On This Day

June 27, On This Day  This painter “frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as, especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work, the banality of evil”.   Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein in June 27, 1913, was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. He is today regarded one of […]

Iri Maruki was born on this day, June 20, in 1901 in Hiroshima Province in Japan. He studied traditional nihonga painting, monochrome in ink, and famously collaborated with his artist wife, Toshi Maruki, throughout his life. When Hiroshima was struck by an atomic bomb, Iri’s family was present there. Iri reached the site three days

June 18, On This Day Sunayani Devi Amid a lineage of prolific littérateurs and artists, the Tagore family, was yet another eminent painter and woman. Sunayani Devi was the younger sister of painters Abanindranath, Gaganendranath and Samarendranath Tagore, and the niece of Rabindranath Tagore.   She was born to Saudamini Devi and Gunendranath Tagore on

June 13, On This Day     Remember last year, when the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was wrapped up in gigantic swathes of silver and blue, giving way to a flamboyant project that no one had quite envisioned could happen?  That was the vision of artist pair Christo and Jeanne-Claude — or Christo Vladimirov

JUNE 14, ON THIS DAY Known for her perceptive depictions of women and children, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children, Mary Cassatt was one of the few American artists active in the nineteenth-century French avant-garde. She died on this day, June 14, 1926. She was a painter and a printmaker

JUNE 11, ON THIS DAY One of the most notable contemporary artists of Bengal Schools of Art whose dark imageries got him an international fame, Ganesh Pyne was born on this day, 11 June 1937. He was described as a man who ‘radiated a mysterious quality’ by filmmaker Pritish Nandy. Printed drawings by Abanindranath Tagore

June 12, On This Day In an artistic stint that has been called “short, intense, and amazingly productive”, Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele is said to have become one of the best portrait artists of the modern era and a key contributor to the Vienna Secession movement. Born on this day 132 years ago, on

JUNE 10, ON THIS DAY Antoni Gaudi One of the most famous architects of the first half of the 20th century, Antoni Gaudi met with an untimely death on this day, June 10. He was killed at an age of 73 after being hit by a tram in 1926. Best known for developing intricate structures