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Designer Edith Head

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Edith Head (1897-1981) was an American costume designer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Head

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Edith Head was…active in film from 1932 to 1982. She was the head designer at Paramount for many years. She married production designer Wiard Ihnen in 1940. Head was nominated by the Academy 35 times in the costume design category. She received Academy Awards for her work on THE HEIRESS (1949), ALL ABOUT EVE (1950), SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949), A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951), ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953), SABRINA (1954), THE FACTS OF LIFE (1960), and THE STING (1973). She authored two books, “The Dress Doctor” and “How to Dress for Success.”

Quote from The Online Archive of California
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c80k29tm/

Dorothy Lamour’s sarong for the 1936 movie The Jungle Princess

Head won her first Academy Award for The Heiress (1949) in 1950

“Fasten your seatbelts” dress for All About Eve

Jacket and Slacks Design for for Kim Novak in Vertigo

Head won her last Academy Award for The Sting (1973) in 1974

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Further reading:
https://www.thecut.com/2013/10/30-fantastic-movie-costumes-by-edith-head.html
https://fidmmuseum.org/category/edith-head
https://www.oscars.org/collection-highlights/edith-head

Autoportrait Day 190~ Sarah Bernhardt

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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Actress, artist, and writer Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)

1. Self-Portrait as a Chimera, c.1880 / Bronze
Various collections including Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

2. Self-Portrait as Roland’s Daughter, 1876 / Terracotta / The Jewish Museum, NYC

3. Self-Portrait, 1910 / Oil on canvas / Bemberg Foundation, Toulouse, France

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Born November 6~ Tatiana Bruni

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Tatiana Guéorguiévna Bruni (November 6, 1902-September 19, 2001) was a Russian costume and set designer, painter, graphic artist, and teacher. She created designs for more than two hundred productions.
Biography on ARTinvestmentRU: https://artinvestment.ru/en/auctions/808/#bio

Puss in Boots by Tatiana Bruni
ND / Watercolor and gouache over pencil heightened with white / 15-3/4″x15-2/5″ / Private collection

Tatiana Bruni on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/tatiana-bruni/

Further reading:
https://www.eurasiaartfoundation.org/bruni-gallery
https://www.barnebys.co.uk/blog/the-art-of-tatiana-bruni-soul-of-mariinsky-theatre
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2014/dec/09/the-bolt-shostakovich-banned-ballet-grad-in-pictures

January 19, 1853~ Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Il Trovatore” premieres

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Costume sketch by Alfred Edel

for the role of Manrico, performed at La Scala Theater in Milan, 1883

1883 / Tempera and watercolor on cardboard / 12 4/5”x8” / Casa Ricordi Publishing Co. Archives

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December 27, 1924~ Russian painter and designer Léon Bakst dies

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Costume Design for Vaslav Nijinsky as the Faun by Léon Bakst

1912 / Published in “L’Art Decoraif de Leon Bakst” (Paris, 1913)
Digital Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries, Columbia, SC

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One masterpiece after another: The quiet revolutionism of Afternoon of a Faun~
https://www.roh.org.uk/news/one-masterpiece-after-another-the-quiet-revolutionism-of-afternoon-of-a-faun

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October 28, 1897~ American costume designer Edith Head is born

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Brown Evening Dress Design for “To Catch a Thief”  by Edith Head

1954 / Watercolor and gouache over graphite sketch on paper / 12 1/2”x16 1/2”
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Madison

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Wisconsin Historical Society~
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records?&terms=Edith%2cHead&facets=CREATOR_NAME%3a%22Head%2c+Edith%22
30 Fantastic Movie Costumes by the Legendary Edith Head~
https://www.thecut.com/2013/10/30-fantastic-movie-costumes-by-edith-head.html

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August 30, 1907~ Artist, designer, & author Leonor Fini is born in Buenos Aires

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Opération I  by Leonor Fini

1939 / Oil on canvas / 36 1/4”x25 1/2” / Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/16~

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What Russian painter and designer followed her early Impressionist period in the early 1900s with a succession of styles including a near-abstract Rayonist style, Cubism, Futurism and other idioms?

What artist, closely associated with the development of Pop art in the early 1960s, frequently affixed everyday objects such as tools, rope, shoes, articles of clothing, and even a bathroom sink to his canvases?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/16/june-16/