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Tag Archives: 1950’s
1950: Seascape
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
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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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, France, Ireland, Novels, Samuel Beckett, Shoes, Writing
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1957: Carburetor
Walter Tandy Murch: Carburetor (1957)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Canada, Machines, Painting, USA, Walter Tandy Murch
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1953: Work
Charles White: Work (1953)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Charles White, Drawing, Labor, USA
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1951: An Elusive Charm
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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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Animals, Argentina, Books, Fish, Maps, Photography, USA, William T. Innes
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1957: Description
From Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1957 novel, Jealousy: Now the shadow of the southwest column– at the corner of the veranda on the bedroom side– falls across the garden. The sun, still low in the eastern sky, rakes the valley from the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Agriculture, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Books, Food and Drink, France, Maps, Novels
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1950: Seascape
Patrick von Kalckreuth: Seascape at Sunset (c. 1950)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Germany, Painting, Patrick von Kalckreuth, Seascapes
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