Tag Archives: USA

2012: Gods of New Jersey

Posted on October 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

Peter Ferguson: Gods of New Jersey (c. 2012)

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1875: An Absolute Democracy

Posted on October 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the imperial mantle that bore the … Continue reading →

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1890: Glacier

Posted on October 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Bradford: Muir Glacier (1890)

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1910: Photographer

Posted on October 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

C. R. Tucker: Dorothy Tucker (1905-1910)

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1900: Versions

Posted on October 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

Hans Thoma: Wondrous Birds (1892) W. W. Denslow: Illustration from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

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1927: Dancing on the Bauhaus Roof

Posted on September 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

T. Lux Feininger: [Charleston on the Bauhaus Roof] (1927); the dancer is Xanti Schawinsky and Clemens Röseler is playing the banjo.

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1876: Grove

Posted on September 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

George Inness: Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa (1876)

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1950: Atom Bomb Hits New York City

Posted on September 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

Chesley Bonestell: Atom Bomb Hits New York City; cover illustration for the August 5, 1950 issue of Collier’s magazine.

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1873: The Monk

Posted on September 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

George Inness: The Monk (1873)

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1914: Wings!

Posted on September 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

Alvin Langdon Coburn: Wings! (1914)

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