Fashion Week by Soody Sharifi
2010 / Archival Inkjet Print of Digital Collage / 60″x40″ / Various collections
2010 / Archival Inkjet Print of Digital Collage / 60″x40″ / Various collections
Artistic and personal partners for more than fifty years, Ricketts and Shannon designed and illustrated books, established an occasional art journal, The Dial, in 1889 and founded the Vale Press in 1894. Named after their house, The Vale, in Chelsea, they published a total of about 75 books, including a complete reprint of the works of Shakespeare.
~The Fitzwilliam Museum
Mr Charles Ricketts and Mr Charles Hazelwood Shannon [Part IX]
by Sir William Rothenstein / 1897 / Tate Britain, London, UK
Don Juan challenging the Commander by Charles Ricketts
c.1928 / Oil on canvas / Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Charles de Sousy Ricketts by Charles Haslewood Shannon
1898 / Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
c.1930 / Crayon, ink, and pencil on paper / 8 7/8″x6 15/16″
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC
William Carlos Williams~ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams
1934 / Oil on canvas / 48”x32 1/8” / Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
See also: February 18~ African-American visual artists
https://schristywolfe.com/2018/02/18/february-18-african-american-visual-artists/
Before 1938 / Crayon on paper / 20 1/2”x15 1/2” / Carl Van Vechten papers,
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale, New Haven, CT
See also: February 4~ African-American visual artists
https://schristywolfe.com/2018/02/04/february-4-african-american-visual-artists/
1985 / Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board / 38”x38” / Various private collections
Previous January 24 posts:
Winter~ January 24
“Original Macintosh introduction – January 24, 1984”
January 24 (music)~
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/24~
April 9, 1933 / Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan, as drawn by Hal Foster
Image from http://www.erbzine.com/mag8/0810.html
Also debuting in newspapers on January 7, 1929~ Buck Rogers, drawn by Richard ‘Dick’ Calkins
Image from https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/01/06/first-and-last-buck-rogers-comic-strip/
Previous January 7 posts:
Winter~ January 7
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/7~
c.1478-1480 / Pen and ink on paper / 12-volumes, 1,119 pp / Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
Previous January 3 posts:
Winter~ January 3
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/3~
2013 / Lithograph on Somerset paper / 15”x18” / Various, incl. Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC / Published by The Arion Press, San Francisco, as part of an additional suite of 4 lithographs to accompany the book “Porgy & Bess, The Libretto” by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin with 16 lithographs by Kara Walker
Previous October 10 posts:
Autumn~ October 10
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/10~
17th century / Oil on canvas / 17.5”x15.7” / Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
Previous October 3 posts:
Autumn~ October 3
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/3~