Chinoise (detail), 1913 / Gilt plaster / Private collection
Original version from which two bronze and one limestone examples were later made;
limestone version in Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
1. Autoportrait supposé, c.1885 / Pencil and chalk on paper / Musee Roybet Fould, Courbevoie, FR
2. Autoportrait, c.1890 / Oil on canvas / Musee Roybet Fould, Courbevoie, FR
1876-1877 / Oil paint and gold leaf on leather and wood
167 5/8″x398″x239 1/2″ / Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The profits from the family’s textile business provided the sisters with a lifelong allowance that insured their financial independence and funded their many purchases. In Paris, the Cone sisters met Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse and began to collect their works when modern art was still not widely known, let alone appreciated. The sisters’ adventurous spirit in collecting over the next forty years resulted in the formation of one of the most important collections of modern art in America. Eventually, the women gave about 3,000 works of art to the [Baltimore Museum of Art], where they may be seen today. They also donated 242 artworks to the Weatherspoon.
FROM Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
1941 / Front room, Claribel Cone’s apartment / Marlborough Apartments, Baltimore, MD
1888 / 32”x25 3/4” / Oil on canvas / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh: November 7–December 7, 1929, MoMA~
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1767?locale=en
Catalog (opens pdf file in browser)~ or right-click to download~
https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1767_300061826.pdf
“The Museum of Modern Art, Then and Now”~ https://time.com/3559798/moma-history/
Previous November 7 posts:
November 7~ Artists at their Easels
Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/7~
1611 / Oil on panel / 20 2/5”x28 3/4” / Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Previous October 25 posts:
Autumn~ October 25
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/25~
1928 / Oil on canvas / 60”x40” / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Timeline~
https://www.guggenheim.org/the-frank-lloyd-wright-building/timeline
About Frank Lloyd Wright~ https://franklloydwright.org/frank-lloyd-wright/
Previous October 21 posts:
Autumn~ October 21
Mary Blair: Born October 21, 1911
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/21~
c.1412-1416 / Illuminated manuscript on vellum parchment / 8 4/5”x5 1/3”
Musée Condé, Chantilly, France /The first Louvre castle is in the background
First royal “Castle of the Louvre” commissioned by Philip II of France
1190 / Fortress against Viking attacks / Torn down early 16th century
Previous August 10 posts:
Self Portraits~August 10
August 10: the anniversary for two famous museums
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/10~
1617 / Oil on copper / 6 1/5”x4 3/4” / Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Previous May 14 posts:
Love & War~ May 14
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/14~
2001 / 72 steel fins / 217-foot wingspan / Milwaukee Art Museum
Santiago Calatrava’s artwork~
https://calatrava.com/art.html?all=yes
Link to 360 panoramic views of Milwaukee Art Museum~
http://rackphoto.com/pp/2011/02/16/mam-milwaukee-art-museum/
Previous May 4 posts:
Love & War~ May 4
“May 4, 1904: U.S. Dives Into Panama Canal”
Keith Haring: May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990
May 4, 1970~ Tragedy at Kent State
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/4~
The Misty Miss Christy 