Our next Artist You Need To Know is Léon Spilliaert (1881 – 1946). He was a Belgian Symbolist painter and graphic artist, best known for his haunting and haunted landscapes and self portraits. Spilliaert was born in the coastal town of Ostend but moved to Brussels at...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is June Leaf. June Leaf (born 1929) is an American artist best known for her abstract allegorical paintings and drawings as well as more modernist kinetic sculptures. She divides her time between New York City in the United States and...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Tibor Csernus (1927 – 2007). He was a Kossuth Prize – winning Hungarian graphic designer and painter. Csernus was one of the most significant painters when considering 20th Century Hungarian artists. Born in the town of...
Our next Artists You Need To Know are the group known as the Hairy Who (1966–1969, also sometimes called The Chicago Hairy Who) : Art Green (b. 1941), Gladys Nilsson (b. 1940), Jim Nutt (b. 1938), Jim Falconer (1942 – 2022), Suellen Rocca (1943 – 2020)...
The next person of importance in this continuing series is Jack Henry Pollock (1930 – 1992). He was arguably the most influential figure in Toronto’s art scene during the 1960s and 1970s. With the Artist You Need To Know series we’re not limiting ourselves...
