Tag Archives: 1940’s

1943: Mountain Landscape

Posted on October 5, 2019 by

Konstantin Bogaevsky: Mountain Landscape The painting is undated; Bogaevsky died in 1943

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1946: Beauty and the Beast

Posted on September 13, 2019 by

Jean Cocteau, director: La Belle et la Bête (1946)

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1947: Iridescence

Posted on September 12, 2019 by

Andrey Avinoff: Iridescence (1925-1947) The entomologist Andrey Avinoff emigrated from Russia to the USA after the revolution and worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for 20 years, eventually becoming its director. He turned to painting only later in … Continue reading →

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1941: FDR and Captain America’s Shield

Posted on June 21, 2019 by

  Captain America recieving his trademark circular shield from FDR in June, 1941. From Captain America #255 (March, 1981) (Roger Stern, writer; John Byrne, artist). The shield’s history developed slowly. Originally, in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), Cap carried … Continue reading →

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1945: With These Blows of My Hammer

Posted on May 21, 2019 by

On September 14, 1945, trade unionist Paul Bebert, a former concentration camp prisoner, destroyed the swastikas that Nazis has affixed to union offices in Hamburg. He read this statement to the crowd: With these blows of my hammer I will … Continue reading →

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1944: The Drop

Posted on May 17, 2019 by

Albert Richards: The Drop (1944)

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1943: Balloon Site

Posted on May 8, 2019 by

Laura Knight: A Balloon Site, Coventry (1943)

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