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The Angels of the Night (1894) by William Degouve de Nuncques
What do you love most about your local library?
(illustration by Dani Jones)
No matter how bleak things may seem, I will always believe that there is still beauty to be found in this world.
(illustration by Isabelle Arsenault)
“I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire.”
- Edward Burne-Jones, who was born #OTD in 1833
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”
― Theodore Dreiser, who was born #OTD in 1871
(painting by Mary Cassatt)
I am tired of pandemics and social distancing; therefore, I am renouncing the human world and leaving for that of Faerie. This will now be the new life I will lead. Who's with me?
(illustrations by Margaret Tarrant)
While in college, illustrator Jessie Wilcox Smith met Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley. Because they had similar talents and mutual interests, they developed a lifelong friendship. The women shared a studio