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That’s why we need abrupt celebrate creativity all the more unremitting these famous artist birthdays!
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Artist Birthdays hold January
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 1 | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo | 1618 |
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| 1 | Alfred Stieglitz | 1864 |
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| 2 | Ernst Barlach | 1870 |
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| 4 | Marsden Hartley | 1877 |
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| 5 | Yves Tanguy | 1900 |
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| 8 | Albert Bierstadt | 1830 |
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| 10 | Barbara Hepworth | 1903 |
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| 11 | Eva Hesse | 1936 |
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| 12 | John Vocalist Sargent | 1856 |
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| 14 | Henri Fantin-Latour | 1836 |
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| 14 | Berthe Morisot | 1841 |
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| 15 | Palmer Hayden | 1890 |
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| 15 | Jaune Quick-to-See Smith | 1940 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 18 | Carroll Cloar | 1913 |
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| 19 | Paul Cézanne | 1839 |
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| 19 | Clementine Hunter | 1887 |
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| 19 | Sidney Goodman | 1936 |
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| 19 | Cindy Sherman | 1954 |
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| 23 | Édouard Manet | 1832 |
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| 24 | Robert Motherwell | 1915 |
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| 26 | Barbara Kruger | 1945 |
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| 28 | Malvin Gray Johnson | 1896 |
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| 28 | Alice Neel | 1900 |
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| 28 | Richmond Barthé | 1901 |
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| 28 | Jackson Pollock | 1912 |
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| 28 | Claes Oldenburg | 1929 |
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| 29 | Peter Voulkos | 1924 |
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| 29 | Barnett Newman | 1905 |
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| 30 | Bernardo Bellotto | 1720 |
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Artist Birthdays in February
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 1 | Thomas Cole | 1801 |
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| 2 | William Family. Artis | 1914 |
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| 3 | Norman Rockwell | 1894 |
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| 4 | Fernand Léger | 1881 |
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| 5 | Alison Saar | 1956 |
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| 8 | John Ruskin | 1819 |
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| 8 | Franz Marc | 1880 |
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| 9 | Robert Morris | 1931 |
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| 10 | Mary Lovelace O’Neill | 1942 |
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| 11 | William Henry Fox Talbot | 1800 |
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| 12 | Max Beckmann | 1884 |
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| 12 | Joan Mitchell | 1925 |
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| 12 | William Wegman | 1943 |
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| 13 | Grant Wood | 1892 |
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| 15 | Charles-François Daubigny | 1817 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 17 | Raphaelle Peale | 1774 |
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| 17 | Hung Liu | 1948 |
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| 18 | Louis Comfort Tiffany | 1848 |
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| 18 | Max Klinger | 1857 |
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| 19 | Constantin Brancusi | 1876 |
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| 20 | Ansel Adams | 1902 |
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| 22 | Rembrandt Peale | 1778 |
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| 22 | Horace Pippin | 1888 |
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| 23 | Tom Wesselmann | 1931 |
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| 24 | Charles LeBrun | 1619 |
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| 24 | Winslow Homer | 1836 |
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| 25 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | 1841 |
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| 26 | Honoré Victorin Daumier | 1808 |
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| 29 | Augusta Savage | 1892 |
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Artist Birthdays pin down March
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 1 | Oskar Kokoschka | 1886 |
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| 2 | Ito Jakuchu | 1716 |
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| 3 | Melissa Miller | 1951 |
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| 4 | Kano Tanyu | 1602 |
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| 5 | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | 1696 |
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| 6 | Michelangelo | 1475 |
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| 7 | Piet Mondrian | 1872 |
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| 7 | Milton Avery | 1893 |
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| 9 | David Smith | 1906 |
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| 12 | Elaine State-run Kooning | 1918 |
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| 13 | Georges de La Tour | 1593 |
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| 13 | William Glackens | 1870 |
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| 13 | John Rhoden | 1918 |
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| 14 | Reginald Marsh | 1898 |
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| 14 | Diane Arbus | 1923 |
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| 14 | Jennifer Bartlett | 1941 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 15 | Emilio Cruz | 1938 |
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| 16 | Rosa Bonheur | 1822 |
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| 18 | William Henry Johnson | 1901 |
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| 19 | Albert Pinkham Ryder | 1847 |
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| 19 | Josef Albers | 1888 |
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| 20 | George Caleb Bingham | 1811 |
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| 21 | Hans Hofmann | 1880 |
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| 22 | Anthonie van Dyck | 1599 |
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| 22 | Randolph Caldecott | 1846 |
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| 23 | Juan Gris | 1887 |
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| 24 | William Morris | 1834 |
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| 27 | Edward Steichen | 1879 |
