The Midcentury Witch

Surrealism, Horror, the Occult, and Feminism (NO TERFS)

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Leonora Carrington, 1961 I believe this was rediscovered on Antiques Road Show

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Vera Stanley Alder - The Finding Of The Third Eye - Rider & Co. - 1938

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REMEDIOS VARO Dragonfly Character 1955

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Nightmare at Noon

Marion Adnams

ca. 1945

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Marion Adnams (1898 – 1995) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2023/12/03/marion-adnams/

Marion Elizabeth Adnams (3 Dec 1898 – 24 Oct 1995) was an English painter, printmaker and draughtswoman. She is notable for her surrealist paintings, in which apparently unconnected objects appear together in unfamiliar, often outdoor, environments.

Some of her paintings depict landscapes and landmarks close to, or within, her native town of Derby. via Wikipedia

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'the horoscope' by marcel jean, 1937 in fashion + surrealism - richard martin (1987)

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Leonora Carrington Casting the Runes 1951

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Illustrations by Leonor Fini for Jacques Audiberti’s Le Sabbat ressuscité par Leonor Fini (The Witches’ Sabbath Resurrected for Leonor Fini), 1957

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Rachel Baes (Belgian, 1912-1983), L’ami visible [The Visible Friend], 1952. Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm.

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'Spring morning', 1957 (Johfra Bosschart)

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Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, 1937

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- Leonora Carrington ~ The Goat, gouache and watercolour on paper, 1960.

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Lars Bo illustrations for Francis Garnung's Le Meneur d'ombres, 1961

Original etching on wove paper

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'The gate of Saturn', 1959 (Johfra Bosschart)

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Visions, Alberto Martini, 1939

oil on cardboard

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Weird Tales Cover by Matt Fox (1950)

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Otto Steinert (1915–1978), “Maske einer Tänzerin”

gelatin silver print, 1952 — source

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Alfred Eisenstaedt, “School for Gentlewomen,” Life, Apr 29, 1946