Calceolaria: Youngii delecta - Youngii pallida - Browni, 1833, by #CarolineMariaApplebee (English, c.1786/99-1854), who was baptized #otd, May 16. Held by Royal Horticultural Society Libraries; source, artsandculture.google.com/asset/calceo... #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory

Amy Sherald: American Sublime has arrived at the High Museum of Art. As the last stop on the national tour, this powerful exhibition brings the work of a Georgia-born artist home, celebrating Black identity, beauty, visibility and the stories behind each portrait.

2/2 Also enjoying the leisure of the sufficiently elegant: game of tennis in rear courtyard of this fabulous fantasy palace by Dirck van Delen, 1628.

#BOTD Graciela Iturbide (May 16, 1942) #Photojournalism #Photography

Anna Alma-Tadema (May 16, 1867-July 5, 1943), British artist and suffragette. Alma-Tadema primarily worked in drawing and painting, creating portraits, interior scenes, flower paintings, and paintings of buildings. ~Wikipedia Self Portrait, c. 1892

John Opie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (b. 16.5.1761) 'Courtship in the Park' Oil on canvas 161.2 x 114 cm National Trust of Scotland - Fyvie Castle 'Boy with a Cat' (1796) Oil on canvas 91 x 70.5 cm Sold for $6,250 in 2015 #Caturday

#BOTD Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) #PortraitPhotography #Photography

Happy Birthday, Jasper Johns, born on this day in 1930.

The Ronald Lauder–owned Neue Galerie, the private New York museum known for its deep collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and Austrian art, is set to merge with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028. www.artforum.com/news/neue-ga...

The painter, professor and activist Mary Lovelace O’Neal has died, age 84. artreview.com/mary-lovelac...

“Art is made to disturb, science reassures.” Georges Braque May 13, 1882 - Aug 31, 1963 The Pink Tablecloth Georges Braque • 1933 Chrysler Museum of Art #MayBirthdayArtistParty

Study of Fruit & Flowers, 1720-50, by #AgathaVanDerMijn (Dutch, 1700-1776/96), who was born #otd, May 13. Source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ag... #womenartists #artherstory

Ruth Thorne-Thomsen (May 13, 1943 - October 27, 2025) was an American photographer best known for her constructed landscape photographs made with a cigar-box pinhole camera. schristywolfe.com/2021/05/13/b...

Anita Louise Suazo (b. May 13, 1937), Native American potter from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Pieces of her work can be seen at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, and the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

Thea Segall (May 13, 1929-October 25, 2009) was a Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela from 1958 until her death. ~Wikipedia

French-born photojournalist Michelle Marie Vignes was born May 13, 1926.

Taisia Kirillovna Afonina (May 13, 1913-April 19, 1994) was a Ukrainian and Russian painter and watercolorist. vailfineart.com/14-artist-bi...

"Marta Skulme (5/13/1890-1/3/1962) was the first professional Latvian woman sculptor. She was a member of the Riga Artists Group. Skulme worked with different materials (granite, bronze, wood), but the majority of her sculptures were …plaster castings." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_S...

Arkansas painter Jenny Eakin Delony (5/13/1866-4/1/1949) specialized in portraiture but also painted miniatures, landscape, wildlife, still life, and genre painting. Rice set up a studio in NY in 1900; around 1935 she returned to Little Rock. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/jenn...

Johanne Pedersen-Dan (5/13/1860–5/21/1934), Danish actress, singer, and sculptor. After performing in plays and operettas until 1888, she devoted the rest of her life to sculpture. She married the sculptor Hans Peder Pedersen-Dan in 1892. ~Wikipedia

Anna Nordgren (5/13/1847-9/10/1916) was a Swedish painter and draftswoman who specialized in portraits and genre scenes. skbl.se/en/article/A...

Genevieve Estelle Jones (5/13/1847-8/17/1879), American amateur naturalist & artist, known as "the other Audubon". ~Wikipedia "A Radical Journey of Art, Science, and Entrepreneurship: A Self-Taught Victorian Woman’s Visionary Ornithological Illustrations" www.themarginalian.org/2012/06/27/a...

May 13, 1373~ Julian of Norwich healed of illness after a series of visions Title page for Revelations of Divine Love from a design by Phoebe Anna Traquair Written by Julian of Norwich (1342-sometime after 1416), edited by Grace Harriet Warrack (1855-1932) schristywolfe.com/2019/05/13/m...

National Pet Month~ May 13 Yellow Panther from Ten Fine Hounds by Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione) Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) / Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk / 97 2/5″x64 2/5″ / National Palace Museum, Taiwan schristywolfe.com/2020/05/13/n... #NationalPetMonth

National Photography Month~ May 13 Henry James by Alice Boughton c.1906 / Gelatin silver print / 7 15/16″x5 3/16″ Various collections, including National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, D.C. schristywolfe.com/2020/05/13/n... #NationalPhotographyMonth

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries Canadian Inuk artist Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2021) Self Portrait as a young woman, 2003 / Lithograph and stencil on paper / Private collection schristywolfe.com/2022/05/13/a...

