1. 20 May


    Musical sweater, piles of books. Calling All Girls (1941) #52. Published August 1946 by Parents’ Magazine Institute. Calling All Girls promoted positive role models for young women, although they often featured gender-stereotypical articles and advertising as makeup and fashion tips.

    Musical sweater, piles of books.

    Calling All Girls (1941) #52. Published August 1946 by Parents’ Magazine Institute.

    Calling All Girls promoted positive role models for young women, although they often featured gender-stereotypical articles and advertising as makeup and fashion tips.

     

  2. 18 May


    Georgia May Jagger’s tower of books. Chanel girl Jagger takes after her father Mick in Vogue China July 2010’s Like A Rolling Stone. Lensed by Max Vadukul in a healthy dose of knits, plaids and stockings, the studio editorial features a spot of color with Nicoletta Santoro’s impeccable styling.

    Georgia May Jagger’s tower of books.

    Chanel girl Jagger takes after her father Mick in Vogue China July 2010’s Like A Rolling Stone. Lensed by Max Vadukul in a healthy dose of knits, plaids and stockings, the studio editorial features a spot of color with Nicoletta Santoro’s impeccable styling.

     

  3. 17 May


    Cartoon by Gilbert Bundy for Esquire magazine, August 1954. “I feel it only fair to warn you, Miss Bowen – at college I won the standing broad jump.” Bundy gained fame as a cartoonist in the pages of Esquire magazine in the 1930s. He painted delightful watercolors of the leisure class at play, specializing in millionaire sportsmen and glamorous show girls.

    Cartoon by Gilbert Bundy for Esquire magazine, August 1954.

    “I feel it only fair to warn you, Miss Bowen – at college I won the standing broad jump.”

    Bundy gained fame as a cartoonist in the pages of Esquire magazine in the 1930s. He painted delightful watercolors of the leisure class at play, specializing in millionaire sportsmen and glamorous show girls.

     

  4. 14 May


    Hero of the Hour (1930s). Revere Wistehuff (American, 1900-1971). Oil on board. Revere F. Wistehuff was one of the central group of cover artists in the New Rochelle Art Colony in the 1920’s, ’30s, and ’40s which included the Leyendeckers, Norman Rockwell and Walter Beach Humphrey. “Wistey” did covers for virtually all of the national magazines.

    Hero of the Hour (1930s). Revere Wistehuff (American, 1900-1971). Oil on board.

    Revere F. Wistehuff was one of the central group of cover artists in the New Rochelle Art Colony in the 1920’s, ’30s, and ’40s which included the Leyendeckers, Norman Rockwell and Walter Beach Humphrey. “Wistey” did covers for virtually all of the national magazines.

     

  5. 13 May


    Bookplate (1910). Artist: Alfred Cossmann. Owner: Dr. Leo Lippmann. Steel engraving. Alfred Cossmann (1870-1951) was an Austrian graphic artist and engraver, active in Vienna during the first half of the 20th century and well known for his bookplate designs.

    Bookplate (1910). Artist: Alfred Cossmann. Owner: Dr. Leo Lippmann. Steel engraving.

    Alfred Cossmann (1870-1951) was an Austrian graphic artist and engraver, active in Vienna during the first half of the 20th century and well known for his bookplate designs.

     

  6. 11 May


    Bookplate. Ignacy Paderewski. Artist: William P Barrett. 1908. Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941), a virtuoso pianist, composer, politician (the first Prime Minister of independent Poland after World War I), humanitarian and orator, was universally acclaimed as a “Modern Immortal” by his contemporaries.

    Bookplate. Ignacy Paderewski. Artist: William P Barrett. 1908.

    Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941), a virtuoso pianist, composer, politician (the first Prime Minister of independent Poland after World War I), humanitarian and orator, was universally acclaimed as a “Modern Immortal” by his contemporaries.

     

  7. 9 May


    Wonderland. Kirsty Mitchell (English, 1976-). Featured on the cover and inside Lithuanian magazine ‘Psichologlia Tau’ Jan 2013. “…My earliest memories were always of the stories read to me by my mother…She instilled in me the most precious gift a mother could, her imagination and a belief in beauty…It became my root, and the place I constantly try to return to in my work, and my dreams…”

    Wonderland. Kirsty Mitchell (English, 1976-). Featured on the cover and inside Lithuanian magazine ‘Psichologlia Tau’ Jan 2013.

    “…My earliest memories were always of the stories read to me by my mother…She instilled in me the most precious gift a mother could, her imagination and a belief in beauty…It became my root, and the place I constantly try to return to in my work, and my dreams…”

     

  8. 8 May


    Portrait of Silvana Cenni (1922). Felice Casorati (Italian, 1883–1963). Tempera on canvas.  This symmetrical composition of a seated woman in a white dress is perhaps the best-known of the artist’s works. In it, the careful rendering of volumes results paradoxically in a sense of unreality; this is characteristic of Casorati’s art and it connects him to the metaphysical painters. 

    Portrait of Silvana Cenni (1922). Felice Casorati (Italian, 1883–1963). Tempera on canvas. 

