Sunday, December 15, 2019

by L. S. Lowrey  
In 1957 Lowry described a chance meeting which prompted him to paint this emotionally charged portrait of a young man: 'The head was done from my recollection of a young man I saw once in a Manchester park - a good while ago. He interested me very much at the time and stayed in my mind in a vague sort of way ever since. He gave me the impression that something had very badly gone wrong in his life tho' he gave no inkling of what it was in a fairly long conversation. He was totally disinterested in anything at all and yet was, to me, most interesting. He was a peculiar young gentleman and I would have liked to have come across him again, I am sure I am right about him'. - Laurence Stephen Lowry, 4 July 1957

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Friday, October 4, 2019

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Huguette Clark (1906-2011)   
Scene from My Window- Night  
Huguette Marcelle Clark was an American heiress and philanthropist, who became well known again late in life as a recluse, living in hospitals for more than 20 years while her various mansions remained unoccupied.

Friday, September 20, 2019

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)  
Afternoon in the Garden 
Circa 1891

Monday, September 2, 2019

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Monday, August 12, 2019

Portrait of Jean de Dinteville, Seigneur de Polisy
c. 1533
Chalk, 25,1 x 19 cm
Musée Condé, Chantilly 
by Jean Clouet

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Saturday, July 27, 2019

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Pierre-Louis Pierson's photograph of the
Countess Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione (1835–1899), 
Napoleon III's mistress, known for her great beauty, her violet eyes & her flamboyant entrances to parties wearing the most elaborate fancy dress.
ca.1867

Friday, July 5, 2019

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

View of a Corridor (1662)  
by Dutch painter Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Ninth-century manuscript by the Frankish Benedictine monk Rabanus Maurus

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan 1501  
by Giovanni Bellini

Sunday, May 19, 2019

The American juggernaut. Everything noble, patriotic and progressive is crushed beneath the remorseless tread of that mammoth monster of corruption, cruelty and fraud, the vampire rings of capital
ARTIST  Matthew Morgan

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

by Bruno Munari 
Momenti dun lancio con il salvagente aereo 
Moments of a Launch with the Lifebuoy
  1930

Monday, April 1, 2019

Photos by Paolo De Paolo
from 1950's-1960's  
Marcello Mastroianni, senza data 
Monica Vitti e Michelangelo Antonioni, Roma, 1958
Viareggio (a seaside city in Tuscany, Italy), 1959

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Monday, February 11, 2019

Giacomo Balla 
(1871 - 1958) 
Motivo decorativo floreale, Baiflore arancione