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August 10...
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida—a Spanish painter whose style was a variant of Impressionism and whose best works, painted in the open air, vividly portray the sunny seacoast of Valencia—died this day in 1923.
Two Sisters, Valencia, oil on canvas by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1909; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
August 11...
American painter Jackson Pollock, a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism who received great fame and serious recognition for his radical poured, or “drip,” technique, died this day in 1956 in an automobile accident.
Jackson Pollock painting in his studio on Long Island, New York, 1950.
August 12...
On this day in 1877, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison made perhaps his most original discovery, the phonograph, and his early recordings were indentations embossed into a sheet of tinfoil by a vibrating stylus.
Thomas Alva Edison demonstrating his tinfoil phonograph, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1878.
August 13...
Film director Sir Alfred Hitchcock—a master of suspense who used innovative techniques and a sound grasp of human psychology to create such immensely popular movies as Psycho (1960)—was born in London this day in 1899.
Sir Alfred Hitchcock