near and dear

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‘L'Archange Raphäel et Méphistophélès’ by Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921)

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Gordon Mortensen （b.1938 United States)

Tonto Creek

 reduction woodcut

[lilacsinthedooryard]

Fra Angelico (Italy 1395-1455)

The Annunciation 

fresco

[vintagewildlife]

Sockeye salmon climbing up a river By: Unknown photographer From: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life 1961

[buffy-sainte-marie]

Buffy Sainte-Marie on the back cover of her twelfth studio album, “Sweet America” (1976).

[idafloreak]

Creation Before The Myth

[woedodendron]

Ben Styer, “Melody for Walk to the Reservoir”

[design-is-fine]

Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth, zebra finch, ducks, fantails, 1922. Cat, 1925. Crabs, 1926. Color linocuts. Source 1|2|3|4|5

The austrian lady was one of the finest linocut artists of the 20th century. 

[scienceisstrange]

[ymutate]

Kokei Kobayashi (1883 – 1957)

Cat, 1946

[thunderstruck9]

Francisco Rodríguez (Chilean, 1989), Man with Dog, 2022. Oil on canvas, 230 x 200 cm.

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[lionfloss]

Green Love Letter by Masa-San, Fujino, Kanagawa, Japan

[weepingwidar]

Kelsey Henderson (American, 1982) - Gloves (2013)

[jareckiworld]

Karl Wirsum (1939-2021) — Show Girl No. 2 [acrylic on canvas, 1969]

[deathandmysticism]

Claude Paradin, Devises Heroïqves, 1557

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Peter Holliday