Oops, forgot the goodnight story:
Therefore, the best...
Nov 8th
It’s an early nighty-night from OF today - sleep tight...
Nov 8th
Earlie Hudnall, Jr. (b. Nov. 8, 1946): Lady with Pup, 1990 -...
Nov 8th
William Stroud (Nov. 8, 1812 - 1889): Sower’s Book,...
Nov 8th
Early Charles Demuth, Cubist/Precisionist:
Bermuda...
Nov 8th
Charles Demuth also did more allegorical work, for...
Nov 8th
Another explicit work by Charles Demuth:
Three Sailors,...
Nov 8th
Charles Demuth (Nov. 8, 1883 - 1935): Turkish Bath with Self...
Nov 8th
Still from La Piscine, 1969: (L to R) Alain Delon, Romy...
Nov 8th
Masculinity Studies 101: Write a five page essay...
Nov 8th
Can’t resist slipping in another Robert Capa shot of...
Nov 8th
Birthday of Martha Gellhorn (Nov. 8, 1908 - 1998), novelist,...
Nov 8th
A quick tour of the birthdays before we return to art:
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Nov 8th
Standing Figure, by Graham Sutherland, 1952 - Private...
Nov 8th
David Gascoyne’s A Short Survey of Surrealism,...
Nov 8th
Image: David Gascoyne’s notebook - British Library
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Nov 8th
Salvador Dali - a poem by David Gascoyne The face of the...
Nov 8th
A fuller group photo of the organizers of and some of the...
Nov 8th
Tableau at the First International Surrealist Exhibition in...
Nov 8th
Images of Lee Miller as a young girl…
(via The Home...
Nov 8th
Man Ray: Lee Miller, Paris, 1930
(via The Home of the...
Nov 8th
Dora Maar: Untitled (Hand & Shell), 1934
Nov 8th
Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988): Scylla, 1938 - Oil on board...
Nov 8th
Jane Graverol - L’Esprit Saint (The Holy Spirit), 1965
Jane...
Nov 8th
Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, 1936-40 - Textiles over...
Nov 8th
Remedios Varo: Insomnio, 1948
During her exile in Mexico...
Nov 8th
Meret Oppenheim: Ma Gouvernante, 1967
Nov 8th
Meret Oppenheim: Miss Gardenia, 1962 - plaster in metal...
Nov 8th
Meret Oppenheim: White Head, Blue Dress, 1935 - Gipsum...
Nov 8th
Helen Perdriat: Les DeMoiselle de Fantasie, 1922 - Oil on...
Nov 8th
Helen Perdriat: Aube, 1930
Review of Perdriat show in New...
Nov 8th
Getting into this Surreal Sunday:
Helen Perdriat: Femme...
Nov 8th
André Lhote: L’Escale - Musée d’Art Moderne de...
Nov 8th
Philip Evergood - seen twice before on OF - was also a Lhote...
Nov 8th
OF has featured at least 6 of André Lhote’s students...
Nov 8th
Once more it’s Sweet Joni’s birthday:
Joni...
Nov 7th
Birthday of a great diva:
Joan Sutherland, b. Nov. 7, 1926,...
Nov 7th
Dr. Konrad Lorenz (Nov. 7, 1903 - 1989), a Viennese...
Nov 7th
Birthday of a great heroine of science:
Marie Curie (Nov....
Nov 7th
One more outlaw:
Leon Trotsky, Nov. 7, 1879 - 1940 - here...
Nov 7th
Robert LeRoy Parker (alias Butch Cassidy) poses in the Wild...
Nov 7th
November 7, 1908 is the likely death-day of outlaws Butch...
Nov 7th
On Nov. 7, 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art...
Nov 7th
Norah McGuinness: Bog Hole in the Heather (Source)
Nov 7th
Norah McGuinness: At Lhote’s, Paris, 1930 - oil on...
Nov 7th
J. Theodore Johnson (Nov. 7, 1902 - 1963): Chicago Interior,...
Nov 7th
An American classic:
Louis Loeb (Nov. 7, 1866 - 1909): The...
