Are you loving this GD cold weather and snow as much as I am. Trapped in my house patiently waiting for the oil delivery to arrive so I can shell out 400 more dollars to keep my water lines from freezing. Even my man-cave is suffering. No matter what I do it remains quite chilly and making typing this post a real chore. Here is a little sample of obscure Art related mish/mosh and now I can return upstairs to the warm rooms. Enjoy . . . .

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• Before he became an artist Vincent van Gogh worked as an evangelist in Belgium.

• American Gothic, the famous painting of a couple with a pitchfork, was done by Grant Wood in 1930. The couple that posed for the painting were his dentist and his sister.

• The actual name of the famous painter El Greco was Domenikos Theotokopoulos.

• Painter Paul Gauguin was once a stockbroker.

• American painter Norman Rockwell became the art director of Boy’s Life magazine while he was still a teenager.

• The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington DC on March 17, 1941.

• Charles M. Shultz’s comic strip Peanuts debuted in October, 1950.

• The deep red sunset seen in Norwegian Edward Munch’s The Scream is believed to reflect the intense sunsets seen throughout the world following the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa.

• Leonardo Da Vinci’s fresco, The Last Supper, is located in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.

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