Images Dated 2019 April

Sitting Bear - Arikara, 1908. Artist: John Andrew & Son

Sitting Bear - Arikara, 1908. The Arikara are a semi-nomadic Native American tribe who lived on the plains of South Dakota. Their population was decimated by smallpox in the 1830s. Today the Arikara live on the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota

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Martin Luther, 1529, (c1930). Creator: Unknown

Martin Luther, 1529, (c1930). Portrait of German Protestant reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546) who was a major inspiration behind the Reformation. He was excommunicated by Pope Leo IX in 1521 and declared an outlaw at the Diet of Worms. Under the protection of the Elector of Saxony, Luther produced a German translation of the Bible, and he went on to found the Lutheran Protestant Church. After a painting by his friend, Lucas Cranach, 1529'. From "The World's Story, a Simple History for Boys and Girls", by Elizabeth O'Neill. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, London & Edinburgh, c1930]

Composition. Grey Oval, 1917. Artist: Kandinsky, Wassily Vasilyevich (1866-1944)

Composition. Grey Oval, 1917. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Yekaterinburg

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