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Frances Benjamin Johnston

On December 31, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 15

Frances Benjamin Johnston, American Photographer, January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952

Self-portrait by Johnston, Dressed as a Man, Sporting a Fake Mustache and Holding a Bicycle, c 1890

Self-Portrait as "The New Woman," 1896

Frances Benjamin Johnston, With Mattie, With a Painted Backdrop of the Cliff House in San Francisco, California, 1903

Frances Benjamin Johnston Seated at a Desk in Her Studio, 1895

Portrait of Daniel Coit Gilman, c 1890

Booker T Washington, c 1895

George Washington Carver (Front Row, Center) With Fellow Staff Members at the Tuskegee Institute, 1902

Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Wedding Gown, 1906

Natalie Clifford Barney, between c 1890 and c 1910

Signing of the Peace Protocol of the Spanish-American War, August 12, 1898

Ava Astor, between 1900 and 1910

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, c 1903

Henri Fantin-Latour

On December 28, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 14

Henri Fantin-Latour, French Painter, January 14, 1836 – August 25, 1904

Self-portrait, 1859 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 32.8 in // Museum of Grenoble

Still Life with a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit, 1865 Oil on canvas, 23.26 x 20.27 in // National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

White Roses, 1871 Oil on canvas, 8.5 × 8.9 in // Private collection

Poppies, 1891 Oil on canvas, 2.36 x 2.09 in // Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Still Life with Mustard Pot, 1860 Oil on canvas, 10 1/4 × 15 3/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Vase of Flowers with a Coffee Cup, 1865 Oil on canvas Private collection

Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards, 1875 Oil on canvas, 38.6 x 51.4 in // Tate Gallery, London

Portrait of Édouard Manet, 1867 Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 35.4 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867 Oil on fabric, 19.7 x 16.6 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

By the Table, 1872 Oil on canvas, 62.99 x 88.58 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

The Dubourg Family, 1878 Oil on canvas, 57.6 x 67.1 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Madame Lerolle, 1882 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 31 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Marsden Hartley

On December 23, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 4

Marsden Hartley, American Painter, January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943

Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning-- Mexico, 1932 Oil on board, 25 x 29 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Portrait of a German Officer, 1914 Oil on canvas, 68 1/4 x 41 3/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sustained Comedy, 1939 Edit this at Wikidata Oil on academy board, 28.1 x 22 in // Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

The Blast of Winter, 1908 Oil on canvas, 29 5/8 × 29 5/8 in // Whitney Museum, New York

Marsden Hartley, Yliaster (Paracelsus), 1932 Oil on paperboard mounted on particleboard, 25 1⁄4 x 28 1⁄2 in Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Yliaster (Paracelsus), 1932 Oil on paperboard mounted on particleboard, 25 1⁄4 x 28 1⁄2 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1938 Oil on academy board, 28 x 22 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Painting No. 50, 1914 - 15 Oil on canvas, 47 x 47 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Movements, 1913 Oil on canvas, 47 x 47 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting No. 48, circa 1913 Oil on canvas, 47.2 × 47.2 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Lighthouse, 1915

American Indian Symbols, 1914 Oil on canvas Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

The Window, c 1924 Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 25.6 in // Columbus Museum of Art

Jacques-Émile Blanche

On December 22, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 1

Jacques-Émile Blanche, French artist, January 1, 1861 –30 September 30, 1942

Self-Portrait, c 1890 Oil on canvas, 29.7 x 21 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

Henry James, 1908 Oil on canvas, 39.25 x 31.73 in // National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Portrait of a Woman, 1890 Pastel on prepared canvas, 32 11/16 x 23 1/16 in // Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1895 Oil on canvas, 36.4 x29 in // National Portrait Gallery, London

James Joyce, 1935 Oil on canvas

Jacques-Émile Blanche, Julia Prinsep Stephen (mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), between c1929 and c 1931 Oil on canvas, 35.4 x 28.5 in Government Art Collection, UK

Julia Prinsep Stephen (mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), between c1929 and c 1931 Oil on canvas, 35.4 x 28.5 in // Government Art Collection, UK

Marcel Proust, 1892 Oil on canvas

Vjatslav Nijinski, 1910 Oil on canvas, 13.8 x 25.6 in // Private collection

Jacques-Émile Blanche, Portrait of Madeleine Pissard as Roxane in Molière's l'Amour Médecin, 1921 Oil on canvas, 41.2 x 33.8 in Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

Portrait of Madeleine Pissard as Roxane in Molière's l'Amour Médecin, 1921 Oil on canvas, 41.2 x 33.8 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

