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2009 Andrew Wyeth, American artist, dies at 91, after a brief illness
2007 Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75 2005 Joe Grant, American Artist 2005 Dale Messick, American Artist 2005 Fritz Scholder, American Artist 2004 Tom Wesselmann, American Artist 2004 Agnes Martin, Canadian Artist 2004 John Hench, American Artist 2003 Conrad Hall, American Artist 2002 Ron Walotsky, fantasy artist, dies at 59 2002 Bill Peet, cartoon artist/writer, Disney's Peter Pan, dies at 87 2002 Kevyn Aucoin, make-up artist/writer, Making Face, dies at 40 2001 Marcelle Ferron, Canadian Artist 2001 Howard Finster, American Artist 2001 Morris Graves, American Artist 2000 Jacob Lawrence, American Artist 2000 Leonard Baskin, American Artist 2000 Gil Kane, American Artist 1999 Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78 1999 Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84 1999 Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist 1998 Bob Kane, American Artist 1998 Alex Schomberg, artist, dies at 91 1998 Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90 1997 Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75 1997 Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at 91 1997 Denis Gerald Barrington, artist, dies at 67 1997 Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served 1997 Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73 1997 George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61 1997 Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77 1997 Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer 1997 Willem de Kooning, abstract artist, dead Alzheimer's at 92 1997 Martin Kippenberger, German Artist 1996 Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81 1996 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86 1996 Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47 1996 Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82 1996 Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102 1996 Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86 1996 Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82 1996 John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75 1996 Michael Wishart, artist, dies at 68 1996 Ray Howard-Jones, artist, dies at 93 1996 Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76 1996 Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81 1996 Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82 1996 Helen Chadwick, born in Britain, conceptual artist, feminist perspective, dies at 42 1996 Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist, dies at 84 1996 Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer, dies at 65 1996 Bernard Baily, comic artist, dies at 79 1996 Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61 1996 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90 1996 Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist, dies at 88 1995 Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50 1995 Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29 1995 Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71 1995 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67 1995 Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47 1995 Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67 1995 Horst Janssen, graphic Artist, dies at 65 1995 Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68 1995 Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52 1995 Al Hansen, Norwegian American artist, dies at 67 1995 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88 1995 Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84 1995 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82 1995 Victor Reinganum, artist, dies at 87 1995 Michael Whalley Wickham, artist, dies at 91 1994 Leigh Bowery, designer, pop star, model, performance artist, influenced Boy George, Vivienne Westwood, dies at 33 1994 Al Levitt, American jazz artist, dies at 63 1994 Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79 1994 Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87 1994 Stanislaw Brunstein, artist, dies at 79 1994 Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60 1994 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50 1994 Warwick Hutton, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen, dies at 55 of cancer in Cambridge, England 1994 Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84 1994 John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72 1994 Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69 1994 Mitacq, Michel Tacq, Belgian comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies 1994 Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74 1994 Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89 1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59 1994 Donald Judd, U.S. furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65 1994 Werner Schwab, writer, playwright, visual artist, dies at 35 1992 Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolorist/monument artist, dies 1992 Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies 1992 Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies 1992 Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas 1992 David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37 1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema 1992 Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies 1992 Boris Arapov, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986 1991 Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies 1991 Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella 1991 Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies 1991 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies 1991 Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33 1991 Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies 1990 Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies 1990 Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31 1988 Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85 1988 Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie 1987 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in New York City), dies at 87 1987 Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91 1987 Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83 1987 Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86 1987 Myron Stout, U.S. abstract artist, dies at 79 1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist, Donna Summer 1987 Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58 1987 Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82 1987 Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist 1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin 1986 Corita Kent, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash, dies of cancer 1986 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73 1986 Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist 1986 Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64 1985 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist 1985 Eric Sloane, U.S. artist, dies at 80 1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro 1982 Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies 1981 Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73 1981 John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73 1980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93 1979 Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles 1978 Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 1978 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1978 Frans van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies at 68 1976 Man Ray, U.S. artist (dada), dies at 86 1976 Chris Kenner, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others, dies 1975 Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68 1975 Heintje Davids, Hendrika David, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 87 1975 Thomas Heart Benson, U.S. artist, dies at 85 1974 Aaron McGruder, American Artist 1973 Walt Kelly, U.S. comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60 1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist 1973 Murat B "Chic" Young, U.S. comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72 1972 Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68 1972 Frank Tashlin, American Artist 1972 M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist 1972 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51 1972 Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 50 1971 Rockwell Kens, U.S. artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88 1970 Barnett Newman, American Artist 1969 Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Artist 1969 Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3 1969 Otto Dix, German Artist 1969 Douglas Lee Mitchell, born in Miles, Michigan, heavy metal artist, Southgang 1969 Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 1969 Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist 1968 Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74 1967 Chris Ware, American Artist 1967 Ad Reinhardt, American Artist 1967 Matthew Barney, American Artist 1966 Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79 1966 Shabba Ranks, born in Sturgetown, St. Ann, Jamaica, born Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, reggae singer, recording artist, sex symbol, popular dancehall DJ, toaster, successful U.S. crossover artist, became first Grammy-Award winning dancehall artist 1966 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Artist 1965 Julie Doucet, Canadian Artist 1965 Chuckii Booker, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, singer, songwriter, bandleader, rhythm and blues artist, musical director, recorded and produced with Barry White, Janet Jackson 1965 Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist, Warrant-Cherry Pie 1965 Damien Hirst, born in Bristol, England, artist, richest living artist to date, 'For the Love of God' a diamond-encrusted scull sculpture, sold for 50 million pounds in 2007 1965 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81 1965 Milton Avery, American Artist 1964 Clinton Gregory, born in Martinsville, Virginia, singer, songwriter, recording artist, fiddler, country and bluegrass genres, recorded seven studio albums, chartered 11 Billboard Hot country Singles and Tracks, including Play, Ruby, Play, which reached no. 25 on the charts 1963 Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist 1963 Tracey Emin, English Artist 1963 Jet Li, born in Beijing, China, Li Lianjie, Chinese martial artist, actor, international film star, appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, with Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, Wushu champion, studied Changquan, among other arts 1963 Brett Edward Garsed, born in Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist, Nelson 1962 Franz Kline, American Artist 1962 Willem Paerels, Netherlands/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 1961 Joe Murray, American Artist 1961 Leigh Bowery, born in Sunshine, Australia, designer, pop star, model, performance artist, influenced Boy George, Vivienne Westwood 1961 Todd McFarlane, Canadian Artist 1960 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter, Gray, SAMO 