Monday, 31 December 2012

Sunday, 30 December 2012

Rembrandt van Rijn
 Self Portrait with Two Circles, 1665–69

Saturday, 29 December 2012

 Elsa Schiaparelli
Italian fashion designer
   Vogue 1932
Photo: George Hoyningen-Huene

Friday, 28 December 2012

 Giacomo Puccini ca.1908
Italian composer
Photo Copyright A. Dupont

Thursday, 27 December 2012

Portrait of a Young Boy
Hamburg ca.1910
Photo: A. Mocsigay

Wednesday, 26 December 2012

The original (restored) Brough Superior of T. E. Lawrence
(Lawrence of Arabia)
Imperial War Museum London 2010
Photo: Joe MiGo

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Monday, 24 December 2012

Sunday, 23 December 2012

Gottfried Helnwein working on
'The Murmur of the Innocents'
  2009

Saturday, 22 December 2012

Friday, 21 December 2012

  Self-Portrait at 17, Gillian Wearing
 English conceptual artist, 2003

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Rough sea at Bognor, England ca.1895
Photochrom Colour
 (Library of Congress)

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Fort Macquarie, Sydney Australia ca.1900
With British schooner & gunboat H.M.S. Undine
Photo: Henry King

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Monday, 17 December 2012

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Anarchist
ca.1860
Photo: Nadar

Sunday, 16 December 2012

Egon Schiele ca.1906
Unknown Photographer
but possibly Schiele himself 

Egon Schiele Self-Portrait, 1912
Oil on wood

 Green Stockings
 Egon Schiele 1914
Gouache and pencil on paper

Saturday, 15 December 2012

 Charles Laughton
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Director William Dieterle 1939

Friday, 14 December 2012

 Portrait of Juliette Courbet  
 Gustave Courbet  1844

Thursday, 13 December 2012

 American racing car driver, Bob Burman 1911
Photo: Bain Collection

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

 Man with Dog  
 Francis Bacon 1953
Oil on canvas

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Monday, 10 December 2012

Diamond Head Crater in Hawaii
Photo: IKONOS Satellite Sensor

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Return from Fishing
Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, ca.1910 
Photo: Bain Collection

Saturday, 8 December 2012

A Man Reading (Saint Ivo?)
 Rogier van der Weyden 1450

Friday, 7 December 2012

Man begs for money from King George V
Epsom Downs, Derby Day, 1920
Unknown Photographer

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Red Apple Rest, Route 17, Southfields N. Y.
Postcard, Issued Between 1930-45

The Red Apple Rest closed in 2006
and the building was condemned on January 23, 2007
Photo & Information from jeffs4653's photostream

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Dock End, Whitby, England ca.1880
Photo: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Monday, 3 December 2012

Sunday, 2 December 2012

 The Little Screens, Florida 1963
 Photo: Lee Friedlander

Saturday, 1 December 2012

The Moulin Rouge

The Moulin Rouge, late 1920s (?)
Built in 1889 by Joseph Oller,
the Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris.

Friday, 30 November 2012

Colette in the Moulin Rouge Pantomine Rêve d'Égypte
Photo: Leopold Reutlinger ca.1907

Thursday, 29 November 2012

 Fashion model underwater with diver in a dolphin tank
  Marineland Florida, 1939
 Photo: Toni Frissell

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Self-Portrait or The Desperate Man
 Gustave Courbet 1844-45
Oil on canvas 

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Monday, 26 November 2012

Washington, District of Columbia 
Officers of 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery 
1865

Sunday, 25 November 2012

 Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges 
 Vincent van Gogh 1888
Oil on canvas

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Ancient Paris, Palais of the Land and Sea Forces
Exposition Universelle 
Paris France 1900

Friday, 23 November 2012

The Brooker Family 
Picnic Point Victoria, Australia ca.1915

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Sunflower #25
Evercolor Print  
 William Lesch 1990

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Anthony van Dyck
Self-Portrait, after 1633
Oil on canvas

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Head of a Woman (The Belgian Cocotte) 
 Walter Richard Sickert 1906
Oil on canvas   

Monday, 19 November 2012

Ned Kelly

 Ned Kelly 
 Sidney Nolan, 1946
Enamel on composition board

The Trial of Ned Kelly
  Sidney Nolan, 1947
 Enamel on composition board

Ned Kelly the day before his execution, 1880

Sunday, 18 November 2012

 Reclining Woman on a Leopard Skin 
 Otto Dix 1927

Saturday, 17 November 2012

G. V. Gustafsson, Crofter 1930s
Margretelund Uppland, Sweden
 Born 1872
Photo: Einar Erici

Karl August Andersson, Carpenter 1934
Sabbatsberg Old People's Home, Sweden
 Born 1859
Photo: Einar Erici

Bell tower of Moheda Church, Småland, Sweden,
 The wooden bell tower was built in 1665.
 Photo: Einar Erici 1935