Abbott Handerson Thayer 🇺🇸 (b. 12.8.1849)

'The Sisters' (1884)
Oil on canvas
138 x 92.1 cm


'Caritas' (1895),
Oil on canvas
216.5 x 140.3 cm

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The centuries-old themes of nature's power and shipwreck at sea set in 19th century American waters. The semi-conscious female passenger; her heroic rescuer, the ship-to-shore breeches buoy pulley system, and Winslow Homer; “The Life Line” (1884)

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Fashion plate from Journal des Demoiselles, 1884.

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Billie Burke on Hollywood: “To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”

Best known as Glenda, Billie Burke was BOTD in 1884 in Washington D.C.

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Estonian Modernism! I love the art of its greatest Expressionist/Symbolist exponent, Nikolai Triik, born this day 1884. Although he preferred Baltic mythology, here are his dreamlike "Heracles & the Hydra" and "Daemon".

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Fashion plate from Journal des Demoiselles, 1884.

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Fashion plate from Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles, 1884.

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« Cave, Isle of Staffa » (1884) Thomas Moran 🌊

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🔸🔹Софія Налепинська-Бойчук (1884–1937). "Мені тринадцятий минало...". Ілюстрація до поезії Тараса Шевченка, 1927. Папір, дереворит.

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Dorothy Webster Hawksley (British painter) 1884 - 1970
Windswept Girl, watercolor and bodycolor on paper. Summer, ca. 1923. watercolor and bodycolor and
tempera. Peace, watercolor and bodycolor. Stepping Stones, watercolor

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Fashion plate from La Mode Illustrée, 1884.

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The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson was originally published in 1844. It is one of the most beautiful winter tales. Perfect for a hot summer’s day read.


Honor C. Appleton, illustration for the Snow Queen book, 1884, Pook Press publishing house

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