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Randolph Caldecott: Born on March 22, 1846

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The full-color illustration adapted for the image depicted on the Caldecott Medal, from The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878). Source: http://www.publishersweekly.com/images/data/ARTICLE_PHOTO/photo/000/017/17815-1.JPG

Randolph Caldecott was born in Chester on 22 March 1846. He was the third son of John Caldecott and his first wife Mary Dinah Brookes, and one of 13 siblings or half-siblings. Caldecott attended King Henry VIII School, Chester, where he became head boy.

From an early age Caldecott showed artistic talent. He won a prize for drawing while at school in Chester, and in 1861, when he was 15 years old, the Illustrated London News published his drawing and written account of a major fire at a railway hotel in Chester.

Caldecott was also interested in sculpture, and studied for a time with the French sculptor Jules Dalou. He also produced decorative murals, panels and bas-reliefs, and painted in oils.

Caldecott is most famous for his 16 picture books, published annually in pairs by George Routledge & Sons, London.
https://www.natwestgroup.com/heritage/people/randolph-caldecott.html

selfportraitThe Randolph Caldecott Medal
Frederic G. Melcher suggested in 1937 the establishment of a…medal is to be given to the artist who had created the most distinguished picture book of the year and named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott.
The Caldecott Medal “shall be awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year.”
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/aboutcaldecott/aboutcaldecott

Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal

An excerpt from ‘Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing’
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/58869-randolph-caldecott-the-man-who-could-not-stop-drawing-a-pw-excerpt.html

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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT:
One of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12109/12109-h/12109-h.htm

Al Williamson: Born March 21, 1931

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WilliamsonAlfonso Williamson (March 21, 1931-June 12, 2010) was an American cartoonist, comic book artist,
and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western, and science-fiction/fantasy  ~ Wikipedia

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28503
http://www.inkwellawards.com/?page_id=316
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/williamson_a.htm

Art Forger Eric Hebborn: Born March 20, 1934

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The number of works by Eric Hebborn in public collections will never be certain. Between the early 1960s and his death in 1996, Hebborn created an estimated 1,000 drawings in the manner of various Old Masters, artfully mixed in with thousands more of legitimate origin that he handled as a dealer. Though dozens of the fakes have been detected by curators, and more were revealed by Hebborn himself in his notoriously mischievous 1991 autobiography, Drawn to Trouble, the vast majority remain in circulation under names other than his own.
The sheer variety of known Hebborn fakes has further complicated the task of finding his undisclosed forgeries. He drew convincingly as Andrea Mantegna and Nicolas Poussin, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Gainsborough and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He could even limn the 20th century, illicitly expanding the oeuvres of Augustus John and David Hockney.
http://www.artandantiquesmag.com/2011/07/forging-a-career/

Forgery and Plagiarism
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, edited by Ruth Chadwick. 4 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998.
Denis Dutton    http://www.denisdutton.com/forgery_and_plagiarism.htm

Art forger Eric Hebborn collection sells for thousands
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-29750380Fake

Joseph Csaky: Born March 18, 1888

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Joseph Csaky (March 18, 1888-May 1, 1971) was a Hungarian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, best known for his early participation as a sculptor in the Cubist movement.*

https://collections.lacma.org/node/2109599

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Csaky
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/3363/
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/joseph-csaky

Adam Elsheimer: Born March 18, 1578

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DGA505268Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610)~ https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/adam-elsheimer

The tiny stars were painted almost 400 years ago by Adam Elsheimer, a tailor’s son from Frankfurt, who made it as an artist in Rome. He is a painter long known by experts as a key influence on Rubens and Rembrandt, but his name is unfamiliar to the general public.

Now, she tells me, scientist have confirmed that the constellations in Elsheimer’s miniature painting, The Flight Into Egypt, are clearly recognisable, his shimmering depiction of the milky way the very first of its type, and the position of the moon so accurate that it can be dated to a particular night: June 16, 1609, a year before Galileo published his groundbreaking research. To make his painting, Elsheimer must have observed the night sky through a telescope. His reputation may have become buried in the past, but in his own time he was a man of the future.
FROM http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/twinkle-twinkle-little-stars-you-ll-need-a-magnifying-glass-to-appreciate-adam-elsheimer-s-groundbreaking-miniature-milky-way-by-moira-jeffrey-1.18082

In this picture, considered the first true moonlit night scene in European painting, Elsheimer reproduced the starry night sky with the Milky Way. Unresolved remains the question whether the artist was aware of Galileo’s research published in 1610 and whether he recorded an actual Roman night sky.
FROM https://hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/six-publications-adam-elsheimer/

Kate Greenaway: Born on March 17, 1846

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K is for Kate…Kate Greenaway

English artist and writer, known for her children’s book illustrations. She studied graphic design and art at the South Kensington School of Art; the Royal Female School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning holiday card market, producing Christmas and Valentine’s cards. In 1879 wood-block engraver and printer, Edmund Evans, printed Under the Window, an instant best-seller, which established her reputation. Her collaboration with Evans continued throughout the 1880s and 1890s.
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/kate-greenaway

Still more about Kate Greenaway here: http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/greenaway/index.html and here: https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/kate-greenaway

Pattie Boyd: Born on March 17, 1944

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Patricia Anne “Pattie” Boyd (born March 17, 1944) is a model, photographer and author, born in Somerset, England. She was the first wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton…Pattie began her modeling career in 1962 in London, and appeared on the cover of Vogue and in several advertising campaigns. She was cast in the Beatles’ first feature film A Hard Days Night in 1964, where she first met George Harrison…She married George Harrison in January, 1966 and when being a ‘Beatle wife’ made it too difficult to work, she began taking a strong interest in photography.

https://sfae.com/Artists/Pattie-Boyd

Pattie Boyd is sick of being called a muse: ‘What have I done to inspire George Harrison?’
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-10-14/pattie-boyd-is-sick-of-being-called-a-muse-what-have-i-done-to-inspire-george-harrison.html

Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania
https://lithub.com/pattie-boyd-talks-art-fashion-and-beatlemania/

Pattie Boyd, often in the shadow of her famous husbands, has put a trove of mementos up for auction
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/arts/pattie-boyd-often-in-the-shadow-of-her-famous-husbands-has-put-a-trove-of-mementos-up-for-auction

Al Jaffee: Born March 13, 1921

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…And in 1964 he had an idea. Playboy, Life and other magazines had their lavish color fold-outs, so Mad, he thought, should parody them with a cheap black-and-white fold-in.
From 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/arts/design/30genz.html?pagewanted=all

Instead of conducting a formal interview, we invited Mr. Jaffee to explain the thought process behind his favorite Fold-Ins from over the years. He certainly didn’t disappoint. Read on to discover how one of the world’s finest optical satirists creates his magic on a monthly basis.
 From 2014: https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/state-of-the-art-mad-magazine-icon-al-jaffee-on-hi/

Al Jaffee, Iconic Mad Magazine Cartoonist, Retires at Age 99 … and Leaves Behind Advice About Living the Creative Life
From 2020: https://www.openculture.com/2020/06/al-jaffee-iconic-mad-magazine-cartoonist-retires-at-age-99.html

Al Jaffee, Now 102, Is Ready to Be Added to Mount Rushmore:
MAD’s longest-serving contributor on comedy, art, and the origins of the “Fold-in.”
From 2023: https://www.vulture.com/article/al-jaffee-interview.html

Al Jaffee on Artnet: https://www.artnet.com/artists/al-jaffee/

(updated 2023)