Remembering Katharine Hepburn on her birthday 🎂 📷 George Hurrell, 1941 “Her beauty grew out of her own belief in herself & from the viewer’s sense that she was living dangerously, exposing her own nerves & vulnerability along with her intelligence & sensibility” - David Thomson

BOTD artist & writer Edward Lear 1812 Most people know him today as a nonsense poet & a master of the limerick, a humorous poetic form that had been gaining in popularity since the early 1820s. Edward Lear, 1867 'The Letter of The Alphabet", 1880 Blue and yellow Macaw, litho #Booksky

#BOTD Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family. Self-portrait, 1847 Pencil and white chalk on paper National Portrait Gallery, London

Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator and writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!⁠ 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her as

May 12, 1936 May 4, 2024 Frank Stella, American (1936-2024), Juam, from the series Imaginary Places, 1997, lithograph, screenprint, etching, aquatint, woodcut relief on handmade paper, 201.9 cm x 156.2 cm, edition of 40

J.E.H. MacDonald was one of the most acclaimed Canadian artists of his era. A member of The Group Of Seven, his style of paintings was described as tough, dark and elegant. Today, his work sells for upwards of $200,000. This is his story. 📸 Archives of Ontario 🧵 1/9

Alice Liddell (May 4, 1852-Nov 16, 1934) was the girl for whom Lewis Carroll made up the story of Alice and her adventures underground. Eventually he wrote the story down for her, & a revised version was later published as "Alice in Wonderland". Photo and drawing are both by Lewis Carroll.

Artist Keith Haring posing with his personalized Cinelli mountain bike #BicycleBirthday May 4 (1958-1990)

😥https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2026/05/02/nicole-hollander-cartoonist-who-channeled-wit-and-feminist-ideas-through-sylvia-comic-strip-dies-at-86

A Vase of Flowers 1792-97, by #MaryMoser (British, 1744-1819), who died #otd, May 2. Held by the Royal Collection Trust, www.rct.uk/collection/s... #womenartists #artherstory

Georges Kars (German-Czech, 1880-1945) was born on this day (May 2) He was associated with the School of Paris. He committed suicide after learning that most of his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. "Still Life with Green Glass", 1914 #ArtSky #Kars

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Bernardo Daddi of Florence. Lots of gold today! Starting right out with beautiful little triptych from 1338: Madonna, beginning, and end.

#OTD in 1945 'Raising a flag over the #Reichstag' May 2, 1945 ‘The moment was actually a re-enactment of an earlier flag-raising, and the photo was embroiled in controversy over the identities of the soldiers, the photographer, & some significant photo editing.’ #WW2 #USSR #Berlin

Leonardo da Vinci died May 2, 1519 "The undoubtedly fictitious story of his death in the presence of the king comes from The Lives by Vasari." FROM www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/oeuvre/fr... Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1818

Jeanne Birdsall (born May 2, 1951) is an American photographer and writer of children's books. www.rmichelson.com/artists/jean...

"Núria Pompeia was a Catalan cartoonist, graphic humorist, writer and journalist, who published work in Catalan and Castillian. She was one of the few female cartoonists active for the satirical press during the 1970s." www.lambiek.net/artists/p/po...

Jacqueline Brandford Ayer was an American author, illustrator, fashion and textile designer, and recipient of a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators. ~Wikipedia enchantedlion.com/jacqueline-a...

Evangeline "EJ" Montgomery (May 2, 1930-May 1, 2025) was an American artist known primarily for her metal work. She also worked as a printmaker, lithographer, and curator. ~Wikipedia galeriemyrtis.net/evangeline-j...

— Philippe Halsman (Riga, 2/5/1906 - 25/6/1979, NYC) portrait & fashion photographer. He worked for the magazine Life, for which he created 103 cover photos. His collaboration with artists is legendary. —

#BOTD Bill Brandt (May 2, 1904 – December 20, 1983) #Photography

Margaret Frances “Peggy” Bacon (May 2, 1895-January 4, 1987) was an American printmaker, painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. Lady Artist by Peggy Bacon 1925 / Drypoint on white wove paper / Plate: 6″x4″ / Various collections including Brooklyn Museum, NYC schristywolfe.com/2021/05/02/b...

On This Day: May 2, 1869~ The Folies-Bergère first opens its doors (as the Folies Trévise) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet 1881-1882 / Oil on canvas / 37 3/4”x51” / The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London schristywolfe.com/2019/05/02/m...

National Pet Month~ Nebamun fowling and fishing in the marshes / Fragment of a tomb-painting DETAIL: Cat (highlighted) catching birds among the papyrus stems 1350 BC / Painting on plaster / 38 3/5″x45 1/4″ / British Museum, London, UK schristywolfe.com/2020/05/02/n...

National Photography Month~ Umbrella Tree at Smith’s Point [second view] by Marian Hooper Adams 1883 / Photograph / Image size: 4 3/5″x7 6/10″ Marian Hooper Adams photographs collection, photo no.50.72, Massachusetts Historical Society schristywolfe.com/2020/05/02/n...