This is late on the date, but I'm not going to wait a year to post this sweet drawing by Picasso, back when he drew recognizable people...

This pose is a tiny bit like arcadian artist Larry MacDougall might do, but Larry's rendering would be 40 jillion times better. ...

Okay children, now pay attention to your teachers . . .  Frorent — The Graces Teaching — 1883

A (slightly) belated lament for the passing of Ray Harryhausen, seen here stop-motion animating Mighty Joe Young in 1949.

The other night, we watched a new DVD of an old Bond flick, Diamonds are Forever . We could hardly get through it — it being slow-paced, bo...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALL YOU TAURUS PEOPLE! For what it's worth, here is a shot of a portion of my deep sea fish birthday cake. We'd ...

What the heck. I'm gonna post this pic every year on this date . . . Her "supposed" appendectomy . . . UPDATE: I...

Ah, 1972. I was in the Army, but had lots of down time, hanging out with my hippy friends, some of them in the Army too. It's not just ...

I love these sorts of photo portraits, and by that, I guess I mean of unique personalities confidently showing their eccentricities and c...

We've had some more snow hereabouts, but gardening is on our minds (with some of our earlier planting gone to frozen hell).  This i...

Witold Pruszkowski

© Gilbert Williams — Portal of the Pleiades

Iron Man 3 !  I am SO there. Have you seen the clip of falling out of the airplane?! Sequels are supposed to get worse, by tradition — ...

Sometimes the work of Annie French seems too fussy, too detailed for my taste. This image seems just about right for her style. Annie...

No matter whether in the movies, photographs or illustrations—Carole Lombard had The Look . In this case of course, Zoe Mozert helped add t...

Another contemporary of Mucha (among hundreds of others, of course) was Joseph Kirkpatrick. While he is one of those not particularly assoc...

A contemporary of Mucha was John White Alexander who also infused an exquisite flow into his paintings though he was not truly an artist of...

I love finding Mucha artwork that I haven't seen before, let alone a thousand times as we've seen most of his work. This is a mezzo...

Tim Hildebrandt created some fascinating concept art for a Wizard of Oz theme park in Kansas that never came to be.  Bring in some clif...

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