Art Appreciation
Born on March 22, 1855, Dorothy Tennant was an English painter of the Victorian era Neoclassicism, illustrator, and author.
Married to Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the Welsh-American explorer, she studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London and Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris.
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Music Appreciation
Steve Marker is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as the cofounder and guitarist in the alternative rock band, Garbage.
Born on March 16, 1959 in Mamaroneck, New York, Marker attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he met Butch Vig. At the time, Vig and his band, Spooner, were wanting to record a 45 and Marker had the equipment to do so.
A few years later, Vig and Marker started Smart Studios, a recording studio in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1990, Smart Studios produced Nirvana's Nevermind and The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish.
In 1993, Marker, Vig, Duke Erikson, and Scottish singer Shirley Manson formed Garbage.
Artist Appreciation
Czech painter, Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová was born on March 15, 1909. She was the daughter of Bohemian and Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, and a contributor to several of his artwork as a model and as a restorer.
Jaroslava was instrumental in restoring her father's The Slav Epic, a cycle of 20 large canvases, which were hidden from Nazis.
Fun fact, her father pictured her on Czechoslovak currency.
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