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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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