On This Day Sheさんのイラストまとめ

#OTD in 1779, Congress awarded Margaret Corbin the first US military pension to a woman. In the 1776 battle for New York, her husband was killed. She took over his cannon, aiming so well that advancing forces stopped in order to focus on stopping her fire. https://t.co/OlTdvqS7Gs

#OTD in 1927 Catalan actress & director Margarita Xirgu staged & starred in 'Mariana Pineda', an early play by Lorca; she later produced many more. Xirgu—a lesbian & political radical—was nicknamed 'Margarita the Red' & seen as a threat to Franco’s regime. https://t.co/1G7GfFkAfm

In April 1940 Evelyn Dunbar was appointed an official, salaried war artist by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, to record UK women's contributions to WW2, particularly the Land Army. In 2015, c.500 of her paintings, sketches etc were found in an attic. https://t.co/na8WJ691s2

#otd in 1950—in the aftermath of WWII—US educ psychologist Doris Twitchell Allen founded Children's International Summer Villages (@CISVofficial) to promote peace by fostering cross-national friendships; she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. https://t.co/CXDMIyTF1N

#otd in 1894, English explorer, photographer & travel writer Isabella Bird, first female member of Royal Geographical Soc, set off from Liverpool to China. “[A] good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.” https://t.co/s0WJFKba4R

#OTD in 1984—6 months after her death—a retrospective of artist Lee Krasner opened at NY's MoMA. #NotJustTheWifeOf Jackson Pollock, Krasner said: "I … was there through the formative years of Abstract Expressionism and I have been treated like I wasn't." https://t.co/7TB4mMKhnN

In December 1962, painter Elaine de Kooning spent several days sketching President Kennedy. She was a pioneer of abstract expressionism, and her portrait of JFK now hangs in the Truman Library. https://t.co/GKeDrtr2zs

#OTD in 1950 the Venice Biennale opened. Nano Reid and Norah McGuinness were the first Irish artists to be included. The catalogue said that “critics were amazed to learn that Reid was a woman artist,” because of her strong Expressionist style. https://t.co/9HQtrT0XmX

Happy birthday, Geta Brătescu, born #otd in 1926. One of Romania's greatest artists, she was kicked out of Bucharest's School of Belle Arte in 1949 as part of a purge by the Communist govt. She worked across various media: ‘I sing with my pens.’ https://t.co/RzyiY7vWoS #WomensArt

In March 1855, Jamaican-born Mary Seacole, nurse and entrepreneur, set up a hostel in Balaclava to treat wounded officers serving in the Crimean war. Rejected as a helper by Florence Nightingale and others, she was voted the greatest black Briton in 2004.