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July 7, Marc Chagall, David McCullough,



Happy birthday to historian and author David McCullough, a notable Yale alum (B.A. 1955)! In addition to numerous other awards and honors, McCullough has received two Pulitzer Prizes (for his biographies “Truman” and “John Adams”), the National Book Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Explore his complete works at the Yale Library! http://web.library.yale.edu/





David McCullough
American author
David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of ...Wikipedia
Born: July 7, 1933 (age 84), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Spouse: Rosalee Ingram Barnes (m. 1954)
Movies and TV shows: American Experience, Seabiscuit, more
Children: Dorie Lawson, David McCullough Jr., Melissa McDonald
Quotes

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.





Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic ...Wikipedia
Born: July 7, 1887, Liozna, Belarus
Died: March 28, 1985, Saint Paul de Vence, France
On view: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Phillips Collection
Periods: Naïve art, Surrealism, Cubism, Expressionism, Modern art, Modernism, Fauvism
Spouse: Valentina Brodsky (m. 1952–1985), Bella Rosenfeld (m. 1915–1944)
Children: David McNeil, Ida Chagall
Quotes

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.




See the world through the eyes of Marc Chagall, born on this day in 1887. "Paris through the Window" (1913), currently on view in "Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim", was painted after the artist moved to Paris from Russia in 1910. In Paris he began experimenting with Cubism, but developed a distinct style, often painting dream-like scenes rooted in personal history and folklore. Learn more: http://gu.gg/qLzU30dbmfK




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