Portrait of the Novelist Colette, 1905 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 46.5 in // Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Jacques-Émile Blanche, Portrait of Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errazuriz, 1890 Oil on canvas, 64 x 34 1/4 inches. Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

Portrait of Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errazuriz, 1890 Oil on canvas, 64 x 34 1/4 in // Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

August Morning, Dieppe Beach, c 1934, Oil on canvas Tate Britain, London

The Pink Living Room, 1911 Oil on panel, 21.6 x 18.1 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Maurice Utrillo

On December 20, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, december 26, French

Maurice Utrillo, French Painter, December 26, 1883 – November 5, 1955

Suzanne Valadon Portrait of the Painter Maurice Utrillo, 1921 Oil on canvas, 25.7 x 20.4 in // Musée de Montmartre, Paris

Farm on L'Ile d'Ouessant (Finistere) Oil on panel, 17 x 23 in // Private Collection

Hector Berlioz's House Oil, 28.7 x 39.4 in // Philadelphia Museum of Art

Rue Jean Durand and the Church, Stains, c 1938 - 1940 Oil on canvas, 18.1 x 21.7 in // Private Collection

The "Lapin Agile" Oil on panel, 23.3 x 31.2 in // Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Cottin Passage, c 1910 Oil on canvas, 21.3 x 28.7 in // Tate Gallery, London

Church at St Hilaire, c 1911 Oil on board, 19.8 x 25.6 in // Tate Gallery, London

Road at Sannois, c 1912 Oil on canvas, 21.3 x 31.9 in // The Courtauld Institute, London

Rue des Poissonniers, Montmartre Oil on board, 17.4 x 23.4 in // Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Church at Longpont, 1919 Oil on card, 30.9 x 23.1 in // Southampton City Art Gallery, UK

The Church of Saint-Séverin, c 1913 Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 21 1/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

La Place du Tertre, c 1910 Oil on canvas, 19.5 x 28.5 in // Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Rue Ravignan, Paris, 1910 Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 × 28 13/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Joseph Cornell

On December 14, 2025 - 20th Century, American, december 24

Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and assemblage artist, December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972

Blue Soap Bubble, 1949 - 1950 Box onstruction, 9.6 x 12 x 3.8 in // Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Palace, 1943 Box construction, 10.5 x 20 x 5.1 in // The Menil Collection, Houston

Untitled (Celestial Navigation), 1956-58 Box construction. 12.1 x 17 x 3.6 in // The Robert Lehrman Art Trust

Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1943 Box construction. 15.5 x 11.1 x 4.25 in // Des Moines Art Center

Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy), 1942-52 Box construction, 13.9 x 11.2 x 3.9 in // The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation

Toward the Blue Peninsula: for Emily Dickinson, c. 1953 Box construction. 15.3 x 10.2 x 5.5 in // The Robert Lehrman Art Trust

Naples, c. 1942 Box construction, 11.25 x 6.8 x 4.8 in // The Robert Lehrman Art Trust

A Parrot for Juan Gris, 1953–1954 Box construction, 17.75 x 12.2 x 4.6 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington

Untitled (Lily Losch), c 1935-38 The Robert Lehrman Art Trust

Pharmacy, 1943 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation

Joseph Cornell, Setting for a Fairy Tale, 1942 Glass-paned wooden box with printed paper, cardboard, twigs, mirror, and paint Dimensions, 11 9/16 x 14 3/8 x 3 7/8 in Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Setting for a Fairy Tale, 1942 Glass-paned wooden box with printed paper, cardboard, twigs, mirror, and paint Dimensions, 11 9/16 x 14 3/8 x 3 7/8 in // Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Fortune-Telling Parrot for Carmen Miranda), c 1939 Glass-paned wooden box with brass handles, taxidermy parrot, music box parts, dried and varnished leaves, mirror, cardboard, colored and printed papers, wooden branch, metallic stickers, wood, paint, and string, 16 1/16 x 8 3/4 x 6 11/16 inches Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Untitled (Fortune-Telling Parrot for Carmen Miranda), c 1939 Glass-paned wooden box with brass handles, taxidermy parrot, music box parts, dried and varnished leaves, mirror, cardboard, colored and printed papers, wooden branch, metallic stickers, wood, paint, and string, 16 1/16 x 8 3/4 x 6 11/16 inches // Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Karl Hubbuch

