Vogue Magazine Cover by Helen Dryden
May 15, 1912 / Vogue Magazine Archives
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Previous November 26 posts:
November 26~ Artists at their Easels
Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/26~
Tag Archives: Illustrator
November 13, 1940~ Walt Disney’s film Fantasia premieres in New York City
Fantasia Program Cover by Gyo Fujikawa
1940 / 26 pp+cvr / 12 3/4”x9 5/8” / Various collections incl. Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Movie originally released in 13 U.S. cities as road show w/assigned seating, programs, & ushers
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Previous November 13 posts:
November 13~ Artists at their Easels
Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/13~
November 10, 2005~ Harlem Renaissance painter Ernest Crichlow dies
Woman in a Blue Coat by Ernest Crichlow
c.1948 / Oil on canvas / 20”x16” / Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
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Previous November 10 posts:
November 10~ Artists at their Easels
Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/10~
October 23, 1915~ 20,000+ women march up NYC’s Fifth Avenue for women’s suffrage
Votes for Women Means Cleaner Politics by Emily Hall Chamberlin
1915 / Postcard / 5 1/2”x3 1/2” / Smithsonian National Museum of American History, DC
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Previous October 23 posts:
Autumn~ October 23
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/23~
October 14, 1926~ “Winnie-the-Pooh” by A.A. Milne is first published
Bump, Bump, Bump by Ernest Howard Shepard, MC OBE
1926 / Pencil sketch / “First sketch Winnie-the-Pooh” Chapter 1 / ©The Shepard Trust
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Previous October 14 posts:
Autumn~ October 14
E.E. Cummings: Born October 14, 1894
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/14~
October 12, 1609~ Children’s rhyme “Three Blind Mice” first published in London
Three Blind Mice by Margaret Tarrant, 1914
1914 / Lithograph / 8”x6” / “Nursery Rhymes”, 340pp, Ward Lock & Co., Limited, London
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Previous October 12 posts:
Autumn~ October 12
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/12~
October 9, 1936~ Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
Power House Abutments, Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam)
by Stanley Huber Wood
1934 / Pencil, watercolor, and ink on paper / 18”x20 1/5” / Created under the Public Works of Art Project
Published as part of “Boulder Dam in Color: A Portfolio of Watercolors” in the May 1934 issue of Fortune magazine
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Previous October 9 posts:
Autumn~ October 9
John Lennon: Born October 9, 1940
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/9~
August 30, 1907~ Artist, designer, & author Leonor Fini is born in Buenos Aires
Opération I by Leonor Fini
1939 / Oil on canvas / 36 1/4”x25 1/2” / Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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Previous August 30 posts:
Self Portraits~August 30
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/30~
August 16, 1916~ Migratory Bird Convention (Treaty) signed
Great Blue Heron by Robert Havell, Jr. after John James Audubon
The Birds of America: From Original Drawings by John James Audubon
“Drawn from nature by J. J. Audubon F.R.S. F.L.S.” “Engraved, printed & coloured by R. Havell, 1834”
1834 / Hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper / 39 3/4”x26 15/16” / Various collections
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The Migratory Bird Treaty~
https://www.ducks.org/conservation/public-policy/the-migratory-bird-treaty-centennial
Previous August 16 posts:
Self Portraits~August 16
Babe Ruth, February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/16~
August 15, 1969~ Woodstock Music Festival opens
Wallkill, New York August 15-16-17
First Festival Poster by David Edward Byrd
1969 / Original offset lithograph, 10,000 qty. / Approx. 14”x22” / Various collections
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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~
The Misty Miss Christy 