Le Roi du Junkyard

My melting pot of vintage photos, paintings and prints, old advertisements and illustrations, musicians, movie stars and models and the huddled masses of the mainstream... The Quirky, Quaint and the Kitschy. Stuff I like... My posts tend to be random in nature according to what happens to find me at the moment. Don't forget to check out the music player. Click the small box with arrow at the lower right hand corner of this page to launch the standalone player for browsing and listening to my audio posts. Thanks for taking the time to stop, look and listen.

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Robson Street, 1957. Fred Herzog. Archival pigment print.

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“LEGGETT’S” ( NEW JERSEY RESTAURANT), 1925. John Rutherford Boyd. Ink, oil, gouache.

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Two Men in Fog, 1958. Fred Herzog. Inkjet print

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Untitled (umbrella and snow), c. 1955. Saul Leiter. Chromogenic print.

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Santa’s Lap, Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, December 22, 1923.Joseph Christian Leyendecker. Oil on canvas.

Some world wide variations on the Santa legends: Father Christmas, United Kingdom, Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) - Russia/Eastern Europe, Joulupukki (Yule Goat)-Finland, Krampus -Central Europe (Alpine)-A terrifying, half-goat, half-demon figure who is the dark companion of St. Nicholas, punishing naughty children.

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The Boy, 1948. Thomas Hart Benton. Signed lithograph.

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Restaurant la maisonRose a Montmartre, c.1960. Willy Ronis. Silver gelatin

[ymutate]

Christian Krohg (1852 – 1925)

The Umbrella, 1902.

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Little Bohemia Lodge

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Chicago New Years Day Blizzard 1999

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L.BALESTRAN

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Not Elvis, but I couldnt not post this picture of Scotty.

[argantonio]

ALEXEY GALUSHKOV

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Strange Moon. T S Stribling. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran and Co, 1929. First edition. Original dust jacket by George Illian. 

Author’s extremely scarce Latin American adventure and intrigue novel of arson, murder, gold, and oil wells.

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D. D. V (a); Nude Study; The Little Model; Petite modèle Anglaise. Gerald Festus Kelly (British, 1879-1972). Oil on canvas. Newport Museum and Art Gallery.

D. D. V (a) - D.D. being the initials of his model, V being the number of the series, and (a) denoting its small size - was an informal study of the nude in the studio, an insight into the artist’s studio practice as the nude is posed informally, as if taking a break in between a formal modelling session - a classical pose is depicted on the easel in the background, an open book lies on the mattress, and the model is sat casually with one leg folded, smoking a cigarette, and engaging the viewer- the artist - with a confident gaze.

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Gibson Guitar Ad 1939-1940

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