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John Singer Sargent

On April 5, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 12

John Singer Sargent, American artist, January, 12, 1856– April 14, 1925

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John Singer Sargent, Spanish Soldiers, ca. 1903 Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 12 x 18 1/16 in Brooklyn Museum, New York

Spanish Soldiers, ca. 1903 Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 12 x 18 1/16 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Riva Degli Schiavoni, Venice, c.1904 Watercolor on paper, 100 x 140 in // Tate Gallery, London

John Singer Sargent, Daphne, 1910 Translucent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and wax resist, over graphite on paper, 20 11/16 x 15 13/16 in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Daphne, 1910 Translucent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and wax resist, over graphite on paper, 20 11/16 x 15 13/16 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Dugout, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, 15 5/16 x 20 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

John Singer Sargent, Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885 Oil on canvas, 20.5 in x 24.4 in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885 Oil on canvas, 20.5 in x 24.4 in // Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

John D. Rockefeller, 1917 Oil canvas, 57.9 in x 45 in // Private collection

Group with Parasols (Siesta), 1904. Oil on canvas; 22 3/8 x 28 9/16 in // Private Collection

White Walls in Sunlight, Morocco, 1879–80 Oil on wood, 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

John Singer Sargent, Two Male Figures, Possible Study for "Hell", ca. 1910 Charcoal on white laid paper, 18 15/16 x 24 11/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Two Male Figures, Possible Study for "Hell", ca. 1910 Charcoal on white laid paper, 18 15/16 x 24 11/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Small Boats, 1913 Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, 10 x 13 15/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Raymond Mathewson Hood

On March 29, 2025 - 20th Century, American, march 29

Raymond Mathewson Hood, American architect, March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934

Raymond Mathewson Hood, Rockefeller Center, 1931-1939 Complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres Between 48th Street and 51st Street New York City

Rockefeller Center, 1931-1939 Complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres / Between 48th Street and 51st Street / New York City

The lobby of the RCA Building

The main entrance to the RCA Building.

Wisdom, created by architectural sculptors Lee Lawrie and colorist Leon V. Solon. Applied ornament above the entrance to 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Wisdom. Applied ornament above the entrance to 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

American Radiator Building, 1924 338 ft-tall (103 m), 23-story skyscraper / 40 West 40th Street / New York City

Daily News Building, 1928 36-story tower that is 476 feet (145 m) skyscraper 220 East 42nd Street New York City

Globe in the lobby of the Daily News Building

McGraw-Hill Building, 1930-31 485-foot-tall (148 m), 33-story skyscraper / 330 West 42nd Street / New York City

The lobby of the McGraw-Hill Building.

The Tribune Tower, 1925 463-foot-tall (141 m), 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper / 435 North Michigan Avenue / Chicago, Illinois

Edward Steichen

On March 27, 2025 - 20th Century, American, march 27

Edward Jean Steichen, Luxembourgish American photographer, March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973

Edward Steichen, 1901

Aircraft of Carrier Air Group 16 return to the USS Lexington, Nov 1943

The Flatiron, New York, Taken in 1904

The Pond—Moonlight, (Mamaroneck, New York), 1904 Museum of Modern Art (Yale Visual Resources Collection), New York

Portrait of Dana Desboro Glover (Mrs Steichen), 1923 2-colour filter photograph

Clarence Holbrook Carter

On March 26, 2025 - 20th Century, American, march 26

Clarence Holbrook Carter, American artist, March 26, 1904 – June 4, 2000

Clarence Holbrook Carter

Jane Reed and Dora Hunt, 1941 Oil on canvas

Over and Above #14, 1964 Oil on canvas

Transection #3, After Fra Angelico, 1967 Oil on canvas

Albert Kahn

On March 21, 2025 - 20th Century, American, march 21

Alfred Pinkham Ryder

On March 19, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, march 19

Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter, March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917

