Tag Archives: Art

1959: Satchmo Talking

Posted on October 18, 2020 by corvusfugit

Collages by jazz great Louis Armstrong, mostly done on reel-to-reel tape boxes. Dates on the newspapers used range from 1959 to 1971, the year of his death. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Collage, Duke Ellington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Music, Sports | Leave a comment

1932: New Art Saves Strange Beasts

Posted on September 13, 2020 by corvusfugit

A headline from this article in Popular Science Monthly, January 1932:

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Mammals, Museums, Rhinoceroses, Science, USA, Zebras | Leave a comment

1969: Better Than Those Motherfuckers

Posted on August 28, 2020 by corvusfugit

Wadsworth Jarrell: Compared to What – I Am Better Than Those Motherfuckers and They Know It (1969) My painting Compared to What: I Am Better Than Those Motherfuckers and They Know It was critiqued. The form consists of graffiti-style words … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Music, Painting, The Beatles, USA, Wadsworth Jarrell | Leave a comment

1895: Long Beach

Posted on August 16, 2020 by corvusfugit

George Howell Gay: Surf, Long Beach, Rockport; I made up the date.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, George Howell Gay, Painting, Seascapes, USA | Leave a comment

1629: The Most Trivial Disagreements

Posted on August 15, 2020 by corvusfugit

Such personal correspondence and diaries as survive suggest that social relations from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries tended to be cool, even unfriendly. The extraordinary amount of casual interpersonal physical and verbal violence, as recorded in legal and other … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Backgammon, Belgium, Books, Games, Great Britain, Lawrence Stone, Painting, Playing Cards, Sociology, Theodoor Rombouts | 1 Comment

1955: Tomorrow is Never

Posted on August 12, 2020 by corvusfugit

Kay Sage: Tomorrow is Never (1955) DESTINY If I turn back at least I shall not have the sun in my face. But then there will always be the long shadow of myself before me.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Art, Kay Sage, Painting, Poetry, USA, Women | Leave a comment

1874: Seascape

Posted on August 6, 2020 by corvusfugit

Alfred Thompson Bricher: Seascape (1874)

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Art, Painting, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, USA | Leave a comment

1979: Westside Dreams

Posted on August 2, 2020 by corvusfugit

Daniel Salazar: Westside Dreams (1979) This photo shows the National Chicano Dance Theater posing in front of the Denver skyline in 1979, I think probably as part of a promotional shoot for Daniel Valdez’s play Zoot Suit, which debuted that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1940's, 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Cars, Daniel Salazar, Daniel Valdez, Film, Latino/as/x, Photography, Theater, USA | 2 Comments

1816: The World Was about to Come to an End

Posted on July 31, 2020 by corvusfugit

In 1881, Jedediah Hubbell Dorwin published some recollections of living in Montreal based on his extensive journals and scrapbooks. The following was reprinted in many newspapers at the time: On the morning of Sunday, November 8, 1819, the sun rose … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1810's, 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Canada, Churches, Jedediah Hubbell Dorwin, Painting, Paul Sandby Jr., Weather | Leave a comment

1867: Distant View

Posted on July 30, 2020 by corvusfugit

Frederick Leighton: Distant View of Mountains in the Aegean Sea (1867)

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Frederick Leighton, Great Britain, Landscapes, Mountains, Painting, Seascapes | Leave a comment