Woman in an Armchair (Femme au fauteil) by Pablo Picasso
1947 / 6-color lithograph, Edition of 50 / Image: 19 7/16”x12 9/16” / Various collections, including MoMA, NYC
1947 / 6-color lithograph, Edition of 50 / Image: 19 7/16”x12 9/16” / Various collections, including MoMA, NYC
1787 / Oil on canvas / 51”x77 1/4” / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Previous February 15 posts:
February 15~ African-American visual artists
February 15~
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/15~
1575 / Oil on canvas / 72 1/4”x51” / Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa
Valentine’s Day~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day
Be My Valentine~ https://www.si.edu/spotlight/valentines
The Heart in Art~ http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-heart-in-art/
Valentine’s day: Love and Street Art~
https://streetart360.net/2017/02/14/valentines-day-love-and-street-art/
Previous February 14 posts:
February 14~ African-American visual artists
Renée Fleming: Born February 14, 1959
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/14~
In 1962, Lincoln First Federal Savings & Loan Assn in WA commissioned this painting for the lobby of their headquarters in Spokane. Rockwell completed it in 1965 and it was unveiled on November 4th of that year. After the bank merged with Washington Mutual Savings Bank, the painting was moved to Seattle, no longer on public display; in the early 1990s it was sold to Texas businessman H. Ross Perot. In 2006, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, purchased it in a sale at Christie’s Auction House, and “Lincoln the Railsplitter” was once again available to the public.
“Artworks of Lincoln were produced for many reasons—for news, politics, sale, and commemoration—and in a variety of media, such as prints, paintings, sculptures, and photographs.”
http://www.civilwarinart.org/exhibits/show/lincoln/introduction/picturing-lincoln“Scholars estimate that Lincoln sat for 33 photographers and 127 portraits in his lifetime…”
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1876750_1840177,00.html“The statue of President Abraham Lincoln [in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol] depicts him with a serious, contemplative expression. Sculpted by the first female artist commissioned to create a work of art for the United States government.”
https://www.aoc.gov/art/other-statues/abraham-lincoln-statue“Iconic Abraham Lincoln portraits”
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/iconic-abraham-lincoln-portraits/
1880 / Woodblock print; ink and color on paper / 14 3/4”x9 7/8” / Various, including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kenkokukinen-no-Hi, the “complicated and controversial” National Foundation Day, is February 11
Previous February 11 posts:
February 11~ African-American visual artists
Thomas Edison: Born February 11, 1847
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/11~
1840-42 / Oil on canvas / 77”x107 5/8” / Royal Collection Trust, UK
1847 / Oil on canvas | 21”x17” / Royal Collection Trust, UK
Commissioned by Queen Victoria and given to Prince Albert as a present on their wedding anniversary, 1847
Previous February 10 posts:
February 10~ African-American visual artists
Leontyne Price: born on February 10, 1927
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/10~
1622 / Ceiling fresco / Dimensions? / Duomo di Genova, Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Italy
Previous February 9 posts:
February 9~ African-American visual artists
February 9, 1964: Beatles’ first live appearance on American television
1918 / Oil on canvas / 38 5/8”x28 3/16” / Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
Previous February 8 posts:
February 8~ African-American visual artists
February 8~ First Opera in North America
February 8~ Chinese New Year 2016
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/8~
1852 / Oil on canvas / 23 9/10”x35 9/10” / Norfolk Museums Collections, UK
Previous February 7 posts:
February 7~ African-American visual artists
February 7, 1904: The Great Baltimore Fire Begins
February 7, 1964: The Beatles Land In America
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/7~
c.1802–3 / Oil on canvas / 28 9/16”x22” / Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Previous February 6 posts:
February 6~ African-American visual artists
Babe Ruth, February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948
February 6~
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/6~