Beard, Briar & Rose

Art, Fashion, Beards, Silliness, Melancholia, Erotica, and Other Beautiful Things. Personal website - jasonkinney dot art. Current project - williamphicks dot art.

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by George Platt Lynes

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Gustave Caillebotte, Portrait de Paul Hugot, 1878, oil on canvas

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Rock Hudson relaxing and reading a book at home, a cigarette in hand, 1952

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Louis Fratino (American, b.1993). "The Beautiful Summer", 2023. oil on canvas

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Ernst Haas, London 1953

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Jean Lurçat Harlequin General , plate from the illustrated book Toupies, 1925

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Edward Gorey in NYC in the 1950s or early 60s

These early photos of “Ted” Gorey were discovered in an album of one of his classmates at Harvard, which is well worth looking up at danielwoodruffblog.com (which also provides an anecdote regarding Gorey’s sexuality, a topic he was famously cryptic about).

via: Queer Modernisms

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Source details and larger version.

My collection of vintage rabbits is coming along hoppingly.

[history-of-fashion]

1826 Giovanni Carnovali (il Piccio) - Portrait of Tommaso Grossi

(Labirinto della Masone)

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               Morris Graves                Winter Flower                1954              

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Today's bop...

Soft Vein, "All we've known of Heaven"

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Edward Gorey | Duane Michals

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Today's slow burn bop... Feu! Chatterton, "Ce qu'on devient"

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[robert-hadley]

Sidewall, Fruit by William Morris & Co., 1862 block printed on paper.

Source: cooperhewitt.org