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The Boris Mirski Gallery (1944–1979) was a Boston art gallery owned by Boris Chaim Mirski (1898–1974).[1]

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  1. 89 relations: African art, Alexandre Jacovleff, Alfred Stieglitz, American Figurative Expressionism, Archives of American Art, Art dealer, Art gallery, Art movement, Art Students League of New York, Arthur Dove, Arthur Polonsky, Avant-garde, Barbara Swan, Beacon Hill, Boston, Ben Shahn, Bernard Chaet, Boston Arts Festival, Boston Expressionism, Boston Public Garden, Boston School (painting), Carlos Mérida, Charles Sheeler, Clement Greenberg, College Art Association, Copley Society of Art, Danforth Art, David Alfaro Siqueiros, David Aronson, Diego Rivera, Edith Halpert, Elbert Weinberg, Ellsworth Kelly, Esther Geller, George L. K. Morris, Georges Rouault, Georgia O'Keeffe, Giglio Dante, Hans Hoffmann, Hans Hofmann, Harold Tovish, Henri Matisse, Hyman Bloom, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, International Gothic, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jacob Lawrence, Jason Berger, John Marin, John Woodrow Wilson, ... Expand index (39 more) »

  2. 1979 disestablishments in Massachusetts
  3. Abstract expressionism
  4. American Figurative Expressionism
  5. Archives of American Art-related articles
  6. Art museums and galleries established in 1944
  7. Boston expressionism
  8. Defunct art museums and galleries in Boston

African art

African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent.

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Alexandre Jacovleff

Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (also spelt Iacovleff or Yakovlev, Александр Евгеньевич Яковлев; – 12 May 1938) was a neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher.

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Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Boris Mirski Gallery and Alfred Stieglitz are Jewish American artists.

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American Figurative Expressionism

American Figurative Expressionism is a 20th-century visual art style or movement that first took hold in Boston, and later spread throughout the United States. Boris Mirski Gallery and American Figurative Expressionism are abstract expressionism and Boston expressionism.

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Archives of American Art

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.

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Art dealer

An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art, or acts as the intermediary between the buyers and sellers of art.

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An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.

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Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

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Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school in the American Fine Arts Society in Manhattan, New York City.

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Arthur Dove

Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist.

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Arthur Polonsky

Arthur Polonsky (June 6, 1925 – April 4, 2019) was a figurative painter, draughtsman and educator, known for his explorations of light, water, flight and similarly lyrical motifs that, in esoteric and unsettling ways, alluded to myth, fantasy, music, the Bible, or the poetry of Symbolist and Modernist poets like Rimbaud and Rilke. Boris Mirski Gallery and Arthur Polonsky are Archives of American Art-related articles, Boston expressionism and Jewish American artists.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Barbara Swan

Barbara Swan (1922–2003), also known by her married name, Barbara Swan Fink, was an American painter, illustrator, and lithographer. Boris Mirski Gallery and Barbara Swan are Boston expressionism.

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Beacon Hill, Boston

Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and the hill upon which the Massachusetts State House resides.

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Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. Boris Mirski Gallery and Ben Shahn are Federal Art Project artists and Jewish American artists.

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Bernard Chaet

Bernard Chaet (born 1924, Boston, MA - died 2012) was an American artist; Chaet is known for his colorful, dynamic modernist paintings and masterful draftsmanship, his association with the Boston Expressionists, and his 40-year career as a professor of painting at Yale University. Boris Mirski Gallery and Bernard Chaet are Boston expressionism.

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Boston Arts Festival

The contemporary Boston Arts Festival is an annual event showcasing Boston's visual and performing arts community and promoting Boston's Open Studios program. Boris Mirski Gallery and Boston Arts Festival are Boston expressionism.

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Boston Expressionism

Boston Expressionism is an arts movement marked by emotional directness, dark humor, social and spiritual themes, and a tendency toward figuration strong enough that Boston Figurative Expressionism is sometimes used as an alternate term to distinguish it from abstract expressionism, with which it overlapped. Boris Mirski Gallery and Boston Expressionism are Boston expressionism and Jewish-American history.

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Boston Public Garden

The Public Garden, also known as Boston Public Garden, is a large park in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston Common.

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Boston School (painting)

The Boston School was a group of Boston-based painters active in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

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Carlos Mérida

Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico.

