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Prints purchased by STISD are housed at Biblioteca Las Americas for circulation throughout the district.  Staff may check them out directly or contact the Med Tech librarian as with other interlibrary loan requests.

 

August is American Artists Appreciation Month

 American artists to celebrate in August include Andy Warhol (whose birthday is August 6),  Mary Cassatt, Currier & Ives, Georgia O'Keefe, William Johnson, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Frederic Remington, M. L. Mastai, August Macke, Diego Velazquez, Arshile Gorky, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Honore Fragdnard, Norman Rockwell, Philip Evergood, Charles Alston, and Winslow Homer.

 

Artists with August Birthdays                                     

Andy Warhol   August 6, 1928 American pop artist
Thomas Bewick August 12, 1753   English artist/wood engraver
George Herriman August 22, 1880 Cartoonist (Krazy Kat)

 

Artists with September Birthdays                               

Mort Walker   September 3, 1923 Cartoonist (Beetle Bailey)
Grandma Moses September 7, 1860 American painter born Anna Mary Robertson
Jacob Lawrence September 7, 1917 Award winning African American artist

 

Artists with October Birthdays

Frederic S. Remington October 4, 1861  Artist and sculptor of the Old West
James David Brooks October 18, 1906       Muralist and abstract expressionist
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto October 18, 1697 Italian painter
Pablo Picasso October 25, 1881 Painter, sculptor, engraver
Roy Lichtenstein October 27, 1923 Pop artist
Alfred Sisley October 30, 1839 French impressionist painter

 

Artists with November Birthdays

William Hogarth November 10, 1697 English painter and engraver
Auguste Rodin November 12, 1840 French sculptor
Claude Monet November 14, 1840 French Impressionist
Georgia O'Keefe November 15, 1887 Desert landscape painter
Chester Gould November 20, 1900 Cartoonist (Dick Tracy)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec November 24, 1864 French painter and designer of posters
Charles Schulz November 26, 1922 Cartoonist (Peanuts)
Charles H. Alston November 28, 1907 African-American painter and sculptor

 

Artists with December Birthdays

Georges Pierre Seurat December 2, 1859 French Neo-impressionist painter
Gilbert Charles Stuart December 3, 1755 American portrait painter
Diego Rivera December 8, 1886 Mexican muralist
Juan Lovera December 26, 1778 Venezuelan "Artist of Independence"
Henri Matisse December 31, 1869 French painter and designer of textiles and stained glass windows

 

Artists with January Birthdays

Charles Addams January 7, 1912 Cartoonist who created The Addams Family
Elisabetta Sirani January 8, 1638 Renaissance artist who established a painting school for women
John Singer Sargent January 12, 1856 Portrait artist of the late Victorian and Edwardian ages
William Rush died January 17, 1833 First American-born sculptor
Paul Cézanne January 19, 1839 Post-Impressionist painter
Harold Lincoln Gray January 20, 1894 Cartoonist who created Little Orphan Annie
Édouard Manet January 23, 1832 French painter

 

Artists with June Birthdays 

Paul Gaugin June 7, 1848 French painter who used broad, flat tones and bold colors