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AN ALMANAC OF ART AND CULTURE

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Cover image: Georgia O’Keeffe, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1960
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Just a reminder that posts on the schristywolfe.com blog always include links for more information about the artists and their work.

Jessie Willcox Smith  (1863-1935) "Then the Scholar" With eyes severe, and hair of formal cut," 1908-09. (Detail) rockwellcenter.org/essays-illus...
April 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, (April 14, 1724-February 14, 1780) was a French draftsman, printmaker, and painter.
www.stephenongpin.com/artist/23658...
April 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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"Henry Lee McFee (April 14, 1886-March 19, 1953) was an early modernist active in Woodstock, New York, and New York City who later introduced his avant garde approach to a generation of Southern California artists." collections.lacma.org/node/167031
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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"Eda Nemoede Casterton [4/14/1877-11/15/1969] "became a full-time miniaturist and won several awards, including a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, and a bronze at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition in 1926."
americanart.si.edu/artist/eda-n...
April 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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John Woodrow Wilson (4/14/1922-1/22/2015), American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and educator.
"Over his extensive career, he challenged racism not through didactic means but by creating works that have the potential to
transform us." FROM repository.wellesley.edu/_flysystem/f... (pdf)
April 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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April 14, 1578~ Philip III of Spain born in Madrid schristywolfe.com/2019/04/14/a...
April 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Spring Day on Karl Johan Street by Edvard Munch

Spring Morning in the Heart of the City by Childe Hassam

More information in embedded links at schristywolfe.com/2018/04/14/s...
April 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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National Poetry Month~ April 14
#nationalpoetrymonth2020
Robert Frost by Walker Hancock
1969 cast after 1950 original / Bronze / 16 1/2″x9 1/2″x10″ / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC

Robert Frost~ poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...

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April 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 14
#jazzappreciationmonth
Thelonious Monk Quartet ~ Misterioso
1958 / Riverside Records RLP 12-279 / Vinyl LP / Cover Design by Paul Bacon
Painting: The Seer by Giorgio de Chirico

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April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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National Poetry Month~ April 13
#nationalpoetrymonth2020

Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso
1905-6 / Oil on canvas / 39 3/8″x32″ / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Gertrude Stein~ poetryfoundation.org/poets/gertru...

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April 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 13

Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims ~ Jutta Hipp and Zoot Sims
1957 / Blue Note BLP 1530 / Vinyl LP / Cover Design by Reid Miles
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#jazzappreciationmonth
April 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Eva Auld Watson, painter, printmaker, muralist, and illustrator, was born Eva Auld on April 4, 1889 in Bandera, Texas.
www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biog...
April 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Spring by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Spring by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
More information in embedded links at schristywolfe.com/2018/04/04/s...
April 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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National Poetry Month~ April 4

Dogs in a Market Listen to Rūmī (detail)

1590s / MS M.466, fol. 66v / 7 7/8″x5 1/10″ / The Morgan Library & Museum, NY, NY
Jalal al-Din Rumi~
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jalal-...

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April 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 4

Various Artists: Esquire’s Hot Jazz
1946 / RCA Victor / 78 RPM 2-record set / Illustration: Tony Palazzo
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#JazzAppreciationMonth
April 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Harry Conway Fisher, who drew the world-famous 'Mutt and Jeff' strip as "Bud" Fisher, was born in Chicago on April 3, 1885 (died September 7, 1954). www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fi...
April 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Agnes Miller Parker (April 3, 1895-November 15, 1980) "studied at Glasgow School of Art...In the early 1930s she became well-known for her distinctive woodcut illustrations produced for the Gregynog Press in Wales."
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
April 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Richard Mayhew (born April 3, 1924), landscape painter, was a member of Spiral, a Black painters' group in the 1960s in New York that included Romare Bearden, Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff as members.
April 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Eleanor de Laittre (April 3, 1911-January 9, 1998) was an American visual artist and an early proponent of abstract, cubist-inspired, and largely non-objective art.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor...
April 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Beatrice Sophia Steinfeld Levy (April 3, 1892 - July 19, 1974) was an American printmaker and painter, draftsman, and instructor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...
April 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Adela Mary Younghusband (April 3, 1878-April 3, 1969), generally known as Adele Younghusband, was a New Zealand painter and photographer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Y...
April 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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April 3, 1367~ Battle of Nájera, aka Battle of Navarrete

French text written and illuminated in the first half of the 1470s / Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643-6)
April 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Peach Blossom Spring (detail) by Qiu Ying
Allegorical Figure of Spring (detail) by Tintoretto
More information in embedded links at schristywolfe.com/2018/04/03/s...
April 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Hans Brasch (German, 1882-1973) was born on this day.
"Erika", 1919.
Oil on cardboard, 79x49 cm.

FROM: Degenerate Art on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/p/Degenerate...
April 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Clifford Berryman: Born April 2, 1869
schristywolfe.com/2016/04/02/c...

Clifford K. Berryman (1869-1949) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist, perhaps best known for inspiring the Teddy Bear toy.
April 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM