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Mary Cassatt's 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘮 (𝘕𝘰. 𝟹), ca. 1904, pastel. Gift of Mrs. Harold M. Scott, Jr. (Constance K. Anderson, Class of 1954), 1994.88

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2019-05-24

1844
Mary Cassatt was in what is now
"If you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up."

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2019-05-22

1922
Marjorie Cameron was in
"I became associated with women who were all considered for... not following the chosen paths."

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2019-04-23

1898
British-American artist Clare Leighton was in
"It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree."

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2019-04-12

1923
Dody Weston Thompson was in
"I like finding rather than accumulating... like an eternal treasure hunt of the eye."

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2019-04-11

"Women are never passive in my movies… [they] are never victims!”

Happy birthday Nelly Kaplan

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2019-04-11

Artist & activist Joe Jones 1909 in St Louis, Missouri. Largely self-taught, he left school at 15 to work as a house painter. He lived for a while in a houseboat & painted several New Deal murals.Although a communist he was enlisted as a combat artist during WW2.

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2019-04-08

1917
Leonora Carrington was in
“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”

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2019-04-06

1647
Naturalist & Maria Sibylla Merian was in
"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."


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2019-04-02

Hideko Takamine 高峰秀子 (March 27, 1924 – December 28, 2010)

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2019-03-27