Quote from Anne On on June 29, 2025, 7:11 am

RIP OTD 1940. Swiss-born artist Paul Klee died (aged 60). He was influenced by Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism and was hugely popular in Weimar Germany, but his work was described as “Degenerate Art” during the Nazi period and banned.

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee

Quote from Anne On on July 3, 2025, 6:51 am

Born OTD 1963. Modern artist Tracey Emin, was born in Croydon. She’s best known for her work: Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, which featured her unmade bed. It was exhibited at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London in 1997.

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey_Emin

Quote from Anne On on July 3, 2025, 6:51 am

RIP OTD in 2014 photographer best known for her images of rock and roll acts, Jini Dellaccio died at age 97 in Seattle, Washington https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/03/day-in-history-3-july-jim-morrison/

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 4, 2025, 6:55 am

RIP OTD in 1995, United States Air Force veteran, painter, art instructor, and television host Bob Ross died from lymphoma in Orlando, Florida at the age of 52. Woodlawn Memorial Park in Gotha, Florida https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 9, 2025, 5:48 am

Born OTD 1937. David Hockney was born in Bradford. He’s one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. In 2018, Hockney’s 1972 work Portrait of an Artist sold at Christie’s in New York City for £70 million, becoming the most expensive painting by a living artist.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney

Quote from Anne On on July 9, 2025, 5:51 am

OTD in 1962 Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans Exhibition was opened to the public at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA. It featured paintings of 32 different flavoured Campbell’s soup cans that were photographed, and then traced onto canvas and hand-painted.

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell's_Soup_Cans

Quote from Anne On on July 10, 2025, 6:08 am

RIP OTD 1851 artist, inventor, photographer, Louis Daguerre died from a heart attack in Bry-sur-Marne, France, aged 63. Cimetière de Bry-sur-Marne https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 13, 2025, 6:51 am

RIP OTD in 1954, painter Frida Kahlo died from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 47 at her home, La Casa Azul in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Cremation. Cremated remains at La Casa Azul (self portrait) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/13/day-in-history-13-july-george-steinbrenner/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 13, 2025, 6:51 am

RIP OTD in 1946 photographer, modern art promoter, husband of Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz died from a stroke in New York City with O'Keeffe by his side, aged 82. Cremated remains interred under a tree on the shore of Lake George, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/13/day-in-history-13-july-george-steinbrenner/

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 14, 2025, 6:05 am

RIP OTD in 1966 painter, model, diarist (parmi les peintres impressionnistes), art collector, daughter of Berthe Morisot & Eugène Manet, Julie Manet died in Paris aged 87. Passy Cemetery, Paris (Morisot, Julie Manet and Her Greyhound Laertes, 1893) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 18, 2025, 6:31 am

RIP OTD in 1610, Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610, Caravaggio died in Porto Ercole, Tuscany at the age of 38. Original tomb Cimitero San Sebastiano, Porto Ercole, Toscana https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/18/day-in-history-18-july-jane-austen/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 19, 2025, 7:07 am

RIP OTD in 1910 courtesan and demi-mondaine, notable art collector and salon hostess, Émilie-Louise Delabigne, countess Valtesse de La Bigne died in Ville-d'Avray, France aged 62. Cimetière de Ville d'Avray (portrait by Manet) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/19/day-in-history-19-july-petrarch/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 20, 2025, 6:12 am

RIP OTD in 2011 Lucian Freud died (aged 88). He was one of the leading 20th century portrait artists. He was born in Berlin, and was the grandson of Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape Hitler’s anti-Semitic policies.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Freud

Quote from Anne On on July 21, 2025, 6:40 am

RIP OTD in 1977, photographer and photojournalist Lee Miller died of cancer at her home, Farley Farm House in Chiddingly, East Sussex aged 70. She was cremated, and her cremated remains were spread through her herb garden at Farley https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 26, 2025, 6:21 am

RIP OTD in 1971 photographer Diane Arbus died from an overdose of barbiturates in her home in the Westbeth Artists Community in Manhattan, age 48. Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/

 

 

Quote from Anne On on July 29, 2025, 6:17 am

RIP OTD in 1890, post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh died from complications of a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise, France at the age of 37. Auvers-sur-Oise Town Cemetery next to his brother Theo https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 2, 2025, 6:13 am

RIP OTD in 1788 Thomas Gainsborough died (aged 61). He’s considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He was a prolific portrait painter, but also produced many acclaimed landscapes.

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gainsborough

Quote from Anne On on August 3, 2025, 6:43 am

RIP OTD in 2004 artist, humanist photographer, master of candid photography, pioneer of street photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson died in Céreste, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, aged 95. Cimetière de Montjustin, France https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/03/day-in-history-3-august-joseph-conrad/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 6, 2025, 5:59 am

RIP OTD in 1660, artist Diego Velázquez died in Madrid, aged 61. Entombed in the Fuensalida vault of the church of San Juan Bautista, within eight days his wife Juana was entombed beside him. The church was destroyed around 1809 and their bodies lost https://thefinalfootprint.com/