1940
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was an African-American painter whose works depict his passionate concern for the plight of his people.
www.topblacks.com/arts/jacob-lawrence.htm
www.topblacks.com/Profiles/Arts/Lawrence,-Jacob.aspx
www.rogallery.com/lawrence_jacob/lawrencej-biography.htm
1941
Albin Polasek
Albin Polasek (1879 - May 19, 1965) was a Czech-American sculptor and educator. He created more than four hundred works during his career, two hundred of which are now displayed in the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park, Florida.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cb-sower2.jpg
www.polasek.org/artman/publish/about_albin.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albin_Polasek_House_and_Studio
orlando.about.com/od/museums/a/albinpolasek.htm
1942
Paul-Émile Borduas
Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 - February 22, 1960) was a Canadian painter known for his abstract paintings. He was also an activist for the separation of church and state, especially for art, in Quebec.
In 1955 he moved back to Paris where he died of a heart attack in 1960.
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=41993
www.exalead.com/wikipedia/results/Paul-%C3%89mile www.wcities.com/en/record/,271243/612/record.html
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_zoom_e.jsp?mkey=8752
1943
Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 - December 12, 1999) was an artist born in New York City. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic realism. He painted with egg tempera, a medium which had been associated with Greek icons.
www.answers.com/topic/cadmus-paul
www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cadmus_paul.html
www.glbtq.com/arts/cadmus_p.html
www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/piano/cadmus.htm
1944
Frida Kahlo
Her paintings, rooted in 19th-century Mexican portraiture, ingeniously incorporated elements of Mexican pop culture and pre-Columbian primitivism that, in the 1930s, had never been done before. Usually small, intimate paintings that contrasted with the grand mural tradition of her time, her work was often done on sheet metal rather than canvas, in the style of Mexican street artists who painted retablos, or small votive paintings that offer thanks to the Virgin Mary or a saint for a miraculous deliverance from misfortune.
Frida let out all of her emotions on a canvas. She painted her anger and hurt over her stormy marriage, the painful miscarriages, and the physical suffering she underwent because of the accident.
http://www.answers.com/topic/frida-kahlo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=19
1945
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), one of the great Mexican mural painters, introduced technical innovations in his murals and easel paintings.
http://www.rogallery.com/siquieros_david_alfaro/w-33/siqueiros-self_portrait.html
olvera-street.com/html/_siqueiros_.html
artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/.../Articles0597/DASiqueiros.html
1946
Francis Bacon
Bacon never attended art school, he began to draw and work in watercolor. Upon his return to London in 1929, he established himself as a furniture designer and interior designer. In the fall of that year he began to use oils and exhibited a few paintings as well as furniture and rugs in his studio. His work was included in a group exhibition in London at the Mayor Gallery in 1933. In 1934, the artist organized his own first solo show at Sunderland House, London, which he called Transition Gallery for the occasion. He participated in a group show at Thomas Agnew and Sons, London in 1937.
The artist died April 28, 1992, in Madrid.
http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon_biography.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Studies_for_Figures_at_the_Base_of_a_Crucifixion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(painter)
1947
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti was born on 10th October 1901 in Borgonovo in Val Bregaglia to Giovanni, a neo-impressionist painter, and Annetta Stampa. http://www.answers.com/topic/alberto-giacometti
http://albertogiacometti.tripod.com/giacometti-biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Giacometti
1948
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth (born 1917) remains one of the most popular American painters of his time. His paintings, meticulously rendered, convey a deep sympathy for people and a sense of the hardness and brevity of life.
http://www.essortment.com/all/biographyandrew_rgwd.htm
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/wyeth.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyeth
1949
Salvador Dalí
In 1923, in Madrid, at the Residencia de Estudiantes, Dalí met the poet Federico García Lorca who promptly fell in love with him. A close and passionate friendship developed in the following years. In the summer of 1927 Lorca twice tried physical intimacy with a somewhat complacent Dalí. He, nevertheless, became fearful of the homo-erotic aspects of the friendship and distanced himself of Lorca in 1928.
In a relatively recent retrospective at the Tate Modern in Britain, a panel declared that Salvador Dali had designed the Tarot Cards in "Let Live and Let Die".
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198557/bio
http://www.answers.com/topic/salvador-dali
http://www.3d-dali.com/gallery-III.html
1950
Jackson Pollock
With the advent of the New Deal's work-relief projects, Pollock and many of his contemporaries were able to work as artists on the federal payroll. Under government aegis, Pollock enrolled in the easel division of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which provided him with a source of income for nearly eight years and enabled him to devote himself to artistic development. Some of Pollock's WPA paintings are now lost, but those that survive--together with other canvases, drawings and prints made during this period--illustrate his complex synthesis of source material and the gradual emergence of a deeply personal pictorial language. By the early 1940s, Native American motifs and other pictographic imagery played a central role in his compositions, marking the beginnings of a mature style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock
http://www.answers.com/topic/jackson-pollock
http://www.jackson-pollock.com/biography.html
1951
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.
1952
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) is widely considered to be one of the greatest Abstract Expressionist painters of the post-World War II period, his dominance rivaled perhaps only by Jackson Pollock. Remembered for his large canvases as well as the controversial melding of both abstract and figurative imagery, de Kooning lived much longer than his contemporaries, many of whom had untimely deaths. The group of painters that would be identified as the New York School was made up of de Kooning and contemporaries such as Arshile Gorky and Edgar Denby, and they helped to establish New York City’s reputation as a center for artistic activity. http://www.answers.com/topic/willem-de-kooning
http://www.zappa-analysis.com/kooning/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning
1953
jean dubuffet
Dubuffet was born in 1901 in Le Havre. In 1918 he went to Paris where he gave up his course in painting at the Académie Julian after six months and started working on his own. He knew the painters Dufy and Leger and both had some influence on his otherwise 'self-taught' approach to art. By 1924 he had given up painting entirely and instead concentrated on running a wine business.
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425470877/488/jean-dubuffet-fougere-au-chapeau.html
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/dubuffet_jean.html
http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/bio_set_ang.htm
1954
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns (born 1930), American painter and sculptor, helped break the hold of abstract expressionism on modern American art and cleared the way for pop art. Versatile in several different artistic fields, he has given the world sculptures, lithographs, and prints, as well as paintings.
http://www.leninimports.com/jasper_johns_bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Johns
1955
Oswaldo Guayasamín
He showed an early love for art. He created a Pan-American portrait of human and social inequalities which reached international recognition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo_Guayasam%C3%ADn
www.nashvillescene.com/2008-02-21/arts/the-view-from-the-equator
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