    This symmetrical composition of a seated woman in a white dress is perhaps the best-known of the artist’s works. In it, the careful rendering of volumes results paradoxically in a sense of unreality; this is characteristic of Casorati’s art and it connects him to the metaphysical painters. 

     

  9. 6 May


    Me travel? …not this summer : Vacation at Home. Albert Dorne (1904-1965). United States, Office of Defense Transportation, 1945. University of North Texas Libraries, Government Documents Department. A smiling man relaxes in an easy chair while reading a newspaper and smoking a pipe. A Springer Spaniel dog lies on the floor beside him. On a book case at his side is a framed picture of a young soldier, a radio, and a fan which blows his hair back. Plenty of books are available to read.

    Me travel? …not this summer : Vacation at Home. Albert Dorne (1904-1965). United States, Office of Defense Transportation, 1945. University of North Texas Libraries, Government Documents Department.

    A smiling man relaxes in an easy chair while reading a newspaper and smoking a pipe. A Springer Spaniel dog lies on the floor beside him. On a book case at his side is a framed picture of a young soldier, a radio, and a fan which blows his hair back. Plenty of books are available to read.

     

  10. 5 May


    Abelard and his Pupil Heloise (1882). Edmund Leighton (English, 1853–1922). Oil on canvas. “Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.”

    Abelard and his Pupil Heloise (1882). Edmund Leighton (English, 1853–1922). Oil on canvas.

    “Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.”

     

  11. 30 Apr


    Analog Science Fact - Science Fiction, September 1964. Cover by John Schoenherr (1935-2010). Through the scores of book jackets and pulp magazine covers he drew in the 1950s and afterward, Schoenherr is widely credited with helping shape midcentury America’s collective image of alien landscapes and their occupants.

    Analog Science Fact - Science Fiction, September 1964. Cover by John Schoenherr (1935-2010).

    Through the scores of book jackets and pulp magazine covers he drew in the 1950s and afterward, Schoenherr is widely credited with helping shape midcentury America’s collective image of alien landscapes and their occupants.

     

  12. 29 Apr


    The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1848-9). Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828‑1882). Oil on canvas. Tate. The Virgin Mary is shown here as a young girl, working on an embroidery with her mother, St Anne. Her father, St Joachim, is pruning a vine. The picture is full of symbolic details. The palm branch on the floor and thorny briar rose on the wall allude to Christ’s Passion, the lilies to the Virgin’s purity, and the books to the virtues of hope, faith and charity. The dove represents the Holy Spirit. This was Rossetti’s first completed oil painting and the first picture to be exhibited with the initials ‘PRB’, for Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, inscribed on it.

    The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1848-9). Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828‑1882). Oil on canvas. Tate.

    The Virgin Mary is shown here as a young girl, working on an embroidery with her mother, St Anne. Her father, St Joachim, is pruning a vine. The picture is full of symbolic details. The palm branch on the floor and thorny briar rose on the wall allude to Christ’s Passion, the lilies to the Virgin’s purity, and the books to the virtues of hope, faith and charity. The dove represents the Holy Spirit. This was Rossetti’s first completed oil painting and the first picture to be exhibited with the initials ‘PRB’, for Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, inscribed on it.

     

  13. 27 Apr


    La Doctora. To encourage the sale of more chocolate Senor Boix used to put picture cards within each box. 1930s. “The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.” ― Sandra Boynton

    La Doctora. To encourage the sale of more chocolate Senor Boix used to put picture cards within each box. 1930s.

    “The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.” ― Sandra Boynton

     

  14. 26 Apr


    Interior with a Portrait of John Sheepshanks (Portrait of John Sheepshanks at his residence, New Bond Street), 1832-1834. William Mulready (Great Britian, 1786-1863). Oil on panel. V&A. Sheepshanks, the renowned collector, is in the drawing room of his house in London. He is surrounded by books and portfolios, while the housekeeper brings in his letters and morning tea.

    Interior with a Portrait of John Sheepshanks (Portrait of John Sheepshanks at his residence, New Bond Street), 1832-1834. William Mulready (Great Britian, 1786-1863). Oil on panel. V&A.

    Sheepshanks, the renowned collector, is in the drawing room of his house in London. He is surrounded by books and portfolios, while the housekeeper brings in his letters and morning tea.

     

  15. 21 Apr


    An Afternoono on the Porch (c.1895). Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933). Oil on canvas. In Paris Corcos spent time at the studio of Léon Bonnat, portrait painter to the Parisian upper middle class and he successfully became part of elite art circles. He chose fashionable themes: female portraits, scenes of modern life, sophisticated interiors painted in vibrant colors and fluid brushstrokes, works in the style of Boldini and De Nittis.

    An Afternoono on the Porch (c.1895). Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933). Oil on canvas.

    In Paris Corcos spent time at the studio of Léon Bonnat, portrait painter to the Parisian upper middle class and he successfully became part of elite art circles. He chose fashionable themes: female portraits, scenes of modern life, sophisticated interiors painted in vibrant colors and fluid brushstrokes, works in the style of Boldini and De Nittis.