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Tag Archives: USA
1802: The Mammoth Cheese
On the first day of 1802, President Thomas Jefferson received a gift of mythic proportions. Amid great fanfare, a “mammoth” Cheshire cheese was delivered to the President’s House by the itinerant Baptist preacher and political gadfly Elder John Leland (1754-1841). … Continue reading
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Tagged 1800's, 19th Century, Food and Drink, John Leland, Poetry, Religion, Slavery, Thomas Jefferson, USA, Words
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1946: Fight That Man!
The Challenger—a tough-talking comic book hero from the 1940’s who fights fascism at home: “The man who wants to smash the unions or attack racial or religious minorities is a fascist! Never forget that, and never forget to fight that … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Civil Rights, Comics, Fascism, Unions, USA
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1943: Workers and Paintings
Honoré Sharrer: Workers and Paintings (1943) I can’t identify all the paintings in this painting. Leave a comment if you can fill in the blanks: Hugo Gellert : Free Man’s Duties (No 4) … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, 1850's, 18th Century, 1930's, 1940's, 19th Century, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Dance, Diego Rivera, François Boucher, France, Grant Wood, Honoré Daumier, Honoré Sharrer, Hugo Gellert, Jean-François Millet, Labor, Madame de Pompadour, Mirrors, Netherlands, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Portraits, Printmaking, Spain, USA, Women
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1682: A Black Cloud of Strange Appearance
At Lynn, Mass., one evening in 1682, after the sun had set, and darkness had begun to throw its pall over the land, a man by the name of Handford went out of doors to ascertain if the new moon … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, Meteorology, Oddities, Printmaking, Ships & Sailing, The Sky, USA, Willem van de Velde
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1989: Inferno Joe
Robert Sikoryak’s version of Dante’s Inferno as a series of “Bazooka Joe” comics (1989). Sikoryak has also done a version of The Scarlet Letter as a series of “Little Lulu” strips, a “Peanuts” version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Crime and Punishment … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Art, Comic Strips, Comics, Dante, Poetry, R. Sikoryak, Translation, USA
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1899: The Fall and Rise of Humpty Dumpty
A. S. Seer, printer: Strange Adventures in The Fall and Rise of Humpty Dumpty (c. 1899) (source)
1923: Plum Tree
Theodore Earl Butler: Autumn Plum Tree in the Artists’ Garden, Giverny, 1923
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Painting, Theodore Earl Butler, Trees, USA
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