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The brilliant Australian artist Ida Rentoul Outhwaite died #OTD 1960. Her Waterfall Fairy and both beautiful bat- & broomstick-riding #Witches are from “The Enchanted Forest” (1921). Her Witch on a hill surrounded by familiars is from “Elves & Fairies” (1916).
#FairyTaleTuesday
For this week's #ThrowbackThursday we're going back to 1960. Our archive contains this photo of Form 3C and also a snap from that year's school camp at Eype in Dorset. We're loving the 'teddy boy' haircuts! #OldSchool
Illustrations by Dutch designer, Kees Kelfkens (1919-1986), including his covers for the 1956 Dutch edition of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, and THE HOBBIT, 1960.
A WELL-OILED MACHINE
Norman Saunders produced 867 pulp and paperback covers between 1935 and when he retired in 1960. That is the highest output of any pulp artist and this is in addition to trading cards and other commercial art he created. I present to you his art without copy.
Volkswagen (Lemon) is one of Andy Warhol’s ‘Ads’ portfolio of 1985. This advertisement was commissioned from the agency Doyle Dane Bernbach in 1960. It is still heralded as a perfect example of visual marketing.
#volkswagen #andywarhol #LimitedEdition #classiccar
Still from Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle/Breathless with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seaberg, 1960.
1960. Uncredited #illustrator. #midcentury #vintage #picturebook #childrensbook #art #books
"Familia Desamparada" (Homeless Family). Mixed media on canvas. 74 x 56 cms. Completed in 1960. Private collection. Painted by Radhamés Mejía (Santiago, 1925-1977)
Commission for Ganga Library Online. Nobel Prize Laureate, Peter Medawar for Medicine 1960. Painted by Tim Tompkins https://t.co/aUsMfDtrER. https://t.co/0suQzQtPbN #portrait #portraiture #nobelprize #historical #museum #library #washingtondc
#portrait #portraiture #nobelprize
Rising Moon (朝月)
Art by Japanese artist Takato Yamamoto (山本タカト), b.1960.
Happy Birthday to Tilda Swinton, who was born #OTD in 1960. As we always like to give things a historical twist, let's celebrate with a still of her playing the gender-shifting, time travelling Orlando in 1992
Ralf Chubb.1892-1960. Bathers. Southampton City Art Gallery. UK.
Northern art: "Black Country" 1960...Oil by #AnnBridgeman (b.1934)..
#TheNewArtGalleryWalsall