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'Bruno Amadio' (9 November 1911 – 22 September 1981), popularly known as Bragolin, and also known as Angelo Bragolin and Giovanni Bragolin, was the creator of the group of paintings known as Crying Boys. [1] The paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead. They are sometimes called "Gypsy boys" although ...
The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin [1] (1911–1981). This was the pen-name of the painter Bruno Amarillo. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards. There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or girls. [1]
Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888–1964 [1]) was an American painter, best known for a series of paintings of prominent African Americans for the exhibition “Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin” that, with those by Laura Wheeler Waring and under the Harmon Foundation, toured the United States from 1944 to 1954.
[8] Expanding on George Washington's description of the early United States as an "infant empire", [9] Benjamin Franklin wrote: "Hence the Prince that acquires new Territory, if he finds it vacant, or removes the Natives to give his own People Room; the Legislator that makes effectual Laws for promoting of Trade, increasing Employment ...
Ethel's grandchildren were born into a rich history from her 11 children. Kathleen and her husband, David Townsend, had four daughters: Meaghan Anne Kennedy Townsend, born Nov. 7, 1977; Maeve ...
The lithograph, which shows a crying woman with her hand near her mouth, is on lightweight, off-white wove paper. It measures 16 by 24 inches (40.6 cm × 61.0 cm). [ 7 ] This image was adapted from a comic book panel from the romance comic Secret Hearts #88 (DC Comics, June 1963), [ 8 ] in the story "Escape from Loneliness," penciled by Tony ...
Bush wrote the descriptive prose that accompanies each painting. Bush donated his share of the proceeds from the book to the non-profit George W. Bush Presidential Center. The book is available as a hardcover and in a limited edition signed by Bush, a deluxe oversized cloth-bound book with a specially designed slipcover. [3]
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.