Michael Landy R.A.

Landy, Michael R.A. Born 1963 Michael Landy RA, born in London in 1963 is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He took up art professionally after one of his paintings was selected for display on the BBC television programme ‘Take Hart’. After graduating from...

Roman Opałka

Opałka, Roman 1931-2011 Roman Opałka was born on August 27, 1931, in Abbeville-Saint-Lucien, France, to Polish parents. The family returned to Poland in 1946 and Opałka studied lithography at a graphics school before enrolling in the School of Art and Design in Lodz....

John Edward Borein

Borein, John Edward 1872-1945 John Edward Borein captured the “disappearing West” with the accuracy and vivacity like no one previously. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Borein headed south in 1893 at the age of twenty-one, and over the next few...

Pietro Annigoni

Annigoni, Pietro 1910-1988 Pietro Annigoni was born on the 7th of June 1910 in Milan, where he was a student at the College of the Piarist Fathers. Annigoni enrolled for the nude class run by the Circolo Degli Artisti, while attending the open class in the same...

Sir Noël Coward

Coward, Sir Noël 1899-1973 Noël Coward was an English playwright, director, composer, artist, actor and singer. Excelling in all of these was easy for the young boy from a working class family in Middlesex. Noël Coward made his stage debut at the age of 12 and wrote...