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Charles Sheeler

Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the 1921 avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand.

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Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist aesthetician. Boris Mirski Gallery and Clement Greenberg are abstract expressionism.

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College Art Association

The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty.

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Copley Society of Art

The Copley Society of Art is America's oldest non-profit art association.

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Danforth Art

Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University (formerly Danforth Museum of Art) is a museum and school in Framingham, Massachusetts. Boris Mirski Gallery and Danforth Art are Boston expressionism.

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David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.

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David Aronson

David Aronson (October 28, 1923 – July 2, 2015) was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University. Boris Mirski Gallery and David Aronson are Boston expressionism and Jewish American artists.

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Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. Boris Mirski Gallery and Diego Rivera are Federal Art Project artists.

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Edith Halpert

Edith Halpert or Edith Gregor Halpert (née Edith Gregoryevna Fivoosiovitch; 1900–1970) was a pioneering New York City dealer of American modern art and American folk art.

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Elbert Weinberg

Elbert Weinberg (May 27, 1928 – December 27, 1991) was an American sculptor.

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Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism.

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Esther Geller

Esther Geller (October 26, 1921 – October 22, 2015) was an American painter mainly associated with the abstract expressionist movement in Boston in the 1940s and 1950s. Boris Mirski Gallery and Esther Geller are Boston expressionism.

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George L. K. Morris

George Lovett Kingsland Morris (November 14, 1905 – June 26, 1975) was an American artist, writer, and editor who advocated for an "American abstract art" during the 1930s and 1940s, and is best known for his Cubist sculptures and paintings.

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Georges Rouault

Georges-Henri Rouault (27 May 1871, Paris – 13 February 1958, Paris) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.

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Giglio Dante

Dante Raphael Giglio, better known as Giglio Dante, (Sept 4,1914 – Dec 12, 2006) was an Italian-born American painter.

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Hans Hoffmann

Hans Hoffmann (born 2 December 1919) was an SS-Rottenführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Hans Hofmann

Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. Boris Mirski Gallery and Hans Hofmann are abstract expressionist artists.

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Harold Tovish

Harold Tovish (July 31, 1921 – January 4, 2008) was an American sculptor who worked in bronze, wood, and synthetic media. Boris Mirski Gallery and Harold Tovish are Boston expressionism.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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Hyman Bloom

Hyman Bloom (March 29, 1913 – August 26, 2009) was a Latvian-born American painter. Boris Mirski Gallery and Hyman Bloom are Boston expressionism, Federal Art Project artists and Jewish American artists.

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Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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International Gothic

International Gothic is a period of Gothic art which began in Burgundy, France, and northern Italy in the late 14th and early 15th century.

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Jack Levine

Jack Levine (January 3, 1915November 8, 2010) was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. Boris Mirski Gallery and Jack Levine are Boston expressionism, Federal Art Project artists and Jewish American artists.

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Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter. Boris Mirski Gallery and Jackson Pollock are abstract expressionist artists and Federal Art Project artists.

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Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Armstead Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Boris Mirski Gallery and Jacob Lawrence are Federal Art Project artists.

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Jason Berger

Jason Berger (January 22, 1924 – October 17, 2010) was a Boston landscape painter, connected to Boston Expressionism. Boris Mirski Gallery and Jason Berger are Boston expressionism.

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John Marin

John Marin (December 23, 1870 – October 2, 1953) was an early American modernist artist.

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John Woodrow Wilson

John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015) was an American lithographer, sculptor, painter, muralist, and art teacher whose art was driven by the political climate of his time.

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José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.

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Joyce Reopel

Joyce Reopel (1933–2019) was an American painter, draughtswoman and sculptor who worked in pencil, aquatint, silver- and goldpoint, and an array of old master media. Boris Mirski Gallery and Joyce Reopel are Boston expressionism.

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Julian E. Levi

Julian Edwin Levi (1900–1982) was an American painter. Boris Mirski Gallery and Julian E. Levi are Federal Art Project artists.

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Kahlil Gibran

Gibran Khalil Gibran (جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان,,, or,; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title.

