Do you share a special day with an artist of the past (or present)? Have a peek to find out.
Lesson plans and/or artist bios are linked where available.
JANUARY
- 1 Alfred Steiglitz 1864
- 10 Barbara Hepworth 1903
- 12 John Singer Sargent 1856
- 14 Berthe Morisot 1841
- 19 Paul Cezanne 1839
- 19 Clementine Hunter 1887
- 23 Edouard Manet 1832
- 24 Robert Motherwell 1915
- 28 Claes Oldenburg 1929
- 28 Jackson Pollock 1912
▶Lesson Plan: Dripping Paint – Action Painting - 29 Barnett Newman 1905
FEBRUARY
- 1 Thomas Cole 1801
- 3 Norman Rockwell 1894
- 8 Franz Marc 1884
- 11 Max Beckmann 1884
- 13 Grant Wood 1892
- 20 Ansel Adams 1902
- 24 Winslow Homer 1836
- 25 Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841
MARCH
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- 6 Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475
- 7 Piet Mondrian 1872
▶Lesson Plan:Step-By-Step Mondrian Painting
▶Lesson Plan:Mondrian-Inspired Abstract Art
▶Blog Post:Mondrian: Breaking it Down
- 9 David Smith 1906
- 12 Elaine de Kooning 1920
- 21 Hans Hoffman 1880
- 23 Juan Gris 1877
- 30 Francisco Goya 1746
- 30 Vincent van Gogh 1853
▶Lesson Plan:Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Bulletin Board Idea
▶Lesson Plan:Van Gogh Sunflowers
▶Lesson Plan:Paint Like Van Gogh
APRIL
- 2 Max Ernst 1891
- 4 Edward Hicks 1780
- 5 Jean Fragonard 1732
- 6 Raphael 1483
- 9 Victor Vasarely 1908
- 15 Leonardo da Vinci 1452
▶Lesson Plan:Invention Convention - 15 Thomas Hart Benton 1889
- 20 Joan Miro 1893
- 23 J.M.W. Turner 1775
- 24 Bridget Riley 1931
- 24 Willem de Kooning 1904
- 26 John James Audubon 1785
- 26 Eugene Delacroix 1798
- 30 KinderArt’s Jantje!
MAY
- 4 Keith Haring 1958
- 11 Salvador Dali 1904
- 12 Frank Stella 1936
- 13 Georges Braque 1882
- 14 Thomas Gainsborough 1727
- 15 Jasper Johns 1930
- 21 Albrecht Durer 1471
- 21 Henri Rousseau 1844
▶Lesson Plan:Rousseau Jungles - 22 Mary Cassatt 1844
- 23 Franz Kline 1910
- 27 Georges Rouault 1871
▶Lesson Plan:Rouault Portraits - 31 Ellsworth Kelly 1923
JUNE
- 6 Diego Velazquez 1599
- 7 Paul Gauguin 1848
- 8 Frank Lloyd Wright 1867
- 10 Gustave Courbet 1819
- 11 John Constable 1776
- 13 Christo 1935
- 16 Jim Dine 1935
- 17 M.C. Escher 1889
- 28 Peter Paul Rubens 1577
- 28 Geoff Slater 1969
▶Lesson Plan:Line Painting Flowers
JULY
- 3 Jean Dubuffet 1909
- 5 Chuck Close 1940
▶Lesson Plan:Portrait Drawing – Grid - 6 Frida Kahlo 1907
- 7 Marc Chagall 1887
▶Lesson Plan:Daydreaming with Chagall - 8 Artemisia Gentileschi 1593
- 8 Kathe Kollwitz 1867
- 9 David Hockney 1937
- 10 Camille Pissarro 1830
- 11 Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
- 11 James Abbott McNeil Whistler 1834
- 12 Andrew Wyeth 1917
- 12 Amedeo Modigliani 1884
- 14 Gustav Klimt 1862
▶Lesson Plan:Building a Klimt - 15 Rembrandt van Rijn 1606
- 19 Edgar Degas 1834
- 22 Alexandar Calder 1898
- 22 Edward Hopper 1882
- 25 Thomas Eakins 1884
- 28 Marcel Duchamp 1887
- 29 Jenny Holzer 1950
- 30 Henry Moore 1898
AUGUST
- 1 Arthur Dove 1880
- 5 Tom Thomson 1877
- 6 Andy Warhol 1928
▶Lesson Plan:Pop Art Portraits
▶Lesson Plan:Pop Art Ice Cream - 7 Emil Nolde 1867
- 12 Jean Michel Basquiat 1960
- 15 Leonard Baskin 1922
- 17 Larry Rivers 1923
- 21 Aubrey Beardsley 1872
- 27 Man Ray 1890
- 29 Jean-Auguste-Dominique 1780
- 30 Jacques Louis David 1748
SEPTEMBER
- 2 Romare Bearden 1911
- 7 Jacob Lawrence 1917
- 7 Grandma Moses 1860
▶Printables: Three Grandma Moses Inspired Coloring Sheets - 12 Ben Shahn 1898
- 13 Robert Indiana 1928
- 15 Jean Hans Arp 1887
- 23 Louise Nevelson 1900
- 25 Mark Rothko 1903
- 26 Theodore Gericault 1791
- 28 Caravaggio 1573
OCTOBER
- 4 Jean Francois Millet 1814
- 4 Frederic Remington 1861
- 8 Faith Ringgold 1930
▶Lesson Plan:Story Quilts - 10 Alberto Giacometti 1901
- 10 Antoine Watteau 1684
- 22 Robert Rauschenberg 1925
- 25 Pablo Picasso 1881
- 27 Roy Lichtenstein 1923
- 31 Jan Vermeer 1632
NOVEMBER
- 2 Jean Baptiste Chardin 1699
- 10 William Hogarth 1697
- 11 Paul Signac 1863
- 12 Auguste Rodin 1840
- 14 Claude Monet 1840
▶Lesson Plan:Monet and Impressionism
▶Lesson Plan:Monet’s Garden - 15 Wayne Thiebaud, 1920
▶Lesson Plan:Sweet Stuff - 15 Georgia O’Keeffe 1887
▶Lesson Plan:Abstract Flowers - 19 Nicholas Poussin 1594
- 21 Rene Magritte 1898
- 24 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864
- 26 George Segal 1924
- 28 William Blake 1757
DECEMBER
- 2 Georges Seurat 1859
▶Lesson Plan:Q-Tip® Pointillism - 4 Wassily Kandinsky 1866
▶Lesson Plan:A Little Kandinsky for All
▶Lesson Plan:Kandinsky Color Studies - 7 Stuart Davis 1894
- 7 KinderArt’s Andrea Mulder-Slater!
- 8 Diego Rivera 1886
- 12 Edvard Munch 1863
▶Lesson Plan:Things That Make us Want to Scream - 12 Helen Frankenthaler 1928
- 18 Paul Klee 1879
- 22 Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960
- 24 Joseph Cornell 1903
- 31 Henri Matisse 1869
▶Lesson Plan:Make Art Like Matisse
▶Lesson Plan:Matisse Positive/Negative Shapes
UNKNOWN
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1530
Julie Nelson
Friday 11th of March 2022
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Joann Mariahazy
Friday 3rd of December 2021
thank you for this great list!