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Friday, 8 April 2022

Factory Workers

Women factory workers in a cotton mill in Lancashire, ca.1908

Photograph: Popperfoto - Getty Images

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Piet Mondrian

Two Girls in a Wood, ca.1898-99

by Piet Mondrian

Oil on paper laid down on cardboard

On the Land, 1903

by Piet Mondrian

Oil on cardboard

Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Derry

A petrol bomb being thrown during the battle of the Bogside in Derry, 1969. Photo Tony McGrath - The Observer

Mrs Ferguson, her husband, James, and their children, Derry, Northern Ireland, October 1968. Photo Tony McGrath,

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Francis Bacon’s studio with his last painting, possibly the beginnings of a portrait of George Dyer on the easel, 1992. Photo Perry Ogden Hugh Lane Gallery © The Estate of Francis Bacon, all rights reserved, and DACS, 2008

Francis Bacon at about age four with his mother Winifred Bacon.

Credit: Courtesy of The Estate of Francis Bacon.

Monday, 4 April 2022

Emily Dickinson

Daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, ca.1847

Unknown photographer

Sunday, 3 April 2022

The Que

Club-goers at The Que in Birmingham in January 1996

Photograph: Terence Donovan

Saturday, 2 April 2022

Sleeping Girl

Portrait of Sleeping Girl, 2000

Photograph: Roger Ballen

Friday, 1 April 2022

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear Poster - 1952

Sudden Fear, directed by David Miller, starring Joan Crawford Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame,

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Shipping

Pilot Steamer, 'Captain Cook'. Watson's Bay, Sydney, Australia, n/d

Powerhouse Museum Sydney

Montreal harbour near the Custom House, Quebec, ca.1870

Photograph: Alexander Henderson

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Dora Maar

Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand, 1934

Photograph: Dora Maar

Gelatin silver print

Blind Street Peddler, Barcelona, 1933

Photograph: Dora Maar

Gelatin silver print

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Don Keene

Mama Got This, 2018

by Don Keene

Oil on cavas, 36x30in

The Outpost of Promise, 2020

by Don Keene

Oil on wood panel, 60x54in

Monday, 28 March 2022

Love

Courtney Love, 1999

Photograph: Ann Cook

Publicity headshot of Courtney Love in 1986, Island Pictures.

Sunday, 27 March 2022

Two Small Birds

Madagascar magpie-robin (Copsychus albospecularis pica) female, Montagne d’Ambre National Park, Madagascar, 1 December 2018. Photograph: Charles J Sharp.

Great tit, Parus major, Lancashire, UK, 5 October 2014

Photograph: Francis C. Franklin

Saturday, 26 March 2022

Andy Warhol

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Andy Warhol, Silkscreen on canvas signed and dated by Andy Warhol, titled 5 Coke Bottles, inscribed “Merry Christmas, 1962” and with a Christmas tree drawing on the back.