Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Literature Pick #114

The Four-Fifteen Express
by Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892)
A fantastic short story, first published in the Dec. 22, 1866 issue of Every Saturday (Vol. II No. 51).

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

David Roberts painting

Sphinx of Giza, partly under sand, with two pyramids in the background.
by David Roberts (1796-1864)
1838
Roberts was an Orientalist painter, he was born in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Philip James de Loutherbourg painting

The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen
by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812)
1788, oil on canvas, 52.9" x 77.9"

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Henryk Siemiradzki painting

Conversation by the Spring
by Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902)
Oil on canvas laid on board, 21.26" x 39.37"
Siemiradzki was a Polish academic painter.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Literature Pick #113

The Light-house
by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
A short story from the 1918 book, Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others.

Monday, July 16, 2018

Edward Mitchell Bannister painting

Untitled (landscape, boat moored near stream, man walking in foreground)
by Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901)
1879, oil on canvas, 14" x 20"
Bannister was a Tonalist painter, he was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.

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.