Juliette Gordon Low by Edward Hughes
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~
March 11, 1893~ American artist Wanda Gág born
Ploughed Fields by Wanda Gág
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~
March 10, 1945~ Firebombing of Tokyo
The Flames of Kototoi Bridge—Memories of Losing my Family by Kano Teruo
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
Previous March 10 posts:
March 10~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
William Etty: Born March 10, 1787
Dame Eva Turner: Born March 10, 1892
David Hare: March 10, 1917-December 21, 1992
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/10~
March 9, 1959~ Barbie’s debut at American International Toy Fair, NYC
The Barbie Doll Drawings by Adrian Piper
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~
March 8, 1884~ Susan B. Anthony argues for women’s suffrage before House Judiciary Committee
Bust of Susan B. Anthony by Adelaide Johnson
Between 1890 & 1920 / White marble / 24”x15”x10” / Johnson sculpted numerous versions,
including this one in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Previous March 8 posts:
March 8~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Anthony Caro: March 8, 1924-October 23, 2013
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/8~
March 8: International Women’s Day 2019
March 7, 1965~ “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama
Confrontation at the Bridge by Jacob Lawrence
1975/ Screenprint on paper / Image: 19 1/2″x25 15/16″ / Various collections, incl. the Art Institute of Chicago
Previous March 7 posts:
March 7~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Piet Mondrian: March 7, 1872-February 1, 1944
March 7, 1965: Selma to Montgomery Marches begin
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/7~
March 6, 1475~ Michelangelo Buonarroti is born
Madonna of Bruges by Michelangelo
1501-1504 / Marble / Height: 79” / Church of Our Lady, Bruges, Belgium
Previous March 6 posts:
March 6~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Sarah Caldwell: Born on March 6, 1924
Kiri Te Kanawa: Born on March 6, 1944
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/6~
March 6, 1998: “The Big Lebowski” is released
March 5, 1934~ Exhibition entitled “Machine Art” opens at MoMA
Street sign for the exhibition Machine Art / Photograph by William O. Lyman
March 5, 1934-April 29, 1934 / The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Previous March 5 posts:
March 5~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Howard Pyle: March 5, 1853-November 9, 1911
March 4, 1522~ Anne Boleyn’s official debut at the English court
Portrait Drawing of a Woman Traditionally Believed to be Anne Boleyn
by Hans Holbein the Younger
c.1500-1536 / Black & colored chalks on paper / 11”x7 3/5” / Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle, London
Previous March 4 posts:
March 4~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
March 4~
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/4~
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