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Tag Archives: 1950’s
1957: South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow
Kay Sage: South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow (1957)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Kay Sage, Painting, The Sky, USA, Women
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1953: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur
Leonora Carrington: And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (1953)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Animals, Children, Dogs, Leonora Carrington, Mammals, Mexico, Mythology, Painting, Women
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1958: Work
Kazuo Shiraga: Work II (1958)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Japan, Kazuo Shiraga, Painting
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1954: Morning on the Volga
Georgy Nissky: Morning on the Volga (1954)
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Georgy Nissky, Landscapes, Painting, Rivers, Soviet Union
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1959: Capital and Labor
Sister Concilla sets the record straight on labor unions. Note the union bug indicating the comic was printed in a union shop.
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Christianity, Comics, Nuns, Popes, Religion, Strikes, Unions, USA
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1954: Zombies, Unite!
For Labor Day: a grave-digger’s strike leads to disasterous consequences in this 1954 story from Voodoo comics:
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Comics, Death, Strikes, Unions, Zombies
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1956: The Hound of Heaven
In 1893, English poet Francis Thompson published a poem called “The Hound of Heaven.” The work is an extended metaphor: as a hound pursues a hare in a hunt, so does God pursue the human soul to restore it to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 1930's, 1950's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Christianity, Francis Thompson, Great Britain, Painting, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Robert Hale Ives Gammell, USA
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1955: 憶西環
Fan Ho: Surreal Sai Wan (c 1950-1960)
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Tagged 1950's, 1960's, 20th Century, Art, China, Cityscapes, Fan Ho, Photography, Trains
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1952: The Grim Thoughts which Harass Me
Baffling Mysteries No. 7 (March 1952); art by Lou Cameron, found here.
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art Cameron, Books, Comics, Occult, USA
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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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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Edouard Mandon, France, Painting, Seascapes
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