c.1875 / Oil on canvas / 10 1/4”x13 3/8” / Stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Previous March 18 posts:
March 18~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Adam Elsheimer: Born March 18, 1578
Joseph Csaky: Born March 18, 1888
March 18, 1965: First Man to Walk in Space
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/18~
c.1746 / Oil on canvas / 67 3/10”x129 1/10” / Civic Museum (Museo Civico di Padova), Padua, Italy
Previous March 17 posts:
March 17~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Kate Greenaway: Born on March 17, 1846
Pattie Boyd: Born on March 17, 1944
March 17~
March 17: National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/17~
1838 / 5-part book, “The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the Years 1832 to 1836”
New Clues To Extinct Falklands Wolf Mystery:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102121449.htm
Previous March 16 posts:
March 16~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Anna Atkins: Born March 16, 1799
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/16~
c.1859 / Graphite on wove paper / 6 9/16″x12 13/16″ / National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Previous March 15 posts:
March 15~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/15~
1958 / Oil on canvas / 90”x60 1/8” / Anderson Collection at Stanford University, California
Previous March 14 posts:
March 14~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Premiered March 14, 1885: “The Mikado”
Albert Einstein: Born March 14, 1879
Diane Arbus: Born March 14, 1923
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/14~
c.1552 / Gouache and watercolor / approx. 9 1/2”x13 1/2” / Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs
In 1705 English astronomer Edmond Halley published the first catalog of the orbits of 24 comets. His calculations showed that comets observed in 1531, 1607, and 1682 had very similar orbits. Halley suggested that they were really one comet that returned approximately every 76 years, and he predicted that comet’s return in 1758. Halley did not live to see his prediction come true (he died in 1742), but the comet was sighted late in 1758, passed perihelion —(*)closest distance to the Sun — March 13, 1759, and was named in Halley’s honour. Its periodic returns demonstrated that it was in orbit around the Sun and, thus, that at least some comets were members of the solar system.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/1p-halley/
1887 / Oil on canvas / 52 1/2”x38” / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Previous March 12 posts:
March 12~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/12~
1936 / Lithograph / Image: 8 7/8”x11 1/4” / Various collections, incl. Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Previous March 11 posts:
March 11~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Premiered March 11:
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/11~
Age at time of raid: 14 / The Great Tokyo Air Raid through Drawings
“The Great Tokyo Air Raid and the Bombing of Civilians in World War II”
The firebombing of Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945 touched off the wave of firebombing that destroyed 64 Japanese cities and culminated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.…The bombing of March 9-10 took the lives of 100,000 Tokyoites and leveled sixteen square miles of the city in the most devastating raid in human history to that time…
https://apjjf.org/the-asahi-shimbun-culture-research-center/3320/article
1967 / Rapidograph, ink, and/or pencil on notebook paper / 8 1/2”x5 1/2” / Museum of Modern Art, New York
Previous March 9 posts:
March 9~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/9~
The Misty Miss Christy 