# bookillustrationoftheday

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - O is for Italo Orsi... an Italian Illustrator...he was active from pre WW1 right through to the 50s... Famous for his fairy tales, he was also a prolific poster designer with over 1000 designed in his career

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2021-01-17

"Olga Albizu" Puerto Rican (Abstract expressionist artist & painter 1924-2005) worked as a secretary at RCA Records in the 1950s. A friend of hers at RCA hung Albizu’s paintings in the office, where they came to the attention of the label's art director Bob Jones.

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2021-01-13

Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), closest living relative of the extinct Dodo. French illustration from 1950s.

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2021-01-07

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - L is for Zillah Lesko...an Illustrator active in the US in the 40s and 50s... I haven't been able to establish if she was American or merely made a career in the States...Here with a bit more of Patrick!..#BookIllustrationOfTheDay

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2021-01-02

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - L is for Zillah Lesko...an Illustrator active in the US in the 40s and 50s... I haven't been able to establish if she was American or merely made a career in the States... here with a couple of her originals..#BookIllustrationOfTheDay

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2021-01-02

In response to this...https://t.co/rbOQQgK2cI

I dunno, kind of reminds me of an old placard from the 50s...if only they had this kind of furrydom back then huh?

Thanks for bringing back the retro... 😛

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2020-12-31

A P-40 in Brazilian service, showing her age as she was being flown into the 1950s. Just a sketch.

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2020-12-23

Happy publication day to John Crespi's _Manhua Modernity_, about the origins and early history of Chinese 漫画 cartooning, from the 1920s to the 1950s. It's FREE and OPEN ACCESS! https://t.co/U3rR2Mkxo9. There are some astonishing cartoons in here, like the examples below:

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2020-12-19

The Short SA.4 Sperrin (named after the Sperrin Mountains) was a British jet bomber design of the early 1950s. It was a conventional design, intended to be used as a 'fall-back' in case any of the more 'radical' V-Bombers failed to enter production. Only two Sperrins were built.

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2020-11-16