Nov 7th
Jon Serl (Nov. 7, 1894 - 1993): Reptile, 1965 - oil on...
Nov 7th
Jan Matulka: (Surrealist Landscape), ca. 1935 - watercolor,...
Nov 7th
Jan Matulka: Conversation, 1929 - Museum of Fine Arts,...
Nov 7th
Double exposure of Jan Matulka and his studio, c. 1920 -...
Nov 7th
Jan Matulka (Nov. 7, 1890 - 1972) was a Czech-born artist...
Nov 7th
Louis Stettner’s paintings
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Nov 7th
Louis Stettner’s paintings
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Nov 7th
Louis Stettner: Portrait, Montauk Point, Long Island
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Nov 7th
Louis Stettner: Soir de Noël, Ile de Saint Louis, 1951
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Nov 7th
Louis Stettner: Promenade, Brooklyn, 1954
Link to...
Nov 7th
Louis Stettner, photographer and painter, b. Nov. 7, 1922 is...
Nov 7th
Camus, happy and absurd - Loomis Dean, LIFE
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Nov 7th
Camus in the dark - Loomis Dean, LIFE
“The evil that...
Nov 7th
Camus, soaked - Loomis Dean, LIFE
“For those of us...
Nov 7th
Camus in the park w. his kids - Loomis Dean, LIFE
“So...
Nov 7th
Camus on the balcony, Loomis Dean - LIFE
“A character...
Nov 7th
Camus enlightened, by Loomis Dean - LIFE
“By the same...
Nov 7th
Camus editing, by Loomis Dean, LIFE
From Camus’...
Nov 7th
French Nobel Literature Laureate Albert Camus was born Nov....
Nov 7th
Gjon Mili: Dancer Angna Enters performing...
Nov 7th
Louis Rhead (Nov. 6, 1857 - 1926): Jane, 1897 - color...
Nov 6th
Dennis Byng (b. Nov. 6, 1927): Column with Orange, Blue, and...
Nov 6th
Anthony De Bernardin (Nov. 6, 1889 - 1972): Yurek’s...
Nov 6th
A flotilla of Edsels come over the hill…
The model...
Nov 6th
Nov. 6, 1935 witnessed the first flight of the Hawker...
Nov 6th
Robert Musil (b. Nov. 6, 1880) may have left only...
Nov 6th
Today is the 57th birthday of Michael Cunningham, whose...
Nov 6th
Time for writers - there is always time for writers:
James...
Nov 6th
From Saxophone to Sousaphone:
Nov. 6, 1854 was the birthday...
Nov 6th
Staying with music-related posts:
Adolphe Sax, Belgian...
Nov 6th
November 6 was also the death-day of composer Edgar Varèse...
Nov 6th
Novmber 6, 1893 the wonderful Russian composer, Piotr...
Nov 6th
An OF classic from last year:
Elsa Dorfman: Allen on...
Nov 6th
Alvin Langdon Coburn: Michio Itō - collotype, 22 October...
Nov 6th
Alvin Langdon Coburn: Henri Matisse - photogravure, 13 May...
Nov 6th
Alvin Langdon Coburn: Arnold Dolmetsch, 1916 - gelatin...
Nov 6th
Portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn:
George Bernard Shaw -...
Nov 6th
Portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn:
Mark Twain, 1908
George...
Nov 6th
Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vortograph, ca. 1917 / printed later...
Nov 6th
Alvin Langdon Coburn: Reflections, 1962 - gelatin silver...
Nov 6th
Alvin Langdon Coburn: “Colorado River, From Hermit...
Nov 6th
Portfolio on turn-of-the-century photographer Alvin Langdon...
Nov 6th
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908 - 1992): Enigma, 1947
Nov 5th
William Christenberry: KKK Doll, 1963 - plastic, satin, wood...
Nov 5th
William Christenberry: Alabama Wall I, 1985 - metal and...
Nov 5th
William Christenberry (b. Nov. 5, 1936): White...
Nov 5th
Felrath Hines (Nov. 5, 1913 - 1993): Yellow and Gray, 1976 -...
