Image of a painting of a cartoon-like sunrise with a large red circle with yellow rays coming out of it over white clouds. Over this is a blue shape with a small black and white photo of a man with short hair wearing a turtle neck and dark jacket. Also there are the words "Roy Lichtenstein Biography for Kids."
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Roy Lichtenstein Biography for Kids

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Hi there! My name is Roy Lichtenstein. I am an artist who helped start the genre of Pop Art. I was born in New York City in 1923. Growing up, I was interested in drawing and science and the way mechanical things worked. I lived near the American Museum of Natural History, so I spent hours exploring the exhibits of dinosaurs, plants, animals, bugs, mummies, stars and planets. I read science magazines and listened to radio programs – if you can believe it, there was no such thing as television when I was a boy – and my favorite radio…

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Image of a painting of the backside of a woman in a pink dress who is sitting with her legs to the left side and her hands reaching forward to the right as she appears to be crawling up a brown hill towards a house. Over this is brown shape with a small painting of a man with dark hair wearing a white shirt. Also there are the words "Andrew Wyeth Biography for Kids."
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Andrew Wyeth Biography for Kids

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Hello there.  My name is Andrew Wyeth. I was born in 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, the youngest of five children. I was raised in a family dedicated to art. My father was a famous painter and illustrator of children’s books. Perhaps you’ve read one of the books N.C. Wyeth, my father, illustrated, like The Pilgrims, Treasure Island, or Kidnapped. My brothers and sisters became artists, engineers, and musicians, and a generation later my son, Jamie, has become an important artist. I guess you could say that art runs in the family! Because of my delicate health as a child,…

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Image of a painting of the backside of a man in a military uniform who is looking at a brick building with a door at the center out of which a woman with red hair in a red sweater and white is running with her arms open, and two red head girls peaking out next to her. A young red head boy is running down the steps next to them. A man with a pipe is also looking out the door. There is a young woman standing to the side of the building. Over this is yellow shape with a small black and whie photo of a man with dark hair smoking a pipe. Also there are the words "Norman Rockwell Biography for Kids."
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Norman Rockwell Biography for Kids

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Hi, folks! My name is Norman Rockwell. I was born in New York City in 1894. I grew up in a neighborhood where all the boys played sports—all the time! My older brother Jarvis was the best athlete in the neighborhood. Then there was I. I was skinny and couldn’t play sports to save my life. Thankfully, I had my own special talent. I could draw and paint really well. In fact, when I was sixteen I left high school to attend art school at the Chase Art School and eventually at the Students Art League. One of my favorite…

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Image of a painting of two large orange poppies. Over this is an orange shape with a small black and white photo of a woman with black hair and wearing a black shirt. Also there are the words "Georgia O'Keeffe Biography for Kids."
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Georgia O’Keeffe Biography for Kids

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Hello, children, I am Georgia O’Keeffe.  I am an American modern realist painter of the Precisionist movement who is best known for my large close-up paintings of flowers… …and my paintings of the New Mexico landscape. I was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. From an early age, I noticed colors, patterns and light. My father taught me to notice how changes in seasons changed the way the land and sky looked. Though I attended school in a one-room schoolhouse, I also took art lessons in town. I learned to copy other artists’ works, which is a good way to start, but…

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Image of a Cubist/surrealist painting in blacks, greys, browns and whites with strong geometric shapes of human body parts and heads and animal body parts and heads with a gold shape across the top of the picture. In the gold shape is another picture of a man with short brown hair, a beard and wearing a brown suit and hat. On the gold shape are the words "Pablo Picasso Biography for Kids."
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Pablo Picasso Biography for Kids

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Hola, my name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso, but you can call me Picasso. I am the most important artist of the 20th century. I was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. When I was a child, my mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. My father, who was also a painter and art teacher,…

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Image of a painting of a snowy day in olden times with houses on a hill, a skier coming down the hill, sledders running across the road down the hill, and horses pulling a plow. Above the picture is a pink triangle with a black and white image of on old woman, Grandma Moses and the words, "Grandma Moses Biography for Kids."
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Grandma Moses Biography for Kids

