once venerable Canadian distillery Seagram. Located at 57 Erb Street West, it operated from May 1984 to March 1997. Designed by architect Barton Myers, it was built at a cost of $4.75 million and its entrance was a renovated late-19th century rack warehouse from the Seagram plant. It had a variety of exhibits illustrating everyday life in the liquor distillery in the late 19th and early 20th century. The company closed its Waterloo plant in 1992, and the museum continued to operate for"
"who gave it to the Metropolitan Museum. Northeaster (painting) Northeaster is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer. Like ""The Fog Warning"" and ""Breezing Up"", he created it during his time in Maine. It is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Viewers are presented a struggle of elements between the sea and the rocky shore. Winslow Homer excelled in painting landscape paintings that depicted seascapes and mountain scenery. After extensive travel, Homer settled in Prouts Neck, Maine. He had a studio built for him, which was completed in"
"D.C., the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and many others. The White House acquired his 1952 painting ""The Circus No. 1"" in 2007, and it is now displayed in the Green Room. John Marin John Marin (December 23, 1870 – October 2, 1953) was an early American modernist artist. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors. Marin was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. His mother died nine days after his birth, and he was raised by two aunts in Weehawken, New Jersey. He attended the Stevens Institute of Technology for a year, and tried unsuccessfully to become an"
"Seagram Building The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The integral plaza, building, stone faced lobby and distinctive glass and bronze exterior were designed by German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Philip Johnson designed the interior of The Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants. Kahn & Jacobs were associate architects. Severud Associates were the structural engineering consultants. The Seagram building was completed in 1958. The building stands 515 feet (157 m) tall with 38 stories, and it is one of the most notable examples"
"Eugene Garin Eugene Garin (30 November 1922, Odesa, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic – 14 June 1994, California, United States) was a contemporary seascape artist. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, (under USSR at the time) Garin was the most influential contemporary seascape artist. He spawned and inspired many of today's great seascapists through his tremendous talent and imagination. Garin was best known for his rendition of the transparent wave. Influenced by the Russian painter Peter Effremovich Fedatov during his youth in Odessa, Ukraine and later by the works of I. K. Aivazowsky, Garin has combined the traditional beauty of European art with"
"Bruce Porter Bruce Porter (23 February 1865, San Francisco – 25 November 1953, San Francisco) was an American painter, sculptor, stained-glass designer, writer, muralist, landscape designer, and art critic. Porter was raised in the East Bay town of Martinez, where his father was the editor of the local newspaper. He later received education in San Francisco, Paris, London, and Venice. His tonalist paintings, which are rare, include ""Man and Nature"" (1903) and ""Presidio Cliffs"" which was exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915). His many murals include those at the Pacific Union Club on Nob Hill and the First Unitarian"