Quote from Anne On on January 20, 2025, 1:47 pm

20 January 1900. John Ruskin, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, died (aged 80). Tolstoy described him as “one of the most remarkable men not only of England but of our generation”. Ruskin College, Oxford was named in his honour.

 

 

 

 

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Quote from Anne On on January 23, 2025, 1:03 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1883 artist, printmaker, illustrator (Paradise Lost, The Tempest, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Raven), painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor Gustave Doré died in Paris, aged 51. Père Lachaise Cemetery http://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/23/day-in-history-23-january-johnny-carson/…

 

 

 

 

 

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Quote from Anne On on January 23, 2025, 1:04 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1944, painter Edvard Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo, aged 80. Vår Frelsers Gravlund (Cemetery of Our Saviour), Oslo http://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/23/day-in-history-23-january-johnny-carson/…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Quote from Anne On on January 23, 2025, 1:04 pm

#RIP #OTD in 1989 surrealist painter, Salvador Dali died while his favorite record of Tristan and Isolde played, of heart failure in Figueres, Spain at the age of 84. Entombed in the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres http://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/23/day-in-history-23-january-johnny-carson/…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Quote from Anne On on January 24, 2025, 1:07 pm

RIP OTD in 1920, painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani died of tubercular meningitis at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris at the age of 35. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris http://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/24/day-in-history-24-january-churchill/…

 

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on January 25, 2025, 12:57 pm

RIP OTD in 1891 art dealer, younger brother of Vincent, Theo Van Gogh died; dementia paralytica caused by "heredity, chronic disease, overwork, sadness", in Utrecht, Netherlands, six months after Vincent aged 33. Cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise, France http://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/25/day-in-history-25-january-ava-gardner/…

 

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on January 26, 2025, 12:54 pm

RIP OTD in 1920 painter, model, common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne died with her unborn baby, jumping from her parents fifth-floor apartment in Paris, the day after Modigliani died, aged 21. With Modigliani, Père Lachaise Cemetery http://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/26/day-in-history-26-january-lucky-luciano/…

 

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on January 31, 2025, 12:58 pm

RIP OTD in 2012, painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet, wife of Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning died at her Manhattan home at age 101. Cremated remains with Ernst, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/31/day-in-history-31-january-moira-shearer/

 

 

Birthday, 1942, oil on canvas, 40 1/4 x 25 1/2 in./102.2 x 64.8 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art. ©The Estate of Dorothea Tanning

Quote from Anne On on February 1, 2025, 11:50 am

RIP OTD in 1989 Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter, editorial associate for Art News magazine, wife of Willem, Elaine de Kooning died of lung cancer in Southampton, New York, aged 70. Green River Cemetery, East Hampton, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/01/day-in-history-1-february-space-shuttle-columbia/

 

 

Quote from Anne On on February 3, 2025, 7:04 am

RIP OTD in 1944 cabaret singer, actress of the Belle Époque, diseuse, innovator of the French chanson, model for portraits by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others, Yvette Guilbert died in Aix-en-Provence, aged 79. Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/03/day-in-history-3-february-buddy-holly/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on February 6, 2025, 11:45 am

RIP OTD in 1918, painter Gustav Klimt died in Vienna at the age of 55, having suffered a stroke and pneumonia due to the influenza epidemic of that year. Hietzinger Cemetery in Hietzing, Vienna https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/06/day-in-history-6-february-arthur-ashe/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on February 6, 2025, 11:45 am

RIP OTD in 1938 artist, whose work is celebrated as a central part of German Expressionism, Marianne von Werefkin died in Ascona, Switzerland aged 77. Cimitero di Ascona (self portrait) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/06/day-in-history-6-february-arthur-ashe/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on February 11, 2025, 6:54 am

RIP OTD in 1862 artist, poet, muse (for artists Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Elizabeth Siddal died from a laudanum overdose in London, aged 32. Highgate Cemetery. portrait by Rossetti http://thefinalfootprint.com/2024/02/11/day-in-history-11-february-rene-descartes/…

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on February 11, 2025, 6:55 am

RIP OTD in 1940 Impressionist painter, printmaker, author (History of Art: A Study of the Lives of Leonardo...), mentor to female artists, Ellen Day Hale died in Brookline, Massachusetts, on her 85th birthday. Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Mass. http://thefinalfootprint.com/2024/02/11/day-in-history-11-february-rene-descartes/…

 

 

 

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Quote from Anne On on February 20, 2025, 10:33 am

RIP OTD in 1993 automobile designer, inventor, mechanic, engineer, winemaker, industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini, Ferruccio Lamborghini died at Silvestrini Hospital in Perugia after a heart attack, aged 76. Cimitero di Renazzo, Italy https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/20/day-in-history-20-february-admiral-nimitz/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on February 20, 2025, 10:34 am

RIP OTD in 1996 artist's model (more than 12 statues in New York City), actress (Inspiration), America's first supermodel, Audrey Munson died at St. Lawrence State Hospital for the Insane in Ogdensburg, New York aged 104. New Haven Cemetery, New Haven NY https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/20/day-in-history-20-february-admiral-nimitz/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on February 21, 2025, 10:04 am

RIP OTD in 1894 painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, Gustave Caillebotte died of pulmonary congestion while working in his garden at Petit-Gennevilliers, France at age 45. Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/21/day-in-history-21-february-james-i-king-of-scots/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on February 22, 2025, 7:24 am

RIP OTD in 1875, landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot died in his home, rue du Faubourg-Poissionnière, Paris, 10th arr., aged 78. Père Lachaise Cemetery https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/22/day-in-history-22-february-amerigo-vespucci/