The Lady of the Rains (1886), woodcut by Arthur Burgess, issue of The Century Guild Hobby Horse.
Frida chair by La Tapicera in Spain
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A black ink on rag paper woodcut showing cows grazing and resting under a tree. The artist described this as a “composite scene of a typical Kansas vista.” Noonday Rest was drawn by Herschel C. Logan, who was born April 19, 1901 in Magnolia, Missouri and shortly after his birth the family moved to Winfield, Kansas. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for one year. Logan was a commercial and advertising artist in Salina, Kansas, until his retirement in 1968. He was a member of the Prairie Print Makers. After retirement, Logan moved to Santa Ana, California.
Creator: Herschel C. Logan
Date: 1938
The Sentinel, 15 ft tall, saplings & paint, 2012 at Gilsland Farm, Maine. Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein!
2013: Year of the Snake
The signature of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1514) of a winged snake with a ruby ring, which he used on his paintings from the year 1508 onward.
Apple Picking (1939-46), Drake Brookshaw. Collections of the National Archives (United Kingdom).
The man in the field of cabbage
Edvard Munch 1916
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Still LIfe with Flowers and Fruit Suzanne Valadon - 1932
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Eliot Hodgkin: Five Variegated Ivy Leaves, 1960. Tempera on panel, 24 × 25.5 cm.
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Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Home of Jim Ede, who was the curator of the Tate Museum during the 1920’s and 30’s. He developed an appreciation for white-washed walls and minimalistic furnishings during a stay in Morocco. The house and all its furnishings were donated to the University of Cambridge in 1966. The works of many artists, including Joan Miro and Henry Moore, can be seen in the home today.
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