Nov 5th
Julian Stanczak (b. Nov. 5, 1928): Conducive to Yellow, 1967...
Nov 5th
Jay Van Everen (Nov. 5, 1875 - 1947): Untitled, ca. 1920 -...
Nov 5th
Joseph Floch (Nov. 5, 1895 - 1977): Island, 1966-1967 - oil...
Nov 5th
Best art post of Nov. 5, 2008 - Ordinary Finds vintage
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Nov 5th
Brilliant singer, songwriter, musician Gram Parsons:
Nov....
Nov 5th
Today’s Vivien Leigh?
Tilda Swinton, b. Nov. 5,...
Nov 5th
Vivien Leigh (Nov. 4, 1913 – 1967) was an English actress....
Nov 5th
Roy Rogers without Roy Rogers…
Photo: Walter Sanders,...
Nov 5th
The innocent boyish fantasy of gun play:
Roy Rogers (Nov....
Nov 5th
The ghostly beauty of a terrible war:
On Nov. 5, 1942, the...
Nov 5th
Thomas Tyrone Comfort (Nov. 4, 1909 - 1939): Controlled...
Nov 4th
Morris Broderson (b. Nov. 4, 1928): “Whatever you...
Nov 4th
Mary T. Smith (Nov. 4, 1904 - 1995): Black and Red Male...
Nov 4th
From: Factory - photographs and text by Lucia Ganieva
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Nov 4th
Nov. 4, 1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of...
Nov 4th
Budapest boys from about twelve to late teens carrying...
Nov 4th
November 4, 1956 - Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the...
Nov 4th
Vintage surrogate father figures:
Walter Cronkite (Nov. 3,...
Nov 4th
Finally a late Robert Mapplethorpe self-portrait w....
Nov 4th
Mapplethorpe does the artists:
My favourite - Louise...
Nov 4th
Mapplethorpe does the artists:
Noguchi, 1986
Also from 50...
Nov 4th
Mapplethorpe does the artists:
David Hockney, 1976
Nov 4th
Mapplethorpe does the artists:
Andy Warhol, 1986 - gelatin...
Nov 4th
Mapplethorpe does the artists:
Keith Haring, 1984
Click...
Nov 4th
Mapplethorpe does the artists:
Robert Rauschenberg, 1983
Nov 4th
Robert Mapplethorpe: Gregory Hines, 1985
Nov 4th
Robert Mapplethorpe: An early polaroid of Patti Smith, 1973
...
Nov 4th
Robert Mapplethorpe: William Burroughs, 1979
Nov 4th
Mapplethorpe’s many portraits of artists, musicians,...
Nov 4th
Robert Mapplethorpe: Lisa Lyon, 1982
See also...
Nov 4th
Robert Mapplethorpe: Mark Stevens (Mr 10½), 1976
Read...
Nov 4th
Robert Mapplethorpe: Thomas, 1987
Some Mapplethorpe at...
Nov 4th
Robert Mapplethorpe: Ken Moody, 1983
See a full...
Nov 4th
Robert Mapplethorpe (Nov. 4, 1946 – 1989) was an American...
Nov 4th
Saul Schary (Nov. 3, 1904 - 1978): Untitled, 1934 - oil on...
Nov 3rd
Loïs Mailou Jones (Nov. 3, 1905 - 1996): Moon Masque, 1971 -...
Nov 3rd
Emanuel Martinez (b. Nov. 3, 1947): Tierra o Muerte, 1967 -...
Nov 3rd
Joseph M. Mills (b. Nov. 3, 1951): Untitled (Man on bench),...
Nov 3rd
Gasp! A colour Walker Evans shot…
October’s...
Nov 3rd
Walker Evans: Doomed Architecture
Ornate classical...
Nov 3rd
Walker Evans: United Nations portfolio - The Secretariat...
Nov 3rd
Downtown NYC - Looking west from Pearl Street to Pine Street...
Nov 3rd
Walker Evans: Woman Aircraft Worker portfolio, LIFE
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Nov 3rd
From Evans’ Paducah portfolio, LIFE
Ohio River boat...
