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Cute & Colorful American Toads

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Staten Island, 2015

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Loretta Bennett Forever (for Old Lady Sally) 2007

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Friend with cat, 2019 Pencil and gouache

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Untitled still lifes by Juul Kraijer

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Kyosuke Chinai aka 智内兄助 aka Kyosuke Tchinai (Japanese, b. 1948, Namikata Ochi, Ehime Prefecture, Japan) - 無何有郷 山守花明り from Utopia exhibition  Paintings: Acrylics on Board

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moss covered boots, bedfordale

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Men in trees, 1924, Sweden.

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Self portrait with Cat(top), Girl with Cat(bottom left), Provencal Girl with Cat(bottom right)

Lotte Laserstein (1898-1993) was a Jewish Lesbian artist whose paintings mainly followed the style of German Realism. She was one of the first female students to enter the Berlin Academy of Arts and quickly became it’s star pupil. She was known for cutting her hair short and wearing men’s clothing, evident in many of her self portraits (see top image). She favoured female models, claiming they were better at posing; and developed a close friendship with her favourite model Traute Rose.

After the Nazi’s rise to power she was fired from her position at the National Arts Exibition and banned from showing her paintings.  Ironically three of her paintings were exhibited at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, but were banned from the German Pavilion. In 1937 she fled to Sweden and married a Swedish friend for citizenship, though they never lived together as husband and wife. She tried many times to get her mother and sister out of Germany but in the end only her sister left; her mother dying in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

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Tessa Thompson — Rodarte FW18

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Alison Boodson, from “I Do Not Want to be Your Weeping Woman,” wr. c. 1944

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BANANA BEER BREAD WITH BROWN BUTTER GLAZE.

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Wojciech Fangor

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Artifacts recovered from the graves of the Tarrega Jewish Cemetery during 2007, now in the permanent collection of Museu Comaracal de l’Urgell-Tarrega

OK this is actually super important! If I’m reading this paper correctly (and this one in Catalan as well), these artifacts were found in an archaeological excavation of the cemetery of Jewish community of Tarrega, killed in an uprising in 1348. These amuletic beads were found in the grave of an child, approximately three years old, and would have been strung together on a necklace.

That means these can be definitively identified as medieval Jewish amulets, recovered in situ! How cool. And in particular, I believe they are some of the oldest (if not the oldest) visual evidence for the hand-shaped hamsa amulet among a Jewish community, and the only surviving medieval Jewish hamsas at that (the one on the left is bone, the one on the right is silver; the other amulets are jet, coral, and rock crystal). Definitely adding this to my files.

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