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Caroline Weldon (born Susanna Karolina Faesch; 4 December 1844 – 15 March 1921) was a Swiss-American artist and activist with the National Indian Defense Association.. Weldon became a confidante and the personal secretary to the Lakota Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull during the time when Plains Indians had adopted the Ghost Dance move
The book consists of 32 pages of text followed by Picasso's illustrations which reproduce three sketchbooks from 1959. The plates are black & white, sepia and color, and many are single-sided. Part of the sketchbooks have never been found (the drawings of March 2 and 3, notably representing Jacqueline on horseback).
René Bull was a British illustrator and photographer. He was born in Dublin on 11 December 1872 to a French mother and an English father. He went to Paris to study engineering, but embarked on an artistic career after meeting and taking drawing lessons from the French satirist and political cartoonist Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poiré). [ 1 ]
Eighteenth-century drawings, like that attributed to Jacques-Louis David, were usually executed on tinted paper in red or black chalk with white highlights and a darkened ground. The models' poses tended to be active: standing figures seem about to stir and even seated figures gesticulate dramatically.
Black boy with slave collar, Dutch 17th-century painting. Representations of slavery in European art date back to ancient times. They show slaves of varied ethnicity, white as well as black. In Europe, slavery became increasingly associated with blackness from the 17th century onwards. [1] However, slaves before this period were predominantly ...
Over the next several years, she continued to create illustrations for magazines, including a series of Mother Goose illustrations printed in Good Housekeeping, which were black and white until mid-1914 when they were printed in color. Her illustrations were reproduced in the book The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose by Dodd, Mead, and Company ...
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Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903 in a two-story duplex apartment at 1313 Carr Street in St. Louis, Missouri. [2] [3] His father, Isaac, was a German Jewish traveling salesman, while his mother Rebecca was from a family of strict, Russian Orthodox Jews; his maternal grandparents refused to eat in his parents' non-kosher home. [4]