Born 15 May 1896 in Yonkers NY, Butler was a landscape painter and etcher. His monochrome work often featured the landscapes of New England, as well as many works in Arizona. He was a student at the Art Students League of Frank DuMond, Luis Mora, and Joseph Pennell, and exhibited

Born April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, Joan Miró is another of those artists that needs no introduction. But still hard to classify, if that is your thing. Choose between Fauvist, Surrealist, Expressionist or arguably even Cubist. This is: Horse, Pipe and Red Flower (from 1920)

Born April 15 1904 in Armenia, Gorky fled the Armenian Genocide as a child and arrived in the USA as a teenager. He became a powerful force in the art world, moving from landscapes through cubism to surrealism. Here we see: The Liver is the Cock’s Comb – it’s from

Born April 10, 1924 in Asheville NC, Noland is one of those artists that defies classification. Considered one of the best-known American color field painters (though not as well-known as Rothko and Pollock) in the 1950s he was considered an abstract expressionist and in the 1960s as a minimalist. Do

Born April 1, 1950 in Salzburg, Austria, Cocke is best known for his inventive (surrealist?) landscapes and still life paintings. According to Wikipedia, “He emerged in the 1980s, producing expressionistic figurative paintings with a socio-critical dimension that drew on Chicago Imagism and Funk art”. Which might just be another way

Born March 25, 1886 in New York City, Gieberich was known for a mix of modernist landscapes, seascapes and still life paintings. This picture, “Composition No.2 of New York City”, combines two of those three features. He was very active in Cape Cod, forming the Provincetown Art Association there, and

Born 23 March 1844 in London, Farrer was the younger brother of Thomas, a well-known pre-raphaelite painter. Unlike Thomas, Henry was largely self-taught. In his late 20s, his landscape work shifted to the tonalist style for which he is best remembered. He was a co-founder of the American Watercolor Society

Born March 21, 1880 in Weissenburg, Germany, Hofmann was a highly influential Abstract Expressionist painter. He was active in the early twentieth-century European avant-garde movement taking a deep understanding and synthesis of Symbolism, Neo-impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism with him when he emigrated to the United States in 1932. Hofmann was

Born March 18, 1905 in Illinois, Lichtner was another beneficiary of Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s. He worked in the sober tones of the social-realist style typical of the austere 1930s, and this painting: Potato Planting, is a classic example of the genre.

Born 17 March in Kyiv, Ukraine, Orloff began his early art training with painter Vyacheslav Korenev at the Kyiv Academy of Art. He then continued his studies in the United States, first in New York and later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the city where he came to

Born 15 March 1906 in Iowa, Foster came to the artist world’s knowledge as a result of Roosevelt’s New Deal public works program. The program contained an Art Project, and this painting: Pipe Works, was one of its products.

Born February 22 1857, in Albany, New York, Eaton was primarily a lanscape painter, with two distinctive styles. The first subject, intimate,and tonalist in style, typically contained pasture, trees and sometimes a small patch of water or stone fence. The second subject, grander in manner, was a landscape with a

Born 20 February 1912 (according to multiple reputable sources, or it could be Feb 12th if you prefer Wikipedia, but the website quoted on Wiki provoked my virus checker – so who knows?) in New York City, Johnson was associated with the Abstract Imagists. She received many awards and was

Born February 12, 1884 in Leipzig, Beckmann was one of many German artists to be classified as degenerate in the 1930s as a result of Hitler and the Nazi’s hatred of modern art. He personally disliked the concept of Expressionism, and did not want to be so classified, instead he

Born February 12, 1910 in New York, Abelman is usually described as a Social Realist. Known for her graphic work, particularly murals, she was very active during the Depression years. She was heavily influenced by Constructivism, Surrealism and Social realism, with her work often combining mechanical parts with human or

Born 8 February 1880 in Munich, Marc is possibly one of the least known of the great artists. (Spoiler alert: he also ranks highly amongst my favourite artists). He founded The Blue Rider (Der blaue Reiter) journal, which became a whole art movement in itself, also featuring August Macke and

Born February 5 in Chur, Switzerland, Giger was best known for his “biomechanical” airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines. He was also responsible for creating the “Alien” creature for the film of the same name. His work is permanently featured in a dedicated museum in Gruyères. This is:

Born February 4, 1881 in Argentan France, Léger was a key influence on pop artists of the . Initially trained as an architect, he switched to painting and developed his own style based on (and named similarly to) cubism – he called this tubism, due to his frequent use of

Born January 29, 1914 in Minnesota, Kamrowski was a pioneer in the American Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist Movements. He is best known for his work with Jackson Pollock (and William Baziotes) moving from Surrealist image-coaxing techniques to Action Painting, after a session experimenting with dripping laquer paint. This is: The

Born January 25 1908 in Oklahoma, Zornes became known for his watercolour works in the “California Style”. An early talent for drawing developed but he was unable to settle down, studying architecture and engineering but not really being prepared to study for either. Reverting to his passion for art, during

Born January 23 1920, Perlmutter referred to himself as an abstract realist, although this appears to combine two seemingly irreconcilable artistic styles. His works were typically built around recognizable urban scenes, such as railroad tracks, urban crowds and buildings or bridges. He typically overlaid his work with busy linear forms,

Born 9 January 1900 in New Jersey, Mattei was a painter of primitive landscapes, primarily of Alaska and northern US states. Little known, he sold most of his work through a small gallery in his home town of Ogunquit, Maine. This is: Perkins Cove.

Born January 6, 1889 in Ukraine, Louis Ritman was an American impressionist painter. He is best known for his paintings of women. He moved with his family to Chicago around 1900 and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts before moving to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His

Born January 4 1869 in Illinois, Gearhart was an American printmaker and watercolorist. She was known for her boldly drawn and colored American landscapes, typically woodcut or linocut prints featuring California’s coasts and mountains. She worked in a traditional Japanese relief-printing method, being one of the first artists to bring

Born Dec 29 1932 in New York State, Hinman is an artist and sometime professional baseball player. After his artistic training, he served in the army for two years and then taught mechanical drawing. From here he combined these skills and specialized his artistic talents, focusing on abstract representation of

Born 8 December 1922 in Berlin, Freud, grandson of Sigmund, became known as one of the foremost British portrait painters of the 20th Century. Early in his career, he was influenced by surrealism, but later, starker, paintings tended towards realism. Words like “sombre”, “unsettling” and “discomforting” are often used when

Born 4 Dec 1866 (according to the Julian calendar that the Russians were using at the time) in Moscow, Kandinsky claimed to be the first abstract painter, with this work, Composition V. It’s viewable in the MoMA in New York. His Blue Rider painting had already showed the direction he