Tag Archives: 20th Century

1966: Doctor Strange Meets Eternity

Steve Ditko: Strange Tales #146 (July, 1966) Eternity was created as the second sentient force supporting Creation. Before Eternity, there was a single universe, whose animating force was the primal cosmic being that would later call itself The First Firmament. … Continue reading

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1940: The White Horse

Eric Ravilious: Train Landscape (1940) The background of this painting features the Westbury White Horse, a figure on the slope of Salisbury Plain in England. As the earliest documentation dates from 1742, the horse was likely created in the first … Continue reading

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1489: Versions

      Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine [Cecilia Galleran] (1489–1490) Awol Erizku: Lady with a Pitbull (2009) Hans Holbein: Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling [probably Anne Lovell] (c. 1526-28) Frida Khalo: Self-Portrait with … Continue reading

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1930: The High-Speed Vehicle of the Future

The Dynasphere was a monowheel vehicle patented in 1930 by J. A. Purves, who called it “the high-speed vehicle of the future”; one source, however, reports that “while the [vehicle] could move along just fine, it was almost impossible to … Continue reading

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1943: Miniature Mount Vernon

This miniature reproduction of  the West Parlor of George Washington’s Mount Vernon was crafted by Narcissa Niblack Thorne. The photo on the left shows the room being prepared for exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1943. Thorne’s detailed … Continue reading

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1937: Underground

Emil Otto Hoppé: British Museum Underground Station, London, 1937

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1946: East L.A.

Max Yavno: East Los Angeles, 1946 (source)

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1918: Gassed

John Singer Sargent: Gassed (1919) (source)

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1946: Django

William Gottlieb: Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, NY (ca. Nov. 1946)

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1914: The Rothschilds’ Fleas

Although he may not have paid £1,000 for a flea in 1914 (about $135,000 today), the banker Charles Rothschild was in fact a respected entomologist and an avid collector of fleas. He acquired some 260,000 specimens, including about 500 new … Continue reading

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