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Dora Carrington died #OTD 1932. Artist and designer with Bloomsbury links, although her work has a distinctive cool clarity. You can (re) discover her at Pallant House Gallery at the moment pallant.org.uk/whats-on/dor...

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Capri Girl with Flowers, 1878, by #SophieGengembreAnderson (French-born British, 1823-1903), who died #otd, Mar 10. Held by the Russell Cotes Gallery, russellcotes.com/collection-p... #artherstory #womenartists

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My pick of some of the best spring exhibitions round Europe (I haven't been able to narrow it down to 5!) at DailyArt Mag www.dailyartmagazine.com/5-exhibition...

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Otto Freundlich murdered #OTD 1943 at Majdanek concentration camp. You can currently see his work Musee Picasso exhibition 'Degenerate Art, Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis' www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/degenerat...

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Constance Mayer (probably) born #OTD 250 years ago. Successful academic artist who enjoyed a long, equal and largely successful collaboration with Pierre Prudhon before it was - what a surprise - rewritten by history www.dailyartmagazine.com/constance-ma...

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My annual #InternationalWomensDay complaint. cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2023/03/my-s...

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Siena - Rise of Painting just started at National Gallery, probably the exhibition of the year, even though it won't draw Van Gogh-like crowds. I am booked and counting the days. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...

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Happy Birthday to Anselm Kiefer. Big exh just opened in Amsterdam and coming to Royal Academy in the summer, but you can see his early works (plus 3 new ones) at Ashmolean right now. www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/a...

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Michelangelo born #OTD 550 years ago. A spate of recent exhibitions (Late Michelangelo at British Mus, 1504 at RA) and there's just time to catch Renaissance Drawings at King's Pict Gallery. Soane Museum (always good online exhs) is currently exploring him as architect www.soane.org/exhibitions/...

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Pauline Boty born #OTD 1938 British Pop artist who is finally getting recognition as not just a woman Pop artist but as the absolute pinnacle of the UK movement. There's a decent documentary on BBC at present and you can see her work at Holburne's portraiture exhibition holburne.org/events/iconi...

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Alison Watt's paintings are perfection, Pitzhanger is an incredible building. Put then together and this exhibition, opening today, should be wonderful. www.pitzhanger.org.uk/whatson/alis...

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Berthe Morisot died #otd 1895. She's one of the artists in a very tempting exhibition on in the Hague at the moment- looking at Paris through Impressionist eyes. Also last week of one women show at GAM in Turin www.kunstmuseum.nl/en/exhibitio...

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Lots of exhibitions ending soon, including this which is worth going for the amazing story of Mattei Radev's life & the history of collection and collectors, as it is for the works themselves. Strongly curated, with a sense these were works chosen and cherished www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/c...

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Last week of huge Renaissance drawings exh at King's Picture Gallery. 'It is a privilege and a joy to see the works themselves....Simple, fragile, momentary and yet arrestingly powerful.' Full review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/01/draw...

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Horace Walpole died #OTD 1797. A great day to visit his creation Strawberry Hill House (or read Castle of Otranto!) which gives you a wonderful sense of the man in all his magnificent oddness mainlymuseums.com/post/1264/st...

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Last week of Parmigianino's St Jerome exh at National Gallery. Had the room to myself recently. Beautifully restored, well curated, lovely drawings, informative and all for free. For all their faults (queues!) the NG does this sort of thing impeccably. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...

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Last week of brilliant Evelyn De Morgan exh at Wolverhampton. 'The title implies an insubstantiality. De Morgan's work is the opposite of that... there is a strength and self-confidence in every line and every colour she chooses.' Full review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2024/10/pain...

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Anne Vallayer Coster died #OTD 1818 Fabulous still lifes. Find out more about her www.dailyartmagazine.com/anne-vallaye...

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I've only just come across this exh @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social Sheila Fell's roughly expressive landscapes should be much better known - this is travelling to Sunderland but it's a great shame it's not going to a venue down south too. tullie.org.uk/events/sheil...

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EXHIBITION NEWS! Booking open for new #Morris exhibition, 'Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May, Jane & William Morris', 15 Nov 2025-4 Feb 2026, Winchester. Their radical designs & lives encourage us to 'Love the narrow spot that surrounds our daily life'. www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

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Bridget headed off to London to see some Impressionist Art pieces. Why not join her on the trip and see what all she discovered. mainlymuseums.com/post/1325/a-... #museums #museumfromhome

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'On the Beach,' (1891) was one of Maurice Denis' first experiments in capturing the elusive quality of how light moves on the surface of water; a source of constant inspiration as he focused on themes for pictures during summer holidays on the Brittany coast.

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Also the last week of Glenn Ligon at the Fitzwilliam: 'There is a running tension throughout Ligon's work between visual forthrightness and intellectual nuance...after the gentleness, the quiet, there are raw screams of rasping texture'. Full review cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/01/glen...

