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Walt Whitman (31 May 1819—26 Mar 1892), U.S. poet, journalist, essayist.

"His verse collection Leaves of Grass a landmark in history of American literature."

📷 Engraving by Gabriel Harrison, 1854
📷 Brady-Handy Coll., 1860-65
📷 Mathew Brady, 1871
📷 George C. Cox, 1887

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2018-06-01


Hergé (22 May 1907 - 3 Mar 1983), Belgian cartoonist "who created the comic strip hero Tintin about a teenage journalist. Over the next 50 years, Tintin’s adventures filled 23 albums and sold 70 million copies in some 30 languages."

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2018-05-23


Debra Winger (b. 16 May 1955), American actress.

"One of the most consistently exciting presences in mainstream American movies. Whether she wants something complicated or simple, she’s going to get it on her terms, w/o begging and without being afraid to prod if need be."

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2018-05-17


Tamara de Lempicka (16 May 1898–18 Mar 1980), American painter of Polish birth.

"Her subject-matter was generally exotic, whether in the celebratory feminine glamour of 'Young Woman in Green' (c. 1928) or in the suave figures in the quasi-religious 'Adam and Eve' (1932)."

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2018-05-17


Laura Wheeler Waring (16 May 1887 - 3 Feb 1948), African American painter.

"Color in Waring's landscapes and still lifes became lyrical with soft gradations and tonal hues."

🎨 'A Rural Landscape'
🎨 'Still Life With Heather'
🎨 'Still Life'

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2018-05-17


Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 - 15 Jun 1938), German artist.

"After 1917, with depictions of Swiss mountain landscape of Davos & its inhabitants, he made one of the most important contributions to landscape painting in the 20th ct."

🎨 'Stafelalp in Moonlight,' 1919.

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2018-05-06


Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880–15 Jun 1938), German artist.

"In his 14 street scenes, the meetings of men & women, cocottes & their beaux, in the anonymous bustle of city street, are invested with erotic tension."

🎨 'Street, Berlin,' 1913.
🎨 'Potsdamer Platz,' 1914.

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2018-05-07


Sally Mann (b. 1 May 1951), American photographer.

"Mann lster focused attention on the landscape of American South. 'Deep South' (1998) explores its romantic yet scarred landscape w/ its lush, bucolic settings, dilapidated plantations, history of loss, violence & racism."

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2018-05-02

1922
Artist, poet & occultist Marjorie Cameron was in
“Into the blazing vault of the night of nights, we go forth as light.
Dark star I seek you in all the endless rooms of the

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2018-04-23

Some works from last years George Russell Art exhibition at the Armagh County Museum, an amazing collection and a great lecture by the late RIP

"Ah to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise"

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2018-04-11

‘Meanwhile, the benign ruler of heaven graciously looked down to earth, and saw the worthlessness of what was being done...So he decided to send into the world an artist who would be skilled in each and every craft’ Michelangelo was in 1475, and Vasari nailed his arrival.

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2018-03-06

1812 Dickens parodied the legendary discovery of wool in visited in 1854 & his magazine “All The Year Round’ described village as a “colony”.

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2018-02-08

Bored like these two boys? Find out what's behind Chardin's soap bubbles ➡️ https://t.co/KUyOrsvbrj The artist was in 1699.

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2017-11-03

🎨 Il del 1860 nasceva a Ivančice Alfons Maria Buon COMPLEANNO! 🎨

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2017-07-24

founding member William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). Here is an exquisite self-portrait from 1867 in

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2017-04-03

"A Social Celebrity", 1926. and Louise Brooks.

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2017-02-18