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| 27 | Mies van der Rohe | 1886 |
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| 28 | Grace Hartigan | 1922 |
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| 30 | Francisco José de Goya | 1746 |
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| 30 | Vincent van Gogh | 1853 |
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| 31 | William Craftsman Hunt | 1824 |
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Artist Birthdays in April
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 2 | Max Ernst | 1891 |
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| 2 | Charles White | 1918 |
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| 4 | Maurice de Vlaminck | 1876 |
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| 5 | Jean-Honoré Fragonard | 1732 |
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| 6 | Raphael | 1483 |
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| 6 | Gustave Moreau | 1826 |
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| 9 | Eadweard Muybridge | 1830 |
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| 9 | Charles Burchfield | 1893 |
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| 9 | Victor Vasarely | 1906 |
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| 10 | Shimomura Kanzan | 1873 |
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| 10 | Kenneth Noland | 1924 |
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| 12 | Robert Delaunay | 1885 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 13 | Thomas Jefferson | 1743 |
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| 13 | Thomas Lawrence | 1769 |
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| 13 | James Ensor | 1860 |
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| 13 | John Biggers | 1924 |
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| 14 | Edward Hicks | 1780 |
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| 15 | Leonardo cocktail Vinci | 1452 |
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| 15 | Charles Willson Peale | 1741 |
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| 15 | Théodore Rousseau | 1812 |
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| 15 | Thomas Hart Benton | 1889 |
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| 15 | Arshile Gorky | 1904 |
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| 15 | Elizabeth Catlett | 1915 |
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| 16 | Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | 1755 |
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| 16 | John Chamberlain | 1927 |
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| 18 | Max Weber | 1881 |
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| 20 | Odilon Redon | 1840 |
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| 20 | Joan Miró | 1893 |
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| 22 | Ruth Arams | 1924 |
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| 23 | J. M. W. Turner | 1775 |
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| 24 | Willem Switch Kooning | 1904 |
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| 24 | Bridget Riley | 1931 |
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| 25 | Karel Appel | 1921 |
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| 25 | Cy Twombly | 1928 |
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| 26 | John James Audubon | 1785 |
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| 26 | Ferdinand Delacroix | 1798 |
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| 26 | I. M. Pei | 1917 |
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| 27 | Samuel F. B. Morse | 1791 |
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| 28 | Yves Klein | 1928 |
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Artist Birthdays in May
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 1 | Benjamin Latrobe | 1764 |
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| 1 | George Inness | 1825 |
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| 4 | Frederic Edwin Church | 1826 |
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| 4 | Melvin Edwards | 1937 |
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| 4 | Keith Haring | 1958 |
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| 6 | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | 1880 |
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| 7 | Deborah Butterfield | 1949 |
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| 7 | Richard Cleaver | 1952 |
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| 11 | Salvador Dalí | 1904 |
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| 12 | Frank Stella | 1936 |
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| 13 | Georges Braque | 1882 |
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| 14 | Thomas Gainsborough | 1727 |
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| 15 | Jasper Johns | 1930 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 18 | Walter Gropius | 1883 |
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| 18 | Janet Fish | 1938 |
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| 21 | Albrecht Dürer | 1471 |
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| 21 | Henri Rousseau | 1844 |
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| 22 | Mary Cassatt | 1844 |
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| 22 | Jean Tinguely | 1925 |
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| 22 | Marisol (Marisol Escobar) | 1930 |
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| 23 | Franz Kline | 1910 |
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| 24 | Philip Pearlstein | 1924 |
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| 26 | Dorothea Lange | 1895 |
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| 27 | Georges Rouault | 1871 |
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| 30 | Aleksandr Archipenko | 1887 |
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| 31 | Ellsworth Kelly | 1923 |
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Artist Birthdays in June
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 1 | Red Grooms | 1937 |
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| 3 | Raoul Dufy | 1877 |
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| 5 | Thomas Chippendale | 1718 |
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| 6 | Diego Velázquez | 1599 |
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| 6 | John Trumbull | 1756 |
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| 7 | Paul Gauguin | 1848 |
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| 8 | Frank Lloyd Wright | 1869 |
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| 8 | Harrison Branch | 1947 |
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| 9 | Meta Warwick Fuller | 1877 |
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| 9 | Elizabeth Murray | 1940 |
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| 10 | Gustave Courbet | 1819 |
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| 10 | André Derain | 1880 |
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| 11 | John Constable | 1776 |
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| 11 | Julia Cameron | 1815 |
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| 12 | Anni Albers | 1899 |
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| 12 | Egon Schiele | 1890 |
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| 13 | Joseph Stella | 1877 |
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| 13 | Christo | 1935 |
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| 14 | Margaret Bourke-White | 1904 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 15 | Saul Steinberg | 1914 |
