Crumbs

"My eyes are starving for beauty"

[weepingwidar]

Ken Gun Min (Korean, 1976) - Bathers (2023)

[magictransistor]

Aegidii Albertini Hirnschleiffer, Fuchs mit der Mascara (Fox with Mask), Münich, 1645.

[srednod]

Jan Van Beers Henri Rochefort, French Journalist and Politican c. 1897

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

Today we display some horticultural wood engravings by English/American artist, writer, and illustrator Clare Leighton (1898-1989) from Clare Leighton’s Rural Life: An Anthology, published in Oxford by the Bodleian Library in 2023. The book was edited with an introduction by Leighton’s devoted nephew, David Leighton (1931-2022), who sadly did not live to see its publication. Throughout her long career, Clare Leighton delighted in the organic forms of farms and countryside.

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[oldpaintings]

Heinrich Lefler (Austrian, 1863--1919)

[hildegardavon]

Henry de Groux, 1866-1930

Medea picks the flowers born of the blood of Prometheus, 1899, oil on canvas, 73x100 cm

Private Collection (Artcurial)

[polkadotmotmot]

Madison Skriver - Vanity, 2023 - Oil on canvas

[gnossienne]

John Carlsson, Dollhouse and furnishings (1912)

[sovietpostcards]

Vintage destination ads from Aeroflot, the Soviet airlines (1960s)

[weepingwidar]

Kat Lyons (American, 1991) - The Snake Bird (2025)

[jareckiworld]

Lee Jaeseok — Alignment of Parts IV (acrylic on canvas, 2020)

[jareckiworld]

Cinta Vidal — Den (oil on wood panel, 2025)

[jareckiworld]

René Magritte (1898-1967) — "Le Plagiat" [oil on canvas, 1940]

[jareckiworld]

Lee Jaeseok — The Instructions with the Body (acrylic, canvas, 2018)

[unusual-suspects]

kiryu

[saw2trap]

kiryu park

[diana-andraste]

From Les Cris de la Fée (The cries of the fairy), Max Bucaille, 1939

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Monument to Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini, San Pietro in Vincoli (1705–07)