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When Art Nouveau lost its glow, his work was used as wallpaper or was thrown away. The undersung French Art Nouveau artist Paul Berthon (1872-1910).

The undersung French artist Paul Berthon (1872-1910) studied under two of the great...

‘I hardly knew whether what surrounded me was real or supernatural’. Haunting proto Scandi-Noir Arctic landscapes by the Norwegian, Peder Balke (1804-1887).

The island of Helgøya, in Hedmark county, Norway is has an area...

Creamy, dreamy, wild, precise and over 150 years old. Beautifully fading watercolours c. 1827-1847, by Johann Nepomuk Rauch.

There’s scant biographical information on Johann Nepomuk Rauch (1804-1847). He was born...

Eye candy. You’ve probably never seen the best selling art print of the 20th century let along heard of the man who painted it. Maxfield Parrish created worlds that people love to look at.

Maxfield Parrish was an insanely prolific and popular American painter and illustrator...

The lost aesthetic of magazine Deutscher Wille or (in English), German will. A.K.A. Des Kintswarts, The Art Warrior. 1915-1919.

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…”

Perhaps the most recognizable of Morris’s textiles, Strawberry Thief celebrates the thrushes in Kelmscott...

Moody monotone adventures in war torn 1950s Hungary with UVATERV’s anonymous state photography dept.

UNATERV was an organisation born of misery, chaos and utter carnage. In...

Color image maps [ports of entry, United States-Canadian border], Geological Survey (U.S.) Canada. Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, 1978.

O N E Derby line point of entry. Vermont – Quebec. T...

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.

Once upon a time there was a boy with a really long...

The world just wasn’t ready for the “incorruptable spirit” of Danish artist, Johannes Holbek and his “Decadent Barbarism” (1904).

The son of a Evangelical inner-mission parish priest, Danish painter and graphic...

Art & Design Obscurity

The totally unique Russian neoclassicist travel painter, Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev. In the early 1900s, he travelled to Italy, Spain, Mongolia, China, Japan, France, Vietnam, Syria, Iran Afghanistan and Africa. His untimely death in Paris surely robbed us of so much more.

In 1938, an obscure Russian neoclassicist painter named Alexandre Yevgenievich Yakovlev died...

Browse some Chinese home decor inspiration swatches, personally selected, drawn & lithographed in 1867 by the original style guru, Owen Jones for his “Examples of Chinese ornament”.

The multi talented British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809 – 1874),...