Look for influences on our Modernists at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. "French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950." "They broke from convention, and changed the art world forever."
https://t.co/3P85ng6Jfo

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In the spirit of the Royal Wedding, I am celebrating artist couples. Here is The Round Pond, 1930 by Agnes Miller Parker, whose bespectacled husband William McCance is on the bench upper left. See it for real in show A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950.

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Poster. Paul Gusset. c.1950.
Image: Christies

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As the capital is gearing up for we've been digging out some old books from the archive. Here is 'Gallery of Fashion 1790–1822', a book in the Batsford Colour Books series published in 1950.

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Landscape of Sabará in Brazil, 1950.
Alberto da Veiga Guignard


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Pt. 4. Extraordinary Vintage book jackets for George Orwell's 1984. The german version attempted to sell it as sexy. The U.S version sold it as "A starling view of life in 1984... Forbidden Love...Fear...Betrayal." Curiously off-message.
Orwell died on this day in 1950.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published book of Narnia stories was published on Oct. 16, 1950.

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My favorite- painted by my grandmother Lily back around 1950.

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Templo Nigatsu-dô en Nara, de Kotozuka Eiichi, ca. 1950.

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"Cerezos en flor en el santuario de Toshogu", de Okuyama Gihachiro, 1950.

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Helene - The ratcatcher of Hamelen - 1950.

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Hook line and sinker. Disney 1950. Story work. You create performance, carry narrative, character, iterate. Frustrating, fun

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Inappropriate spacewear alert!
Wanderer Of Space, by Vargo Statten. Scion 1950. Cover by Ron Turner

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Giorgio Morandi, 1950.

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1950 ☀ Rêve de lune • Dreaming of the moon.
Couverture du « Journal Tintin » belge du 30 mars 1950.

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Voilà a using techniques by Pablo Picasso from ca. 1950.
https://t.co/uSUYTptCKJ

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Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote roughly 70 novels before his death in 1950.
There is a crater on Mars named after him.

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Arco de Cuchilleros, Madrid, 1950. Foto de Francesc Catalá-Roca, vía

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Photographs of Laindon high road between 1910 - 1950. Courtesy of LDCA

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