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Born December 14, 1866 • London • England
Died September 9, 1934 (aged 67) • London • England
Notable Works “Vision and Design”
Subjects Of Study Post-Impressionism • painting

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Edward Carpenter, detail of a portrait by R.E. Fry; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Clive Bell
British critic
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake
British painter
Sérusier, Paul: The Flowered Gate
Paul Sérusier
French painter
Duncan Grant
British painter
Eileen Agar
Eileen Agar
British artist
Benjamin Robert Haydon
English painter and writer
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
English writer and artist
Joshua Reynolds: self-portrait
Joshua Reynolds
British painter
Portrait of William Michael Rossetti by Sir William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1909; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Michael Rossetti
English art critic
Charles Locke Eastlake
British author
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Italian artist and author
Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
Chen Shizeng
Chinese painter and critic
Theo van Doesburg: Counter-Composition V
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch artist
Amédée Ozenfant
French painter

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"The Large Plane Trees" (Road Menders at Saint-Remy) oil on fabric by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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