Category Archives: On This Date

December 16, 1913~ Charlie Chaplin begins his film career

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Charlie Chaplin was one of the greatest and widely loved silent movie stars. From “Easy Street” (1917) to “Modern Times” (1936), he made many of the funniest and most popular films of his time. He was best known for his character, the naive and lovable Little Tramp.
~https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/charlie-chaplin-about-the-actor/77/

Charlot Cubiste by Fernand Léger

1924 / Painted wooden elements, nailed on plywood / 29”x13”x2 2/5”
Pompidou Centre, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

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Link~ Le Ballet Mécanique: The Historic Cinematic Collaboration Between Fernand Legér and George Antheil
NYPL~ https://www.nypl.org/blog/2023/02/07/ballet-mecanique-interwar-avant-garde-cinema

Previous December 16 posts:

December 16~ Animals in Art

Edward Ruscha: Born December 16, 1937

How Kandinsky helped create abstract art

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/16~

December 15, 1905~ Pushkin House (Institute of Russian Literature in St. Petersburg) is established

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Title: Pushkin on a Horse by Konstantin Yuon

1949 / Watercolor on paper / 19”x14” / Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

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Portraits of Alexander Pushkin from the State A.S. Pushkin Museum~
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/portraits-of-alexander-pushkin%C2%A0/ARSRXI4U

 

Previous December 15 posts:

December 15~ Animals in Art

Ray Eames: Born December 15, 1912

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/15~

 

December 12, 1408~ Order of the Dragon founded by Sigismund of Luxembourg

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Portrait of Sigismund of Luxembourg, formerly attributed to Pisanello

1433 / Parchment on wood / 23”x16 1/2” / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

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Previous December 12 posts:

December 12~ Animals in Art

Frank Sinatra: Born December 12, 1915

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/12~

December 11, 1936~ Edward VIII announces he has abdicated the throne

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Woman of the Year 1936 by Dorothy Wilding

TIME named Wallis Warfield Simpson as their first-ever Woman of the Year

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Left: Cover of TIME magazine by Dorothy Wilding / January 4, 1937
Hand colored photograph / Volume XXIX, Number 1
Right: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor by Dorothy Wilding / 1935 / Bromide print
9 7/8”x7 1/8” / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

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Previous December 11 posts:

December 11~ Animals in Art

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/11~

December 10, 1884~ Russian painter Zinaida Serebriakova is born

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Self-portrait in a Scarf by Zinaida Serebriakova

1911 / Tempera on paper / 14 1/2”x11 5/8” / Museum of Private Collections,
Dept of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

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Previous December 10 posts:

December 10~ Animals in Art

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/10~

December 9, 1531~ Apparition of the Virgin appears to Mexican Juan Diego

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Virgen de Guadalupe by Miguel González

c.1698 / Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl (Enconchado)
Unframed: 39”x27 1/2” / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

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Previous December 9 posts:

December 9~ Animals in Art

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/9~