1960 Kasey Smith, Queens, New York, heavy metal artist, Danger Danger-Screw It 1960 Jaron Lanier, American Artist 1959 Stanley Spencer, English Artist 1959 Gerard Hoffnung, artist/humorist/musician, dies 1958 Pam Tills, Country music artist 1958 Keith Haring, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, graffiti artist, Vanity Fair, Paris Review 1958 Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist 1958 Werner Schwab, born in Austria, writer, playwright, visual artist, studied sculpture at Vienna's Akademie der bildenden Kunste in 1990, wrote sixteen plays, produced eight, controversial works in the Austrian Black comedy tradition 1958 Thomas Kinkade, American Artist 1957 Gilbert Hernandez, American Artist 1956 Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton) 1956 Marie Laurencin, French Artist 1955 Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV host/cabaret artist 1955 John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist 1955 Diamanda Galas, born America, composer, musician, politically charged performance artist, keyboardist, singer, has a voice range of three and a half octaves 1955 Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist 1955 Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73 1955 Jeff Koons, American Artist 1954 Henri Matisse, French Artist 1954 Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde), dies at 72 1953 Francis Picabia, French Artist 1953 Alex Grey, American Artist 1953 Johnny Clegg, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, Jonathan 'Johnny' Clegg, musician, recording artist, Grammy-Award nominee, mbaqanga, Afro-pop genres, formed and performed with Juluka band, formed Savuka band, popular figure in South African music history 1953 Helen Chadwick, born in Britain, conceptual artist, feminist perspective 1953 Martin Kippenberger, German Artist 1952 Jim Woodring, American Artist 1952 Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist 1951 John French Sloan, American Artist 1951 Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company 1950 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66 1950 Rick Baker, Binghamton, New York, special effects makeup artist, Exorcist 1950 Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53 1950 Jenny Holzer, American Artist 1949 Louis Davids, Simon David, cabaret artist, dies at 65 1949 Stanley Knight, country artist, Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog 1948 Lin Onus, born in Melbourne, Australia, born William McLintock Onus, of Jiradjuri descent, artist, painter, sculptor, print maker, used Maningride rarrk cross-hatching-based painting style 1948 Wayne Kramer, jazz artist, Dangerous Madness 1948 Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 1948 Art Spiegelman, American Artist 1947 Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist 1947 Laurie Anderson, performance artist, O Superman, Excellent Birds 1947 Jim Nollman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Tufts University, composer, musical theater, conceptual artist, environmental activist, recorded interspecies music with wolves, whales, dolphins, deer, elk, desert rats 1946 Carson Van Osten, born in America, musician, performed with Todd Rundgren and rock group 'Nazz', comics creator, artist of Disney comics 1946 Alexander Curly, Harm Breemer, Dutch artist 1946 Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist, An American Vision-Boston 1946 Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1946 Eddie Holman, born in Norfolk, Virginia, recording artist, rhythm and blues, gospel, pop, soul genres, known for hit 'Hey There Lonely Girl' 1946 Tony Ashton, born in Blackburn, England, singer, composer, rock pianist, producer, artist 1945 Gielijn Escher, Dutch postage stamp artist 1945 Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77 1945 Anselm Kiefer, German Artist 1945 Emily Carr, Canadian Artist 1944 Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78 1944 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist 1944 Phil May, born in Wortley, England, artist, caricaturist, drawings published in The Bulletin, St. Stephens Review, The Graphic, regular staff member of Punch 1944 Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies 1944 Aristide Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82 1944 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist 1944 Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1944 Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz artist, Same Ole Love 1944 Jackie Torrence, story teller/artist 1943 Grover Washington, Jr., jazz artist, Mr Magic 1943 Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist, To Red, Dust Drawings 1943 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62 1943 Bert Jansch, born in Glasgow, Scotland, musician, folk artist, acoustic guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of the band Pentangle, winner, BBC Folk Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award 1943 Camille Claudel, French Artist 1943 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam 1943 Hugh Davies, born in Exmouth, England, composer, musicologist, invented musical instruments from household items, 1970's member of the Artist Placement Group 1942 Meredith Monk, Lima Peru, choreographer-composer-performing artist 1942 Tommy Roe, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, songwriter, guitarist, 1960's bubblegum artist, toured with Roy Orbison 1941 El Lissitzky, Russian Artist 1941 Bruce Nauman, American Artist 1941 Curtis Lee, born in Yuma, Arizona, singer, doo-wop and pop recording artist with Phil Spector, partnered