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[artist-vuillard]

The friends around the table, St. Jacut, Edouard Vuillard

Medium: gouache,canvas,paper

https://www.wikiart.org/en/edouard-vuillard/the-friends-around-the-table-st-jacut

[acatnamedbinx]

[thegikitiki]

Home Decor, 1974

[oldadvertising]

So much of 70s decor is green carpets to match the green everywhere

[catrulez]

[yeoldegaganddoodle]

Train set box art study.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Lincoln Star, Nebraska, August 28, 1938

[artist-caillebotte]

View of Roofs (Snow Effect) or Roofs under Snow, Gustave Caillebotte

Medium: oil,canvas

[lilit69-deactivated20181210]

EROTICA - Vértes, Marcel

[heaveninawildflower]

Hungarian designs.

1) Design by János Kovásznai Kövér taken from ‘Dekorative Vorbilder’ : eine Sammlung von figürlichen Darstellungen und kunstgewerblichen Verzierungen. (Stuttgart : Julius Hoffman, 1889-1928).

2 - 4) Designs by Constantin Várdai taken from ‘Ungarische Ornamente’ (Leipzig : K.W. Hiersemann, [1911?]) .

Images and text information courtesy NYPL Digital Collection.

[the-barnes-art-collection]

The Past and the Present, or Philosophical Thought (Le Passé et le présent, ou Pensée philosophique) by Henri Rousseau, The Barnes Foundation

Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Room 19, North Wall Medium: Oil on canvas

[notanothersonicblog]

AoStH commercial bumpers

[21yearsinaflannelshirt]

They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head [x]

[yesterdaysprint]

Kittens and Cats; A Book of Tales, Eulalie Osgood Grover (and photos probably by Harry Whittier Frees), 1911

[huariqueje]

Interior   -    Marjatta Hanhijoki , 2004

Finnish, b.1948-

watercolour

[coolkidsofhistory]

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Photographer Thomas Kelley*, 1930’s. / via coolkidsofhistory

(*) Photographers Charles C. Ebbets, Thomas Kelley and William Leftwich were all present the day ‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ was shot [Sept. 20, 1932]  so their identities are often confused. 

[artist-kandinsky]

Walled City in Autumn Landscape, Wassily Kandinsky

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