Check the list to see if you share a birthday in June with a famous artist. Or if you're looking for daily painting ideas, why not use the style of an artist whose birthday it is today, or copy one of their famous paintings?
Artists Birthdays in: January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
1 June:
2 June:
3 June:
- Johan Barthold Jongkind 1819 (Dutch, forerunner of Impressionism)
- Raoul Dufy 1877 (French, Fauvist)
4 June:
- Natalia Goncharova 1881 (Russian, Cubo-Futurism)
- Alejandro Obregón 1920 (Columbian)
5 June:
- Richard Scarry 1919 (American, children's book illustration many of which featured anthropomorphic animals).
- Jesús-Rafael Soto 1923 (Venezuelan, Op Art and Kinetic)
6 June:
- Diego Velazquez 1599
- John Trumbull 1756 (American, Historical paintings)
7 June:
- Paul Gauguin 1848
- Damien Hirst 1965 (British, YBAs or Young British Artists)
8 June:
- John Everett Millais 1829 (Pre-Raphaelite)
- Mark Podwal 1945 (American, self-taught)
9 June:
- Pieter Saenredam 1697 (Dutch, Golden Age, paintings of church interiors)
10 June:
- Gustave Courbet 1819
- André Derain 1880
- Maurice Sendak 1928 (American, Illustration, most famous book: Where the Wild Things Are)