with Tommy Boyce, sang 'Under the Moon of Love', 'Pretty Little Angel Eyes' 1941 Dale Chihuly, born in Tacoma, Washington, artist in glass, Louis Tiffany Award 1967 1941 Oda Mayumi, Tokyo, resident artist, Green Gulch Zen Center 1941 Jan Dibbets, sculptor/artist, Dutch Mountains 1941 Don Van Vliet, American Artist 1941 Boris Vallejo, Peruvian Artist 1941 Jorg Reme, German/Dutch painter/graphic artist 1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst 1940 Florence Scovel Shinn, artist, book illustrator, metaphysical writer, wrote, 'The Game of Life and how to Play it", 1925, writings follow thought principles of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Myrtle Fillmore, Phineas Quimby, Charles Fillmore, dies 1940 Roy Ayers, Louisiana, disco jazz artist, Fever, You Send Me 1940 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies 1940 Jean-Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies at 71 1940 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 1940 Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies 1940 H R Giger, artist, special effects designer, Alien 1940 H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist 1939 Dianne Arndt, artist/photographer 1939 Richard Serra, American Artist 1939 O. V. Wright, born in Leno, Tennessee, singer, sang gospel, considered southern soul artist, first pop recording, 'That's How Strong My Love Is' 1939 Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71 1939 Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist 1939 Saul Steinberg, artist, The Art of Living 1939 Judy Chicago, Cohen, Chicago, artist, Dinner Party 1939 Warwick Hutton, born in Britain, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen 1939 Peter Phillips, born in Birmingham, England, artist, painter, sculpture, screenprint, lithography, pioneer, Pop Art Movement 1938 Henricus G Wijmans, Dutch graphic artist 1938 Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter, dies at 70 1938 Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator 1937 Peter Max, psychadelic artist, Dynamite Chicken 1937 Fritz Scholder, American Artist 1937 Don Bluth, American Artist 1937 Walter Gay, artist, dies 1937 David Hockney, born in Bradford, England, artist, Pop Art 1937 Red Grooms, American Artist 1937 Yehuda Yannay, born in Romania, composer, film maker, performance artist, international figure in contemporary music 1937 Henry O Tanner, artist, dies 1936 Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer 1936 Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist, Right to Life, Dripper Boxes 1936 George Bryan Ingham, artist 1936 Gerald Scarfe, British Artist 1936 Frank Stella, American Artist 1935 Paul Signac, French Artist 1935 Jim Dine, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, pop artist, St. John the Divine 1935 Christo [Javacheff], Bulgaria, artist, wrapper, Running Fence 1935 Christo, Bulgarian Artist 1935 Christoph Meckel, born in Berlin, Germany, graphic artist, writer, author, works include 'Georg Heym: Gedichte' 1935 Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist, Hang on Sloopy 1935 Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist 1935 Max Liebermann, Germany impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87 1934 Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist 1934 Dave Guard, born in San Francisco, California, singer, songwriter, recording artist, guitar and banjo player, founding member of The Kingston Trio 1934 Johan J Arch, graphic artist (houtgravures), dies at 63 1934 Richard A. Garland, artist/photographer 1934 John Collier, British Artist 1934 Eric Hebborn, artist/faker 1933 Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher, Perscombinatie 1933 Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist, glass painter 1933 Philip Corner, born in America, composer, visual artist, taught by Fritz Jahoda, teacher, Modern Music at the New School for Social Research 1933 Hannes Postma, Dutch graphic artist 1933 Yoko Ono, born in Tokyo, Japan, vocalist and artist 1932 Joanne Battiste, artist, heroines 1932 Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies 1932 Al Levitt, born in New York City, New York, drummer, American jazz artist, studied under Irv Kuger, played in Europe with Peter Ind, Slide Hampton, Chet Baker, Wayne Marsh, James Moody 1932 Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist, pop art 1932 Howard Hodgkin, British Artist 1932 Nam June Paik, born in Seoul, Korea, video artist, Medium is the Medium 1932 Graham Arnold, born in England, artist, founder of Brotherhood of Ruralists, other members include Jann Haworth, Sir Peter Blake, worked with oil and mixed media, realistic and surrealistic elements 1932 Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70 1932 Pieter Brattinga, Dutch graphic artist 1931 Cornelis de Wine, graphic artist 1931 Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee' 1931 David Shepherd, born in Britain, painter, artist, considered world's most famous conservationists, famous for paintings of wildlife 1931 Frank Auerbach, German Artist 1931 Tom Wesselmann, American Artist 1930 Denis Gerald Barrington, artist 1930 Faith Ringgold, American Artist 1930 Erica Pedretti, born in Sternberk, Czech Republic, author, writer, artist, painter, sculptress, awarded, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1930 Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer 1929 Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others 1929 Horst Janssen, graphic Artist 1929 Josef Suk, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, violinist, Artist of Merit-1977 1929 Li Yuan-chia, artist 1929 