Staring Contest

  I'm winning. Tintype from the collection of Frank Suvari via John Demetrick .

The Bookworm

Alexander von Salzmann, Der Bücherwurm, 1916 (from Jugend)

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson

Illustrations by the Swedish artist Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, also known as GAN (1884–1965). The Scheherazade illustrations (last few) date from...

More French drugs

Leftover from a big post of 1930s French pharmaceutical ads on 50 Watts . Collection of Jérôme Dubois .

Frank Mechau Jr.

" Frank Mechau Jr. (1904-1946) was a well-known Colorado artist who often painted scenes depicting the Western Colorado mountains he l...

Secession

Things I want based on the cover: " Secession " by Frances Stark

Marvel and misspell

  During the hurricane (not so bad in Philly) I posted some NASA photos of past storms on But Does it Float. (Unusually topical for me, I ...

Gee Chan

Wonderful work by Gee Chan . Found as one of Andrew Ohlmann 's Cargo Team picks .

Zhang Handong

Harmony Music, 1998 Southern Region Series -Static Cloud, 1998 Southern Region Series - Nocturne, 2000 Magic Dance, 1998 Fairy, 2002 Bio of ...

Bat Woman

In case you thought Fini's Cat Woman from my previous post was strange, I present this 1968 Turkish film poster (from the  Efraín Barrad...

Cat Woman

Leonor Fini, Cat Woman I found this on a Polish auction site (where the painting was titled "Kobieta kot") and realized I've n...

Slow Lorris

check out Bryant  Devlin Molloy 's animals

Jack in the box

"Boekillustratie voorstellende een duveltje uit een doosje" [psychotic jack-in-the-box] 1920ish via  Geheugen van Nederland 1900-1...

Endochondral Ossification in Knee Joint of Kitten

circa 1916, classroom drawing (no memory of where I found this)

Jan Toorop's 1924 calendar

Via the Wolfsonian . The image right above is my fave. Also see Folkert's Toorop post on But Does it Float

Artuš for Adults

Some freakier leftovers from my big 50 Watts post of Early-twentieth century illustrations by  Artuš Scheiner  (1863 Benešov – 1938 Prague) ...

Izas, Rabizas y Colipoterras

Photos by Juan Colom from Izas, Rabizas Y Colipoterras (1964) by Cela Via Galderich found while working on Catalonian Book Fetishists 3

Illustrated by Fish

From "The Noah's Ark Book" illustrated by FISH (1918) via Full Table and Animalarium