Gori Muñoz for Lorca

Illustrations by Gori Muñoz for a volume of Lorca’s posthumous poems, 1945 via Bibliofilia novohispana . An Amazon search for the artist bri...

Merry Christmas

See the 50 Watts' post of eleven watercolor faces , courtesy of a Japanese library covered by BibliOdyssey in 2008 . I resisted the urge...

Reynard the Fox

Illustrations from Reinecke Fuchs , circa 1880 via a German library .  The watercolors are by Heinrich Leutemann , working close to the styl...

Alfred Pal

Alfred Pal, via http://dizajn.hr I learned about this illustrator from A-Ž SFRJ , the blog of the folks behind the Leksikon YU Mitologie (I...

Colonial Love for McMushie's Hamburgers

From the Colonial Love series by Bengt Böckman I featured his late 60s series "Projeckt 666" on But Does it Float

Lacking one brick

Germany, c. 1890, Mosaic game with about 160 geometrical wooden color bricks..." Lacking 1 brick ." I've been coming across a ...

Alexander Andreev's Tarot

From a tarot deck by Alexander Andreev

Mikalojus Vilutis

In two posts at Animalarium , Laura turned me on to Illustrarium , a website for Lithuanian children's book illustrators (Lithuania was ...

Tumbling Old Women

In September 2010 I featured illustrator Joanna Neborsky's adaptation of Fénéon's Novels In Three Lines . Joanna has since worked h...

Mikoto Fanning

Leftover from my post of 1950s Japanese ads

Good morning, sunshine!

Portrait of Michel Leiris by Francis Bacon, 1985 via Asymptote "The immense force, it seems, that will have to be deployed to move us f...

Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico

Juan Soriano, The Beach, 1943 Juan Soriano, Portrait of Lola Alvarez-Bravo with Juan Soriano as a Child, 1944 Juan Soriano, Still Life with ...

Franz Sedlacek on Monster Brains

  Franz Sedlacek, The Unicorn, 1925 via Monster Brains . I love it when I couldn't possibly correctly guess the date of an image. Kati D...

Krzysztof Skórczewski

A 2006 copperplate engraving by Krzysztof Skórczewski. I posted some of his  architectural works on But Does it Float . Also see these  cool...

Can you believe it?

It's true. For no real reason, I'm reviving A Journey Round My Skull.  50 Watts will remain my primary online vehicle. Journey will ...