Indian Land #4 by Fritz Scholder
1980 / Acrylic on canvas / 80″x68″ / Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
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American Artist Appreciation Month~ August 7
The Juiciest Tomato of All by Corita Kent
1964 / Screenprint edition of 60 / Sheet: 29 3/4″x36″
Various collections, including Hammer Museum, LA, CA
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June 28~ Pride Month
George Tooker and William R. Christopher
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William Rodolphus Christopher was an American artist and civil rights activist known for his abstract imagery and collage. His longtime partner was the artist George Tooker; the pair lived in New York City until 1960, when they moved to Hartland, Vermont; the couple spent winters in Spain, where Christopher died in December 1973.
~Wikipedia
Self-Portait by George Tooker
1969 / Egg Tempera on gesso panel / National Academy of Design, NY, NY
Assemblage Collage Painting/Sculpture with Pennies and Scrap Civil Rights Artist by William R. Christopher
1960-1969 / Mixed Media / Private collection
June 17~ Pride Month
Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä
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They found one another at the Artists’ Guild Christmas party in Helsinki in 1955…and their relationship gradually developed in the course of the following spring. “At last I’ve found my way to the one I want to be with,” Tove Jansson wrote in one of her first letters to Tuulikki Pietilä in the summer of 1956. ~Literary Hub
Self-Portrait by Tove Jansson
1942 / Oil on canvas / Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Self-Portrait with Flowers by Tuulikki Pietilä
1947 / Drypoint / Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
June 12~ Pride Month
Adèle Goodman Clark and Nora Houston
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Clark and Houston stayed close partners throughout their lives, working together and sharing a home until Houston’s death in 1942. In addition to acting as the driving forces behind Richmond’s burgeoning art scene, they were also involved in the women’s suffrage movement at the federal and local levels. ~The Johnson Collection
Cherry Tree by Adèle Clark
1930s / Oil on board / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Inside a Restaurant by Nora Houston
ND / Oil on canvas / The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC
June 11~ Pride Month
Charles Demuth and Robert E. Locher
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From 1909 onwards, Demuth maintained a romantic relationship with Robert Evans Locher, an Art Deco
interior decorator and stage designer [and illustrator, educator, and industrial designer]… ~Wikipedia
…a third theme of Demuth’s work was homosexuality…When Demuth died, he left his Lancaster partner Robert Locher his watercolors and works on homosexual themes. ~https://explorepahistory.com/
End of the Parade, Coatesville, Pa. by Charles Demuth
1920 / Tempera and pencil on board / Collection of Deborah and Ed Shein
Illustration for Vogue magazine by Robert Evans Locher
ND / Ink and watercolor / The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
June 9~ Pride Month
Edith Emerson and Violet Oakley
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In 1918 Oakley’s companion, Edith Emerson who was a painter and an artist, moved in and they
lived together for over forty years until Oakley’s death in 1961. Emerson, who was a founder and curator at Woodmere Museum, lived out her life at Lower Cogslea, 627 St. George’s Road, until her death in 1981.
~Historic Germantown
Violet Oakley, unfinished by Edith Emerson
c.1935 / Oil on canvas / Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Il Convito,” The Banquet: Edith Emerson in page costume by Violet Oakley
c.1918 / Oil on canvas / Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Black History Month in Visual Arts~ February 27
The Artist Getting It All Down by Valerie Maynard
Date? / Woodcut on rice paper / 12”x9” / Various, private collections
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See also: February 27~ African-American visual artists
https://schristywolfe.com/2018/02/27/february-27-african-american-visual-artists/
Black History Month in Visual Arts~ February 22
Revolutionary (Angela Davis) by Wadsworth A. Jarrell
1971 / Acrylic and mixed media on canvas / 64”x51” / Brooklyn Museum, NYC
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See also: February 22~ African-American visual artists
https://schristywolfe.com/2018/02/22/february-22-african-american-visual-artists/
Black History Month in Visual Arts~ February 20
Window by Ernest Crichlow
1987 / Oil on canvas / Dimensions? / Private collection of Myrna Colley-Lee
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See also: February 20~ African-American visual artists
https://schristywolfe.com/2018/02/20/february-20-african-american-visual-artists/