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54 1929 Claes Oldenburg, born in Stockholm, Sweden, U.S. pop artist, Alphabet/Good Humor 1928 Helen Frankenthaler, New York, abstract expressionist artist, Arden 1928 Robert Indiana, American Artist 1928 Sol LeWitt, born in Connecticut, artist, modern art pioneer, famous for wall drawings and "structures" 1928 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher 1928 Michael Wishart, artist 1928 Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69 1928 Frank Frazetta, American Artist 1927 Mose Allison, Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist, Black Country Suite 1927 Al Hansen, born in New York City, New York, Norwegian American artist, member of the 1960's Flexus art movement that blended different artistic media and disciplines 1927 Andy Warhol, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, artist/producer, Frankenstein, Bad 1927 Hugo Pratt, graphic artist 1926 Claude Monet, French Artist 1926 Conrad Hall, American Artist 1926 Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies 1926 Gil Kane, American Artist 1925 Bob de Moor, Flemish comic strip artist, Kuifje, Lion of Flanders 1925 Robert Rauschenberg, born in Texas, artist, created "Combines", combinations of non-traditional materials and objects 1925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist, movement objects 1925 Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist, Curious Sofa 1925 Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician 1925 Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985 1924 Kenneth Noland, American Artist 1924 Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist and sculptor 1924 Peter Baer, artist and printmaker 1924 Gunter Haese, German sculptor/graphic artist, Guggenheim prize 1967 1924 Marcelle Ferron, Canadian Artist 1924 Simon Abramsz, Dutch writer (Artist book), dies at 56 1924 Philip Rawson, artist/teacher 1923 Marcel Marceau, born in Strasbourg, France, mime artist and actor 1923 Morschi Mirando, Thomas Weiss, German/Dutch gypsy artist 1922 Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist, Boy With a Rat 1922 Tom Hudson, artist/teacher 1922 John Ernest, constructionist artist 1921 Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist, Dorus 1921 John Christopherson, artist/collector 1921 Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1921 Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist 1920 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist 1920 Dave Bartholomew, Louisiana, jazz artist/songwriter, Blueberry Hill 1920 Malcolm Hughes, artist 1920 Marcel Maeyer, de Maeyer, Belgian sculptor/graphic artist 1920 Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist 1920 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63 1920 Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist, Clash of Titans 1920 Paul Peter Piech, artist 1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co. 1919 Auguste Renoir, French Artist 1918 Corita Kent, born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash 1918 Egon Schiele, Austria painter/graphic artist, dies at 28 1918 June Wayne, artist, lithographer and teacher 1917 Lawrence Jacob, Atlantic City, New Jersey, artist, Sanitarium 1917 Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist 1917 Jacob Lawrence, American Artist 1916 Howard Finster, American Artist 1916 Bob Kane, American Artist 1916 Luc Peire, Flemish painter/graphic artist 1916 Bernard Baily, comic artist 1915 Hetta Empson, artist 1915 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle 1915 Willy Dixon, blues artist, Mellow Down Easy 1915 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1915 Mervyn Levy, artist/critic 1915 William Crosbie, artist 1915 Jack Levine, American Artist 1914 Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47 1914 Stanislaw Brunstein, artist 1914 Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist 1914 Abram Games, graphic artist 1914 Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist 1914 Cornelis "Kees" Andrea, Dutch painter/graphic artist/carpet designer 1914 Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith 1914 Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman 1913 Ad Reinhardt, American Artist 1913 Frank Tashlin, American Artist 1913 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist 1912 Jan Peeters, Dutch water colors painter/monumental artist 1912 Metten Koornstra, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1912 Agnes Martin, Canadian Artist 1911 Anna Russell, born in London, England, possibly born in London, Ontario, birth name Maida Vale, Anna Claudia Russell-Brown, composer, singer, comedian, recording artist 1911 Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist 1910 Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist/painter, Holland Festival 1910 John LaFarge, American Artist 1910 Frank Fidler, artist 1910 Henri Rousseau, French Artist 1910 Morris Graves, American Artist 1910 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher 1910 Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91 1910 Franz Kline, American Artist 1910 Henry William Collins, artist 1909 Frederic Remington, American Artist 1909 Jacob Kainen, artist/curator 1909 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60 1909 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist 1909 Carsten Nicolai, German Artist 1909 Karen Finley, American Artist 1909 Charles Conder, artist, dies 1908 Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist 1908 Peter Oliver, English Artist 1908 John Hench, American Artist 1908 Joe Grant, American Artist 1908 Peter Oliver, English Artist 1907 Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist 1907 Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist 1907 Victor Reinganum, artist 1906 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator 1906 Dale Messick, American Artist 1906 Harry van Kruiningen, Henri A Janssen, painter/graphic artist 1905 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser 1905 Boris Arapov, born in Poltava, Ukraine, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986 1905 Joseph Jefferson, American Artist 1905 Barnett Newman, American Artist 1904 Hans Burkhardt, artist 1904 Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist dies at 56 1904 Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987 1904 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist 1904 Salvador Dali, Figueras, Spain, surrealist artist, Crucifixion 1904 Willem De Kooning, born in Rotterdam Netherland, artist, North Atlantic Light 1904 Jean Helion, artist/author, They Shall Not Have Me 1904 Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist 1903 Camille Pissarro, French Artist 1903 Michael Whalley Wickham, artist 1903 James Whistler, American Artist 1903 Ray Howard-Jones, artist 1903 Paul Gauguin, French Artist 1903 Robert Gwathmey, artist, Arts and Letters 1901 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist 1901 George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese 1901 Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter and graphic artist 1901 Carl Barks, American Artist 1900 Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist, dies at 49 1900 Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist, Ditters and Jitters 1899 Raphael Soyer, artist, Depression Scenes in New York City 1898 Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist 1898 M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist 1898 Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist 1897 Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist 1897 Hendrik J Valk, painter/cartoonist/graphic artist 1896 Wyatt Eaton, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, dies from tuberculosis in Newport, Rhode Island 1896 Theodore Robinson, American Artist 1896 Andre Aime Rene Masson, French Surrealist artist, Labyrinth 1895 Berthe Morisot, French Artist 1894 Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist 1894 Norman Rockwell, U.S., artist/illustrator, Sat Evening Post covers 1894 Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist 1893 Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter, dies at 77 1893 Beatrice Wood, potter, artist and author 1892 Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 72 1891 Otto Dix, German Artist 1891 Stanley Spencer, English Artist 1890 Mark Tobey, American Artist 1890 El Lissitzky, Russian Artist 1890 Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies 1890 Willem Linnig, Jr., Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies 1890 Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada 1890 Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist 1890 Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1890 Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist 1889 Jean Cocteau, born in France, writer/artist/director, Le Potamak, Orphee 1889 William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies 1888 Josef Albers, German/U.S. graphic artist/painter/writer, Bauhaus 1887 Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist 1887 Le Corbusier, born in Switzerland, architect, city planner, and artist, Urbanisme 1887 Marc Chagall, born in Vitebsk, Russia, artist, I and The Village 1887 Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist 1886 Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish artist, L'art et Son Avenir 1886 Jean Arp, born in Strasbourg, Germany, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich 1886 Constant Permeke, Flemish painter/statues artist, Sow 1886 Peter Alma, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1885 Milton Avery, American Artist 1884 Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies 1884 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist 1883 Marie Laurencin, French Artist 1883 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist 1883 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher 1882 Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne], English artist (David Cupperfield), dies 1882 Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator, Canterbury Tales 1882 Georges Braque, French Artist 1881 Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist, The Bridge 1881 Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain, artist, 3 Dancers, Guernica 1881 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1880 Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker, Diagonal Symphony 1879 William Morris Hunt, American Artist 1879 Gerald Festus Kelly, artist 1879 Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist 1878 Willem Paerels, Netherlands/Belgian painter/graphic artist 1878 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist 1878 Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist 1877 Gustave Courbet, French Artist 1877 Bela Schick, Hungarian/US children artist, Serum Krankheit 1876 Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69 1874 Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist 1874 Harry Houdini, Budapest, magician/escape artist 1873 Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist 1872 Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist, Salome 1872 Piet Mondrian, Dutch Artist 1871 Emily Carr, Canadian Artist 1871 Florence Scovel Shinn, born in New