Category Archives: On This Date

November 16, 1532~ Inca ruler Atahualpa captured by Spanish conquistadors

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Atahualpa, Fourteenth Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings
by Unknown Peruvian artist

c.18th century / Oil on canvas / 23 5/8”x21 3/4” / Brooklyn Museum, NYC
Portrait series based on a 1615 Spanish engraving from a history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas

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Previous November 16 posts:

November 16~ Artists at their Easels

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/16~

November 14, 2019~ “Through My Travels I Found Myself” exhibition opens at Finnish art museum

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Self-portrait, Black Background by Helene Schjerfbeck

1915 / Oil on canvas / 18”x14” / Finnish National Gallery: Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

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Previous November 14 posts:

November 14~ Artists at their Easels

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/14~

November 13, 1940~ Walt Disney’s film Fantasia premieres in New York City

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Fantasia Program Cover by Gyo Fujikawa

1940 / 26 pp+cvr / 12 3/4”x9 5/8” / Various collections incl. Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Movie originally released in 13 U.S. cities as road show w/assigned seating, programs, & ushers

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Previous November 13 posts:

November 13~ Artists at their Easels

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/13~

November 11, 1918~ Germany signs Armistice with the Allies, ending WWI

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The Armistice by Eugene Savage

1926 / Watercolor on Artist’s Paper / 29”x52” / Preparatory Work for Elks National Memorial Mural, Chicago, IL

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Previous November 11 posts:

November 11~ Artists at their Easels

Marie Anna Zacharias~ born November 11, 1828

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/11~

November 10, 2005~ Harlem Renaissance painter Ernest Crichlow dies

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Woman in a Blue Coat by Ernest Crichlow

c.1948 / Oil on canvas / 20”x16” / Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC

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Previous November 10 posts:

November 10~ Artists at their Easels

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/10~

November 7, 1929~ First exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, NYC

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Postman Joseph Roulin by Vincent van Gogh

1888 / 32”x25 3/4” / Oil on canvas / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

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Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh: November 7–December 7, 1929, MoMA~
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1767?locale=en

Catalog (opens pdf file in browser)~ or right-click to download~
https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1767_300061826.pdf

“The Museum of Modern Art, Then and Now”~ https://time.com/3559798/moma-history/

 

Previous November 7 posts:

November 7~ Artists at their Easels

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/7~