1949 / Watercolor on paper / 19”x14” / Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, Moscow
Portraits of Alexander Pushkin from the State A.S. Pushkin Museum~
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/portraits-of-alexander-pushkin%C2%A0/ARSRXI4U
Previous December 15 posts:
December 15~ Animals in Art
Ray Eames: Born December 15, 1912
Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/15~
1939 / Oil on canvas / 36 1/4”x25 1/2” / Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Previous August 30 posts:
Self Portraits~August 30
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/30~
c.1530 / Oil on oak panel / 32”x25 1/4” / Private collection
Previous August 14 posts:
Self Portraits~August 14
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/14~
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~
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~
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
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~
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~
Originally published 1925 / Illustrations: photomechanical color process /
175 pages / George H. Doran Company, New York
Previous February 2 posts:
February 2~ African-American visual artists
Loren MacIver: Born February 2, 1909
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/2~
Autumn by Hugh Henry Breckenridgec.1931 / Oil on canvas / 43 1/16”x37 1/16” / Philadelphia Museum of Art
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c.1936 / Oil on canvas / 25 5/8”x25 5/8” / Tate Modern, London
