20 May

Born in 1899 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian artist.

Above: Portrait of a Girl with a Book, 1934

Also, born in 1882, Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian writer.

In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.

Previously on May 20, Deyneka and Honoré de Balzac.