23 July

Born in 1851 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter.

Above: Summer Evening at Skagen Beach, 1899

Also, born in 1912, American writer and academic M. H. Abrams.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human.

Previously on July 23, Philipp Otto Runge and Raymond Chandler.