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František Kupka

On April 3, 2025 - 20th Century, Czech

František Kupka, Czech painter, September 23, 1871 – June 24, 1957

Self-Portrait, 1905 Oil on canvas, National Gallery, Prague

The Wave, 1902 Gouache and watercolor on cardboard,

The Way of Silence I, c.1903 Oil on pasteboard, 23 x 27 in // National Gallery, Prague

The Way of Silence II, 1903 Color etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 13 7/16 x 13 11/16 in // Minneapolis Institute of Art

Music, 1936 Oil on canvas, 37 x 33 1/2 in // Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

Max Ernst

On April 2, 2025 - 20th Century, april 2, German

Max Ernst, German artist, April 2, 1891-April 1, 1976

Punching Ball or the Immortality of Buonarroti (Self-Portrait)

Garden Airplane Trap, 1935–36 Oil on canvas, 21 x 26 in // Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Une Semaine de Bonté, Third Book, Tuesday; Element: Fire; Example: The Court of the Dragon, 1933 // Collage-Novel

Ubu Imperator, 1923 Oil on Canvas, 39 x 32 in // Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

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

Dora Carrington

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

Dora de Houghton Carrington, known generally as Carrington, English painter, 29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932

Dora Carrington - Self Portrait, 1913

Dora Carrington, 1917, (photographer: Lady Ottoline Morrell) National Portrait Gallery, London

Farm at Watendlath, 1921 Oil paint on canvas, 24 x 26 in / Tate Gallery, London

Spanish Landscape with Mountains, c.1924 Oil paint on canvas, 22 x 26 / Tate Gallery, London

Female Figure Standing, 1913 University College London Art Museum.

Lytton Strachey Reading, 1916 Oil on panel, 20 x 24 / National Portrait Gallery, London

Dora Carrington, Mrs Box, 1919, Oil on canvas, The Higgins Bedford Museum, UK

Mrs Box, 1919, Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in The Higgins Bedford Museum, UK

E. M. Forster, 1920 Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in / National Portrait Gallery, London

Female Figure Lying on Her Back, 1912 Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in / UCL Art Museum, London

Jane Maria Grant, Lady Strachey, 1920 Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 / National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Cuno Amiet

On March 28, 2025 - 20th Century, march 28, Swiss

Cuno Amiet, Swiss artist, 28 March 1868 – 6 July 1961

Cuno Amiet painting his wife Anna in 1952

Greti in a Pink Dress, 1907 Oil on canvas, 39 x 36 in / Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Standing Nude, 1916 Oil on Canvas, 41 x 21 in / Private collection

Stockhornkette, 1931 Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in

Paul Cézanne

On March 27, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 19

Maurits Cornelis Escher

On March 27, 2025 - 20th Century, Dutch, june 17

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

On March 27, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, february 27, Spanish

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish artist, February 27, 1863-August 10, 1923

Platinum print of Sorolla by Gertrude Käsebier, c. 1908

The Pink Robe, After the Bath, 1916 Oil on canvas, 81.8 in x 49.8 in Sorolla Museum, Madrid

Excerpts Oil on canvas, 28 x 20

Maria at La Granja, 1907 Oil on canvas, 67 1/8 x 33 1/2 in // San Diego Museum

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

Egon Schiele

On March 26, 2025 - 20th Century, Austrian, june 12

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