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[thecolorblockcurator]

Femme avec des Fleurs, Romaine Brooks

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[marthajefferson]

statuemania:

Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty), by Louis Sussmann-Hellborn, 1878 - Berlin, Germany.

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Bookstore in Antalya, Turkey.

[ionracas]

Studio

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[bofransson]

Henri Matisse, 1916

[huntingtonlibrary]

William Sharp, one of the first chromolithographic printers in the U.S., created these extraordinary illustrations for the large folio Victoria Regia (1854) by John Fisk Allen. Allen, a well-known horticulturalist, cultivated a specimen of the rare, huge (up to 8 feet in diameter), fast-growing (up to an inch an hour!) water lily, native to the Amazon. After months of careful tending, the plant—named in honor of the recently-crowned Queen Victoria—blossomed on the evening of July 21, 1853. Sharp’s depictions of this exotic wonder—in various stages of bloom—were masterpieces and elevated the then-nascent art of chromolithography to spectacular new heights.

image captions: All images are from a copy of Victoria Regia in our collections. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

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Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop shot in Abidjan.

[hairy-stargate-lesbian-deactiva]

i love this waaay too much. too used to seeing only white girls impersonate her. 

[cavetocanvas]

Joan Snyder, My Life, 1996

[ionracas]

Gougane Barra, Co. Cork

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hollyhock

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Flowers on window sill, 1923