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Born September 28~ Warja Lavater

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Warja Honegger-Lavater (September 28, 1913-May 3, 2007) was a Swiss artist and illustrator best known for utilizing pictograms as graphic representations of language in her later work.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warja_Lavater

Homo sapiens? (Folded Story, no.13) by Warja Lavater
1965 / Lithographs on cream wove paper / 6-7/16″x3-5/8″x7/16″ / Toledo Museum of Art, OH

Warja Lavater’s “Twenty-three hundred years of medical costume”: https://bit.ly/2Y9fWrI

Further reading:
https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/4455/Honegger-Lavater/Warja
http://dallaslibrary2.org/blogs/bookedSolid/2020/02/warja-lavater-writing-pictures-and-drawing-books/
https://exhibits.library.illinois.edu/s/rbml/page/little-red-riding-hood

Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 11

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Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color

1956 / Capitol Records W735 / Vinyl LP / Cover Design by Saul Bass

With the poetry of radio writer Norman Sickel as a guide, each composer was assigned different colors to muse upon, with Victor Young, Jeff Alexander, Alec Wilder, and Nelson Riddle receiving two each, and Billy May, Gordon Jenkins, Elmer Bernstein, and André Previn one apiece.
~https://www.allmusic.com/album/frank-sinatra-conducts-tone-poems-of-color-mw0000212324

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August 15, 1969~ Woodstock Music Festival opens

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“Wallkill, New York August 15-16-17”
Original Festival Poster  by David Edward Byrd (1941-2025)

1969 / Original offset lithograph, 10,000 qty. / Approx. 14”x22” / Various collections

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In the spring of 1969, Woodstock Ventures asked me to do a poster for the large outdoor concert they were planning for the village of Wallkill, NY. in August of that year. I based the poster on Ingre’s La Source and surrounded that image with cupids, flowers and hearts in jewel-tone colors. After I delivered the art to the printer in late June, I left NY for a month in the Caribbean. During this time, the town of Wallkill forbade the show and it had to be moved to Max Yasgur’s farm. As I was not available to do a new poster, it was done by Arnold Skolnick, and deservedly became very famous.
https://davidedwardbyrdestate.com/works.html

 

Previous August 15 posts:

Self Portraits~August 15

August 15, 1969: The Woodstock festival opens in Bethel, New York

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/15~