Thursday 31 December 2020

Utagawa Kuniyoshi


Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Hangami Danjō-no-jō Arakage killing a giant salamander in the Tontagawa River in Izumo, ca.1834-1835. Woodcut.


Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Miyamoto Musashi kills a shark fish (Yamazame) in the mountains across the border of Echizen Province (near Mino) before 1861. Woodcut.

Wednesday 30 December 2020

Cézanne

Photograph: Gertrude Osthaus

by Paul Cézanne
Oil on canvas

Still Life with Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit, 1894
by Paul Cézanne
Oil on canvas

Tuesday 29 December 2020

Walker Evans

Photograph: Walker Evans
Gelatin silver print

Bud Fields and His Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
Photograph: Walker Evans
Gelatin silver print

Monday 28 December 2020

Sunday 27 December 2020

Ford Country Squire


Ford Country Squire with pushbutton 'Station Wagon Living' equipment. 1959. Colour transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photographic archive.


Ford Country Squire with pushbutton 'Station Wagon Living' equipment. 1959. Colour transparency from the Ford Motor Co.

Friday 25 December 2020

Christmas Day

The Virgin and Child (The Madonna of the Book) 1480
Tempera on wood


Scrooge's third visitor, from Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London, Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition.

Christmas tree in a living room in Levittown, New York,1963
Photograph: Diane Arbus
Gelatin silver print

A Merry Christmas To All
From Rigadoon23

Thursday 24 December 2020

Christmas Delivery


Scandinavian Children bringing home traditional Christmas décor, 1905


A postman is pictured delivering Christmas goods in Chelsea, London, complete with a pheasant in his hand. The bird is still used as an alternative to turkey today, 1925. (Getty Image)

Wednesday 23 December 2020

Ready for Christmas

Girl with fancy buckled shoes, Brisbane ca,1920
Photograph: George Brown
Postcard

Mrs. J.F. Fischer, (child) ca.1898 - 5 x 7 glass negative
From the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. -  Shorpy

Tuesday 22 December 2020

Monday 21 December 2020

Beyond Pluto

Amazing Stories, June 1957
Artwork by Ed Valigursky

Amazing Stories, March 1957
Artwork by Ed Valigursky

Amazing, November 1958
Artwork by Ed Valigursky

Sunday 20 December 2020

Dylan

Bob Dylan and fans, London, England, 1966
Photograph: Barry Feinstein
Gelatin silver print

Bob DylanAust Ferry, Wales, UK, 1966
Photograph: Barry Feinstein
Gelatin silver print

Saturday 19 December 2020

Russell Lee


Congregation leaving the Latter Days Saints Church at Mendon, Cache County, Utah. August 1940.  Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.


Abandoned gold mill along Million Dollar Highway immediately south of Ouray, Colorado, in Ouray County. September 1940. Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. Both photos from the Shorpy site. (Both photos copied from Shorpy)

Friday 18 December 2020

Diane Arbus

Untitled, 1970/71
Photograph: Diane Arbus
Gelatin silver print

Triplets in Their Bedroom, NJ, 1963
Photograph: Diane Arbus
Gelatin silver print

Thursday 17 December 2020

Antonello da Messina

Portrait of a Man, ca.1476
Oil on wood

Portrait of a Man (Il Condottiere)
by Antonello da Messina
Oil on Panel, 1475

Wednesday 16 December 2020

Tuesday 15 December 2020

Monday 14 December 2020

Beat

Photograph: Hank O’Neal


W.S.Burroughs at rest in the side yard of his house looking at the sky, empty timeless Lawrence Kansas May 28,1991. But 'the car dates it' he noticed when he saw this snapshot. Photo & Caption, Allen Ginsberg.

Sunday 13 December 2020

Blumenfeld

Hitlerfresse, (Hitler’s Mug) January 30, 1933
Photograph: Erwin Blumenfeld
Gelatin silver print, collage with ink

La Pudeur, (Modesty) Paris, 1937
Photograph: Erwin Blumenfeld

Saturday 12 December 2020

The Dodo


One of the most famous and often-copied paintings of a Dodo specimen, as painted by Roelant Savery in the late 1620s. The image came into the possession of the ornithologist George Edwards, who later gave it to the British Museum, hence the name. The bird swallowing a frog in the lower right may be the likewise extinct Red Rail. It has also been suggested that the two parrots are the extinct Lesser Antillean Macaw (left) and Martinique Macaw (right). Oil on panel.

Friday 11 December 2020

Thursday 10 December 2020

Wednesday 9 December 2020

First Flight

First South America Flight, 1934

Registered mail (Einschreiben) cover carried on D-LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin" on the first 1934 South America Flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (and by airplane to Buenos Aires, Argentina), May 26-31, 1934, autographed by the "Graf Zeppelin" commander Capt. Albert Sammt and LCDR Charles E. Rosendahl, USN, Commander, NAS Lakehurst, NJ.

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin over Rio de Janeiro, 25 May 1930
Photograph: Jorge Kfuri

Tuesday 8 December 2020

Kobayashi Kiyochika


First Sino-Japanese War print, 1894 "It was said the Chinese were so easily frightened that toy soldiers could make them scream." Artwork by Kobayashi Kiyochika.


Japanese propaganda woodcut print showing Tsar Nicholas II waking from a nightmare of the batteredand wounded Russian forces returning from battle. Artwork by Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1904 or 1905.

Monday 7 December 2020

Kim Dingle

Priss, 1994
Porcelain, china paint, steel wool, clothing,
shoes, socks, wooden crib, and debris

Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty's (No I.D.)
by Kim Dingle - 2006
Oil on vellum

Sunday 6 December 2020