Tag Archives: 20th Century

1973: Head Sculpture

Efrat Natan: Head Sculpture (1973)

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1944: World’s Most Beautiful Leg

Nazi Propaganda Poster (1944)

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1936: Coal Tipple

Louise Pershing: Bituminous Coal Tipple (1936)

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1994: Selected Works

cho Kcho: Obras Escogidas (Selected Works) (1994) (source)

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1938: Youth of Today

John Vachon: Picket line at King Farm, Morrisville PA, August 1938

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1941: Degenerate Art

Emil Nolde: Meer bei Abenddämmerung [Sea at Dusk] An anti-Semite who believed in the cultural superiority of “Germanic” art and supported the Nazi Party beginning in the 1920’s, Emil Nolde was surprised when his own paintings were targeted in the … Continue reading

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1937: Forest

Emily Carr: Forest Interior in Shafts of Light (c. 1935-1937)

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1909: The Forest

One of Frederick Cayley Robinson’s set designs for The Blue Bird, Maurice Maeterlinck’s “Fairy Play” about Tyltyl and Mytyl, the children of a poor woodcutter, who are sent out by the Fairy Bérylune to search for the Blue Bird of … Continue reading

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1954: Khazad-dûm

Northern door of St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, Tolkien’s inspiration for the West Gate of Moria.

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1913: Sheep

Ernest Bieler: Les Moutons à Montorge (1913)

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