Born #onthisday1756 Thomas Rowlandson #historyofart English popular #caricaturist of social life John Bull Smollett Goldsmith Sterne #illustrator Primarily employed by art publisher Rudolph Ackermann ‘The Schoolmaster's Tour’ (1809) most popular of Rowlandson’s works Tour of Dr…
Born #onthisday1938 Alan Aldridge British artist #graphicdesigner #illustrator Best known for psychedelic artwork for Penguin #sciencefiction books & The Beatles & The Who record covers creating era’s graphic style Work characterised by soft airbrushing & a flowing cartoony style
Born #onthisday1902 Arthur Murch Australian #artist Won Archibald Prize (1949) with Bonar Dunlop #portrait Style evolved from initial French #Impressionist influence to more #Cubist philosophy WWII official war artist covering Australian & Americans forces in Australia
Born #onthisday1914 Fernand Leduc Canadian #abstractexpressionist #painter & major figure in 1940s & 1950s Quebec contemporary art scene co-founded Les Automatists later experimented with spontaneous & gestural nonfigurative painting with colour contrasts & interactions
… startling likenesses people & objects defined America’s realist art tradition Visual legacy spanned 19th century shaped American taste for art as diverse as Fitz Henry Lane & William Harnett Pioneered private exhibitions marketed his prints to mass audiences
Born #onthisday1877 Ambrose Patterson #painter #printmaker made block prints paintings inspired by Kilauea (1916-17) One-man exhibition at SFAA galleries Contributed 3 colour prints (The Steeple Chase The Bull Fight The Long Beach) to Seventh Annual California Society of Etchers
Born #onthisday1892 Paul Colin one of France’s greatest poster #artists Made name in 1925 with his Revue Negre poster launching his mistress Josephine Baker’s career Worked for forty+ years in theatre creating promotional posters numerous sets & costumes
Born #onthisday1870 Antonio Rubbo Italian-born #artist Inspiring art teacher introduced a generation of Australian #painters to #Modernism via his art school Critic Robert Hughes once said muddy genre portraits of very wrinkled old Tuscan peasants were his strong suit
Born #onthisday1952 Margot Hutcheson noted British #painter who lived & worked in Australia & Spain Staged first exhibition of paintings in Australia in 1981 & held ten solo shows with paintings usually based on her life experiences
Born #onthisday1958 Richard Grayson British #artist #writer curator Art spans #installations #painting #video #performanceart explores ways narratives shape understanding Focus on narrative & visual arts belief systems ways cultural practices subjective & social/political realms