Category Archives: Art
AN AIRLINE LUGGAGE LABEL FOR TODAY
From 1930 — via Golden Age Comic Book Stories.
A CARAVAGGIO FOR TODAY
The Fortune Teller, 1594. The young woman, under the pretext of telling the young man's fortune, is attempting to steal his ring — but there seems to be much more going on in the picture than this.
GLORIA IN EXCELCIS DEO
AN HENRI GERVEX FOR TODAY
Retour de Bal, 1879.
Not a successful outing, as outings go.
GIL ELVGREN SAYS
. . . merry Christmas to you, too!
A MAD MAGAZINE COVER FOR TODAY
THE SEA, THE SEA
By Henry McCarter in the Century magazine, 1898.
A BOB JONES MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION FOR TODAY
HO! HO! HO!
AN ALBERT DORNE FOR TODAY
A CHARLES ZINGARO FOR TODAY
“Admiring the Bell Hop” — Argosy magazine.
AN HENRI GERVEX FOR TODAY
This painting was refused admission to the Salon of 1878 on the grounds of indecency — quite rightly, I think. Degas had convinced his friend Gervex to show the lady's discarded corset on the chair beside her, which didn't help.
WALL STREET
. . . will crush us all if we let it.
DIMA DRJUCHIN
. . . takes his art down to Wall Street.