Tag Archives: Painter

January 1~ Happy New Year!

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New Year’s Baby by Joseph Christian Leyendecker

1920 / Oil on canvas / 28”x21” / Private collection
Cover art for The Saturday Evening Post, January 3, 1920

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Previous January 1 posts:
January First 2018: Happy New Year!
January First 2017: Happy New Year!
January First 2016: Happy New Year!
The Four Seasons: Winter
Winter~ January 1
January 1~

December 28, 1958~ “Greatest Game Ever Played”: Baltimore Colts defeat New York Giants

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The Colts Defeat the Giants in Overtime by Daniel Bennett Schwartz

1958 / Oil on canvas / 32”x48” / Illustration for “Highlights of a Golden Decade”
by Roger Kahn, Esquire magazine, December 1960

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Previous December 28 posts:

December 28~ Animals in Art

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/28~

December 26, 2019~ The day after Christmas (Boxing Day)

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The Day after Christmas by Mark Lancelot Symons

c.1931 / Oil on canvas on board / 35 4/5”x26 3/4” / Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Bury, UK

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The Day of the Wren: The Question of Boxing Day~
http://ultimatehistoryproject.com/boxing-day.html

Previous December 26 posts:

December 26~ Animals in Art

December 26~

December 24, 1951~ Gian-Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” premieres

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The Adoration of the Magi by Hieronymus Bosch

c.1475 / Oil and gold on oak / 28”x22 1/4” / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

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“One November afternoon as I was walking rather gloomily through the rooms of the Metropolitan Museum, I chanced to stop in front of the Adoration of the Kings by Hieronymus Bosch, and as I was looking at it, suddenly I heard again, coming from the distant blue hills, the weird song of the Three Kings. I then realized they had come back to me and had brought me a gift.”
https://www.cpr.org/2013/12/19/the-500-year-old-painting-that-inspired-amahl-and-the-night-visitors/

How Amahl and the Night Visitors Established ‘Television Opera’~
http://www.playbill.com/article/how-amahl-and-the-night-visitors-established-television-opera
The original 1951 telecast~ https://youtu.be/xlg81twKXbY

Previous December 24 posts:

December 24: CHRISTMAS EVE

December 24~ Animals in Art

December 24~

December 23, 1888~ Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his own ear

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Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe by Vincent van Gogh

January 1889 / 19 3/4”x17 3/8” / Oil on canvas / Philippe Niarchos Collection,
on long-term loan to Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

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Frick Art Reference Library~ Portrait de l’artiste, à la pipe et à l’oreille coupée~
https://arcade.nyarc.org/record=b1120069~S7
Why Did Van Gogh Cut Off His Own Ear?~
https://artsandculture.google.com/theme/why-did-van-gogh-cut-off-his-own-ear/bQJymzRE5UViIw?hl=en
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK~
https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/collection/impressionism-post-impressionism/van-gogh-self-portrait

Previous December 23 posts:

December 23~ Animals in Art

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/23~

December 22, 1889~ Natan Al’tman born

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Ukrainian artist, stage designer, and book illustrator
Natan Al’tman was born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on this day in 1889

Shabbat Meeting aka Portrait of a Jewish Man by Natan Isaevich Al’tman (Natan Al’tman)
c.1910 / Oil on canvas / 31”x23 1/4” / Private collection

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Previous December 22 posts:

December 22~ Animals in Art

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/22~