Saint Jerome in His Study by Pieter Coecke van Aelst
c.1530 / Oil on oak panel / 32”x25 1/4” / Private collection
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Previous August 14 posts:
Self Portraits~August 14
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/14~
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April 3, 1367~ Battle of Nájera, aka Battle of Navarrete
The Battle of Nájere from Chronicles of Jean Froissart
French text written and illuminated in the first half of the 1470s / Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643-6)
Previous April 3 posts:
Spring~ April 3
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/3~
April 2, 1851~ Rama IV crowned King of Thailand
First King of Siam in State Costume by John Thomson
1865 / Wet-plate collodion process print / 8 11/16″x6 3/4” / Various, including Wellcome Collection, London
The Real Thai Story of The King and I
https://theculturetrip.com/asia/thailand/articles/the-real-thai-story-of-the-king-and-i/
https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/The-King-and-Anna-and-the-monetary-reform-of-Thailand/8?&id=107&type=a
https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2019/01/the-king-of-siam-speaks-rehabilitating-a-kings-image/
Previous April 2 posts:
Spring~ April 2
Clifford Berryman: Born April 2, 1869
Jan Tschichold: Born April 2, 1902
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/2~
February 27, 1924~ Artist, author, & art historian Samella Lewis is born
Together We Stand (Poetry By Maya Angelou) by Samella Lewis
1997 / Hand embellished lithograph / 30 1/2”x37 3/4” / Various private collections
February 27, 1924: Samella Sanders Lewis, artist, art historian, author and educator, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lewis earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University in 1945 and her Master of Arts degree in 1948 and Ph. D. in 1951 from Ohio State University. She was the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in fine arts and art history. Lewis became chair of the Fine Arts Department at Florida A&M University in 1952. From 1969 to 1984, she was professor of art history at Scripps College. She founded Contemporary Crafts in 1969, the first African American owned art publishing house. Lewis founded the International Review of African American Art in 1975 and was a co-founder of the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles, California in 1976. Lewis published “African American Art and Artists,” a history of African American art since the colonial era, in 1978. She has also published works on Elizabeth Catlett and Richmond Barthe.
https://thewright.org/index.php/explore/educational-resources/2013-11-28-11-27-37/entry/today-in-black-history-2272015
Previous February 27 posts:
February 27~ African-American visual artists
Marian Anderson: Born February 27, 1897
Elizabeth Taylor: Born February 27, 1932
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/27~
February 8, 1828~ Author Jules Verne is born
Illustration by N.C. Wyeth for Jules Verne’s book “The Mysterious Island”
Originally published 1874; N.C. Wyeth version first published 1918
1918 / Oil on canvas / 38 5/8”x28 3/16” / Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
Previous February 8 posts:
February 8~ African-American visual artists
February 8~ First Opera in North America
February 8~ Chinese New Year 2016
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/8~
February 3, 1874~ Gertrude Stein is born
Gertrude Stein by Félix Edouart Vallotton
1907 / Oil on canvas / 39”x32” / The Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
Picturing Gertrude~ https://npg.si.edu/exhibit/stein/picturing.html
Previous February 3 posts:
February 3~ African-American visual artists
February 3~
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/3~
February 2~ Groundhog Day
Illustration by Arthur Rackham of woodchuck* family
for Margery Williams Bianco’s book “Poor Cecco”
Originally published 1925 / Illustrations: photomechanical color process /
175 pages / George H. Doran Company, New York
* Groundhogs are also variously referred to as woodchucks, whistle-pigs, or land-beavers
Previous February 2 posts:
February 2~ African-American visual artists
Loren MacIver: Born February 2, 1909
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/2~
Autumn~ October 26
Autumn by Hugh Henry Breckenridge
c.1931 / Oil on canvas / 43 1/16”x37 1/16” / Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Autumnal Cannibalism by Salvador Dalí
c.1936 / Oil on canvas / 25 5/8”x25 5/8” / Tate Modern, London
Self Portraits~August 25
Early Works #25: Self-Portrait by Faith Ringgold
1965 / Oil on canvas / 50”x40” / Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
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Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait) by Lucian Freud
1965 / Oil on canvas / 35 3/4”x35 3/4” / Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Love & War~ May 28
In Flanders Field-Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow / Robert Vonnoh
1890 / Oil on canvas / 58”x104” / The Butler Institute of American Art
In Flanders Fields By John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
“In Flanders Fields” is a poem written by the Canadian army physician and poet John McCrae. He wrote it in early May 1915 in his medical aid station near Essex farm, 2 km to the north of the centre of Ypres. The poem was published on 8 December 1915. John McCrae died on 28 January 1918, while in charge of the Canadian General Hospital in Boulogne. He is buried in Wimereux cemetery (Pas-de-Calais, France).
