Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/2~
What Hungarian-born photographer, who had a profound effect on hand-held photography, died in New York in 1985 leaving behind 100,000 negatives, many of which to this day remain unseen?
What designer, typographer, & painter wanted to be a chemist but when his parents couldn’t afford tuition turned to art, eventually co-founding one of Switzerland’s best-known ad agencies?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/02/july-2/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/1~
In 1904 this painter and illustrator left New York City to stay with his parents in Clark’s Cove, Maine, and experienced a turning point in his career.
This painter was one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists, a New York organization active during the 30s and 40s that embraced non-objective subjects based on pure form and color.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/01/july-1/
July 1~ Willie Dixon & James Cotton
Willie Dixon was born July 1, 1915, in Vicksburg, MS.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/willie-dixon-mn0000959770/biography
Illustration: William Stout / Legends of the Blues
James Cotton was born July 1, 1935, in Tunica, MS.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/james-cotton-mn0000131841/biography
Illustration: Jack Coughlin / A Brush with the Blues: 26 Portraits
Willie Dixon and James Cotton with Muddy Waters, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Spann, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Mable Hillery in 1966 at the Canadian CBC Television studio, recording a portion of a CBC “Festival” series:
http://www.allmovie.com/movie/masters-of-the-blues-v204117
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/30~
What artist, a member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, originally worked in construction as a pipe fitter’s assistant while sculpting and painting at night?
What Louisiana artist executed a series of black-and-white woodcut prints in 2002 and 2003 with imagery of New Orleans that looks as if it was created immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/30/june-30/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/29~
This sculptor produced lifelike portrait busts such as Andrew Jackson — and idealized figures such as The Greek Slave (1843) which helped to overcome the public’s dislike of female nudity in art.
This African-American photographer who lived in NYC during the Harlem Renaissance had a gift for capturing the most influential individuals and riveting artistic moments of the era.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/29/june-29/
June 28 & 29, 1969~ the Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village
WE ALL ENDED UP TOGETHER AT A PLACE CALLED THE STONEWALL.
Mother Stonewall and the Golden Rats by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt~
The first gay riots in history took place during the pre-dawn hours of Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29 in New York’s Greenwich Village. The demonstrations were touched off by a police raid on the popular Stonewall Club, 53 Christopher Street. This was the last (to date) in a series of harassments which plagued the Village area for the last several weeks. =>
The 1969 Advocate Article on the Stonewall Riots~
Art After Stonewall~
http://www.columbusmuseum.org/art-after-stonewall/
The Battle of Stonewall – 1969 / Sandow Birk, 1999;
Collection of Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
The Misty Miss Christy 