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

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

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

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

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

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