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On Pierre Brissaud's birthday, some of my favourite covers:
House & Garden, May 1937
Remembering Pierre Brissaud on his birthday 🎂
House & Garden, Fall Planting Number, October 1929
"The infectious and joyous nature of his characters, use of thin black lines, wonderful details, and vivid colours all come together to form scenes of idyllic charm."
- Geo Neo
Today's #CapeDorsetGraphics post is "A Friend Visits" by Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016), from 2008.
#InuitArt
A caricature of Oscar Niemeyer by Mohammad Ali Ziaei
"The most important thing is not architecture, but life, friends and this unjust world that we must change."
Edvard Munch
The Sun, 1909
Oslo University
I saw this painting at the @agotoronto Mystical Landscapes show in 2016. What an experience!
Jean de Brunhoff, ABC de Babar, Éditions du Jardin des modes, Paris, 1934
@GallicaBnF
Remembering Jean de Brunhoff on his birthday 🎂
"With Bemelmans’s Madeline & Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, the Babar books have become part of the common language of childhood, the library of the early mind."
- @adamgopnik
ABC de Babar, 1934
@GallicaBnF
Today's #CapeDorsetGraphics post is "Owl on Sealskin" by Kananginak Pootoogook (1935 – 2010), from 2009.
#InuitArt
Remembering Emeric Pressburger on his birthday 🎂
📷 Nat Farbman, 1947
With Michael Powell & composer Brian Easdale on the set of The Red Shoes.
Martin Scorsese calls The Red Shoes "The movie that plays in my heart."
Remembering Claude Renoir on his birthday 🎂
📷 David Wharry, 1956
Son of the painter Pierre-Auguste & brother of the director Jean, Claude lived at Les Collettes on the French Riviera, where his father once lived & painted