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For the second Monday of #BlackHistoryMonth we would do well to consider the incredible range & exceptional contribution of master printmaker Robert Blackburn, whose work spanned from the socially-engaged art of the WPA era (as in his 1938 lithograph Refugees)
For her part, Rose found something totally new, or at least previously undiscovered: that @LIFE must have also taken color transparencies of these works, including the newly-discovered one & several others as well
On #NationalHandwritingDay I think we should be celebrating Julia Warhola, whose distinctive, folksy cursive was put to such great use by her son, Andy Warhol - up to and including having her sign his name to his early illustration work
While the immense structures of Chichén Itzá capture far more attention, I can't help loving the smaller Mayan site of Ekʼ Balam, also in the Yucatan, for the remarkably lifelike detail of its sculptural reliefs
While Henrietta Benson Homer is primarily known as the mother of American artist Winslow Homer, she was in fact a gifted watercolorist who specialized in nature studies like these @cooperhewitt & @harvartmuseums. Sweet Peas, left, was shown at the Brooklyn Art Association in 1876
@JPBowles I'm fascinated by his work, and am heartened to see students looking more closely at his printmaking as well
@hilaryagro This reminds me of feminist artist Judy Chicago's "Menstruation Bathroom," part of the famed Womanhouse project organized by Chicago & Miriam Schapiro in 1972 https://t.co/sO2EZYHyMb
@AndrewRusseth Roy Lichtenstein, Washington Crossing the Delaware, c. 1951