March 22, 1895~ First private screening of a projected motion picture

Sortie d’usine (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory)
by Louis Lumière

1895 / Silent film documentary / Running time: 46 seconds / http://www.institut-lumiere.org/

None of them are dated, the case it seems of most of Lumiéres’ films. A contemporary report talked about the film shot on March 19 featuring a horse, so that rules out one version, which has a dog but sans horse. The other two versions must be judged by which looks more likely to have shot in March, from the workers’ clothes and the shadows they cast. What this uncertainty almost certainly means is that, after making what’s said to be the world’s first film, the Lumière brothers also made the world’s first remake, Fremaux joked.
https://variety.com/2017/film/global/thierry-fremaux-lumiere-artistry-louis-lumiere-unifrance-1201960812/

Sortie d’usine – Lumière – Les 3 versions HD~https://youtu.be/qvgPEiw_q04

Previous March 22 posts:

March 22~ Women’s History Month in visual arts

Randolph Caldecott: Born on March 22, 1846

March 22~

March 22~ Retrospective Edition

March 22~ Broadway Edition

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/22~

March 21 1859~ National Gallery of Scotland opens in Edinburgh

Seine Boat by Joan Eardley

c.1960 / Oil on canvas / 24 1/4”x20” / National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Previous March 21 posts:

March 21~ Women’s History Month in visual arts

Modest Mussorgsky: Born March 21, 1839

Al Williamson: Born March 21, 1931

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/21~

 

March 13, 1759~ First predicted perihelion(*) of Halley’s Comet

Illustration of a Comet from The Book of Miracles
by unknown artist, Augsburg, Germany

c.1552 / Gouache and watercolor / approx. 9 1/2”x13 1/2” / Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs

In 1705 English astronomer Edmond Halley published the first catalog of the orbits of 24 comets. His calculations showed that comets observed in 1531, 1607, and 1682 had very similar orbits. Halley suggested that they were really one comet that returned approximately every 76 years, and he predicted that comet’s return in 1758. Halley did not live to see his prediction come true (he died in 1742), but the comet was sighted late in 1758, passed perihelion —(*)closest distance to the Sun — March 13, 1759, and was named in Halley’s honour. Its periodic returns demonstrated that it was in orbit around the Sun and, thus, that at least some comets were members of the solar system.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/1p-halley/

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Previous March 13 posts:

March 13~ Women’s History Month in visual arts

Al Jaffee: Born March 13, 1921

William James Glackens: March 13, 1870-May 22, 1938

March 13~

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/13~

March 10, 1945~ Firebombing of Tokyo

The Flames of Kototoi Bridge—Memories of Losing my Family by Kano Teruo

Age at time of raid: 14 / The Great Tokyo Air Raid through Drawings

The Great Tokyo Air Raid and the Bombing of Civilians in World War II

The firebombing of Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945 touched off the wave of firebombing that destroyed 64 Japanese cities and culminated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.…The bombing of March 9-10 took the lives of 100,000 Tokyoites and leveled sixteen square miles of the city in the most devastating raid in human history to that time…
https://apjjf.org/the-asahi-shimbun-culture-research-center/3320/article

Previous March 10 posts:

March 10~ Women’s History Month in visual arts

William Etty: Born March 10, 1787

Dame Eva Turner: Born March 10, 1892

David Hare: March 10, 1917-December 21, 1992

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/10~

March 8, 1884~ Susan B. Anthony argues for women’s suffrage before House Judiciary Committee

Bust of Susan B. Anthony by Adelaide Johnson

Between 1890 & 1920 / White marble / 24”x15”x10” / Johnson sculpted numerous versions,
including this one in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History

Previous March 8 posts:

March 8~ Women’s History Month in visual arts

Anthony Caro: March 8, 1924-October 23, 2013

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/8~

 

March 4, 1522~ Anne Boleyn’s official debut at the English court

Portrait Drawing of a Woman Traditionally Believed to be Anne Boleyn
by Hans Holbein the Younger

c.1500-1536 / Black & colored chalks on paper / 11”x7 3/5” / Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle, London

Previous March 4 posts:

March 4~ Women’s History Month in visual arts

March 4~

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/4~

February 26, 1919~ Grand Canyon National Park is established

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Thomas Moran

1872 / Oil on canvas mounted on aluminum / 84”x144 1/4” / Smithsonian American Art Museum

Thomas “Yellowstone” Moran: Influencing Change with Art~
https://www.npca.org/articles/376-thomas-yellowstone-moran-influencing-change-with-art

The Nature of Art: Communicating Park Science, Nature and Culture through Art~
https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v10-i2-c10.htm

FEBRUARY 26 — FOUR NATIONAL PARKS ESTABLISHED (1917-1929)
http://todayinconservation.com/2018/02/february-26-four-national-parks-established-1917-1929/

Previous February 26 posts:

February 26~ African-American visual artists

Elihu Vedder: Born February 26, 1836

Johnny Cash: Born February 26, 1932

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/26~

February 25, 1908~ First Tunnel under the Hudson River Opens

Postcard showing a curve in the Hudson & Manhattan Company
Railroad Tunnel

Postmarked 1913 / Lithographic reproduction / Postcard / Various collections, incl. Hoboken Historical Museum, NJ

Previous February 25 posts:

February 25~ African-American visual artists

February 25~

Enrico Caruso: Born February 25, 1873

George Harrison: Born on February 25, 1943

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/25~

February 24, 1582~ Pope Gregory XIII announces Gregorian calendar

Funerary Monument of Pope Gregory XIII by Camillo Rusconi

Detail shows bas-relief commemorating the introduction of the Gregorian calendar
1715-1723 / White marble / Dimensions? / Papal Basilica of St. Peter, Vatican City

Previous February 24 posts:

February 24~ African-American visual artists

Renata Scotto: Born February 24, 1934

Steve Jobs: Born February 24, 1955

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/24~