Search results
14 hours ago · Richard claims that a show at Baltimore's Royal Theatre in June 1956 led to women throwing their undergarments onstage at him, resulting in other female fans repeating the action, saying it was "the first time" that had happened to any artist. Richard's show would stop several times that night to restrain fans from jumping off the balcony and ...
14 hours ago · Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following his landslide victory over Democrat incumbent president Jimmy Carter and independent congressman John B. Anderson in the 1980 presidential election.
14 hours ago · In paintings like Girl with a White Dog (1951–1952), Freud put the pictorial language of traditional European painting in the service of an anti-romantic, confrontational style of portraiture that stripped bare the sitter's social facade. Ordinary people—many of them his friends—stared wide-eyed from the canvas, vulnerable to the artist's ...
14 hours ago · George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. ...
- 1861–1876
- Initially on the battlefield;, Later reinterred in West Point Cemetery
14 hours ago · Biography Early life and musical influences, 1941–62 Van Vliet was born Don Glen Vliet in Glendale, California, on January 15, 1941, to Glen Alonzo Vliet, a service station owner of Dutch ancestry from Kansas, and Willie Sue Vliet (née Warfield), who was from Arkansas. He said that he was descended from Peter van Vliet, a Dutch painter who knew Rembrandt. Van Vliet also said that he was ...
14 hours ago · Christian De Vita, best known for his previous work as the lead storyboard artist on Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, is directing. Richard E. Grant And Brian Cox To Star In Short ‘Wittgenstein ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Artist:RICHARD AVEDON; Print Title: Cesar Chavez, Keene, CA (founder of the United Farm Workers) Medium: Duotone Photo-lithograph; Printed in 1990s in the USA; Image size (inches) approx 12 x 9 ” Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was an influential American fashion and fine art photographer. His iconic portraits of celebrities spanned more than half ...
