Born #onthisday1871 Emily Carr Canadian #artist painter drew inspiration from Pacific Northwest Coasts’ Indigenous peoples One of first Canadian #painters to explore #Modernist & #PostModernist style Shift from Indigenous themes to landscapes particularly forests won recognition
… Signature works: Ashes (1894) Death in the Sickroom (1895 Girl Looking out the Window (1893) Madonna (1892 – 1895) Puberty The Dance of Life (1899-1900) The Scream four versions (1893 – 1910) The Storm (1893) and Vampire (1893-1894)
… Sleeping (1995) sold for $33.3 million (2008) Christie’s 2015 New York auction sold Benefits Supervisor Resting for $56.2 million
Born #onthisday1757 William Blake English #poet #painter & #printmaker Largely unrecognised during his lifetime Blake now considered a seminal figure in history of poetry & visual arts of the Romantic Age Major works inc. Newton (1795-1805) Satan (1789) Blake’s Cottage (c1804-10)
Born #onthisday1886 Tsuguharu Foujita Japanese–French #painter #printmaker & #etcher applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings Foujita was "most important Japanese artist working in the West during the 20th century" Foujita’s Book of Cats 1 of Top 500 rare books
Born #onthisday1883 José Orozco Mexican #artist #caricaturist specializing in painting large scale political murals personified Mexican Mural Renaissance Most complex of Mexican muralists fond of human suffering as theme but less realistic & more fascinated by machines
Born #onthisday1901 Sybil Craig Australian #painter Kept a studio on Collins Street Melbourne from 1936 to 1951 Appointed by Australian War memorial as an official war artist & was first woman to paint women working in the munitions’ factories
Born #onthisday1667 Christoph Agricola German #landscape #painter primarily in oils & gouache & produced several etchings painted idealistic landscapes & nature scenes mainly cabinet pictures with remarkably skillful representation of weather like thunderstorms & nocturnal scenes
Born #onthisday1837 Émile Bayard, French #artist & #illustrator Signature work was illustration of Victor Hugo’s Cosette from Les Miserables Worked in #drawing charcoal #lithographs #engravings #watercolours #woodcuts & #paintings from 1857 to 1864 Illustrated books 1880s – 1890s
Born #onthisday1883 Marie Laurencin French #painter & #printmaker Influential artist in Paris’ #avantgarde movement & #Cubists associated with Section d'Or Worked with #painting #watercolour #drawing & prints Distinctive style of #abstraction around groups of women & animals