Dedicated to Thor Furulund, Norwegian painter, June 12, 1943 – January 16, 2016, who loved Pinkham Ryder

Ryder in 1905, photo by Alice Boughton

The Dead Bird, 1890s Oil on wood panel, 4 3/8 x 10 in The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Alfred Pinkham Ryder, Lord Ullin’s Daughter, Before 1907 Oil on Canvas Mounted on Fiberboard, 20.5 in x 18.3 in Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lord Ullin’s Daughter, Before 1907 Oil on Canvas Mounted on Fiberboard, 20.5 in x 18.3 in Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Landscape, 1897–98 (?) Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 14 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Thomas Eakins

On March 16, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, july 25

Thomas Eakins, American artist, July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916

Self-Portrait, 1889–94 Platinum print Metropolitan Museum, New York

Eakins' 1902 Self portrait, now housed at the National Academy of Design in New York City Born

Portrait of Walt Whitman, 1887 Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 24 1/4 in // Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams, 1899 Oil on canvas, 24 × 20 1/16 in Art Institute of Chicago

Billy Smith, c.1898 Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in Philadelphia Museum of Art

Study of an old man, by 1911 Private Collection

Mending the Net, 1882 Watercolor on paper, 11.3 x 16.7 in // Private Collection

Signora Gomez d'Arza, 1901-2 Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Taking the Count, 1898 Oil on canvas, 104.0 in × 93 in // Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Carmelita Requena, 1869 Oil on canvas, 21 x 17 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Chess Players, 1876 Oil on wood, 11 3/4 x 16 3/4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897 Oil on canvas, 24 5/8 × 20 1/8 in // Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, NY

Harrison S. Morris, 1896 Oil on canvas, 54 1/2 x 36 in // Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Mending the Net, 1881 Oil on canvas, 32.1 in x 45.1 in // Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Cello Player, 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.2 in x 48.1 in // Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Portrait of General George Cadwalader, ca. 1880 Oil on canvas, 30 x 25.1 in // The National Museum of American History, Washington, DC

Portrait of Charles Percival Buck, 1904 Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in // Private Collection

General E. Burd Grubb, circa 1898 Oil on canvas, 30 x 22 in // Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Frank Jay St. John, 1900 Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in // Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Reginald Marsh

On March 14, 2025 - 20th Century, American, march 14

Reginald Marsh, American painter, March 14, 1898 – July 3, 1954

Reginald Marsh Peter A. Juley And Son, Selected Portraits Of Artists

Wooden Horses, 1936 Tempera on board Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

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Hauptmann Must Die, 1935 Egg Tempera On Masonite, 27 3/4 x 35 3/4 in Indianapolis Museum Of Art

High Yaller, 1934 Egg tempera on composition board "From memory after a visit to Harlem."

Lucky Daredevils (The Thrill of Death), 1931 Tempera on panel, 30 x 36 in Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Diane Arbus

On March 14, 2025 - 20th Century, American, march 14, Photography

Diane Arbus, American photographer, March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971

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"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was." — Diane Arbus, American photographer, born March 14, 1923

Headless woman, Palisades Park, N.J., 1961 Gelatin silver print, 8 5/8 in. × 6 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Lady at a masked ball with two roses on her dress, N.Y.C., 1967 Gelatin Silver Print, 14.75 x 14.5

Girl in a Shiny Dress, NYC, 1967 Gelatin silver print, 20 × 16 in

William James Glackens

On March 13, 2025 - 20th Century, American, march 13

William James Glackens, American painter, March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938

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Chez Mouquin, 1905 Oil on canvas, 47.9 in x 39 in Art Institute of Chicago

Breezy Day, Tugboats, New York Harbor, ca. 1910 Oil on canvas, 26 × 31 3/4 in Milwaukee Art Museum

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East River Park, circa 1902 Oil on canvas, 25.8 in x 32 in Brooklyn Museum, New York

William Glackens. Girl in Green Turban, c. 1913 Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in // The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

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