On this Day

Born 3rd August 1887, Washington DC. Wilson served in the US Army during WW1 and on his return documented his experiences by painting them. Some of his paintings are harrowing, some titles too long for Twitter. Here’s: Raid On Our Trench

Born in Pennsylvania on Aug 2 1871, Sloan was a founder of Ashcan art – which represented fin de siecle political rebellion. Best known for capturing urban life and local neighbourhoods in NYC, he was a proper socialist artist. Here’s: Six o’clock, Winter

Born July 26, 1893, Grosz was a German artist known mainlyfor his drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the pre-war years, settling in the US in 1938. Thisis “Untitled”

Born #OTD 25 July 1844 in Philadelphia, PA, Thomas Eakins was one of the USA’s finest. Here’s his Champion Single Sculls. Eakins worked exactingly from local Philadelphia life, painting many, many portraits that give a unique view of löife in the period. Here’s his Champion single sculls, it’s in @MuseumModernArt

Born 2 May 1825 in Denmark or maybe London? An undervalued or enigmatic painter? Classic C19 landscapes that you can pick up for reasonable money at auction. Just a thought. Here’s: St Michael’s Mount.

Born April 30 1503 in Bologna, Primaticcio trained under Giulio Romano in Mantov and also was a pupil of Innocenzo da Imola, executing decorations at the Palazzo Te before securing a position in the court of Francis I of France to work at Fontainebleu.

Born 24 Apr, 1889 near Moscow, Popova was born to a wealthy family and grew up with a strong interest in art. She brought a myriad of modern influences to Russian art, in particular with regard to Cubism and Futurism. Representation of movement was one of her many facets, as well as showing several angles

Born: Apr 23, 1775 at Covent Garden, London, Turner was one of the great, if not the greatest, masters of light, Turner specialised in seacscapes, and landscapes, often turbulent and imaginative, always interesting. This painting of a GWR train at speed in rain, shows his trademark atmospheric tonality.

Born April 18, 1881in Poland, Max Weber was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters. Later life he turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. This is Chinese Restaurant.

Born Apr 15 1904 in Armenia, he had a great influence on Abstract Expressionism. A friend (or rival?) of Jackson Pollock, was he the inspiration for Vonnegut’s Rabo Kabekian, anybody know? Here’s: Enigmatic Combat.