On December 13, 2025 - 20th Century, German, november 21

Karl Hubbuch, German painter, November 21, 1891 – December 26, 1979

Karl Hubbuch in Studio, c 1927

Karl Hubbuch, Two Models, c 1926 Black chalk and coloured crayon on eight pieces of paper joined together, 30.3 x 25.6 in National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Two Models, c 1926 Black chalk and coloured crayon on eight pieces of paper joined together, 30.3 x 25.6 in // National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Twice Hilde II, c 1929 Oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 59 x 30.3 in // Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Lydia and Betty Drypoint on wove paper, 13 3/16 x 15 13/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Untitled Woodcut, 19.7 x 17.3 in //

Lissy in the Cafe, 1931

The Art Judges, 1930 Private collection

Nude in the Bathroom Oil on canvas laid down on board, 42 1/8 x 29½ in // Private collection

Street Girls

The Classroom, 1925

The Swimmer of Cologne, 1923-1925 Drawing

Kaffeeklatsch/Afternoon Tea, 1933

Everyone Shows What He Has (Bruno And His Women)

Hilde With Hairdryer, Bicycle and Breuer Chair Black chalk and colored crayon on paper

Aristide Maillol

On December 2, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, december 8, French

Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter, December 8, 1861-September 27, 1944

Aristide Maillol photographed in 1925 by Alfred Kuhn

The Three Graces, 1930

Sitting Woman, Bronze, c 1914

Female Torso "Summer," c 1910 Bronze, 33.9 x 18.9 x 13 in // Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

The Cyclist, 1907

The Woman with the Umbrella, 1895 Oil on canvas, 75 x 58.8 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait of Mademoiselle Jeanne Faraill, between 1888 and 1889 Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 40.3 in // Private collection

Portrait of Dina, 1940 Oil on canvas

Sunflowers

Study of a Woman Sanguine on paper Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France

Two Nudes, One From the Front, the Other From the Back Louvre, Paris

Naked Woman Sitting, Holding Her Right Leg, Louvre, Paris

Tulip, 1941 Sanguine on paper Musée Maillol, Paris.

Paul Manship

On December 2, 2025 - 20th Century, American, december 25

Paul Manship, American Sculptor, December 25, 1885 – January 28, 1966

Paul Manship, The Cycle of Life Sundial Campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts

The Cycle of Life Sundial Campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts The Cycle of Life sundial shows a man, woman and child representing the cycle of life are surrounded by an armillary sphere showing the relationship of the stars and earth. Paul Manship is best known for his Prometheus sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York.

Salome, 1915 Bronze, 18 1/2 x 13 5/8 x 10 3/8 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Artwork at Entrance to 195 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City

Atalanta, 1921 Bronze, 28 3/4 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Diana and a Hound, 1924 Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley Island, South Carolina

The Flight of Europa, 1925 Bronze sculpture with gold leaf Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Bulldog, 1906 Bronze, 2.2 x 2.2 x 1.9 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Danae, 1921 Bronze and wood, 11.4 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Dancer and Gazelles, 1916 Bronze, 32.4 x 33 x 10 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Actaeon, 1925

Europa and the Bull #1, 1924 Bronze and marble, 10.2 x 10.2 x 7.1 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Indian Hunter and His Dog, 1926 Bronze, 23.2 x 23.5 x 7 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Diego Rivera

On November 29, 2025 - 20th Century, december 8, Mexican

Diego Rivera, Mexican painter, December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957

Diego Rivera, before 1957 Gelatin-bromide silver on paper Collection Museo Frida Kahlo

Portrait of Anguelina Beloff, 1918. Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 58.3 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Spanish Still Life, 1918 Oil on canvas, 21.25 × 25.6 in // Diego Rivera's Art House-Museum ,Guanajuato, Mexico

Self-portrait with Broad-Brimmed Hat, 1907 Oil on canvas, 33.26 x 24.21 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Street in Ávila, 1908 Oil on canvas, 50.78 x 55.51 in // Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

The House on the Bridge, 1909 Oil on canvas, 57.87 x 47.63 in // Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

The Mathematician, 1919 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 31.7 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Still Life with Ricer, 1918 Oil on canvas Unknown location

Mural of Exploitation of Mexico by Spanish Conquistadores, 1929–1945 National Palace of Mexico, Mexico City

The Great City of Tenochtitlan, 1945 National Palace of Mexico, Mexico City

Mural of the Aztec City of Tenochtitlan and Life in Aztec Times, 1945 National Palace of Mexico, Mexico City

El Picador, 1909 Oil on canvas, 69.68 x 44.48 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Knife and Fruit in Front of the Window, 1917 Oil on canvas, 36.14 x 36.37 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

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