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Gavin Worth - And Light Fell On Her Face Through Heavy Darkness

The psychedelic era saw a resurgence of interest in the literature and artworks from previous days. The paintings of Henri Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) saw a renewed popularity reproduced as posters for the new Hip Crowd. Rousseau began painting late in life ,in his early 40s. By age 49 he retired from his job as a tax collector to become an artist full time. His painting became iconic as fanciful representations of the “back to nature” fad that had become a hallmark of the Hippy movement. Born in Laval, Mayenne,France, Rousseau was one of the creative geniuses who did not live long enough to gain the fame and fortune that his works achieved after his death. Pictured below are 4 examples of Rousseau’s most famous and oft reproduced paintings. Tim Lodite, editor.

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Adolf Böhm, Cloud and Landscape illustrations for Ver Sacrum Magazine, 1998-1902

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Giorgio De Chirico, Sole in una stanza (Sun in a room), 1968, Gouache, watercolour and pencil on card, 35 x 44.8 cm

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

Leonard Baskin

Today we present a few wood engravings by renowned artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) from Leonard Baskin The Graphic Work 1950-1970, published in New York by Far Gallery as part of its 35th anniversary celebration in 1970. Baskin, who with his founding of the Gehenna Press in 1942 was among the first American fine-art book printers, spent a good proportion of his professional life in the Northampton region of Western Massachusetts where he was a teacher, mentor, and inspiration to numerous American artists working today, especially in wood engraving, and as such was the dean of what we like to call the Pioneer Valley School of artists.

Death and the human condition are recurring themes in Baskin's work, as can be seen here. In his idiosyncratically formal, almost 18th-century style, Baskin remarked:

It is the special province of the Graphic Arts to be tendentious, to excoriate, attack and denounce (even rarely to praise), inventing scarifying images with specific and immediate purport.

The Graphic Works, one of many hundred of items donated by our late friend Jerry Buff (1931-2025), was designed by Leonard Baskin, typeset by the Stinehour Press, and printed at the Meriden Gravure Company.

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Some of the finest examples of psychedelic art available during the 60s and 70s could be found in the pages of Zap Comix. Pictured below are 2 examples of the extraordinary art of Victor Moscoso. Moscoso and a gang of talented illustrators that contributed to these underground “adults only” comics made “Zap” arguably the best known publications of its kind.

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Posters from the first FIFA World Cup tournament, 1930. All matches were played in Montevideo, Uruguay. The host team wound up as the Champions, with a final match score of Uruguay 4, Argentina 2. The poster on the upper left was the primary promotional tool, and was printed in multiple color schemes.