Monday, July 9, 2018

Literature Pick #112

The End of Time
by Wallace West (1900-1980)
A fantastic science fiction short story from the March 1933 issue of Astounding Stories.


Saturday, July 7, 2018

George Henry Durrie painting

Cider Pressing
by George Henry Durrie (1820-1863)
1855, oil on canvas, 22.25" x 30.25"
Durrie was an American painter, he was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Paul Wilhelm Keller-Reutlingen painting

Farmstead Under Clouds in Late Summer Light
by Paul Wilhelm Keller-Reutlingen (1854–1920)
oil on canvas, 29.13" x 41.73"
Keller-Reutlingen was a German painter, he was born in Reutlingen.

Friday, June 29, 2018

Carl Schultze painting

The Königssee in the Berchtesgadener Land
by Carl Schultze (born 1856)
oil on canvas, 29.5" x 38.2"
Schultze was a German painter, he was born in Düsseldorf.

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Literature Pick #111

The White Island—A Story of the Dardanelles
by Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953)
From the 1918 book of short stories about World War I, Tales from a Famished Land.

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Aleksander Gierymski painting

The Gate in the Old Town in Warsaw
by Aleksander Gierymski (1850–1901)
1883, oil on canvas, 25.1" × 19.2"
Gierymski was a Polish painter, he was born in Warsaw.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Literature Pick #110

A Michigan Man
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935)
First published in 1891 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: volume XLVII.

Monday, May 21, 2018

Moritz von Schwind painting

The Rose, or the Performer's Tour
by Moritz von Schwind (1804-1871)
1846-1847, Oil on Canvas, 85" x 52.7"
Schwind was an Austrian painter, he was born in Vienna.

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Anders Christian Lunde painting

Italian Mountain Landscape. Scene by the vicinity of Subiaco.
by Anders Christian Lunde (1809–1886)
Oil on Paper Mounted on Canvas, 12.9" × 21.6"
Lunde was a Danish landscape painter, he was born in Copenhagen.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Bruno Liljefors painting

Common Swifts
by Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939)
1886, oil on canvas, 16.1" × 22"
Liljefors was born in Uppsala, Sweden

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Jean-Baptiste Pater painting

The Fair at Bezons
by Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736)
circa 1733, oil on canvas, 42" x 56"
Pater was a rococo painter; he was born in Valenciennes, France.

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Andrea Mantegna painting

The Resurrection
by Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506)
1457-1459, oil on canvas, 27.99" x 37.01"

Italian Renaissance artist; he was born in Isola di Carturo, Republic of Venice.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Frederic William Burton painting

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs
by Frederic William Burton (1816-1900)
1864, Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, 37.60" x 23.94"
Burton was born in Wicklow, Ireland


Sunday, March 4, 2018

Caspar van Wittel painting

Piazza Navona, Rome
by Caspar van Wittel (1653-1736)
1699, oil on canvas, 37.99" x 85.04"
Van Wittel was a Dutch artist, he was born in Amersfoort.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Isaac Sailmaker painting

The Island of Barbados
by Isaac Sailmaker (circa 1633–1721)
circa 1694, oil on canvas, 44.49" x 90.98"
Sailmaker was a Dutch artist