6 July

Born in 1907 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist.

Above: Drawing, dated June 4, 1953, roughly a year before Kahlo’s death.

Also, born in 1887, Belarusian-French artist and poet Marc Chagall:

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a kind of final test.