Raymond Mathewson Hood

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

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

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. 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

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