Tag Archives: Art

1943: Self-Portrait

Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Heinz Geiringer was a Jewish teenager in Amsterdam when the Nazis invaded the city in 1940. For two years, the family lived in hiding, with Heinz’s sister and mother separating from him and … Continue reading

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1891: May Day

Happy May Day! Walter Crane: The Triumph of Labour (1891)

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1891: Funeral

Henri Rivière: Funeral Under Umbrellas (1891)

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1865: An Army of Striking Labor

In Black Reconstruction in America (1935), W. E. B. Du Bois argues that a “general strike” by millions of enslaved African-Americans decided the outcome of the civil war. By rebelling against their masters, abandoning southern plantations, contributing their labor to … Continue reading

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1920: Seascape

Ludwik Cylkow: Untitled Seascape (c 1920)

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1881: Beach

F. K. M. Rehn: Beach of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Massachusetts (1881)

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1720: Women Working

Giacomo Ceruti: Women Working on Pillow Lace (c. 1720)

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1875: Sunlight and Shadow

Martin Johnson Heade: Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes (c. 1871-1875)

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2013: Landscape

Yan Cong: Landscape #6 (2013)

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2014: Jahmal

Gabriel Garcia Roman: Jahmal (2014); from a series, Queer Icons

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