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“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” - John Constable. Happy birthday to the English landscape painter born in 1776! https://t.co/Z9mINfjnt6

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2018-06-12

PRINCIPAL SAM'S CALENDAR:

June 11

Tomorrow... What's so important about tomorrow???



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2018-06-11

“You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.”

Author & illustrator Maurice Sendak was born in 1928.

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2018-06-10

"They were three months passing through the forest", an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis in 1931, at the age of just 30. See more of her magical illustrations here: https://t.co/EZPMQrm62Z

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2018-06-08

The Blind Girl & Self-Portrait, Sir John Everett Millais, born in 1829. We're having a change in our Pre-Raphaelite galleries after June 10th, so last chance to view in Birmingham for a while. Or you could buy a print... https://t.co/J36woqi69F

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2018-06-08

On All Things today we take a look at a sketch of a ball at Almack's in 1815, attended by Beau Brummell who was born 240 years ago 7th June 1778.
https://t.co/rghpFkWtmm

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2018-06-07

Born 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. She married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and garnered much attention during her lifetime. https://t.co/Hy8yjsTUlL

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2018-06-07

Born the enfant terrible of the art world continues to shock and awe with his iconic body of work. You might not be able to own an original but we’ve got the next best thing waiting to be snapped up on our online marketplace > https://t.co/5K9ISFhiok

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2018-06-07

Today would have been Gladys MacCabe’s 100th birthday. Gladys formed the 'Ulster Society of Women Artists' in 1957 and was a fashion & arts correspondent during the 1960s. We're lucky to hold some of her works in our collection including 'The Bus Queue' (1948-49).

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2018-06-05

to who was in 1895 (making this his 123rd birthday!) This is 'The Shoe-Black' from 1955. See more of his Collection works here: https://t.co/HLdXulAZZL Image: © Estate of John David Roberts, courtesy of the William Roberts Society

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2018-06-05

🎂 🎂
Released in Europe 🇪🇺 26 years ago today

F-Zero (Nintendo)
https://t.co/Dp22lrkETj

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2018-06-04

in 1858, Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati discovered his namesake comet, illustrated here in Edmund Weiß' Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888). Further information on Donati's Comet via : https://t.co/SxSPCyawfy

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2018-06-03

25 years ago, 'Batman: The Animated Series' lost an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Children's Animated Program" to 'Tiny Toons Adventures'. (May 26, 1993)

This was Bruce Timm's reaction.

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2018-05-27

PRINCIPAL SAM'S CALENDAR:

May 26

Miles Davis was born on this day in 1926.





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2018-05-26

PRINCIPAL SAM'S CALENDAR:

May 23

Today is Turtle Day.

There is a turtle in my new book, Principal Sam and the Three Bears.




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2018-05-23

in 1907 cartoonist and creator of the the beloved comic was born! 🎉📚🎂

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2018-05-22

Born in 1844—Henri Rousseau was a self-taught artist known for his visionary paintings—in particular, those on the theme of the jungle. Though Rousseau depicted exotic, distant locales, he never set foot outside France.

See "The Waterfall" on view in Modern Art.

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2018-05-22

Landscape by Albrecht Dürer, who was born in 1471. While most of his work consisted of oil paintings and woodcut engravings, Dürer also painted a number of watercolour landscapes in his travels to and from Italy, particularly in the Alps of southern Tyrol, Italy.

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2018-05-21