Meg Nola

Topic Editor - Modern Art History
meg nola - my favorite photo booth
meg nola - my favorite photo booth

Meg Nola lives in Chicago and is the past recipient of an Illinois Arts Council award. Her 2007 novel, Lula Musing -- about the fictional life and times of a 1920s muse and artist -- was a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year finalist.

Some of Meg’s Suite101 Editor’s Choice articles include:

Impressionist Edgar Degas in New Orleans

American Artist Arthur Dove

American Beat Poet Lew Welch

The Victoria Regina Tarot

Feel free to take a glance at her blogs, the smallest color and Tea, Coffee & Other Mystical Potations, for further pondering about paintings, books, movies, music, poetry, tea leaves, coffee cups...or just whatever seems intriguing at the moment.

Latest Articles

American Artist John Singer Sargent
The American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was especially famed for his portrait work.
Jan 29, 2012 - Meg Nola
American Impressionist Artist Colin Campbell Cooper
Artist Colin Campbell Cooper combined a fine sense of architecture and place with beautiful impressionistic technique.
Dec 14, 2011 - Meg Nola
Edvard Munch: Quieting The Scream
Edvard Munch's self-destructive tendencies were helped greatly by a visit to a Copenhagen clinic and by his desire to be cured -- on his own artistic terms.
Oct 30, 2011 - Meg Nola
100 Years of African-American Artist Romare Bearden
Celebrate the centennial birthday of artist Romare Bearden, one of America's most diverse talents.
Sep 5, 2011 - Meg Nola
Portraits of Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan led a passionate revolution in dance during the early 20th century, and along the way she inspired some notable visual artists.
Aug 7, 2011 - Meg Nola
Seven Questions About The Canadian Group of Seven
Some facts and fancies about the septet of early 20th century Canadian artists known as the Group of Seven.
Jul 1, 2011 - Meg Nola
American Artist Abraham Walkowitz
Abraham Walkowitz went from a childhood in Siberia to become one of America's most prolific 20th century modernist pioneers.
May 30, 2011 - Meg Nola
Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
The seemingly odd couple relationship between Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock went beyond the studio to life lessons and a father-son type bond.
Apr 30, 2011 - Meg Nola
Henry Ossawa Tanner and Thomas Eakins
Dynamic realist Thomas Eakins and African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner first met as teacher and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Feb 21, 2011 - Meg Nola
The Subtle Splendor of Edmund C. Tarbell
A closer look at four distinctive works by American Impressionist artist Edmund Tarbell.
Feb 9, 2011 - Meg Nola