1932: Sunset

Posted on May 29, 2018 by corvusfugit

Charles Ernest Butler - Sunset at Low Tide, Westcliff-on-Sea (1932)

Charles Ernest Butler: Sunset at Low Tide, Westcliff-on-Sea (1932)

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1973: Literature

Posted on May 28, 2018 by corvusfugit

From Beyond the Unknown Vol. 1 No. 23 (aug 1973)

Nick Cardy: From Beyond the Unknown Vol. 1 #23 (August, 1973)

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1931: Seascape

Posted on May 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

Patrick von Kalckreuth - Seascape

Patrick von Kalckreuth: Seascape

The painting is undated. Von Kalckreuth (1892–1970) was born Patrick Dunbar, but changed his name after his father died and his mother married Richard von Kalckreuth in 1931. The signature on the panting thus indicates a date after that year.

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1913: St. Bride

Posted on May 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

NG 2043

John Duncan: St. Bride (1913)

St. Brigid of Kildare (c. 451 – 525) is said to have been carried by angels from Iona, a small island in the Hebrides, to Bethlehem (and back in time) to serve as a midwife to Mary at the birth of Jesus. She is one of the patron saints of Ireland.

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2010: We Chast Butterflys

Posted on May 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

Found in a park, 2010:

found notebook 1

GUY

found notebook 2

CLUES

1. has gray hair
2. wears glasses
3. looks like mr. schultz
4. construction man
day 2 very dusty [?]
suny bisx [?]
mayla aolo [?]
must erestmangone [?]
mushengone [?]
blanck nin [?]
[?]ay3 6/13/2010
must eereeesmiusit [?]
mushehonieetskuvatr [?]
mustereeestmarn onie [?]
wrkr

found notebook 3

we chast butterflys / the butterflys are litning fast

a desk
is a
forest
table top
paper
is like
cut-up
trees
pencils
are like
trees
scattered
along the
forest floor

found notebook 4

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1871: Some Have Entertained Angels Unawares

Posted on May 22, 2018 by corvusfugit

Edward Clifford - Some Have Entertained Angels Unawares (1871)

Edward Clifford: Some Have Entertained Angels Unawares (1871)

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

—Hebrews 13:2

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1968: BE THE THING!

Posted on May 19, 2018 by corvusfugit

Making It Strange #4 (1968)

An exercise from Making It Strange #4, a workbook for elementary school students published by Harper & Row in 1968:

BE ZERO AND SEE THE WORLD

Simple things often seem dull
until you get inside them and think the way they do….
In this lesson you will use BEING THE THING
to see the number ZERO in a new way.
As ZERO you have specific uses and a unique shape.
Here are some of the ways you are used:

In the number “101” you are a place holder.
In the problem “One minus one equals?”
you are the answer, “ZERO.”
In the problem “ZERO times ZERO equals?”
you are the answer, “ZERO.”
Even when you are an important answer,
you still amount to nothing

On the lines below, describe yourself as ZERO. BE ZERO and see the world.

lines

In this lesson,
the best way to get to know ZERO is to BE it.
Close your eyes and imagine
that your whole body is in the shape of ZERO.
You have leaned over backwards
and grabbed your feet with your hands.

How do the muscles of your body feel in this position?

lines

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1979: Brown v. Board

Posted on May 17, 2018 by corvusfugit

Milton Williams - Parade Thrills! (1979)

Milton Williams: Parade Thrills!

Taken May 17, 1979, on the 25th anniversary of the US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which ruled that public schools could not be segregated.

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1948: The Rivers of America

Posted on May 17, 2018 by corvusfugit

The Rivers of America

The Rivers of America consists of sixty-five volumes published over 37 years (1937-1974):

Published by Farrar & Rinehart (1937–1946):
1. The Kennebec: Cradle of the Americans, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, 1937; illustrated by Maitland de Gogorza
2. The Upper Mississippi, Walter Havighurst, 1938; illustrated by David Granahan and Lolita Granahan
3. The Suwannee: Strange Green Land, Cecile Hulse Matschat, 1938; illustrated by Alexander Key
4. The Powder: Let ‘er Buck, Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938; illustrated by Ross Santee
5. The James, Blair Niles, 1939; illustrated by Edward Shenton
6. The Hudson, Carl Carmer, 1939; illustrated by Stow Wengenroth
7. The Sacramento: River of Gold, Julian Dana, 1939; illustrated by J. O’Hara Cosgrave, II
8. The Wabash, William E. Wilson, 1940; illustrated by John de Martelly
9. The Arkansas, Clyde Brion Davis, 1940; illustrated by Donald McKay
10. The Delaware, Harry Emerson Wildes, 1940; illustrated by Irwin D. Hoffman
11. The Illinois, James Gray, 1940
12. The Kaw: Heart of a Nation, Floyd Benjamin Streeter, 1941; illustrated by Isabel Bate and Harold Black

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1976: House

Posted on May 17, 2018 by corvusfugit

Francesca Woodman - House #4, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

Francesca Woodman: House #4, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

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