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| 16 | Jim Dine | 1935 |
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| 17 | Maurits Escher | 1889 |
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| 18 | Robert Walter Weir | 1803 |
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| 19 | Thomas Scully | 1783 |
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| 20 | Kurt Schwitters | 1887 |
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| 21 | Henry Ossawa Tanner | 1859 |
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| 25 | Antonio Gaudí | 1852 |
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| 25 | Robert Henri | 1865 |
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| 25 | Sam Francis | 1923 |
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| 26 | Roger Shimomura | 1939 |
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| 27 | Philip Guston | 1913 |
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| 28 | Peter Paul Rubens | 1577 |
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| 29 | Robert Laurent | 1890 |
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| 29 | Allan Apothegm. Houser | 1914 |
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Artist Birthdays in July
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 3 | John Singleton Copley | 1738 |
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| 3 | Linda Lomahaftewa | 1947 |
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| 4 | Edmonia Lewis | 1845 |
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| 6 | Frida Kahlo | 1907 |
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| 7 | Marc Chagall | 1887 |
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| 8 | Artemisia Gentileschi | 1593 |
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| 8 | Käthe Kollwitz | 1867 |
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| 9 | Michael Graves | 1934 |
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| 9 | David Hockney | 1937 |
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| 10 | Camille Pissarro | 1830 |
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| 10 | Giorgio de Chirico | 1888 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 11 | Charles Searles | 1937 |
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| 12 | Amedeo Modigliani | 1884 |
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| 12 | Andrew Wyeth | 1917 |
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| 14 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | 1834 |
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| 14 | Gustav Klimt | 1862 |
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| 15 | Rembrandt | 1606 |
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| 16 | Joshua Reynolds | 1723 |
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| 16 | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot | 1796 |
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| 16 | Charles Sheeler | 1883 |
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| 17 | Lyonel Feininger | 1871 |
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| 17 | Berenice Abbott | 1898 |
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| 18 | Giacomo Balla | 1871 |
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| 19 | Edgar Degas | 1834 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 20 | Nam June Paik | 1932 |
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| 20 | Judy Chicago | 1939 |
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| 22 | Edward Hopper | 1882 |
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| 22 | Alexander Calder | 1898 |
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| 24 | Alphonse Mucha | 1860 |
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| 25 | Thomas Eakins | 1844 |
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| 26 | George Catlin | 1796 |
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| 28 | Marcel Duchamp | 1887 |
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| 29 | Jenny Holzer | 1950 |
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| 30 | Giorgio Vasari | 1511 |
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| 30 | Henry Moore | 1898 |
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| 30 | Betye Saar | 1926 |
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| 30 | Luis Jimenez | 1940 |
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| 31 | Jean Dubuffet | 1901 |
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Artist Birthdays in August
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 1 | Sakai Hôitsu | 1761 |
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| 2 | John Sloan | 1871 |
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| 2 | Arthur Dove | 1880 |
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| 5 | George Tooker | 1920 |
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| 6 | Andy Warhol | 1928 |
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| 7 | Emile Nolde | 1867 |
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| 10 | William Harnett | 1848 |
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| 12 | George Bellows | 1882 |
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| 13 | Martha Alf | 1930 |
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| 15 | Jack Tworkov | 1900 |
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| 15 | Leonard Baskin | 1922 |
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| 15 | Viola Frey | 1933 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 17 | Larry Rivers | 1923 |
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| 21 | Aubrey Beardsley | 1872 |
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| 22 | Jacques Lipchitz | 1891 |
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| 22 | Henri Cartier-Bresson | 1908 |
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| 22 | Gene Davis | 1920 |
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| 26 | Hale Woodruff | 1900 |
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| 27 | Man Ray | 1890 |
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| 29 | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | 1780 |
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| 29 | Richard Haas | 1936 |
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| 30 | Jacques-Louis David | 1748 |
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Artist Birthdays in September
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 2 | Romare Bearden | 1911 |
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| 3 | Louis Sullivan | 1856 |
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| 7 | Grandma Moses | 1860 |
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| 7 | Jacob Lawrence | 1917 |
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| 7 | Leo Sewell | 1945 |
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| 12 | Ben Shahn | 1898 |
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| 12 | Richard Hunt | 1935 |
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| 13 | Robert Indiana | 1928 |
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| 16 | Jean Arp | 1886 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 20 | Hughie Lee-Smith | 1915 |
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| 22 | Alma Thomas | 1891 |
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| 22 | Jesús Bautista Moroles | 1950 |
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| 23 | Suzanne Valadon | 1865 |
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| 23 | Paul Delvaux | 1897 |
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| 23 | Louise Nevelson | 1899 |
