c.1875 / Oil on canvas / 10 1/4”x13 3/8” / Stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Previous March 18 posts:
March 18~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Adam Elsheimer: Born March 18, 1578
Joseph Csaky: Born March 18, 1888
March 18, 1965: First Man to Walk in Space
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/18~
c.1859 / Graphite on wove paper / 6 9/16″x12 13/16″ / National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Previous March 15 posts:
March 15~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/15~
1958 / Oil on canvas / 90”x60 1/8” / Anderson Collection at Stanford University, California
Previous March 14 posts:
March 14~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Premiered March 14, 1885: “The Mikado”
Albert Einstein: Born March 14, 1879
Diane Arbus: Born March 14, 1923
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/14~
1887 / Oil on canvas / 52 1/2”x38” / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Previous March 12 posts:
March 12~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/12~
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
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~
16th–17th century / Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper / Painting: 7 3/4”x10 3/4” / The Met
The Battle of Tukaroi, fought on March 3, was a decisive factor in the Mughals taking over Bengal.
The Art of the Mughals before 1600
Previous March 3 posts:
March 3~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Joseph Binder: Born March 3, 1898
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/3~
1886 / Oil on canvas / 23 5/8”x19 5/8” / Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Previous March 2 posts:
March 2~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
1882 / Oil on canvas / 13 3/5”x11 3/4” / Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Scotland
See also: Sir John Tenniel: Born February 28, 1820
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~
The Misty Miss Christy 