"Do not read while eating"
Soviet propaganda poster, 1926.

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"Sorry, but your planet's banned from entry..."

The First Men In The Moon, by H G Wells. Amazing Stories, December 1926.

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Johan Dijkstra ,1896-1978 ,Groningen Portrait of a man ,1926.

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Alexander Archipenko - 1926.

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Alfred Courmes 1898-1993 French artist, son of a Navy officer who supported his art inclinations Cubist and realist classical and surrealist Dubbed the angel of bad taste by his enemies. Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim 1926. Social and anticlerical themes parody of publicity imagery

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Celebrating today - the fictional anthropomorphic bear created by English author A.A. Milne in 1926.

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"Having a Jolly Time at Bexhill-on-Sea." Postcard c.1926. I'm struggling with the idea that 1920 is now 100 years ago. This is mid-decade as The Kursaal (shown inset on "The Parade") has its terrible 1925 roof.

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Illustration by Martha Lopez, 1926.

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'The Magician' - Rex Ingram, 1926. Based on Somerset Maugham's book of the same name it features a magician named Oliver Haddo - inspired by Aleister Crowley - whom Maugham knew through the painter Gerald Kelly. Once considered a 'lost film', it is now available on DVD

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'The Retired Colourman' the 58th story in the Canon, first appeared in Liberty 1926.

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“La encontraba demasiado moderna” 1926.
cuban magazine

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Anka Krizmanić 1896-1987, Croata.
Lovers, 1926.

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Candido Portinari, Portrait of Celso Kelly, 1926.

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Art by John Holmgren.(1897-1963).
-Art Deco Colour Cover Illustration ‘Shawl There Is !’ Judge Magazine, October 1926.
-An Evening Wrap.Judge magazine, December 1926.
-“Using the Woods” , 1931
-Judge Magazine 1934.

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Oxford, 1926. A furious red velvet coat for the chaos of the beginning of term, for a morning on the fall of Robespierre, followed by lunch with the Warden, for moorhens & Mongolian limes in University Parks &, as evening casts melancholy, this ridiculous duel by the river reeds.

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Jeanne Mammen, Ostende, am Strand [The Beach at Ostend], c.1926.

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Agnes Miller, Parker Pigsty, 1926.

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Gerda Wegener, detail, On the banks of the Loire (Beaugency artists colony), Paris, 1926.

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Before refrigerators, blocks of ice were cut from frozen rivers and ponds, and preserved in straw. [L: 'The Ice Harvest', Clarence Gagnon, ca. 1926. Private collection. R: 'Ice Cutting, Quebec City', Maurice Cullen, 1906, via .]

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