Tag Archives: Art

1986: Lower Manhattan

Posted on January 23, 2019 by corvusfugit

Yvonne Jacquette: A Glimpse of Lower Manhattan (Night) (1986)

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1859: Morning Over New York

Posted on January 22, 2019 by corvusfugit

Charles Herbert Moore: Morning Over New York (c. 1859)

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1920: General Confusion

Posted on January 21, 2019 by corvusfugit

Stanislaw Witkiewicz: General Confusion (1920)

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1963: Pastoral

Posted on December 29, 2018 by corvusfugit

Richard Mayhew: Pastoral (c. 1963)

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1975: Fred Hampton’s Door

Posted on December 28, 2018 by corvusfugit

Dana C. Chandler: Fred Hampton’s Door 2 (1975) Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton was drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police in 1969. Dana Chandler first memorialized the event in 1970 with a small trompe I’oeil painting of a … Continue reading →

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1773: An Extraordinary Animal

Posted on December 20, 2018 by corvusfugit

In his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, James Boswell famously recounts his travels with Samuel Johnson in the highlands and western islands of Scotland. The year was 1773; Johnson was in his mid-sixties. In an 1885 edition of … Continue reading →

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1842: Snowstorm

Posted on December 4, 2018 by corvusfugit

J. M. W. Turner: Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (c 1842)

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2018: Gan Ainm

Posted on December 4, 2018 by corvusfugit

Helen O’Toole: Gan Ainm (2016-18); gan ainm is Irish for “without a name,” untitled.

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1903: The Phantom Ship

Posted on December 3, 2018 by corvusfugit

Frank Wilbert Stokes: The Phantom Ship, Atlantic Ocean (ca. 1903)

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1897: C.3.3.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

When Oscar Wilde’s poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was published in February, 1898, the author’s name appeared only as “C.3.3.,” which had been the number of Wilde’s tiny room in the prison: block C, landing 3, cell 3. It … Continue reading →

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