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Just opened at Fitzwilliam, the second of their exhibitions confronting their own (and Britain's) past. Last year's Black Atlantic was excellent - informative, effective but never preachy - won curating awards, so expecting good stuff from Victoria Avery and team fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-vi...

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot died #OTD 150 years ago. A landscapist of 2 distinct styles - crisp, sunlit blues and oranges, and mistily soft grey-greens - but also ambiguous, moody figures which remind me of Gwen John. Always understated, he's too easily forgotten.

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Caillebotte died #OTD 1894. By coincidence, this is new out at DailyArt Mag. Caillebotte did Paris, like everything else, just a bit differently. www.dailyartmagazine.com/gustave-cail...

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Thomas Girtin born #OTD 250 years ago. He reinvigorated watercolour, often seen as purveyor of mild mannered picturesque, but this Bamburgh Castle plays up the Romanticism. Girtin (died at 27) was friend & rival of Turner. Great shame no exh (I don't think) taking advantage of the double anniversary

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Last week of this Norwich Castle exh. There's an abundance of Turner shows this anniversary year, but this one ticks all the boxes - some great examples of his work contextualised by other landscape-inspired artists right up to the present. www.norwichcastle.norfolk.gov.uk/article/6171...

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Just started at Ashmolean - Early (and much less familiar) Kiefer - a warm up for the RA Kiefer/Van Gogh show later this year certainly, but worth seeing in its own right www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/a...

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Something for everyone here, just started at Courtauld - some people get a bit snooty about 'greatest hits' exhibitions but you'll see some cracking paintings courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

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Loads of good exhibitions to celebrate Turner's 250th birthday, throughout the UK throughout 2025 www.dailyartmagazine.com/turner-at-25...

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Louise Hollandine died #OTD 1709. Princess, nun and painter including of this brilliant self portrait

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Gerrit Dou died #OTD 350 years ago. Master of small, precise vignettes of Dutch life - lover of windows and candles. This is in Fitzwilliam Museum. He's currently on show in Illusion at Kunsthalle Hamburg but I don't know of any specific anniversary shows.

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Last week of '1504' exh at RA - frustratingly small but worth it for 'drawings which balanced a focus on process with a desire to just bask in the sheer beauty which these artists could conjure up on paper' Full review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2024/12/mich...

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Just started at the Whitworth,Turner's prints and watercolours. There are a spate of exhibitions on the way for his 250th anniversary (and one ongoing in Norwich) but this stands out from the crowd. www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

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Jan van Huysum died #OTD 1749 One of the great Dutch flower painters - this is now part of the Fitzwilliam Museum's collection of floral art - at the moment spectacularly rehung as part of Glenn Ligon's All Over the Place fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-vi...

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Starting today at Dovecot in Edinburgh - the wonderful Scottish Colourists in context with Bloomsbury and European modernists. Should be great! dovecotstudios.com/whats-on/the...

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Just what is it that makes the Romans so endlessly fascinating? eratomagazine.com/2025/02/03/t...

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Good news, especially for Bradford, Cambridge and Plymouth - the success of the National Gallery's initiative last year proves we should have more art travelling out of London and give other curators a chance to display it with imagination and flare museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

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Last week of Noel Paton exhibition at Dunfermline Carnegie Library - if you think he's just twee fairies, it will prove you wrong. My review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2024/11/jose...

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Starting today at Tate St Ives. Another surrealist woman artist about to be 'discovered'? Worth noting that (unusually) this is coming to London later in the year www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

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Charles I was beheaded #OTD 1649. Much painted and for all his faults a huge patron of the arts. Here's a look at some of the images of him @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/cur...

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We celebrate the anniversary of the baptism of Suor #PlautillaNelli - 501 years ago #otd - with a new post on the #ArtHerstory blog! Plautilla Nelli & the Restoration of her Altarpiece #Madonna del Rosario by Jane Adams artherstory.net/plautilla-ne... #womenartists #nuntastic

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RIP Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940- January 2025) Native American artist enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Memory Map, 2000. #WomensArt

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Starting today Brasil Brasil at Royal Academy I know very little about Brazilian modernism - hoping to be educated www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/b...

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Last week of @NationalGallery excellent Discover Haywain exh: 'Giving the most banally familiar of paintings space and context, quite literally makes you see it with fresh eyes.' Full review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2024/12/disc...

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A good story all round. The attribution to Fontana and the association with Walpole and Strawberry Hill House. I hope they raise the funds to keep it. www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/lavinia-font...

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Work of the Week! Breadwinners, 1896 by Walter Langley Langley is honest in his depiction of the hard work involved and the central role of women, the ‘breadwinners’, in the Newlyn fishing industry. Each basket contained approximately 300 pilchards, weighing 84 lbs (38 kg).

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In honour of Manet's birthday #OTD, Daily Art Magazine have plenty of articles including my piece on Dejeuner sur l'Herbe - certainly his strangest painting. www.dailyartmagazine.com/manet-the-lu...

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