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1997 Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500

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 Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen

1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo)

1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%

1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro

1983 Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City

1980 Turner's painting "Juliet and Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million

1974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London

1973 Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000

1971 John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen

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

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

1916 Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting

1913 French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in New York City

1892 John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies

1815 John Banvard, New York City, painted worlds largest painting, 3 mile canvas

1783 David Cox, English painter, Treatise on landscape painting

1559 Kano Motonobu, Zen co-founder (Kano school of painting), dies at 83

1476 Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder, Kano school of painting


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