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José Guadalupe Posada: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born February 2, 1851 • Aguascalientes • Mexico
Died January 20, 1913 (aged 61) • Mexico City • Mexico

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La Calavera Catrina
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William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
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Hokusai
Japanese artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
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Georges Rouault
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David Hockney
David Hockney
British artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
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Jacques Villon
French painter
Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).
Walter Crane
British illustrator and painter
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Leonard Baskin
American sculptor
Thomas Bewick: The Tawny Owl
Thomas Bewick
British artist
Audubon, James John: Blue Jay
Robert Havell, Jr.
American painter
The Supreme Vice, India ink and watercolour by Félicien Rops.
Félicien Rops
Belgian artist
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Adolf von Menzel
German painter
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh
American artist
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
Pennell, Joseph: Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Thirty-Fourth Street and Fifth Avenue
Joseph Pennell
American artist and writer
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Matthäus Merian
Swiss artist [1593-1650]