1470-1474 / Tempera on panel / 33 7/16”x25 3/8” / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Previous May 17 posts:
Love & War~ May 17
Erik Satie~ Born May 17, 1866
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/17~
1849 / Hand-colored lithograph with tint-stone on paper / 19 3/16”x14 5/8” / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
“Description of Banvard’s panorama of the Mississippi river, painted on three miles of canvas: exhibiting a view of country 1200 miles in length, extending from the mouth of the Mississippi river to the city of New Orleans; being by far the largest picture ever executed by man”
https://archive.org/details/descriptionofban00banv
Previous May 16 posts:
Tamara de Lempicka~ Born May 16, 1898(?)
1953 / Bronze sculpture / 21 feet high / Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Previous May 15 posts:
Love & War~ May 15
Richard Avedon: May 15, 1923-Oct 1, 2004
May 15, 1970~ Tragedy at Jackson State
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/15~
1617 / Oil on copper / 6 1/5”x4 3/4” / Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Previous May 14 posts:
Love & War~ May 14
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/14~
March 1907, London, Methuen and Company / First published July 1901
Written by Julian of Norwich (1342-sometime after 1416),
edited by Grace Harriet Warrack (1855-1932) / Digital edition: archive.org
Previous May 13 post:
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/13~
The artist’s mother, comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec, at breakfast, Malromé Chateau
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
c.1881-1883 / Oil on canvas / 36.8”x31.8” / Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, France
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother / Vincent van Gogh
1888 / Oil on canvas / 16”x12-3/4” / Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
The Artist’s Mother / Paul Gauguin
Between 1890 & 1893 / Oil on canvas / 16.1”x12.9” / Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
The Artist’s Mother / Pablo Picasso
1896 / Pastel on paper / 19.6”x15.3” / Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother / Henry Ossawa Tanner
1897 / Oil on canvas / 29 1/4”x39 1/2” / Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mrs. Robert S. Cassatt, the Artist’s Mother / Mary Cassatt
c.1889 / Oil On Canvas / 38”x27” / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Woman with Plants / Grant Wood
1929 / Oil on upsom board / 20 1/2”x17 7/8” / Museum of Art Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The Painter’s Mother IV / Lucian Freud
1973 / Oil on canvas / 10 3/4”x 7 1/3” / Tate, London
Julia Warhola / Andy Warhol
1974 / Silkscreen ink and synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 40”x40” / The Andy Warhol Museum
Mum / David Hockney
1988 / Oil on canvas / 16 1/2”x10 1/2” / The David Hockney Foundation
1966 / Painted wood / 16 5/8”x19 1/4”x3 3/4” / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Previous May 6 posts:
Love & War~ May 11
Irving Berlin~ Born May 11, 1888
William Grant Still~ Born May 11, 1895
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/11~
1920s / Oil on canvas / 30 5/16”x22 7/16” / Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Previous May 6 posts:
Love & War~ May 10
Fred Astaire: Born May 10, 1899
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/10~
1908 / Watercolor / 24 7/16”x18 1/8” / Private collection?
The man most famous for his discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb was also an artist.
An album of Howard Carter’s watercolours of birds and animals~
http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/Carter_birds_gallery.html
From left: Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Elizabeth Eckford,
Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrence Roberts, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Melba Patillo Beals and Ernest Green
Previous May 6 posts:
Love & War~ May 8
Bob Clampett: Born May 8, 1913
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/8~
The Misty Miss Christy 