Born November 5~ Anna Maria van Schurman

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Anna Maria van Schurman (November 5, 1607-May 4, 1678) was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar. A highly educated woman, she excelled in art, music, and literature, and became proficient in fourteen languages.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_van_Schurman

Self portrait by Anna Maria van Schurman
c.1640 / Pastel on paper / 12-3/5″x9-4/5″ / Museum Martena, Franeker, The Netherlands

Anna Maria van Schurman on Google Arts & Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0955g1

Further reading:
https://nmwa.org/art/artists/anna-maria-van-schurman/
https://artherstory.net/anna-maria-van-schurman-artist-scholar-and-woman-of-letters/
https://projectvox.org/van-schurman-1607-1678/

Born November 4~ Keisha Scarville

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Keisha Scarville (born November 4, 1975) is an American photographer and multimedia artist. She is an adjunct faculty member at ICP and Parsons School of Art & Design in New York.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisha_Scarville

Untitled from Mama’s Clothes Series (Submerged Hand) by Keisha Scarville
2017 / Archival digital pigment print / 17”x11” / Editions 1-10 of 10 + 2AP

Keisha Scarville on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/keisha-scarville/

Further reading:
https://www.lightwork.org/archive/keisha-scarville-alma/
https://www.womenandperformance.org/ampersand/28-3-rose-king-scarville
http://mokomagazine.org/wordpress/2018/01/02/i-am-here-an-interview-with-keisha-scarville/

Born November 3~ Lois Mailou Jones

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Loïs Mailou Jones (November 3, 1905-June 9, 1998) was an American artist and educator. Jones’ career began in the 1930s and she continued to produce art work until her death in 1998 at the age of 92.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Mailou_Jones

Ubi Girl from Tai Region by Lois Mailou Jones
1972 / Acrylic on canvas / 43-3/4″x60″ / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Lois Mailou Jones on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/lois-mailou-jones/

Further reading:
https://nmwa.org/art/artists/lois-mailou-jones/
https://fredericmagazine.com/2021/02/lois-mailou-jones-artist-textile-design/
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug01/westkaemper/callaloo/mailoujones.html

Born on November 2~ Elena Brockmann

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Elena Francisca María Brockmann y Llanos (November 2, 1867-January 26, 1946) was a very successful Spanish history painter. Her uncle Juan Llanos Y Keats (the poet’s nephew) was an artist and her first painting teacher.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Brockmann

A Procession Passing through the Cloister of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo
by Elena Brockmann / c.1892 / Oil on canvas / 98-4/5″x72-2/5″
On permanent loan from the Museo Nacional del Prado to Hospital Real, University of Granada

“John Keats and the Spanish Connection”:
https://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/john-keats-and-the-spanish-connection/

Further reading:
https://nmwa.org/art/artists/elena-brockmann/
https://arthistoryproject.com/artists/elena-brockmann/
“Elena Brockmann, the woman who painted like men” Google translation: https://bit.ly/3pXzafH

Born November 1~ Margaret Taylor-Burroughs

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Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (November 1, 1915-November 21, 2010) was an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded what is now the DuSable Museum of African American History.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Taylor-Burroughs

Family by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs
1963 / Linocut on Japanese paper / 19″x15″ / Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/margaret-taylor-goss-burroughs/

Further reading:
http://www.margaretburroughs.com/biography/
https://www.dusablemuseum.org/exhibition/south-side-stories/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/margaret-burroughs

Born October 31~ Marie Laurencin

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Marie Laurencin (October 31, 1883-June 8, 1956) was a French painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. Although influenced by cubism and fauvism, she developed her own delicate approach.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Laurencin

Perfect Little Girls by Marie Laurencin
1913 / Oil on panel / 21″x16-1/2″ / Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Marie Laurencin on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/marie-laurencin/

Further reading:
https://rehs.com/eng/default-19th20th-century-artist-bio-page/?fl_builder&artist_no=412&sold=1
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/marie-laurencin-the-avant-gardist-who-painted-coco-chanel
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-marie-laurencin-queen-avant-garde-paris-misunderstood-decades

Born October 30~ Angelica Kauffmann

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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (October 30, 1741-November 5, 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Kauffman

Study of a Standing Woman by Angelica Kauffmann
1792–96(?) / Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on paper / 15-5/16″x9-3/4″ / The Met, NYC

Angelica Kauffmann on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/angelika-kauffmann/

Further reading:
https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-43-summer-2018/lives-of-the-artists-angelica-kauffman-martin-myrone
https://www.barnebys.com/blog/angelica-kauffmann-the-child-prodigy
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/ra-magazine-summer-2016-hidden-from-history
https://www.angelika-kauffmann.de/en/akrp-home-2/

Born October 29~ Shin Saimdang

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Shin Saimdang (October 29, 1504-May 17, 1551) was a Korean artist, writer, calligraphist, and poet.
Biography on New World Encyclopedia: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Shin_Saimdang

Chochungdo (painting of plants & insects) by Shin Saimdang / Early 16th cent. / Ink and color on paper
8 panel folding screen, each panel 13″x11″ / National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Shin Saimdang on Google Arts and Culture: https://bit.ly/2ZDgh6k

Further reading:
시와 그림에 능한 예술가이자 현모양처의 상징 – 신사임당 translated by Google: https://bit.ly/3BtNwWY
Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Romania: https://bit.ly/3GB1aLJ
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2017/03/691_225097.html

Born October 28~ Margaretha Haverman

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Margaretha Haverman (baptized October 28, 1693-died after 1739) was an 18th-century Dutch painter of fruit and flower still lifes. Only two paintings are firmly attributed to her today.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaretha_Haverman

Flowers by Margareta Haverman
c.1722-1739 / Oil on canvas / 22-1/3″x18-3/4″ / Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Download “Margareta Haverman, A Vase of Flowers: An Innovative Artist Reexamined”: Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 54 (2019) here:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/AlbertsonCentenoEaker_Metropolitan_Museum_Journal_v_54_2019

Further reading:
HAVERMAN, Margaretha (28-10-1693-na 1739) translated by Google: https://bit.ly/2ZBdNFW
https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/collection-insights/2018/margareta-haverman-vase-of-flowers-conservation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vase_of_Flowers_(1716)

Born October 27~ Lee Krasner

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Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908-June 19, 1984) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with her husband Jackson Pollock and artists Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Arshille Gorky, she helped establish an entirely new painterly language.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Krasner

Milkweed by Lee Krasner
1955 / Collage of oil, paper, and canvas on canvas / 82-3/8″x57-3/4″ / Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York

Lee Krasner on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/lee-krasner/

Further reading:
https://www.moma.org/artists/3240
https://sites.barbican.org.uk/introducingleekrasner/
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/pkhouse/our-story/krasner.php
https://pkf.org/