Artist’s Birthdays

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

• • 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