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Someone gave me one of those tear-off-each-day desk calendars from the History Channel. Yesterday's page (3/17) was worth sharing:

1901: Van Gogh Paintings Shown in Paris

Though Vincent van Gogh remains one of history's great artists, the depressed painter saw little critical acclaim during his lifetime. On this day in 1901, over a decade after his suicide, Paris's Bernheim-Jeune gallery featured seventy-one of his paintings. The poshumous recognition was enought to launch the departed painter to international stardom. Unfortunately, van Gogh himself was quite the starving artist: despite his unprecedented success after death, only one of his paintings sold was he was still alive.