25 August

Born in 1837 – Jacob Maris, Dutch painter.

Above: The Bird Cage, 1908

Also, born in 1918, American pianist, composer, and conductor Leonard Bernstein.

Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Previously on August 25, George Stubbs and Charles Wright.