Born today 15 August 1901, Lady Evelyn Leonora Almina Herbert only daughter of Almina, 5th Countess of Carnarvon.

A youthful “Evie” is captured by Sir William Orpen

c National Art Gallery of NSW

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Frances Hodgkins travelled from New Zealand to Europe in 1901 and visited France in the same year. The coastal town of Concarneau, where there was a school of water colourists led by Gaugin's friend and biographer Charles Morice, is most likely where this picture was painted.

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🍄 The mushroom book.
New York, Doubleday, Page, 1901.
https://t.co/HJfQRONVow

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【今日のお絵描き1901日目】暑いときの罰ってことで。

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Born in 1844: Russian Painter (1844-1930)

Portrait of Pavel Mikhailovich founder of the Gallery, 1901

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John William Waterhouse - A Mermaid (1900), & The Siren (1901).

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Ces deux célébrités naissent un 31 juillet : Louis de Funès en 1914 et J.K. Rowling en 1965 (créatrice de Harry Potter, faut-il le rappeler ??).
en 1901, naît aussi Jean Dubuffet, peintre, sculpteur, plasticien, théoricien de "l'Art brut" que constituent des

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Hekate (1901) by Luis Ricardo Falero. Hekate or Hecate is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology. She is variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, night, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery.

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Confidences, from A New Sentimental Education, Charles Maurin, 1901 https://t.co/LSMGDp5Hrr

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Sri Lankan painter George Keyt (1901-1993). Influenced by cubism, Keyt's richly colored figure paintings combine images of Sri Lankan life and Buddhist & Hindu forms, creating a very distinctive, modernist style. https://t.co/xKtvkce5PF

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"Hekate" by Maximilián Pirner (1901)

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Hope for - Potter was initially self-published. "She self-published her little book in 1901. The first 250 black-and-white copies sold out, so Beatrix printed another 200. A year later the book was published nationally by Frederick Warne & Co."

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Illustration by the French Illustrator, Gaston Bussiere (1862-1928) of, Wood Nymph Among The Irises (1901).

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1901 illustration for 'Quality Street' (a play by J.M. Barrie). The artist is Hugh Thomson (Ireland, 1860-1920). The play is still performed today, but the tinned toffees & chocolates named after it may be more famous. The playwright better know for 'Peter Pan'.

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