Tag Archives: Painting

1969: Better Than Those Motherfuckers

Posted on August 28, 2020 by

Wadsworth Jarrell: Compared to What – I Am Better Than Those Motherfuckers and They Know It (1969) My painting Compared to What: I Am Better Than Those Motherfuckers and They Know It was critiqued. The form consists of graffiti-style words … Continue reading →

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1895: Long Beach

Posted on August 16, 2020 by

George Howell Gay: Surf, Long Beach, Rockport; I made up the date.

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1629: The Most Trivial Disagreements

Posted on August 15, 2020 by

Such personal correspondence and diaries as survive suggest that social relations from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries tended to be cool, even unfriendly. The extraordinary amount of casual interpersonal physical and verbal violence, as recorded in legal and other … Continue reading →

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1955: Tomorrow is Never

Posted on August 12, 2020 by

Kay Sage: Tomorrow is Never (1955) DESTINY If I turn back at least I shall not have the sun in my face. But then there will always be the long shadow of myself before me.

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1874: Seascape

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Alfred Thompson Bricher: Seascape (1874)

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1816: The World Was about to Come to an End

Posted on July 31, 2020 by

In 1881, Jedediah Hubbell Dorwin published some recollections of living in Montreal based on his extensive journals and scrapbooks. The following was reprinted in many newspapers at the time: On the morning of Sunday, November 8, 1819, the sun rose … Continue reading →

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1867: Distant View

Posted on July 30, 2020 by

Frederick Leighton: Distant View of Mountains in the Aegean Sea (1867)

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1939: Revolt

Posted on June 1, 2020 by

Hale Woodruff’s murals commemorating the revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad were installed in Talladega College’s Savery Library in 1939, the centennial of the uprising. The first mural depicts the moment when, on or about July 1, 1839, kidnapped … Continue reading →

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1639: Thoughts

Posted on May 23, 2020 by

From a letter written by James Howell, 17 March 1639: Having got into a close field, I cast my face upward, and…began to contemplate as I was in this posture the vast magnitude of the universe and what proportion this … Continue reading →

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1918: Munitions Girls

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Stanhope Forbes: The Munitions Girls (1918)

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