Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for September 6th in the MMXXVI show . . .

sparkling on air on the thud of a coconut as it falls from a palm tree as on the far side of Juno under the warmth of a very distant star a sign starts to flash . . . intergalatic neon in iridescent shades like mother of pearl in the bottom of the sea but brighter like a trillion suns . . . beckoning it is and shooting up with leaps and bounds . . . another few days and earthlings can see . . . come, it says . . . maybe it would be better . . . maybe you’ll be sorry . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. Please keep scrolling to see all the pictures- These are images with a common theme but a wide variety of styles, times, artists, etc

The image is from the Dennison Company Archives @dennisonarchivist on Instagram.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-7a5

Le Village Suisse à l’Exposition nationale Suisse, Genève, Switzerland held in 1896. Long before you could do these things with smoke and mirrors and an assistant to work the Power Point.

Front cover, Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Image 1. Text by
Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/mode/1up
Entrée du Village Suisse. – Période de Construction. F. Boissonnas, Genève, photographie. Illustration, Société des Arts Graphiques, Genève. Page 12 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by
Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/n12/mode/1up
Illustration on Page 5 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by
Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/5/mode/1up
Chalet de Suisse – Salle de Reception. Page 19 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/19/mode/1up
Chalet de Fischenthal. Illustration on Page 40 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by
Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/5/mode/1up
Atelier de Vannier — Apprenti en travail; Ecole de Métiers de Pribourg, Section de Vannerie. Page 73 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/73/mode/1up
Ornements et Tresses d’Argovie. Page 89 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/89/mode/1up
Ancien Costume St-Gallois. Page 155 of Le Village Suisse, Exposition Nationale Suisse, Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland) 1896. Text by Monsieur Jacques Mayor, Léon Genoud, D. Baud-Bovy, and E. de Vevey. Édité par les Soins de la Commission du Village Suisse. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/levillagesuissel00unse/page/155/mode/1up

A selection of hand-fans from the September email from Fan d’Eventails Paris. The better to flirt with my dear.

Advertising fan for the Carlton Hotel and Restaurant in London, England. Wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf printed with an image of a woman watering a field of cabbages from which children are emerging. George Redon, illustrator. Signed and dated George Redon 13 and inscribed July 13, 1914 on the reverse. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/4749-les-enfants-naissent-dans-des-choux-d-apres-redon-eventail-pour-le-carlton-de-londres-1913.html
Large hand-fan, the gauze panel painted with children after teatime; a little girl, accompanied by her mother, is on her way home after a game of shuttlecock. She walks past a bench where several children are laughing and squabbling over a doll. Some children are crying and one little girl appears to be praying. Tinted mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, the main guard being adorned with small children’s heads in brass or perhaps bronze. Signed by the painter Van Garden. ca. 1890-1895. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4757-childrens-afternoon-snack-fan-by-van-garden-circa-189095.html
Hand-fan made for a child with a dog and baby. Pierced and painted bone brisé fan with ribbons. ca. 1820. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4761-4.html

Fan for a doll. Mother-of- pearl brisé fan, pierced, carved and applied with burgau. 1900-1930. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4751-doll-s-fan-mother-of-pearl-circa-1900-1930.html
Pair of painted bone brisés hand-fans made for a little girl or Parisian fashion dolls. One in shades of blue and the other in shades of green, both with measures. ca. 1900. Émile Brunin, maker. Signed and marked E Brunin Paris. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4767-10.html

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Friday September 4th in the 2026 fall show . . .

waltzing in air as the raptor awakens from her morning nap and stares down from the top of the mast of a ghostly ship . . . what will she find . . . who knows . . . a haunted something for the end of the world . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. The image is Rotten pumpkin. ca. 2021. American. beadwork. Kathleen Ryan, artist via aizenmaj on Instagram.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-d30

Very Eerie Pre-Halloween Art for September 2nd in the 2026 fall show . . .

wailing along as the ancient monks readjust their hoods and make their way up the volcano’s last slope through sulphur smelling steam and smoke . . . prayers and a desperate anything . . . the fire goddess appeased . . . or perhaps not . . .

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-f37

my series post for today at the link if you’d like to see it. Its around 20 images including this one

Purple dragon. 2021. @Lanaasy on Instagram. via Instagram.

Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Tuesday September 1st in the Year of Our Lord MMXXVI

scintillating on air as deep in an equatorial sea a long-dead sea monster starts to inch back into life . . . a stretch and a chunk of something swimming by for a little pick-me-up and a smile . . . fun today it will be . . . people on fishing boats to startle and navy ships to spook . . . no sea monsters they think but no not made up in some long-ago book but real, spouting water higher than the biggest geyser in Iceland and a tail strong enough to push any ship straight to the bottom. . .oh no . . . an aircraft carrier and all it’s little planes hovering like flies over something dead but a few chomps and the stern ripped off and the flies drowned . . . free

my fall series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The artwork is “The Witch’s Daughter” by Frederick Edwin Church. Enjoy!

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-585

Down to the garden and back later. Paintings of the outdoors by English impressionist painter Wynford Dewhurst. Living from 1864 to 1941, he swapped out his original name, Thomas Edward Smith, when he was studying art in Paris at the  École des Beaux-Arts.

A Corner of the Garden. 1905. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Signed and dated ‘Wynford Dewhurst 1905’ on the lower left. Image © Bonhams 2001-2026. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://www.bonhams.com/auction/32231/lot/77/wynford-dewhurst-rba-british-1864-1941-a-corner-of-the-garden/
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/heath-pond-leighton-buzzard-bedfordshire-26981/search/actor:dewhurst-wynford-18641941/page/1/view_as/grid
Heath Pond, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Undated, ca. 1907. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Image credit: Buckinghamshire County Council. Collections of the County Hall, Aylesbury. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/heath-pond-leighton-buzzard-bedfordshire-26981/search/actor:dewhurst-wynford-18641941/page/1/view_as/grid
The Blue Valley. 1908. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Image credit and collections of the Manchester Art Gallery. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-blue-valley-204857/search/actor:dewhurst-wynford-18641941/page/1/view_as/grid
The Brigand’s Mill. Crozant in the Creuse valley in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Central France, with the ruined castle above. Undated, before 1926 when a dam was built. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Signed on the lower left. Image credit and collections of the Kirklees Museums and Galleries. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-brigands-mill-22278/search/actor:dewhurst-wynford-18641941/page/1/view_as/grid
The Picnic. 1908. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Image credit and collections of the Manchester Art Gallery. Artwork in the public domain because the artist died before 1960. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wynford_Dewhurst_The_Picnic.jpg

Bric a brac to put out around the house that you’ll have to do your best to live up to. Maybe it’s impossible. The bric a brac has won. Leopold Weininger, goldsmith. Living from 1854 to 1922, Weininger was listed in the Branchenverzeichnis der Meisterlisten als Spezialist, as a specialist for enameled pieces imitating the antique, starting in 1909. He worked in Vienna, Austria but his pieces were sold to customers all over Europe.

Time traveling my way back to a fancier hotel. The heck with the one next to the casino; I’m heading for the Hotel Adlon in Berlin. Imagery from a 1905-1907 piece of promotional ephemera put out by Lorenz Adlon whose hotel it was. Where Kaiser Wilhelm and his friends spent the winter. And summer.

Front cover of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt. Image 1. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/mode/1up
Hotel Adlon-Berlin. Haupt-Portal unter en Linden. Page 4 of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/n4/mode/1up

Seine Majestat, der Deutsche Kaiser. Vollzog die Eröffnung des Hotels Adlon durch Allerhochstes Besuch am 23. Oktober 1907 und beteiligte sich ferner im März 1909 an dem historischen Dinner anlässlich der Hundertjahrfeier des Königlichen Kriegsministeriums im Kaisersaal des Hotels Adlon. Nach dem Original- Gemälde von l’rof. Nostor im Hotel Adlon. Page 6 of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/n6/mode/1up
Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Empfangsraum mit Kasse und Post. Page 6, Image 17 of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/6/mode/1up
Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Blick in den Palmengarten. Page 9, Image 20 of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/9/mode/1up
Hotel Adlon – Berlin – American-Bar. Vicado Holz. Alt Vergoldete stuckdecke. Gemälde: Bacchanal Von Paul Hermann. Page 16, Image 27 of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/16/mode/1up
Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Bronze Kandelaber: Sonne und Planeten. Entwurf von Professor Richard Guhr-Dresden. Page 18, Image 29 of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/18/mode/1up
Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Aufgang in das Restaurant am Pariser Platz. Bronze Kandelaber; Tierkreis U. Planeten System. von Professor Richard Guhr-Dresden. Page 20, Image 31 of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/20/mode/1up
Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Ein Bade-Raum. Page 52, Image 63 of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs. Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/52/mode/1up

my earlier piece with a different Hotel Adlon photograph and a special World War II story. https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2018/10/07/an-envisioning-eight-in-the-evening-and-a-compact-out-of-ones-evening-bag-the-powder-room-of-the-hotel-adlon-in-berlin/

The Hotel Adlon, this version, burned down after World War II but has been rebuilt on the same parcel and is very fancy too. Visit them in real time or here https://www.kempinski.com/en/hotel-adlon