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Good morning, children. I am Anna Mary Robertson Moses, but that is kind of a mouthful, don’t you think? So you can call me Grandma Moses. That’s what everybody calls me now, as I am almost 100 years old! I was born in 1860 in New York and I had so many adventures with my nine brothers and sisters on our farm there. That was so long ago when we could run all over the forests and hills, spent time together washing clothes,… …picking apples,… …and making apple butter,… went sledding and ice skating in the winter. My father would…

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Image of a painting of a landscape of a town on a hill in the distance with dark clouds over it. Over this is a greyish blue shape with a small painting of a man a painting in blacks and browns of a bald man with a fringe of black hair on the sides and a short black beard. He is wearing a black top with a fur scarf around his shoulders and a white collar. This is a portrait of El Greco. Also there are the words "El Greco Biography for Kids."
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El Greco Biography for Kids

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Hello, my name is Doménikos Theotokópoulos. But people call me El Greco. It is Spanish for “the Greek.”  I was born on the Greek island of Crete. You know where Crete is in the Mediterranean Sea, right? I studied painting as a young man at a monastery so my first artistic influences were creating Byzantine style religious icons, which are pictures of saints in churches. These paintings look kind of flat and lacked expression. Later, I went to Italy to study and learned to draw the human figure like Giotto so that my people were three-dimensional. Then I studied Renaissance…

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Image of a painting of various Bible scenes with the prominent one being a naked man lounging back and reaching his hand up while a figure with a white beard reaches his arm down so that their fingers touch. Over this is a dark purple shape with a small painting of a man with dark hair and a dark beard, who is Michelangelo. Also there are the words "Michelangelo Buonarroti Biography for Kids."
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Michelangelo Buonarroti Biography for Kids

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Ciao! I am Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni! Most people just call me by my first name. Have any of you ever heard of me? I should think so! I am considered by many people to be the greatest artist who ever lived! I was born near and grew up in Firenze, Italia, or as you say, Florence, Italy, which is the center of Renaissance. People at this time were interested in architecture, painting, poetry and sculpture – and of course, I am good at all of these! I grew up with a family of stonecutters, since my parents couldn’t…

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Image of a black and white drawing of a rhinocerous. Over this is a light green shape with a small ond is a painting using dark browns and blacks of a man with long curly brown hair and a short brown beard wearing a brown tunic and holding his left hand in front of his chest. This is a portrait of Albrecht Durer. Also there are the words "Albrecht Durer Biography for Kids."
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Albrecht Dürer Biography for Kids

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Guten morgen! I am Albrecht Dürer.  I grew up in Nuremburg, Germany during the Renaissance era, a time when many people were coming up with new ideas and inventions. My father was a goldsmith, so I learned from him how to use gold in jewelry and sculptures and how to engrave. More than goldsmith work, I loved to draw and paint so I became an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut. I had the opportunity to spend some time in Venice, Italy and study art. Then I returned to Nuremberg, and I opened my own workshop and was able to draw and work…

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Image of a painting of a two women and an angel on a rocky landscape. One woman is cowering on the left sie as she watches the angel in blue and pink robes talk to the other woman on the right side. Over this is a gold shape with a small painting of a man wearing a black scarf over his head. This is a portrait of Fra Angelico. Also there are the words "Fra Angelico Biography for Kids."
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Fra Angelico Biography for Kids

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Ciao! I am Fra Angelico, an Italian Renaissance artist who lived from 1400 to 1455. My name may be a bit confusing – I was named Guido by my parents, but then I became a Catholic monk, or friar, and changed my name to Giovanni, which is Italian for John. So I am Fra Giovanni or Brother John. And then some began to call me angelic, so now I am known as the angelic friar or Fra Angelico. You can call me Fra Angelico. Let me tell you about my work as an artist. I lived in the 1400s, and…

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