September 19, 1947~ Jackie Robinson is first winner of MLB’s Rookie of the Year Award

Jackie Robinson Rookie Card  by Leaf Gum Co, Chicago, IL

1948-1949 / Commercial chromolithograph / 2 7/8”x2 3/8” / Various collections, incl. The Met

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Artist turns baseball cards into mosaics depicting baseball cards~ https://www.timcarrollart.com/


Baseball Cards in Art~ https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2022/09/27/baseball-cards-in-art/

 

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Hispanic Artists~September 19

Arthur Rackham: Born September 19, 1867

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/19~

September 17, 1907~ American sculptor Edmonia Lewis dies

Hagar by Edmonia Lewis

1875 / Carved marble / 52 5/8”x15 1/4”x17 1/8” / Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC

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Hispanic Artists~September 17

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/17~

September 16~ Le Seize Septembre (16th of September) by René Magritte

The Sixteenth of September  by  René Magritte

1956 / Oil on canvas / 45 1/4”x34 5/8” / KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts), Antwerp, Belgium

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There are at least five versions of this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_September_(painting)

 

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Hispanic Artists~September 16

H. A. Rey: Born September 16, 1898

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/16~

September 15, 1963~ Church bombing kills 4 young girls in Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham Totem by Charles W. White

1964 / Ink and charcoal on paper / 71 7/16”x40 1/16” / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing~ https://www.nps.gov/articles/16thstreetbaptist.htm

Previous September 15 posts:

Hispanic Artists~September 15

National Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept. 15 to Oct. 15

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/15~

September 13, 1922~ The Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City

Self-portrait with Straw Hat by Róbert Berény

1906 / Oil on canvas / 23”x17 1/3” / Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

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THE STRAW HAT RIOT OF 1922~ https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/straw-hat-riot/

Previous September 13 posts:

Hispanic Artists~September 13

Arnold Schönberg: Born September 13, 1874

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/13~

September 12, 1940~ Four teenagers discover ancient cave paintings

The Great Black Cow,  detail of 1947 photograph  by Ralph Morse

c.15,000 BC / Pigments derived from minerals / Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France

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Previous September 12 posts:

Hispanic Artists~September 12

H. L. Mencken: Born September 12, 1880

Alfred A. Knopf, Sr: Born September 12, 1892

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/12~

 

The September 11 Quilt Project

We Watched  by Robin Schwalb

72”x36” / Cotton fabrics, stenciled, photo silk-screened. Hand and machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted
National September 11 Memorial Museum, NYC

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East Village resident Drunell Levinson…announced the September 11 Quilts Memorial project on a website she created especially for that purpose. Calling on volunteers to submit 3’x 6’ or 3’x 3’ quilt panels, she left the choice of materials and the interpretation to the individual artists…By September 10, 2002, the project consisted of 94 unique quilts accompanied by artists’ statements, photographs, memorabilia, emails, and a dedicated website. ~https://www.911memorial.org/

Photographs are from “September 11 Quilts”
See more at https://www.september11quilts.org/index.html

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Previous September 11 posts:

Hispanic Artists~September 11

“Capturing a City’s Emotion in the Days After 9/11”

September 11: 9/11

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/11~