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Adolphe Menzel, Part Number 1 : “…no taller than a cuirassier-guard’s boot, bedecked with pendants and orders, not missing a single one of these parties, moving among all these personages like a gnome…’. The small, dark and very personal world of the man Degas called “the greatest living master”.

Adolphe Menzel was different to other people. Or rather, everyone was different...

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Art & Design

Prancing horse & animal combat. The hunting de Hamiltons, violently vivid 18th-century painters. The brothers, Philipp Ferdinand & Johann Georg.

It’s thought that Philipp was born around 1664, in Brussels, and that...

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Art & Design Nature

Canadian “Rogue Photographer”, Reuben R. Sallows (1855 – 1937) travelled everywhere & anyhow; by Model A Ford, by train and even by canoe. See the snippets of what remains of a 60 year career.

On July 30, 1937, an 81 year old photographer named Reuben R....

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Obscurity

FACT: Plankton is actually pretty. The free-living unarmored dinoflagellata of Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947).

Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947), was born on a farm near Granville, Illinois,...

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Nature

Green unicorns, purple camels and magenta ponies: Augustus Jansson’s 1903 Ink Beasts Parade.

Sometime in 1903, a man of Swedish descent named Augustus Jansson began...

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Art & Design

Elegant pre & post war modernism, Art Deco & distinctively Lisbon Noir. See 1920s-40s Portugal through the eyes of the brothers Mario & Horácio Novais, architectural photographers from Lisbon.

The brothers Horácio (1910-1988) and Mário Novais (1899-1967) were born into a Portuguese...

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Art & Design

Marinetti’s Metal Book. A beautiful problem by the founder of Futurism who urged artists to “destroy museums, libraries, and fight against moralism, feminism, and all utilitarian cowardice.”

The Metal Book raises problems. It is beautiful, and it is tainted....

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Art & Design Obscurity

If you could teach a drone how to paint and flew it over some beautiful American gardens in the 1930s, the results would look a lot like this.

Resembling a kind of mid-1930s Google Earth painting, these landscaping surveys of...

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Art & Design

Just a thin biographical trace remains of the Polish artist, Anna Berent. All that remains are 6 canvasses of real note. 4 of them contain elusive symbolism, indecipherable allegories of her own making that whisper to us of old age, death and passing. Their full meaning is as opaque and as lost in time as their creator.

We have this. Anna Berent was born in 1871 in Kaiserslautern and died sometime...

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Art & Design

Get aquainted with these real characters from the streets of 1836 Paris in “Gallerie Physionomique” by C.J. Traviès, the artist Baudelaire called “the prince of the unfortunate”.

Physiognomy is the practice of assessing someone’s character and personality based solely...

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Art & Design

The compositional superpowers of László Moholy-Nagy, relentless experimenter & Bauhaus master of multiple disciplines.

The world was his plaything. Whether camera or canvas, whatever media he...

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Art & Design

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), born in Pennsylvania, travelled to HummingbirdOrchidWorld and stayed.

Martin Johnson Heade was an American painter known for his salt marsh...

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Art & Design Nature

Helene Schjerfbeck began as a precociously skilled, slightly melancholic late-19th-century academic realist. She finished as a painter whose sublime abstract images are an exquisite harmony of pure paint and cryptic description.

“I have to draw to the point of madness, just draw. Just work, work and think of nothing else”, said the brilliant Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It did him no good, he was just another “degenerate” artist to the Nazis.

From hat shop girl to Dutch art icon. But who was the Girl in the Kimono? The opaque story of an 1890s working class teenager immortalised by George Hendrik Breitner.

Descendant of samurai and relentless entrepreneur, Ogawa Kazumasa opened Tokyo’s first photo studio, shot Japan’s art treasures, the 100 prettiest geisha in Tokyo and taught photography to the military. His legacy is these exquisite images of flowers.

L’Estampe Moderne; the 1890s Parisian Art Nouveau “best of” album feat. various international artists. 4 lithographs every month. Just 3₣r 50c an issue.

It’s easy to see how, in the mid 1800s, Paul Gustave Doré “hypnotized the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator”. Even Van Gogh was a fan, he copied Doré shortly before shooting himself.

In the 1890s the Dutch painter, George Hendrik Breitner took nude reference photos for his paintings. In the 1990s they were found.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. 1880s free love messiah, naturist, pacifist, vegetarian, sun worshipper and unique symbolist painter.

Found photos : Three lost decades of Iowa Speedway recovered. With Merlin Benning, Lester “Red” Dralle. Claus Stricker, Don & Dick Feckers & Red Droste. 1950>1970.

The Art of Protest: Albert Hahn was righteous anger manifest. A graphic character assassin that even the mighty Germany Kaiser feared.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

The 1920s French Art Deco influencer who drew pure design inspiration from the natural world. Insectes (1929) by Émile-Allain Séguy.

The forgotten Finska Vyer birch bark album, by I.K Inha, 1892. Inside are raw natural landscape photographs of Finland. It won the 1st international photographic competion in Paris.

William Morris. Strawberry Thief . “You can picture my Father going out in the early morning and watching the rascally thrushes at work on the fruit beds…”

The Swiss artist, Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956). A Princess helped him give up the life of a farmer to put his faith and future in the hands of the flower fairies. He lived magically ever after.

Painter & early street photographer. The astonishing early street photography that helped George Hendrik Breitner add social realism to his famous paintings of Amsterdam.

India mid-1800s : Dr John Murray, cholera specialist an photographer. He spent 40 years travelling with gear weighing 400 pounds and a servant. His ever so slightly psychedelic negatives made it all worth it.

Samarkand, early 1900s. The first ever colour photographs of the ancient Persian city by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an unknown Russian who invented his own colour photography process.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

Around the world with the rare travel drawings by the American painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Found in the archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Prancing horse & animal combat. The hunting de Hamiltons, violently vivid 18th-century painters. The brothers, Philipp Ferdinand & Johann Georg.

Canadian “Rogue Photographer”, Reuben R. Sallows (1855 – 1937) travelled everywhere & anyhow; by Model A Ford, by train and even by canoe. See the snippets of what remains of a 60 year career.

FACT: Plankton is actually pretty. The free-living unarmored dinoflagellata of Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947).

Green unicorns, purple camels and magenta ponies: Augustus Jansson’s 1903 Ink Beasts Parade.

Elegant pre & post war modernism, Art Deco & distinctively Lisbon Noir. See 1920s-40s Portugal through the eyes of the brothers Mario & Horácio Novais, architectural photographers from Lisbon.

Marinetti’s Metal Book. A beautiful problem by the founder of Futurism who urged artists to “destroy museums, libraries, and fight against moralism, feminism, and all utilitarian cowardice.”

If you could teach a drone how to paint and flew it over some beautiful American gardens in the 1930s, the results would look a lot like this.

Get aquainted with these real characters from the streets of 1836 Paris in “Gallerie Physionomique” by C.J. Traviès, the artist Baudelaire called “the prince of the unfortunate”.

The compositional superpowers of László Moholy-Nagy, relentless experimenter & Bauhaus master of multiple disciplines.

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), born in Pennsylvania, travelled to HummingbirdOrchidWorld and stayed.