Artists

Durkee, Stephen

Barbara Durkee (1935–2022) was an American artist. She is known for being a co founder of the artist collective USCO (Us Company) in New York. She also co founded the spiritual community, the Lama Foundation in New Mexico in 1968. Durkee was born in 1935 in Los Angeles California. For a time she was married to fellow artist Stephen Durkee. She changed her name from Barbara Durkee to Asha Greer. She died on January 7, 2022, in Virginia. An example of her work with USCO is in the National Gallery of Art. She is also credited with working on the design and production of the original edition of the book, Be Here Now, produced by the Lama Foundation.

Durrie, George Henry

George Henry Durrie (June 6, 1820 – October 15, 1863) was an American landscape artist noted especially for his rural winter snow scenes, which became very popular after they were reproduced as lithographic prints by Currier and Ives.

Durston, Arthur

Arthur Henry Purcell Durston (1889–1938) was an American artist of British descent. Born in England, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1908, and was naturalized a U.S. citizen in 1918. He was known for his modernist paintings in oil and water.

Dusart, Cornelis

Cornelis Dusart (April 24, 1660 – October 1, 1704) was a Dutch genre painter, drawer (artists), and printmaker. He was born in Haarlem. Dusart was a pupil of Adriaen van Ostade from about 1675 to 1679, and was accepted into the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1679. His works are similar in style and subject to those of his mentor. Especially notable are his highly finished drawings of peasants, depicted singly in colored chalks and watercolor. He died in Haarlem.

Duseigneur, Georges

Escadrille MS 57 (Squadron Morane-Saulnier 57) of the French Air Force was founded during World War I, on 10 May 1915. They were reformed in 1953 as part of the French Navy Aéronavale, and known as Escadrille 57S. They are currently a training squadron based at Base d'aéronautique navale de Landivisiau (BAN Landivisiau) flying the Dassault Falcon 10MER.

Dusek, Lubomír

Focus, Please! (Czech: Zaostřit, prosím!) is a Czech comedy film directed by Martin Frič. It was released in 1956.

Dus, Laszlo

László Dús (born 14 July 1941, Zalaegerszeg) is an Americanized Hungarian-born visual artist. Dús is known for nonobjective Modernist prints. Several of his prints are in the permanent collections of the U.S. National Gallery of Art. Dús prints are also in the collections of the Renwick Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Dús prints are also in the collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Typical subject matter is a blocky geometric color field composition with some shapes having "torn" edges. Large-size prints are scarce. Park West Gallery leader Albert Scaglione (also specializing in Pablo Picasso and Pierre-Auguste Renoir), was a major booster of the artist.

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Dutch 16th Century

The 16th century begins with the Julian year 1501 (MDI) and ends with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600 (MDC) (depending on the reckoning used; the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582). The Habsburg Spanish Empire, Portuguese Empire, Ottoman Empire, Safavid Persia, Mughal India and Ming China were the most powerful and hegemonic states. The Renaissance in Italy and Europe saw the emergence of important artists, authors and scientists, and led to the foundation of important subjects which include accounting and political science. Copernicus proposed the heliocentric universe, which was met with strong resistance, and Tycho Brahe refuted the theory of celestial spheres through observational measurement of the 1572 appearance of a Milky Way supernova. These events directly challenged the long-held notion of an immutable universe supported by Ptolemy and Aristotle, and led to major revolutions in astronomy and science. Galileo Galilei became a champion of the new sciences, invented the first thermometer and made substantial contributions in the fields of physics and astronomy, becoming a major figure in the Scientific Revolution in Europe. Spain...

Dutch 17th Century

The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easily kept under surveillance. With domestic peace assured, Louis XIV caused the borders of France to be expanded. It was during this century that the English monarch became increasingly...

Dutch 18th Century

The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who expand the century to include larger historical movements, the "long" 18th century may run from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the Battle of...

Dutch 19th Century

After the last years of the 18th century, which had seen the decline of the Dutch Republic, including the arts and international politics, the 19th-century was marked by a general revival of intellectual force. The romantic movement in Germany made itself deeply felt in all branches of Dutch literature and German lyricism took the place hitherto held by French classicism, in spite of the country falling to French expansionism, during the Batavian revolution.