William Utermohlen 1933-2007-dementia Self Portrait 1967 American artist William Utermohlen received a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer’s disease in 1995, at the age of 61. For the next five years, as his dementia worsened, he used his art to track the…
Francis Bacon, 1909–1992
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends. His abstracted figures are typically…
Ketra Oberlande
Ketrr always had vision problems, but eventually all of her cone (color) and most of her rod (black and white) vision failed and she became blind. To answer the questions of curious and concerned friends, she embraced art as a way…
James Castle, 1899–1977
James Castle 1899-1977 Profoundly Deaf USA Artist James Castle was born September 25, 1899, in the small mountain town of Garden Valley, Idaho to Francis J. Castle and Mary Nora Scanlon. The fifth of seven children, Castle was born two…
Petrona Viera, 1895–1960
Petrona Viera From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia BiographyMaría Petrona Viera Garino (24 March 1895 – 4 October 1960), commonly known as Petrona Viera, was an Uruguayan painter known for being the first female professional painter in Uruguay and for her…
Georgia O’Keeffe, 1887–1986
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) Georgia O’Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children and grew up on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. As a child she received art lessons at home and her abilities were quickly…
Walter Bryan Pearce,1929–2007
Walter Bryan Pearce (25 July 1929 – 11 January 2007) was a British painter. He was recognised as one of the UK’s leading naïve artists. Early life Bryan Pearce was born in St. Ives, Cornwall, which remained his home for the rest of his life.…
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606–1669
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch artist, generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. Several researchers believe that Rembrandt may have had stereo blindness…
Douglas Tilden, 1860–1935
Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1860 to August 5, 1935) was a world-famous sculptor. Tilden was deaf and attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California). Tilden became deaf at the age of four after a severe bout of scarlet fever. After graduating from the CA…
Mary Cassatt, 1844–1926
CASSATT, MARY (1844 – 1926) Who was Mary Cassatt? Born on May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (now a part of Pittsburgh), Mary Cassatt was a remarkable woman who succeeded in what was then a predominantly male profession. The…