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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/13~

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What sculptor’s fireplace mantel repair work for a stonecutting firm in Baltimore so impressed his customer William Walters, who would go on to found the Walters Art Museum, that he sponsored the artist?

What painter, sculptor, and printmaker, having found wild success with his LOVE image, chose to remove himself from the New York art world in 1978 and settled on the remote island of Vinalhaven in Maine?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/13/september-13/

Alfred A. Knopf, Sr: Born September 12, 1892

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Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. (September 12, 1892-August 11, 1984) was an American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and (of the previous generation) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding, and design in his books, and earned a reputation as a purist in both content and presentation.
FROM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf_Sr.

Asked how to say his name, Knopf told the Literary Digest:
“Sound the k: k’nupf.”

Obituary in New York Times~
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/12/obituaries/alfred-a-knopf-91-is-dead-founder-of-publishing-house.html
The history of the house of Knopf~
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/about/index.html

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/12~

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Which American painter and graphic artist gained fame in the early thirties for a series of paintings on the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, beginning a career which constantly addressed various social and political causes?

Which New Deal arts program muralist intentionally manipulated the topography in his 1937 Pittsburgh Panorama for that city’s Federal Courthouse and Post Office so that the finished image would resemble a hammer and sickle?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/12/september-12/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/11~

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This American artist’s functional pottery ended up in hundreds of collections, including the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

This Moscow-born artist, along with his co-founder of the Soviet Pop and Conceptual Art movement in Russia, emigrated to Israel, and then to New York, in response to their arrest and the destruction of their artwork.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/11/september-11/

Henry Purcell: Born September 10, 1659

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Purcell wrote only one full opera, a short work supposedly designed for a girls’ school. The tragic story of Dido and Aeneas, with a libretto by Nahum Tate, has a perfection of its own. Dido’s final lament, before she kills herself, follows the model for such compositions established by Monteverdi eighty years before. Other stage works by Purcell are in the hybrid form now known as semi-opera, combining spoken drama and a musical element that in the concert-hall may be performed apart from its wider dramatic context.
FROM~ https://www.orfeomusic.de/Composer/Detail/20995

Wikipedia page for Henry Purcell~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell
Henry Purcell on classical.net~ http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/purcell.php

Henry Purcell by Unknown artist
after 1695 / Oil on canvas / 23″x21″ / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/10~

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In 1886 this Irish-American artist, known for his trompe-l’œil still lifes, had a painting of a five dollar bill seized by the New York police from the wall of a saloon and was arrested for counterfeiting.

This Italian-born French couturière collaborated with the Surrealist artists Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, and Leonor Fini, relying for her designs on both impulse of the moment and serendipitous inspiration.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/10/september-10/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/9~

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What American modern artist’s depictions of factories, granaries, and other industrial subjects predate those of fellow Precisionists Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth?

What artist wrote in 1971, “All intervening steps…are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product.”

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/09/september-9/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/8~

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This English animal painter was originally a groom who, at age 22 and wanting a portrait of one of the horses, bought a manual and oil-colors and produced one himself; his master bought it and encouraged him to pursue painting.

This American artist — known for her work in sculpture, painting, and collage — had an an endless fascination with the Universe and requested that her cremated remains be launched into space in some future mission of Celestis, Inc.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/08/september-8/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/7~

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What self-taught artist started out by making needlework pictures and quilts portraying colorful scenes of farm life, and only began painting at 78 when arthritis rendered her unable to embroider?

What painter and educator documented the African-American experience in several series devoted to Toussaint L’Ouverture, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, life in Harlem, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/07/september-7/