Oh, oh, OH my heart sings knowing that the Universe has such wondrous wonders in it. Hubble Heritage Team — Interacting Galaxies Arp ...

John Stanhope

This painting is notable for its somewhat subtle and implied drama. Jean-Léon Gérôme

I love the incongruity of the hat on this lovely portrait of Eve . Frank Cadogan Cowper — Eve — early xxth century

I've always had a crush on Diana Rigg, even when she was Queen of the murderous house of Atreus. Radio Times — 1979 This scan w...

At the risk of having our friend Kid break a tooth while gritting, regarding concern over my orientation, here is but one more example of J...

See what I mean about JC Leyendecker and the male form?  J.C. Leyendecker — figure study —early 20th century J.C. Leyendecker —...

A full day of Spring around here, and it feels like it. Nice. Now I'm handing out some really personal information here by telling ...

This Welsh fellow was an undervalued practitioner of the Art Deco style. You don't see enough of his work in the Deco art books. ...

Fancy pants that is . . . J. C. Leyendecker — Springtime — 1927

That is, to all of you in the Northern Hemisphere . . . Franz Xavier Winterhalter — Spring

Feels like it's a long time in coming this year . . . Marjorie Miller — Spring's Promise — circa 1925

This image is from an old old art magazine, and is amazing for its cross-pollination of 'fine' art with 'illustrative' art....

Okay, Uncle Sam smiled once in while — here as one of the two faces of the gummint viewing the nation's vices of the time. This is an e...

N.C. Wyeth — war bond poster — 1942 The persona of Uncle Sam seems to be at its best when he's grim and determined, rolling up ...

The cover below looks like it's a scene right out of Downton Abbey , in the real world time of 1917. Is anybody out there following...

Here's another way of getting rid of a pesky lion . . . Neal Adams — The Return of Tarzan — 1975 And knowing Neal Adams, I can ...

See, there's this shepherd guy and he's been losing his cows (?) to a vagrant lion, and the guy is really ticked and he's reall...

I love the California Impressionists—so much of the work so full of sunlit vitamin D, as here in this golden delight. Mabel Alvarez —...

You can see why they called her 'America's Sweetheart' . . . Mary Pickford