This month's is all about Since it's also October we're highlighting this awesome Head Men costume design (paint and ink on paper) by Miles White from Tibbals Circus Collection.

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Today we are sharing some of the beautiful done by artist Louise Ruggles Bradley McLennan. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

Watercolours by Louise McLennan. Beaton Institute Rare Book Collection.

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This piece comes from our Gail Haley collection. A Charlotte native, Haley is a Caldecott Medal and Greenaway Medal-winning children’s book author and illustrator. Learn more about her collection here: https://t.co/uGaGpKRV2T

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Making waves for the 🌊👋 Our includes 28 large-scale murals painted by Charles Knight from 1927-1931. 🎨 They depict Jurassic reptiles to Cenozoic cats and everything in between—and before! https://t.co/rKqQoUcf59

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This illustration of Victoria amazonica by William Sharp is among the first and finest examples of American chromolithography published in the 1854 book Victoria Regia or The Great Water Lily of America.

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Saturation diver and self-taught artist Robert Boles began drawing to correct public misconceptions about divers' work. This pen and ink illustration captures a commercial diver using a torch to cut a grout line from an oil platform leg.

🎨: Robert Boles, 1977

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Chrysanthemum season is almost upon us! These lithographs appear in the monthly journal L'Illustration Horticole that highlights horticultural achievements of the late Victorian era ca. 1880s.

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We’re kicking off with these beautiful lithographs by John Nugent Fitch from The Orchid Album published in the 1890s in our Rare Book Collection.

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Lindsay Anderson & Richard Harris 1963 Stephen Sutcliffe 28 July-30 Sep https://t.co/lRkmbeMCJk

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