1889 / Oil on canvas / 44 7/8”x57 7/8” / Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Previous September 4 posts:
Hispanic Artists~September 4
Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/4~
1940 / Engraving, dark brown ink on paper; adhesive / National Postal Museum Collection, Smithsonian Institution, D.C.
Digital image from glass negative of unknown date (between 1905 and 1915) / Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, D.C.
Previous April 7 posts:
Spring~ April 7
Billie Holiday: April 7, 1915-July 17, 1959
Billie Holiday: Born on April 7, 1915
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/7~
1975/ Screenprint on paper / Image: 19 1/2″x25 15/16″ / Various collections, incl. the Art Institute of Chicago
Previous March 7 posts:
March 7~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Piet Mondrian: March 7, 1872-February 1, 1944
March 7, 1965: Selma to Montgomery Marches begin
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/7~
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
Self-Portrait by James A. Porterc.1935 / Oil paint on linen / 14”x12” / National Museum of African American History & Culture
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c.1939 / Oil paint on canvas / 69 1/2”x48 3/4” / Tate Gallery
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
1962 / Destroyed sofa (wood, cotton, vegetable fiber, wire, and glue) on wood backing
El Museo del Barrio, New York
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1984 / Gelatin silver photograph / 12”x8” / Various, incl. Brooklyn Museum
1931 / Oil on canvas / 27 3/4”x23” / National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina, Buenos Aires
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1974 / Oil on canvas / 24”x30” / Museum of Republic Bank Art Collection, Bogota, Colombia
Alla Africa by Olga Albizuc.1963 / Oil on canvas / 19”x17” / Private collection
Untitled by Lola Fernández1978 / Assemblage/mixed media / 26” in diameter / Art Museum of the Americas
1926 / Oil on canvas / 22”x30” / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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c.1940 / Oil on canvas / 19”x15” / Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes,
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
