14 November

Born in 1897 – John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic.

Above: Baptism in Kansas, 1928

Also, born in 1861, American historian Frederick Jackson Turner.

That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

Previously on November 14, Claude Monet.