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August 1, 1944~ Warsaw Uprising against the German occupation is launched

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Portrait of a Boy in Glasses by Gela Seksztajn

c.1932-1943 / Watercolor on paper / 27 1/2”x19” / Ringelblum Archive

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The work of the painter Gela Seksztajn~
https://www.jhi.pl/en/articles/to-bring-out-the-beauty-of-every-child,497
Gela Seksztajn was a Polish-Jewish artist and painter. She is known mostly for her paintings hidden within the Ringelblum Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. Depicting people was her main focus. She also painted still lifes, landscapes, and nudes. It is believed she died during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Gela Seksztajn left more than 300 drawings and paintings; most of them can be found in the Jewish Historical Institute, although there are a few in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC and one oil painting in the Yad Vashem Art Collection.

Previous August 1 posts:

Self Portraits~August 1

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/1~

July 20, 1969~ Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon

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Ladder to the Moon by Georgia O’Keeffe

1958 / Oil on canvas / 40 3/16”x30 1/4” / Emily Fisher Landau Collection,
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY

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Previous July 20 posts:

Summer~ July 20

July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/20~

July 17, 1918~ The Romanovs and several retainers are executed

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Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Fjordorovna
with their daughters Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia (as a baby)
by Elena Petrovna Samokish-Sudkovskaya

[Note: Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov was not born until 1904]

1902 / Watercolor on pencil heightened with white on cardboard / 7 1/10”x12 1/5” / Private collection

Previous July 17 posts:

Summer~ July 17

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/17~

July 16, 1956~ Last show under a “Big Top” for Ringling Bros. and Barnum + Bailey Circus

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Top of the Tent by Esther Bruton

1930 / Drypoint / 8”x6” / Various, including National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Previous July 16 posts:

Summer~ July 16

“Redes” released on July 16, 1936 (Mexico City)

Charles Sheeler: Born July 16, 1883

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/16~

July 5, 1852~ Frederick Douglass gives “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” speech

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Frederick Douglass by Sarah J. Eddy

1883 / Oil on canvas / 64”x49” / Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, National Park Service

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Solving the Mystery of the Missing Portrait~ https://mais.gmu.edu/articles/9823
Complete text of “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”~
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

Previous July 5 posts:

Summer~ July 5

Jean Cocteau: Born July 5, 1889

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/5~

July 4, 1862~ Lewis Carroll first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland

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Her Eyes Met Those of a Large Blue Caterpillar by Bessie Pease Gutmann

1907 / 10 color plates, several b&w line drawings / 8”x6”, 164 pages / Dodge Publishing Company, New York

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Illustrators of Alice in chronological order by publication~
https://www.carleton.edu/departments/ENGL/Alice/illustrators.html
The Best Illustrations from 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland~
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/07/best-illustrations-alice-in-wonderland/

Also on this date
July 4, 1884: Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris / Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor~
https://schristywolfe.com/2016/08/02/auguste-bartholdi-born-on-august-2-1834/

Previous July 4 posts:

Summer~ July 4: Declaration of Independence

Rube Goldberg: Born July 4, 1883

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/4~

July 1, 1725~ English aristocrat and painter Rhoda Delaval is born

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Rhoda Delaval and Her Brother as “Painting and Poetry” (after Bernardino Luini)
by Rhoda Delaval

1745-1757 / Oil on canvas / 59”x53” / National Trust, Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland

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Previous July 1 posts:

The Four Seasons: Summer

Summer~ July 1

July 1~ Willie Dixon & James Cotton

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/1~