Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Literature Pick #38

Lost in the Future
by John Victor Peterson
A excellent science fiction short story about the perils of space travel from the January 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Kao K'o-ming painting

Enlightenment After The Snowfall on the River
by Kao K'o-ming
Chinese artist
1035
Indian ink and color on silk

Monday, November 19, 2012

Literature Pick #37

The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
by John Kendrick Bangs
A superb ghost story first published in Harper's Weekly Magazine on June 27, 1891 and then republished in the 1892 short story collection The Water Ghost and Others.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Gherardo Starnina painting

Two Seated Angels Making Music
by Gherardo Starnina
Artist born in Florence
 
Fragment of an alterpiece,  painted between 1400 and 1410

tempera on panel
18.8" × 28.3" 
 

Friday, November 9, 2012

Paintings of Thomas Girtin

The Abbey Mill, Knaresborough (1809)

Tolleshunt-Beckingham, Essex (circa 1795)

Near Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire
Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
(1797-1799)