Nov 3rd
Here comes that big Walker Evans portfolio to celebrate this...
Nov 3rd
Larry Fink does Bohemia:
Moses Soyer’s Studio, NYC, c....
Nov 3rd
Larry Fink: Blue Horizon Gym (Cover), Philadelphia,...
Nov 3rd
Larry Fink does 1970s decadence:
2nd Hungarian Ball, 1978...
Nov 3rd
American photographer Larry Fink was born Nov. 3,...
Nov 3rd
French writer and politician André Malraux was born Nov. 3,...
Nov 3rd
William Cullen Bryant (Nov. 3, 1794 – 1878) was an American...
Nov 3rd
Hero of the folk guitar, Bert Jansch turns 66 today, Nov....
Nov 3rd
On Nov. 3, 1957, The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On...
Nov 3rd
Claude Lévi-Strauss (photographer unknown)...
Nov 3rd
Knud Merrild: Littoral Flux, 1946 - Oil flux on fabric...
Nov 2nd
One from Knud Merrild’s more Surrealist side:
...
Nov 2nd
Just time for one more fine Danish artist, Knud Merrild, who...
Nov 2nd
Dora Maar: Preliminary photograph for 29 rue d’Astorg,...
Nov 2nd
Eileen Agar wearing her piece ‘Ceremonial Hat for Eating...
Nov 2nd
Salvador Dalí and Horst P. Horst: The Dream of Venus, 1939 -...
Nov 2nd
Man Ray: Tristan Tzara & René Crevel, 1928 - Gelatin...
Nov 2nd
Dorothea Tanning: Sofa on a Rainy Day, 1973 - cloth
Nov 2nd
Man Ray: Juliet and Dorothea Tanning. c. 1947, Vintage...
Nov 2nd
Dorothea Tanning: Pincushion to Serve as Fetish, 1965 -...
Nov 2nd
Mimi Parent: Maîtresse, 1996
The fetish object, in this...
Nov 2nd
Closing with a few more Surrealist objects and images:
...
Nov 2nd
Greek poet Odysseas Elytis, 1979 Nobel Literature Laureate...
Nov 2nd
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Birthday of fine Canadian singer and songwriter, k d lang (b. Nov. 2, 1961)
k d sings Joni...
Nov 2nd
The beginning of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s long poem...
Nov 2nd
Pasolini as poet:
I am a force of the Past. My love lies...
Nov 2nd
Visconti’s birthday falls on Nov. 2, as does the day...
Nov 2nd
A 4-shot sequence of Visconti by Horst P. Horst (Courtesy...
Nov 2nd
Visconti with Maria Callas, during the shooting of La...
Nov 2nd
A bit of film fluff:
Luchino Visconti, Italian master...
Nov 2nd
A typical mature Serra structure:
“Joe”,...
Nov 2nd
Richard Serra and team, hard at work in 1969…
Photo:...
Nov 2nd
Monumental minimalist, sculptor Richard Serra is 70...
Nov 2nd
Michael Mazur: Wake by Night, 1983 - monotype and pastel on...
Nov 2nd
Last year we also had a feature on Russian-American...
Nov 2nd
Another by Rita Kerrn-Larsen:
The Overturned Drawer, 1931-2...
Nov 2nd
One more fine Danish Surrealist work:
Rita Kerrn-Larsen:...
Nov 2nd
Another Danish Surrealist painter and poet:
Gustav...
Nov 2nd
November 2, 2008 on Ordinary Finds contained a tribute to...
Nov 2nd
Just back from a luv’ly (working) weekend in...
Nov 1st
Vaclav Vytlacil (Nov. 1, 1892 - 1984): Village Scene, 1918 -...
Nov 1st
William Merritt Chase (Nov. 1, 1849 - 1916): Girl in White,...
Nov 1st
American writer Stephen Crane (Nov. 1, 1871 - 1900), author...
Nov 1st
From the serene to the obscene:
Nov. 1, 1952 - The United...
Nov 1st
On November 1st, 1941, in the late afternoon, Ansel Adams...
Nov 1st