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Open Canon

Open Canon is a bi-monthly column about the American artists you might not know but should.
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Open Canon: John Baldessari
by Thomas Larson. Initially laughed out of galleries, John Baldessari developed his "creed that the blander the subject matter, the more the artist’s…
Open Canon: Albert Pinkham Ryder
by John McMahon. The painter, a master of building texture to create a unique sense of light, stopped painting after completing one of his most unusual…
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Open Canon: Mary MacLane
by E.R. Zarevich. The Canadian-American writer was a prodigious memoirist, and self-promoter.
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Open Canon: Jane Roberts, or "Seth"
by E.R. Zarevich. Writer Jane Roberts claimed to have accessed the Other Side, but was her supernatural alter ego merely a gimmick to supplement a…
Open Canon: Amy Lowell
E.R. Zarevich. Posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926, Amy Lowell was a self-educated poet who favored Imagism and rejected "safe…
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Open Canon: Charles Burchfield
by John McMahon. The Romantic Realist, little remembered today, had a unique approach to watercolor landscape painting.
Open Canon: Djuna Barnes
by E.R. Zarevich. Best known for her novel 'Nightwood,' Djuna Barnes is regarded by the LGBTQ community as a writer who dared.
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