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 

Friday 16 November 2012

Approach to Troy and Menands Bridge, Troy N.Y. 
Postcard, Issued Between 1930-45 

Thursday 15 November 2012

Frida Kahlo
Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace
and Hummingbird 1940
Oil on canvas

Frida Kahlo 1931
Photo: Imogen Cunningham

Wednesday 14 November 2012

Giacomo Puccini Stamp

Rowing Crew 1871
Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada
  Photo: William Notman Studio

Tuesday 13 November 2012

The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin
Commissioned in 1880  
 Situated at the Kunsthaus in Zürich 

Monday 12 November 2012

Sunday 11 November 2012

Johann Friedrich Overbeck 1855
Photo: Franz Hanfstaengl

Johann Friedrich Overbeck 
Self-Portrait with Family ca.1820
 Oil on panel

Johann Friedrich Overbeck 
Self-Portrait ca.1830

Saturday 10 November 2012

Walfanger 'Nancy Grey' 
 Mit Grossem Finnwal
Skaaro, Norwegen ca.1900
  (Library of Congress) 


Friday 9 November 2012

Thursday 8 November 2012

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Cézanne

A wonderful photograph of Paul Cézanne
Photo: Gertrude Osthaus 1906

Paul Cézanne
Self-Portrait, 1898-1900
Oil on canvas

Tuesday 6 November 2012

Boston Docks, Lincolnshire England
Postcard

Le Port Saint-Nicolas, Paris
Postcard

Monday 5 November 2012

Yachts Launching in the 1890s
Hastings, Sussex UK

Hastings from the East Hill, 1890s

Sunday 4 November 2012

Atlanta, Georgia 1936
Photo: Walker Evans

Main St. Ossining, New York 1932
Photo: Walker Evans

Saturday 3 November 2012

Friday 2 November 2012

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor & Painter 1961
Photo: Henri Cartier Bresson

Alberto Giacometti working in his paris studio ca.1950
Photo: Ernst Scheidegger

Thursday 1 November 2012