On this day in 1891, Post-Impressionist painter, Georges-Pierre Seurat died in Paris at the age of 31. Born on 2 December 1859 in Paris. In my opinion, his most famous work is, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), which altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting. Apparently, he lived secretly with his young model, Madeleine Knobloch, whom he portrayed in his painting “Jeune femme se poudrant”. Seurat said; “Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations”.
The Final Footprint – Seurat is entombed in the Seurat family private mausoleum in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Other notable Final Footprints at Père Lachaise include; Peter Abelard, Guillaume Apollinaire, Honoré de Balzac, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Georges Bizet, Maria Callas, Chopin, Colette, Auguste Comte, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Max Ernst, Molière, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf, Camille Pissarro, Marcel Proust, Sully Prudhomme, Gioachino Rossini, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Simone Signoret, Gertrude Stein, Dorothea Tanning, Alice B. Toklas, Oscar Wilde, and Richard Wright.
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The Suburbs, 1882-1883, Museum of Modern Art, Troyes -
Fishing in The Seine, 1883, Museum of Modern Art, Troyes
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The Laborers 1883, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC.
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Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,, 1884-1885, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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Bathers at Asnières, 1884, National Gallery, London
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View of Fort Samson 1885, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
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Circus Sideshow (or Parade de Cirque), 1887–88, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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The Seine and la Grande Jatte – Springtime 1888, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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The Models, 1888, Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA
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The Eiffel Tower 1889, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
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The Circus, 1891, Musée d’Orsay Paris
On this day in 1999, singer Joe Williams died in Las Vegas at the age of 80. Born Joseph Goreed on December 12, 1918 in Cordele, Georgia. He sang with big bands such as the Count Basie Orchestra and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and with his combos. He sang in two films with the Basie orchestra and sometimes worked as an actor. Williams won the Best Jazz Vocal Performance Grammy Award for his LP Nothin’ but the Blues in 1984. It was also the winning Traditional Blues Album in the Blues Music Awards of the Blues Foundation in the following year. Williams was nominated for seven other Grammy awards: for Prez & Joe (1979); “8 to 5 I Lose” (1982); I Just Want To Sing (1986); Every Night: Live At Vine St. (1987); “I Won’t Leave You Again” (with Lena Horne, 1988); “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby” (with Marlena Shaw, 1989); and In Good Company (1989). In 1992, his 1955 recording of “Every Day I Have the Blues” with Basie was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame for recordings of particular historical or qualitative importance. Williams was added to the Jazz Wall of Fame of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 2001. In 1988, with his wife Jillean and friends, Williams set up the not-for-profit Joe Williams Every Day Foundation to offer scholarships to talented young musicians.
The Final FootprintWilliams was cremated and his cremated remains are inurned at Palm Memorial Park in Las Vegas. Other notable final footprints at Palm Memorial include; Tony Curtis, Redd Foxx, and Pancho Gonzalez.
#RIP #OTD in 2016 actress (The Miracle Worker, The Patty Duke Show, Valley of the Dolls, Me, Natalie) and mental health advocate Patty Duke died in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine, aged 69. Cremated remains at Forest Cemetery in Coeur d’Alene
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