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The Green Sofa by Anne Goldthwaite 1930–40 (?)

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We're celebrating by highlighting some interesting recent acquisitions to the history and of art collections .

Read more in a new blog: https://t.co/Q7P0N4jn35

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At 9, this artist 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 Judith Kerr. https://t.co/HwEE4kELqy

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This why not take another look at the extraordinary story of Eliza, Helen and Anne Edmonstone, the sisters whose lives took them from Guiana to Wakefield - via Scotland and Belgium. https://t.co/BorD7aCUNC

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Some very spring feeling paintings by Mary Abbott

American artist of the NY School of abstract expressionists in the 1940s-50s. Her work was influenced by her time spent in St Croix & Haiti where she lived in the 1950s.

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Gertrude Elion pioneered rational drug design that led to her 1988 Nobel Prize & drugs such as the antiretroviral AZT https://t.co/Pf0sMI3XDH

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comparativetarot: Three of Cups. Art by Samantha Lindbeck, from The Gaudmother…

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Elizabeth Gould (1804-1841), a talented and under-credited natural history illustrator. https://t.co/knuIUjToVG


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🏛 The Birds of Australiavia

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thecollectibles: Art by Mocaran M

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Violet Oakley was an American artist & the 1st American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first 1/4 of the 20th C. she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practiced by men

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Pearl Van Sciver (1896-1966) was a Philadelphia based artist, mostly of oil paintings of landscapes and floral still lifes often inspired by flowers from her own garden and greenhouse.

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Ever since Al Plastino and Otto Binder introduced Kara Zor-El in 1959’s Action Comics  popularity in and out of comics showcases her as a fantastic hero for young and old DC fans to admire: https://t.co/nT2jEUZGHs

🎨 by Marcio Abreu

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Today, selling 100,000 copies of a children’s book is rare.

This artist did it… with her first book… while battling misogyny… 140 years ago.

Here is our post on Kate Greenaway. https://t.co/tuJXrp1C9w

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wtxch: Yang-Tsung Fan (Taiwanese, b. 1982) Dim Swimming Pool, 2016 Acrylic on …

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Women Artists present Women Artists. We're celebrating with even more Hadestown created by some of our talented songbirds. (🎨: vividwoods / Instagram)

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Dolores Huerta (civil rights activist) co-founded United Farm Workers & received the Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights & the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 1st Latina inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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