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Kahlil Gibran (sculptor)

Kahlil G. Gibran (`ka-lil jə-ˈbrän) (November 29, 1922 – April 13, 2008), sometimes known as "Kahlil George Gibran" (note the artist's preferred Americanized spelling of his first name), was a Lebanese American painter and sculptor from Boston, Massachusetts. Boris Mirski Gallery and Kahlil Gibran (sculptor) are Boston expressionism.

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Karl Zerbe

Karl Zerbe (September 16, 1903 – November 24, 1972) was a German-born American painter and educator. Boris Mirski Gallery and Karl Zerbe are Boston expressionism and Federal Art Project artists.

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Lawrence Kupferman

Lawrence Kupferman (1909–1982) was an American painter associated with the Boston Expressionist school in the early 1940s, and later, with Abstract Expressionism. Boris Mirski Gallery and Lawrence Kupferman are Boston expressionism and Federal Art Project artists.

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Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942–2000). Boris Mirski Gallery and Leonard Baskin are Boston expressionism and Jewish American artists.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Man Ray

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. Boris Mirski Gallery and Man Ray are Jewish American artists.

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Marianna Pineda

Marianna Pineda (née Marianna Packard; 1925–1996) was an American sculptor, who worked in a stylized realist tradition. Boris Mirski Gallery and Marianna Pineda are Boston expressionism.

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Max Yavno

Max Yavno (1911–1985) was a photographer who specialized in street scenes, especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.

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Mel Zabarsky

Melvin Joel Zabarsky (1932–2019) was an American figurative painter who created representational work in the narrative tradition. Boris Mirski Gallery and Mel Zabarsky are Boston expressionism and Jewish American artists.

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Michael Mazur

Michael Burton Mazur (1935 – August 18, 2009) was an American artist who was described by William Grimes of The New York Times as "a restlessly inventive printmaker, painter, and sculptor." Born and raised in New York City, Mazur attended the Horace Mann School. Boris Mirski Gallery and Michael Mazur are Boston expressionism.

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Mitchell Siporin

Mitchell Siporin (1910–1976) was a Social Realist American painter. Boris Mirski Gallery and Mitchell Siporin are Federal Art Project artists.

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Modern art

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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New York School (art)

The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. Boris Mirski Gallery and New York School (art) are abstract expressionism.

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Niles Spencer

Niles Spencer (16 May 1893 – 15 May 1952) was an American painter of the Precisionist School who specialized in depicting urban and industrial landscapes.

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O. Louis Guglielmi

Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi (April 9, 1906 – September 3, 1956) was an American painter. Boris Mirski Gallery and O. Louis Guglielmi are Federal Art Project artists.

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Paper

Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying.

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Peter A. Juley

Peter A. Juley (1862 - January 13, 1937) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American photographer.

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Ralston Crawford

Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.

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Rico Lebrun

Rico (Federico) Lebrun (Naples, December 10, 1900 – Malibu, May 9, 1964) was an Italian-American painter and sculptor.

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Robert Birmelin

Robert Birmelin (born 1933) is an American figurative painter, printmaker and draughtsman.

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School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. Boris Mirski Gallery and school of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts are Boston expressionism.

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Stuart Davis (painter)

Edward Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964) was an early American modernist painter. Boris Mirski Gallery and Stuart Davis (painter) are Federal Art Project artists.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Guild of Boston Artists

The Guild of Boston Artists (The Guild) was founded in 1914 by a handful of Boston artists working in the academic and realist traditions.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Vilnius

Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.

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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Boris Mirski Gallery and Willem de Kooning are abstract expressionist artists and Federal Art Project artists.

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William Brice

William Arnstein, professionally William Brice (April 23, 1921 – March 3, 2008) was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract paintings. Boris Mirski Gallery and William Brice are Jewish American artists.

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William Steig

William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto.

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William Zorach

William Zorach (February 28, 1889 – November 15, 1966) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer. Boris Mirski Gallery and William Zorach are Federal Art Project artists and Jewish American artists.

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi

was an eminent 20th-century Japanese-American painter, photographer and printmaker. Boris Mirski Gallery and Yasuo Kuniyoshi are Federal Art Project artists.

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20th-century art

Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century.

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See also

1979 disestablishments in Massachusetts

Abstract expressionism

American Figurative Expressionism

Art museums and galleries established in 1944

Boston expressionism

Defunct art museums and galleries in Boston

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Mirski_Gallery

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