Tag Archives: 1950’s

1955: 憶西環

Posted on July 14, 2019 by

Fan Ho: Surreal Sai Wan (c 1950-1960)

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1952: The Grim Thoughts which Harass Me

Posted on May 12, 2019 by

Baffling Mysteries No. 7 (March 1952); art by Lou Cameron, found here.

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1950: Seascape

Posted on September 26, 2018 by

A seascape by mid-20th-century French artist Edouard Mandon; title and date unknown. I haven’t been able to find out much about him.

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1953: Description

Posted on June 26, 2018 by

As for his feet, sometimes he wore on each a sock, or on the one a sock and on the other a stocking, or a boot, or a shoe, or a slipper, or a sock and a boot, or a … Continue reading →

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1957: Carburetor

Posted on June 11, 2018 by

Walter Tandy Murch: Carburetor (1957)

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1953: Work

Posted on May 8, 2018 by

Charles White: Work (1953)

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1951: An Elusive Charm

Posted on April 29, 2018 by

Endpaper maps from William T. Innes’s  Exotic Aquarium Fishes (13th ed., 1951), with a grid the reader can use to find the location of the various fishes listed in the book.

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