In the late 1960’s, Denise Holly Ulinskas submitted art of a bonnet-wearing girl to American Greetings.

It launched a decades-long phenomenon.

This is our post on Ulinskas, better known as… Holly Hobbie: https://t.co/aMktt4G3BH

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At 9, Judith Kerr was a refugee.
At 17, she helped England fight the Nazis.
At 45, she published her first children’s book.
At 95, she published her last children’s book.

This is our post on Kerr: https://t.co/sFNhPMb5gE

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When Edmund Evans printed 20,000 copies of Kate Greenaway’s first book, “Under the Window”, he was ridiculed. It was too high for a woman creator.

The book sold over 100,000 copies.

This is our post on Greenaway: https://t.co/4WZgt1xo7p

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Original flower 🌹 Lille no 210. Watercolour on arches paper 19 x 14 cm, non surreal things jdavies artworks 2023.

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🎨Winslow Homer, "The Life Line" https://t.co/9XkVoSVxvr 🔸https://t.co/ruFuKMBTNL
"Smarthistory images for teaching and learning"

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Evaline Ness—ex-wife of “Untouchable” Eliot Ness—won back to back to back Caldecott Honors from 1963 to 1965.

She followed that by winning a Caldecott Medal.

This is our post on Ness: https://t.co/1e1Dhuc08d

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Portrait of Augusta Vikhrova ca 1860 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

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William Steig called Margot Zemach, “the consummate illustrator”. Maurice Sendak credited her for revivifying the American picture book.

Librarians called her a “racist”.

This is our post on Zemach: https://t.co/9OGoMpK1Jk

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Rembrandt van Rijn, a Dutch Golden Age painter, was known for his portraits and his use of chiaroscuro (the use of light and dark to create depth and drama) in his paintings.

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Andrieux made a particular speciality of battle scenes, notably episodes from the Franco-Prussian, Crimean and Napoleonic wars



art: Clement-Auguste Andrieux "Allegory of Death" c.1860

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