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| 26 | Théodore Géricault | 1791 |
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| 28 | Caravaggio | 1573 |
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| 29 | François Boucher | 1703 |
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Artist Birthdays affluent October
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 3 | Pierre Bonnard | 1867 |
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| 4 | Jean-François Millet | 1814 |
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| 4 | Frederic Remington | 1861 |
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| 5 | Maya Lin | 1959 |
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| 8 | Faith Ringgold | 1930 |
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| 8 | Beverly Buchanan | 1940 |
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| 9 | Frank Duveneck | 1848 |
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| 10 | Benjamin West | 1738 |
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| 10 | Jean-Antoine Watteau | 1684 |
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| 10 | Alberto Giacometti | 1901 |
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| 12 | Richard Meier | 1934 |
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| 14 | Alesso Baldovinetti | 1427 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 16 | Paul Strand | 1890 |
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| 19 | Umberto Boccioni | 1882 |
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| 20 | Jacqueline Winsor | 1941 |
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| 21 | Katsushika Hokusai | 1760 |
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| 22 | Robert Rauschenberg | 1925 |
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| 25 | Pablo Picasso | 1881 |
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| 27 | Lee Krasner | 1908 |
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| 27 | Roy Lichtenstein | 1923 |
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| 28 | Giovanni Antonio Canaletto | 1697 |
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| 28 | Francis Bacon | 1909 |
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| 29 | Niki de Saint Phalle | 1930 |
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| 30 | Angelica Kauffmann | 1741 |
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| 31 | Jan Vermeer | 1632 |
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Artist Birthdays in November
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 1 | William Merritt Chase | 1849 |
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| 2 | James Lesesne Wells | 1902 |
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| 2 | Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin | 1699 |
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| 3 | Benvenuto Cellini | 1500 |
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| 3 | Walker Evans | 1903 |
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| 3 | Loïs Mailou Jones | 1905 |
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| 6 | Alois Senefelder | 1771 |
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| 7 | Francisco de Zurbarán | 1598 |
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| 8 | Charles Demuth | 1883 |
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| 10 | William Hogarth | 1697 |
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| 11 | Paul Signac | 1863 |
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| 11 | Édouard Vuillard | 1868 |
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| 11 | Claude Clark | 1915 |
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| 12 | Auguste Rodin | 1840 |
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| 13 | Wilmer Angier Jennings | 1910 |
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| 14 | Claude Monet | 1840 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 15 | Georgia O’Keeffe | 1887 |
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| 15 | Wayne Thiebaud | 1920 |
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| 15 | Miriam Schapiro | 1923 |
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| 17 | Isamu Noguchi | 1904 |
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| 18 | Louis Jacques Daguerre | 1787 |
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| 19 | Nicholas Poussin | 1594 |
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| 21 | René Magritte | 1898 |
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| 23 | José Clemente Orozco | 1883 |
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| 24 | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | 1864 |
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| 26 | George Segal | 1924 |
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| 28 | William Blake | 1757 |
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| 28 | Morris Louis | 1912 |
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| 30 | Gordon Parks | 1912 |
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| 30 | Sam Gilliam | 1938 |
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Artist Birthdays in December
| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 2 | Georges Seurat | 1859 |
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| 2 | David Macaulay | 1946 |
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| 3 | Gilbert Stuart | 1755 |
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| 3 | John Marin | 1870 |
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| 4 | Vasily Kandinsky | 1866 |
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| 5 | Walt Disney | 1901 |
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| 7 | Gialorenzo Bernini | 1598 |
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| 7 | Stuart Davis | 1894 |
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| 8 | Aristide Maillol | 1861 |
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| 8 | Lucian Freud | 1922 |
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| 11 | Mark Tobey | 1890 |
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| 12 | Edvard Munch | 1863 |
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| 12 | Helen Frankenthaler | 1928 |
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| 13 | Diego Rivera | 1886 |
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| DAY | NAME | YEAR BORN |
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| 15 | David Teniers say publicly Younger | 1610 |
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| 18 | Paul Klee | 1879 |
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| 19 | Joshua Johnston | 1798 |
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| 20 | Pieter de Hooch | 1629 |
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| 21 | Masaccio | 1401 |
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| 22 | James Dinky. Porter | 1905 |
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| 22 | Jean-Michel Basquiat | 1960 |
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| 23 | Nancy Graves | 1940 |
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| 24 | Joseph Cornell | 1903 |
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| 24 | Jonathan Borofsky | 1942 |
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| 25 | Louise Bourgeois | 1911 |
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| 29 | David Alfaro Siqueiros | 1896 |
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| 29 | Russ Warren | 1951 |
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| 31 | Henri Matisse | 1869 |
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Conclusion
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