Early modernist Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871 1944) was a well-known figure in New York society, famous for her salons and her art. She and her sisters Carrie and Ettie hosted gatherings with prominent writers and artists. These friends often...
Engagement calendar 6 x 81/4 in.; 120 pp.; This engagement calendar features Elizabeth Murray s photographs of Claude Monet s gardens, each image accompanied by an informative caption and a brief quotation by or about the artist. The calendar also...
Pages: 120, Calendar, Pomegranate
Claude Monet brought an unrivaled eye for color and composition to the design of the extensive gardens on his property in the village of Giverny, forty miles from Paris. Flourishing roses and Boston ivy echoed his pink stucco house with its...
Early books of scripture or theology were written by hand by monastic scribes. The most elegant and expensive of these manuscripts were illuminated: lit up by pictures and other embellishments in bright pigments and gold leaf. In the thirteenth...
A Renaissance man of boundless imagination, artist and author Edward St. John Gorey (American, 1925 2000) published more than one hundred works and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film, and animals. Perhaps best known for the animated...
Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O Keeffe carried the prairie s simplicity and strength with her as she strove to convey the essence of her subjects spirit and form. Over the course of a dozen years spent chiefly in New York, where the...
A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat...
The early modern prints of Kawase Hasui and Ohara Sh son, two of the finest artists of the shin hanga, or new prints, movement, were significant to reviving Japan s woodblock print industry after the devastating Kant earthquake of 1923. Like Hasui s...
This revolutionary engagement calendar presents information on seasonally visible stars, moon phases and tides, ratios of darkness and light, seasonal behaviors of earth s creatures, and a host of other details about the natural world. Four foldout...
Pierre-Joseph Buc hoz (1731 1807) was a French naturalist, physician, and lawyer. He published Collection precieuse et enluminée ... in 1776, toward the end of the European chinoiserie movement; it was the first Western publication to include the work...
