Category Archives: Women Artists

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 6, 1917~ Bolsheviks launch October Revolution [Oct. 24, Old Style]

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Architectonic Painting by Lyubov Popova

1917 / Oil on canvas / 29 13/16”x21” / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

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Previous November 6 posts:

November 6~ Artists at their Easels

Alois Senefelder: Born November 6, 1771

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/6~

November 5, 1864~ Artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh is born

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Embroidered panels by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

c.1902-1904 / Embroidered linen; silk braid, ribbon, silk appliqué, buttons, beads; faces painted in watercolor on white kid stretched over card / 69 3/4”x16 1/4” / © Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

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Previous November 5 posts:

November 5~ Artists at their Easels

Born November 5, 1783~ Caroline Tischbein

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/5~

November 3, 1846~ British painter Elizabeth Thompson is born

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Stand Fast Craigellachie by Lady Elizabeth Butler Thompson

1902 / Oil on canvas / 39 1/2”x33 3/5” / National War Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

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Previous November 3 posts:

November 3~ Artists at their Easels

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/3~