On January 1, every year, we celebrate Public Domain Day, the day when work’s copyright expires, and it enters the public domain. It means that each of them you can freely use (display, modify, print, etc.) without asking permission from the author.
In 2017 the list of the public domain was enriched by the works of thirty notable persons.
We created several collections that now is available on Picryl. Take a look!
Paintings of a French Cubist painter Henri Le Fauconnier
Paintings of a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist Léon Spilliaert
Nash, Paul; Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917; IWM (Imperial War Museums); http://www.artuk.org/artworks/spring-in-the-trenches-ridge-wood-1917-5911
Nash, Paul; The Menin Road; IWM (Imperial War Museums); http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-menin-road-6407
Nash, Paul; Battle of Britain; IWM (Imperial War Museums); http://www.artuk.org/artworks/battle-of-britain-6997
Nash, Paul; Defence of Albion; IWM (Imperial War Museums); http://www.artuk.org/artworks/defence-of-albion-6789
Nash, Paul; Battle of Germany; IWM (Imperial War Museums); http://www.artuk.org/artworks/battle-of-germany-7358
Nash, Paul; Nostalgic Landscape; Leicester Arts and Museums Service; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/nostalgic-landscape-81330
Nash, Paul; Cloudscape; The British Postal Museum & Archive; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/cloudscape-134306
Nash, Paul; Landscape; The British Postal Museum & Archive; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/landscape-134307
Nash, Paul; Berkshire Landscape; Southwark Art Collection; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/berkshire-landscape-193360
Nash, Paul; Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III); National Galleries of Scotland; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/landscape-of-the-vernal-equinox-iii-211528
Paintings of a British surrealist painter and war artist Paul Nash
The list of people, whose works will enter the public domain in 2017:
| Adolph de Meyer |  France |
Photographer |
| Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov |  Russia |
Composer |
| Allan Cyril Brooks |  Canada |
Ornithologist, illustrator, and artist |
| Armando Augusto Freire (Armandinho) |  Portugal |
Fado guitarist and composer |
| Charles Despiau | France |
Sculptor |
| Damon Runyon |  United States |
Writer and newspaperman |
| Eriks Ādamsons |  Latvia |
writer, poet, translator |
| Feliks Nowowiejski |  Poland |
Composer |
| Frona Eunice Wait | United States |
Author and newspaper writer |
| Gerhart Hauptmann |  Germany |
Writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Gertrude Stein | United States |
Writer |
| Giuseppe Adami |  Italy |
librettist |
| Granville Bantock |  United Kingdom |
composer |
| H. G. Wells | United Kingdom |
Writer |
| Harry Von Tilzer | United States |
Songwriter |
| Helen Bannerman | United Kingdom |
Writer |
| Henri Le Fauconnier | France |
Painter |
| Herbert Baker | United Kingdom |
Architect |
| Hermann von Keyserling | Germany |
Philosopher |
| James Bernard | United Kingdom |
Elocutionist |
| John Maynard Keynes | United Kingdom |
Economist |
| Józef Mehoffer | Poland |
Painter and decorative artist |
| Louis Bachelier | France |
Mathematician |
| László Moholy-Nagy |  Hungary |
Painter and photographer |
| Léon Spilliaert |  Belgium |
Painter |
| Manuel de Falla |  Spain |
Composer |
| Otis Adelbert Kline | United States |
Literary agent and science fiction writer |
| Patty Hill | United States |
Songwriter |
| Paul Langevin | France |
Physicist |
| Paul Nash | United Kingdom |
Painter/photographer |
