New! Artist Birthdays Calendar

By Cheryl Trowbridge 16 Comments

Famous Artist Birthday Cake Kids love to celebrate birthdays, so what better time to introduce a new artist than on that artist’s birthday? I’ve created a new page on my site to help you plan your artist birthday celebrations! Just click on the “Artist Birthdays” link on my menu bar for a list of birthdays by month, complete with links to lesson plans and wikipedia pages for more helpful info. (Artists pictured… top row, L to R: Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso; bottom row, L to R: Frida Kahlo, Leonardo DaVinci, M.C. Escher)

Any artist birthdays you’d like me to add? Leave a comment below!

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Mrs."C" says

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Thanks for the list! :)

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Kim Hyman says

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What a terrific Artist Birthday page. This took you a tremendous amount of time to compile, I am certain. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

Kim @ Art on my hands

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Cheryl Trowbridge says

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Just added him, Nita! Thanks for suggesting that… I love Blue Dog!

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Christie says

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Thanks so much for taking the time to do this for all of us!

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Christy says

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Giotto

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- Cheryl Trowbridge says
  
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  Thanks for your suggestion, Christy. Giotto is one of those artists whose exact date of birth is unknown. I’m trying to decide how to handle those. Maybe a listing at the top for artists with unknown birth dates? What do you think?
  
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    I decided to add the artists whose exact dates of birth are unknown at the end of the list, bottom of the page.
    
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Julie heron says

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Terrific calendar! I’m adding it to my Pinterest site to share! Have you thought about frank Marc, friedensreich hundertwasser and Mary cassat? sorry don’t have details…
Regards Julie

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  Thanks, Julie! Great ideas… I’m adding new artists all the time, so I’ll get right on that. Thanks for your suggestions!
  
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Art Mom says

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Great calendar! Awesome resource to come back to! Thank you.

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harindharan says

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Kids love to celebrate birthdays… good method to introduce one artist during their birthdays. Its like two in one method.. learning while doing the art. :-)

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Christine says

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July 5, 1940 Chuck Close
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-close-chuck.htm

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  Thanks, Christine! I updated the page to include him. Chuck Close is one of my favorites… how did I overlook him??! Thanks so much for suggesting that and sending the link, too!
  
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Mark Brawley says

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Who are the 6 artists in the picture. I think I know 3 of them, but am sketchy on the rest.
Thanks,
Mark

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- Cheryl Trowbridge says
  
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  Thanks for the great question, Mark! I just added their names to the paragraph below the picture. Thanks again for asking!
  
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