Constance Stokes (1906–1991) was a modernist Australian painter
working in Victoria. She trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art
School until 1929, winning a scholarship to continue her study at
London's Royal Academy of Arts. Her paintings and drawings were
exhibited from the 1940s onwards, and she was one of only two women
included in a major exhibition of twelve Australian artists that
travelled to Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy in the early 1950s.
Influenced by George Bell, Stokes was part of the Melbourne Contemporary
Artists, a group Bell established in 1940, and her works continued to be
well-regarded by art historians for many years after the group's
formation. Her husband's early death in 1962 forced her to return to
painting as a career, resulting in a successful one-woman show in 1964,
her first in thirty years. She continued to paint and exhibit through
the 1980s. Her work faded into relative obscurity after her death, until
the publication of Anne Summers' 2009 book The Lost Mother, a narrative
that highlights Stokes and her paintings. Her art is represented in most
major Australian galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia
and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Stokes>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth,
the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern
Virginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth>
1933:
The Gestapo (SS emblem pictured), the official secret police
force in Nazi Germany, was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo>
1945:
World War II: Both the German and Polish–Soviet sides claimed
victory as major fighting in the Battle of Bautzen ended.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bautzen_(1945)>
1970:
The World Intellectual Property Organization came into being
when its charter entered into force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization>
2007:
Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of
Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia,
erupted into mass protests and riots.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Night>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
inside baseball:
1. (US, sports) Technical matters concerning baseball not apparent to
spectators.
2. (US) Matters of interest only to insiders.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inside_baseball>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it,
but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein>