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Robert Riggs’s incredible “Legends of the Lenape Indians” of 1933.

If ever there was an artist whose persona absolutely screamed “mad genius!”,...

“Momoyogusa”. A World of Things : Flowers of a Hundred Generations by Kamisaka Sekka. In 1901, the son of a Samurai family was Japan’s “chosen one” to reframe Japanese art for the Western eye.

Kamisaka Sekka was a Kyoto artist born into a Samurai family. He...

The natural world, ancient Egypt, Meso-America and Japan. The Art Deco designer, Emile-Allain Séguy really mixed it all up in his series, “Prismes: 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux” (1931).

Prismes: 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux (Prisms: 40 Plates of...

Emile-Allain Séguy saw in butterflies “un monde somptueux de formes et de couleurs” (a world of sumptuous forms and colors) and he brought that world to vivid life in Papillons (1925).

Emile-Allain Séguy described the illustrations in one of his best-known collections, Papillons (1925),...

Join a quirky Norwegian engineer named Kristian Berge on his skiing trips, meet his friends, see his naked selfie and enjoy his spendid photographs of work jaunts along the Western coast. 1912-1924.

Who was Kristian Berge? We know very little. For twelve years, between...

William Sharp’s sumptuous 1854 illustrations of The Great Water Lily of America, the “vegetable wonder” that owes it’s life to scarab beetles, has 10 foot wide leaves and flowers that smell of fruit.

The Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America, a gigantic...

Art & Design Nature

Portuguese architect Fernando Varanda’s reference photographs of 1970s Yemen. Part Two.

These photographs were taken in 1970s Yemen by a Portuguese architect and...

Portuguese architect Fernando Varanda’s reference photographs of 1970s Yemen. Part One.

These photographs were taken in 1970s Yemen by a Portuguese architect and...

Experience the Helsinki bubble of Nils Jacob Wasastjerna. If a Finnish student had an Instagram account back in the late 1800s, it would have looked something like this.

These wonderfully spontaneous small bubbles of Helsinki life in the late 1880s...

Visit Norway’s remote Vestland coastline with Anders Folkestadås, turn of the century lighthouse builder & amateur photographer.

In 1906, a lighthouse desparately needed to be built on Kråkenes, a...

Obscurity Travel

Planet of the Apes in the late 1800s, a King of Foxes and a gathering of witches. Dali meets Poe and paints relentlessly in his studio on New York’s 10th St.

American, 1824 – 1900 William Holbrook Beard (1824 – 1900) came from...

In 1878, an obscure Japanese artist named Watanabe Seitei went to a Paris dinner party and drew two birds in old-school kachōga style for the legendary painter Degas. 20 years later, Seitei was designing amazing avant garde woodcuts.

Whilst these woodcut prints (below) by Watanabe Seitei for the art magazine,...

Art & Design Obscurity