Gertrude Stein Sitting on a Sofa in Her Paris Studio, 1930 Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, what is now considered the ...
On This Day: February 1: Langston Hughes
African American Poet/Writer Langston Hughes Standing on the Stoop in Front of His House in Harlem by Robert W. Kelley Langston Hughes was born as ...
On This Day: January 30: Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan was born on January 30, 1935, in Tacoma, Washington. In general, people who write or talk about Brautigan tend to be either ...
On This Day: January 29: Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was born on January 29, 1905, New York, New York, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. Barnett Newman was an American Abstract ...
On This Day: January 24: Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell was born on January 24, 1915, in Aberdeen, Washington. Motherwell was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, a printmaker, ...
On This Day: January 19: Cindy Sherman
Untitled #119 Cindy Sherman was born as Cynthia Morris Sherman on January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, NJ. She is an American artist whose work consists ...
On This Day: January 19: Paul Cézanne
Self-Portrait by Paul Cézanne On this day in 1839, Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. Born to banker Louis Auguste Cézanne and ...
On This Day: January 15: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Benjamin Johnston was born on January 15, 1864 in Grafton, West Virginia. Johnston was an early American photographer and photojournalist ...
On This Day: January 14: Henri Fantin-Latour
Self-Portrait, by Henri Fantin-Latour Henri Fantin-Latour was born as Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour on January 14, 1836 in Grenoble, ...
On This Day: January 13: Jan van Goyen
A Scene on the Ice, 1627 by Jan Van Goyen Jan van Goyen was born as Jan Josephszoon van Goyen - also spelled Goijen - on January 13, 1596 in ...