Summer wildflowers for a late May day. Plates from “Harper’s Guide to Wild Flowers” by Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey. Published in New York in 1912.
Category: American
Theosophical art from late in the 19th century. Reginald Machell, artist (1854-1927). An interesting use of various muted tones. Born in England he moved to the United States where the Theosophical Society had its headquarters and painted there.
Textile designs from the middle of the 20th century. Elza Sunderland, designer. Living from 1903 to 1991, she was born in Hungary but later came to the United States. Worked in Los Angeles, California. Collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Costume sketches for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film “Quo Vadis” which came out in 1951. American. All by Herschel McCoy who lived from 1912 to 1956. Collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Life in New York city just a little while back. Coney Island and some other fun spots in the 1930s. American. Reginald Marsh, artist. Living from 1898 to 1954, he studied art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Magazine advertisements from the United States Brewers Foundation 1940s “Home Life in America” campaign which aimed to promote beer drinking at home. Various illustrators.
Pictures of icebergs from back when the Arctic was the Great Frontier. Plates taken from Elisha Kent Kane’s “Arctic explorations : the second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin in the years 1853 to 1855, Volume II” which was published in Philadelphia in 1856.
