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Today I learned that Dada artist George Grosz invented the rainbow flag in 1946
And for the record, a few more paintings by Jaroslav Gebr: portraits of Joan Crawford (for a Steven Spielberg-directed episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery), Peter Falk as Columbo, and Orson Welles
@RealSparklePony @MGregoryWriter Is it accepted now? I know very few art historians who are 1930s American printmaking stans (yours truly excepted, of course). For instance I don't know many people who would recognize Robert Blackburn's standout '30s work
From our own moment, looking back at art of an earlier pandemic: Self-Portrait in Hospital Bed with Angels, c. 1993, by Jack Brusca, who died of AIDS that same year. Show of Brusca's paintings opens at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in Chelsea next month https://t.co/rwEk6ZpU5J
Émile Bernard's sketch of his friend Vincent van Gogh, after a Van Gogh self-portrait
Artist Rufino Tamayo was born #OnThisDay in 1899 in Oaxaca, Mexico. This is his 1932 canvas Las Musas de la Pintura (The Muses of Painting) @MUNALmx
@fleurdechair Thanks for the very interesting thread! Relatedly, Vincent van Gogh made a number of pictures of women in Dutch mourning dress, including these two (both from 1885) @vangoghmuseum & @krollermuller, respectively