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May 7 1968 Traci Lords. Adult star quit that, made movie Not of This Earth, tv Married with Children & Tales from Crypt Melrose Place & sang Manic Street Preachers.#Fashion association Pinup Girl Clothing & Helmut Lang 1/4

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2020-05-08

Ah I almost forgot Bedevilled, talking of colour - what a dress - here design by Helen Rose.

May 7, 1923
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2020-05-08

25 April 1903 German & Camilla Horn
Made movies Hollywood but back Germany had lay low after crit Nazis & altercation Gestapo. Some movies Italy then farming
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2020-04-25

April 16 1904 vaudeville star & Fifi D'Orsay

Billed as "naughty French girl" of "gay Paris", actually from Montreal. included They Had to See Paris, Those Three French Girls, Women Everywhere, & 1964 What a Way to Go. 1/4

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2020-04-17

Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, English logician, photographer, clergyman and author in 1832
Golden age illustrations by John Tenniel, Arthur Rackham, Mabel Lucie Attwell and A.E. Jackson

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2020-01-27

BORN THIS DAY
Leon Kossoff (1926-2019)

British painter best known for his Expressionist portraits and views of London. He was influenced by Auerbach to use the heavy impasto that made his work immediately identifiable. ‘Booking Hall No.6’ 1975

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2019-12-07

BORN THIS DAY…
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
British artist, and one of the most important of the 20th century, best known for monumental semi-abstract bronze sculptures. Two works (including ‘Three Women and A Child’, 1944) are currently on display.

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2019-07-31

BORN THIS DAY
Eileen Cooper OBE RA (b.1953)
British figurative painter, known for allegorical depictions of life & womanhood. ‘Play Dead II’ was acquired by the Swindon Collection with support of the Friends of Swindon MAG & the V&A Purchase Fund.

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2019-06-10

Henri Fuseli - 1721 Most recognised for “The Nightmare” This though a particular, and moving, favourite - The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby- Painted to commemorate her tragic death (Aged 5) Commissioned by her heart broken father Sir Brooke Boothby

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2019-02-07

'Coast Scene near Dunbar' (1847),
John Ruskin. 1819
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

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2018-02-08

in 1839, Paul Cezanne would go on to revolutionize perspective in painting. His landscapes had depth and framing that hadn't been seen before and frankly, we're happy it happened.

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2018-01-20

1832, Gustave Doré created incredibly detailed & intricate & You may know his work from The Divine Comedies...

(LtR: Minos Judge of the Damned, Punishment of the Thieves, Spendthrifts Running Through the Wood of the Suicides)

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2018-01-07