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Ernest Hemingway – Style Icon
Today is the birthday of Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois (1899), the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such books as The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and...
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The Burning House: What People Would Take If The House Was on Fire
I found this article last night and fell in love with the idea for a photo challenge: Give yourself five minutes and a bag. Rush through your place and collect everything you think you want to have,...
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Daily Prompt: Mentor Me
Today’s Daily Prompt is: “Have you ever had a mentor? What was the greatest lesson you learned from him or her?” This will be short. No. I have never had a mentor. I am sure it is due to a combination...
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Banned Books That Shaped America: For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Library of Congress created an exhibit, “Books that Shaped America,” that explores books that “have had a profound effect on American life.” Many of the books in the exhibit have been...
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The Burning House: What People Would Take If The House Was on Fire
I found this article last night and fell in love with the idea for a photo challenge: Give yourself five minutes and a bag. Rush through your place and collect everything you think you want to have,...
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Rear View Mirror – My Week In Review
I have a lot of rules. Rule #3 has never been enforced. We are in Moses Lake this weekend for Rick’s high school reunion. This town. I mean. Wow. Gertrude Stein once said when referring to her...
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Happy Birthday Pablo Picasso
Today is Picasso’s 133rd birthday. He died 41 years ago at the impressive age of 91. A long life only matched by his long long full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de...
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Happy Birthday Gertrude Stein
Today is the 141st birthday of the eternal wit Gertrude Stein. She was an artist collector as much as she was an art collector, influencing, promoting, supporting and to some extent creating the art,...
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Rear View Mirror – My Week In Review
Over the last few weeks, I have redesigned Rick’s art website at RicardoDuque.com. Take a look at it, subscribe (click on the +Follow tab in the lower right hand corner) and get emails when a new...
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Happy 135th Birthday André Derain
Today is the 135th birthday of the fauvist painter André Derain. The progression of his work through his lifetime is beautiful, I love looking at them chronologically. He finds his style, perfects it...
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Happy 131st Birthday Maxwell Perkins
Today is the 131st birthday of Maxwell Perkins. My first exposure to him was from reading a book of correspondence between him and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was Fitzgerald’s editor at the time and they...
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Happy 134th Birthday Pablo Picasso
Today is Picasso’s 134th birthday. He died 42 years ago at the impressive age of 91. A long life only matched by his long long full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de...
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Happy 124th Birthday Carlos Mérida
Today is the 124th birthday of the Guatamalan muralist Carlos Merida. I am a fan of mid-century murals and if they are mosaic murals, even better. The world is a better place because he was in it and...
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Happy 142nd Birthday Gertrude Stein
Today is the 142nd birthday of the eternal wit Gertrude Stein. She was an artist collector as much as she was an art collector, influencing, promoting, supporting and to some extent creating the art,...
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Happy 129th Birthday Juan Gris
Today is the 129th birthday of the artist Juan Gris. When I see his art, I hear the jazz, see the dancers, smell the cigarette smoke and remember Paris in the 20s as I have read about it in Hemingway’s...
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S is for Stein, Stewart, Scritti Politti, Stanwyck, Siouxsie and the...
S is for Seattle. “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein [1874-1946] Sacred Emily Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, and playwright. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood...
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Happy 134th Birthday Georges Braque
Today is the 134th birthday of the man who is widely recognized as the co-founder of Cubism: Georges Braque. While his counterpart’s name is much more recognizable, his works in the genre are equal to...
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Happy 136th Birthday André Derain
Today is the 136th birthday of the fauvist painter André Derain. The progression of his work through his lifetime is beautiful, I love looking at them chronologically. He finds his style, perfects it...
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Happy 134th Birthday Edward Hopper
Today is the 134th birthday of the artist Edward Hopper. I was first introduced to his art in that same college library where I read everything by the Lost Generation. His artwork fit into the same...
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Happy 132nd Birthday Maxwell Perkins
Today is the 132nd birthday of Maxwell Perkins. My first exposure to him was from reading a book of correspondence between him and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was Fitzgerald’s editor at the time and they...
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