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

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…

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

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,…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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,…

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

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…

Image of a painting of a blue swirling sky with large circles for stars and a dark tall tree and the town in the foreground. Over this is a yellow shape with a small painting of a man with a red beard, tan hat and blue shirt. Also there are the words "Vincent van Gogh Biography for Kids."
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Vincent van Gogh Biography for Kids

Hello, my name is Vincent van Gogh. I am a Post-Impressionist painter, and I’d like to tell you my story. This is the Vincent van Gogh biography for kids. I was born in Groot Zundert, Netherlands in 1853. My father was a pastor of a Dutch Reformed Church, so I learned the Bible growing up, but even from my youth, I was often depressed and suffered from a mood disorder. I did not study art formally while growing up, and by age 16, I went to work in an art dealership in The Hague, a city in the south of…

Image of a painting of a woman in a black dress sitting by a baby in a cradle covered with a guaze-like cloth. Over this is a turquoise shape with a small painting of a woman wearing a black hat. Also there are the words "Berthe Morisot Biography for Kids."
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Berthe Morisot Biography for Kids

Bonjour! I am Berthe Morisot, and I am a woman painter! This is the Berthe Morisot biography for kids! I was born in and always lived in France. When I was 16, my mother paid for me to take art lessons… …but I was barred from the famous art school because I am a female, not a male. They only wanted male students. But I often went to the Louvre – you know, the famous museum in Paris – to copy the Old Masters. Perhaps you’ve heard of some of the Old Masters? You know, like Giotto, …Ghiberti, …Fra Angelico,…

Water Lilies, the Clouds by Claude Monet
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Claude Monet Biography for Kids

Claude Monet Biography for Kids Bon jour! I am Claude Monet. This is the Claude Monet biography for kids. I am from the late 1800s and early 1900s in France. There has been an interesting movement in art going on in France called the Impressionist Movement, and I am one of the main artists of Impressionism. I was born in 1840 in Paris, France. I knew I wanted to be an artist from an early age, though my father wanted me to join the family business of grocery sales and supplying ships. I was able to attend the school of…

Edgar Degas Biography for Kids
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Edgar Degas Biography for Kids

Edgar Degas Biography for Kids Bon jour! This is the Edgar Degas biography for kids. I am Edgar Degas from France in the 1900s. Yes, France in the 1900s, the time of the Impressionist Movement. The movement so named when a critic called our works “impressionism” because he thought our art works seemed more like sketches than finished paintings. The movement of “in plain air” or natural light. I suppose I am part of this movement but I differ from my colleagues in that I like classical themes and realism. Please call me a Realist! I mostly taught myself to…

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