Jersey, artist, book illustrator, metaphysical writer, wrote, 'The Game of Life and how to Play it", 1925, writings follow thought principles of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Myrtle Fillmore, Phineas Quimby, Charles Fillmore 1871 Johan J Arch, graphic artist, wood cutter 1871 John Sloan, American Artist 1871 John French Sloan, American Artist 1871 Jeanne Bougeois, La Mistinguette, artist, French revue 1868 Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter 1868 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist 1867 Arthur Rackham, England, artist/illustrator, Grimm's Fairy Tales 1867 Emil Nolde, Hansen, German painter/graphic artist 1867 Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist 1866 Roger Fry, English Artist 1866 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist 1866 Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist 1865 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Fins painter/graphic artist/illustrator 1864 Camille Claudel, French Artist 1864 John Leech, English Artist 1863 Paul Signac, French Artist 1861 Frederic Remington, U.S., artist/sculptor of American West 1860 Grandma Moses, American Artist 1859 Henry O Tanner, artist 1858 Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop, Dutch painter/graphic artist, 3 Brides 1857 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor 1852 Theodore Robinson, American Artist 1851 J. M. W. Turner, English Artist 1851 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist 1851 Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist 1851 Ernst Josephson, Sweden, artist 1850 John Collier, British Artist 1849 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist, La femme 1849 Wyatt Eaton, born in Philipsburg, Canada, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists 1848 Cornelis A. Pekelharing, artist, fabric seller 1846 Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist, Galle Glaze 1846 Kate Greenaway, born in England, artist/book illustrator, Under the Window 1844 Thomas Eakins, American Artist 1844 Henri Rousseau, French Artist 1842 Willem Linnig Jr., Flemish painter and graphic artist 1841 Auguste Renoir, French Artist 1841 Berthe Morisot, French Artist 1840 Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist 1838 Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh 1836 Archibald M Willard, U.S., artist, Spirit of '76 1835 John LaFarge, American Artist 1834 Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist 1834 James McNeill Whistler, American Artist 1834 James Whistler, American Artist 1831 James Northcote, English Artist 1830 Camille Pissarro, French Artist 1829 Joseph Jefferson, American Artist 1828 Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39 1825 Henry Fuseli, British Artist 1824 Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist 1824 William Morris Hunt, American Artist 1823 Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist 1819 Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian animal painter/graphic artist 1819 Gustave Courbet, French Artist 1819 John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist, Prerafaelite 1818 Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist 1817 John Leech, English Artist 1815 Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter 1815 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 58 1812 Thomas Gold Appleton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, American critic, writer, and artist 1808 Daumier, Marseilles France, artist 1807 John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London 1805 Constantine Brumidi, artist, Myrtle Murdock 1802 Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist 1799 Titian Ramsey Peale, U.S., artist/naturalist, American Ornithology 1799 Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist, Ziekte van Basedow 1787 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist 1787 Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist 1786 Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown) 1785 John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist 1784 Allan Ramsay, artist 1782 John Sell Cotman, water color artist 1778 Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist 1777 Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist 1775 J. M. W. Turner, English Artist 1775 Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist 1774 Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist 1763 George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes 1761 John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio 1756 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist 1753 Thomas Bewick, England, artist, British Birds, Aesop's Fables 1746 James Northcote, English Artist 1741 Henry Fuseli, British Artist 1738 John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist 1721 Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies 1721 Bernhard Albinus, Weiss, German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies 1618 Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spain, Baroque artist [baptized] 1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist 1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 1539 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator 1528 Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56 1520 Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday 1519 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67 1507 Gentile Bellini, Italian artist, Sultan Mohammed II 1503 Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist, Madonna with the Long Neck |
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