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RUPERT BUNNY (Australian, 1864-1947)
"A summer morning" 1897
Oil on canvas (97,9 x 129,5cm.)
ELFLAND or Alfheim 'elf-home' is associated with the land of the dead in folklore; no sun or moon only perpetual twilight. Mortals who enter are only released if they are able to perform some task of value to the fae, W. Henderson, 1897🎨 Gustave Doré, 1870 #FolkloreThursday
Alphonse Mucha, Salomé from L'Estampe moderne, no. 2, 1897 https://t.co/1IrtSdbq7P #alphonsemucha #museumofmodernart
Happy Birthday Enid Blyton! Enid was born on 11th August, 1897.
This is a day to drink some ginger beer and eat a thick slab of homemade cake!
Thank you for the magic and adventure you’ve given to generations.
Happy #WorldCatDay!
The cat paintings of Henriëtte Ronner-Knip were particularly popular at the end of the 19th century. She painted countless performances with young kittens taking mischievous actions.
The piano lesson,
ca 1890-1897
Kitten,
1896
#catday #internationalcatday
Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897-1994)
Femme dans une grotte (1936)
Oil on canvas, 71 x 91.5 cm.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Love the owls and frogs. Jugendstil wall carpet from 1897 by German designer Otto Eckmann, Berlin, Germany.
The Gorge at Varengeville, Late Afternoon, 1897 #monet #impressionism
Hugo Simberg (1873 – 1917)
The Garden of Death (1896)
Poppy (1896)
The Wounded Angel (1903)
Spring Evening During the Break-Up of the Ice (1897)
#art #painting #HugoSimberg
The very first illustrations for H.G Wells' War of the Worlds were painted by Warwick Goble (1897). Goble wrote “I’m doing the dearest little serial for Pearson’s new magazine in which I completely wreck and sack Woking – killing my neighbours in painful and eccentric ways"!!
#EdithHead (1897-1981) (I)
Figurines:
· Sunset Boulevard (B. Wilder, 1950)
· Eva al desnudo (J. L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
· La ventana indiscreta (A. Hitchcock, 1964)
"The Costume Designer: Edith Head & Hollywood", P. Curtin (ed.):
· https://t.co/rOTOgmHsMq
‘In the spring of 1940 the birds migrated early from the Great Marsh. The world was on fire. The whine and roar of the bombers and the thudding explosions frightened them.' #TheSnowGoose (1941) by #PaulGallico #BOTD 1897
Illus. #SirPeterScott (1946) founder @WWTworldwide & @WWF