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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 @agotoronto.] #FolkloreThursday
Commission for Ganga Library Online. Theodor Svedberg for Chemistry 1926. Painted by artist Tim Tompkins https://t.co/aUsMfDtrER. https://t.co/0suQzQtPbN #portrait #portraiture #nobelprize #historical #museum #library #washingtondc #peaceprize
#portrait #portraiture #nobelprize
Remembering dear old sod 'Regy’ Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke 1880-1960 born today 8 Sept 1880
Soldier, landowner, politician, husband of “Bee”.
Regy was the lover of Lois Sturt 1919-1926. Together they broke every rule in the book of verse.
So much more @PembrokeReggie
Tsuguharu Foujita, "Chat Blanc, Fond Rouge", 1926.
Quel artiste et quelle personnalité : fantastique, audacieux, hors normes, excentrique…
#Chats #LesChats #Foujita #Artmoderne #Photo #Montparnasse #japon #YoyoMaeght
#HappyBirthday #RenéGoscinny, editor and writer born this day on 1926. Thanks for your immortal work in comics. :)
A painting for the day: Portrait of John Forste (Man with Glass Eye), by George Grosz, 1926.
Las flores en la pintura de los vanguardistas
Paul Klee. La planta y su enemigo. 1926.
Egon Schiele. Crisantemo amarillo. 1910.
Piet Mondrian. Lila azul. 1920.
Salvador Dalí. Rosa meditativa. 1958.
For #ShakespeareSunday Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "The Tempest," which he illustrated in 1926.
Maria Jeritza in the eponymous role of Turandot in Giacomo Puccini's opera, which premiered in Vienna #OTD in 1926.
Happy Passover!
PHOTO: A matzah baker loads dough into an oven. Photo by Alter Kacyzne. Lida, March 14, 1926. #fromtheyivoarchives