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Remembering Maurice Sendak, in 1928. He passed away on May 8, 2012, the day before Obama expressed public support for gay marriage.
My Brother’s Book was published posthumously, a universal “love letter to those who have gone before.”

[unpublished cover by Ella German]

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2020-06-10

Thank God for everything.
Sandra Pickerall, TARZAN AND THE MADMAN, Ch. 33

twenty-third Tarzan novel was rejected many times over during his lifetime, and do the first edition was published posthumously (Canaveral Press, 1964) with Reed Crandall's cover and interior art.

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2020-06-10

Bayard Rustin played a huge role in the civil rights movement as the key adviser to MLK. He organised the 63' March on Washington & influenced LGBT liberation movements. President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 🏳️‍🌈📢🖤

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2020-06-07

Posthumous Portrait of Aucke Stellingwerff, Admiral of Friesland, Killed in 1665 at Lowestoft by a Cannonball (1670/1670) by Lodewijk van der Helst

As wallpaper: https://t.co/f4OnkRnjv2

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2020-05-23

A tale of two marriages and two paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The first, c.1768, shows Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn and his wife, Lady Henrietta Somerset. Tragically, Henrietta died just three months into her marriage, and much of this portrait was completed posthumously.

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2020-05-18

in 1747 elected an MP posthumously?

Edward Legge, a Naval Officer serving in the West Indies, was elected on 15 Dec. News later arrived that Legge had in fact passed away 87 days prior, on 19 Sept.

🎨 Portsmouth Harbour in 1747

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2020-05-10

Today's Vigée Le Brun portrait is a posthumous painting of Marie Antoinette in a simple white dress, created in 1800 and then presented as a gift to the Queen's daughter and sole surviving child, the Duchesse d'Angoulême. It was sold by Christie's in 2016 for over £500,000.

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2020-05-07

Born in 1740: French painter (1740-1824)

Posthumous portrait of the artist's son Jean-René Vestier (d.1778), 1788

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2020-04-29

Over the longevity of a man's life & work you get a sense of where his mind is, where his heart is, where his humor is, where his dread is. It's the best thing you could ask, that this kind of understanding of an artist doesn't happen posthumously.
- Maurice Sendak

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2020-04-19

Here's the posthumous homage to the great Mojica, Zé do Caixão/ Coffin Joe, the brazilian horror movie legend!

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2020-04-15

The Metabaron; a posthumous tribute to Juan Giménez, an amazing artist we just lost to the virus.
His art in this series elevated Jodorowsky's writing into something transcendent.

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2020-04-13

The Metabaron; a posthumous tribute to Juan Giménez, an amazing artist we just lost to the virus.

His art in this series elevated Jodorowsky's writing into something transcendent.
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El Metabarón; un tributo póstumo a Juan Giménez, un artista increíble… https://t.co/wFLN4FBzOU

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2020-04-13

WIP:  The Metabaron; a posthumous tribute to Juan Giménez, an amazing artist we just lost to the virus.
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En Proceso:  El Metabarón; un tributo póstumo a Juan Giménez, un artista increíble que acabamos de perder al virus.
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https://t.co/I3HHubazRS

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2020-04-12

Destroyer HMS Glowworm was sunk after battling German Cruiser Admiral Hipper 1940. Admiral Hipper's commander wrote to Britain, recommending Glowworm's captain, who had died in battle, receive the Victoria Cross for courage. It was awarded posthumously.

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2020-04-08

Jean Baptiste Oudry (1686-1756)

(Posthumous portrait of) Lady Mary Josephine Drummond, Countess of Castelblanco, c.1716.

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2020-03-27

She's not napping, she's been neutralized! She's carked it. Popped her clogs & gone out west. She's been got. Deleted. She's fish swimming. If she wasn't here posthumously working her core, she'd be rising on the horizon of the perfect endless day. This is an ex-sniper!

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2020-03-24

I hadn't got round to reading Machado de Assis's Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas yet, but now glad I waited - publishing a new translation in June! Something to look forward to.

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2020-03-23

imagination was shaped by the His 1st prose tale (interspersed with poetry) was a retelling of the story of Kullervo (published posthumously, ed. by V. Flieger), a figure who later inspired Túrin Turambar (art by )

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2020-02-28

Happy Birthday to the wonderful artist and writer Edward Gorey. If you haven't read them, I recommend the following books about him:
Born to be Posthumous by and Ascending Peculiarity by Edward Gorey and Karen Wilkin

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2020-02-23