Jane Hoodlessさんのイラストまとめ

Alfred Hitchcock said of Grace Kelly, who died #OTD 1982: "I didn't discover Grace, but I saved her from a fate worse than death. I prevented her from being eternally cast as a cold woman."

Man Ray–born #OTD 1890–tried to disassociate himself from his family background, but their tailoring left an enduring mark on his art. Mannequins, flat irons, sewing machines, needles, pins, threads, fabric swatches & other related items appear in almost every medium of his work.

The ailing William Blake cried out #OTD 1827: "Stay Kate! Keep just as you are – I will draw your portrait – for you have ever been an angel to me." He finished sketching her & began to sing hymns & verses, and, after promising his wife that he would be with her always, he died.

'The Bard of Bengal', Rabindranath Tagore died #OTD 1941: “Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.” #StrayBirds

After WWI, Paul Nash–who died #OTD 1946–continued to focus on landscape painting, initially in a formalised, decorative style but later in an increasingly abstract & surreal manner, often placing everyday objects into a landscape to give them a new identity & symbolism.

Käthe Kollwitz–born #OTD 1867–studied art at a time when women were still denied access to art academies, & was vetoed from winning a prize at the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung by Kaiser Wilhelm II who said: “Orders & symbols of honour belong to the chest of deserved men.”

Anders Dahl–died #OTD 1789, aged 38–was interested in botany from an early age & co-founded The Swedish Topographic Society in Skara. The dahlia was named after him, an honour wrongly thought to have been bestowed on him by Carl Linnaeus of whom he was a pupil.

Born #OTD 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle's attitude towards his famous creation was ambivalent: "I think of slaying Holmes, …& winding him up for good & all. He takes my mind from better things." In an attempt to deflect publishers' demands, he raised his price…

Life was often a jungle for tax collector Henri Rousseau, an artist with a proper job, who was born #OTD 1844.

Rupert Brooke died onboard a hospital ship–#OTD 1915–having developed sepsis from an infected mosquito bite en route to Gallipoli. As the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, he was buried less than 7 hours later in an olive grove on Skyros where he remains.