Vue de l'Aiguade du Cap.ne Cook, à Houahoua, [View of the watering place of Captain Cook, at Houahoua (Uawa – Tolaga Bay)], 1833

lithograph 325 x 495 mm - The Astrolabe entered Tolaga Bay in early February, and was of much interest to local Māori. Many waka came to view the boat and the crew were pleased to replenish supplies there. Officers went ashore to make observations, as did de Sainson and the naturalist. D'Urville made an interesting observation regarding the nam...
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"Cover for Love," Maurice Denis, 1898.

Denis (1870-1943) was first a member of the Nabis, then later a Symbolist, then later a Neo-Classicist, and his writings were a huge influence on Cubism and other modern art movements. A deeply religious man, he founded (after WWI) an artists' collective dedicated to decorating churches, designing stained glass windows, and producing sacred art.

In the 1890s, though, he was all about decorative art. This piece is the cover to a book of lithographs that tell an ambiguous tale of a woman's experiences with love...but it's hard to tell if she's falling in love with a man, or with Nature, or with her faith. The images are all soft and dreamlike, anc contain snatches of poetry, but the quotes do not correspond to the scenes depicted.

Between the wars, he also became a noted muralist, doing many murals in public buildings around his favorite themes, his faith and his belief in peace and humanism. He was a fervent anti-Nazi, and rejected France's Vichy government. It took an automobile accident to take him down; he was seemingly unstoppable.

He's not a familiar name, but he was an important figure in the development of modern art.

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Musette http://collections.mfa.org/objects/552171/musette

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By Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), Mother And Child, 1969, lithograph, Image: 42.2 × 27 cm (16 5/8 × 10 11/16 in). As an original print, it appears in many collections, both public and private. #arthistory #printmaking #lithography #lithograph #Art

From Virginia M. Mecklenburg Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987): ‘Raphael Soyer was a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker who believed that "if art is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate." From an early age Soyer and his brothers Moses and Isaac were encouraged to draw by their father, a teacher of Hebrew literature and history. Forced to leave Russia in 1912, they immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn. In the mid 1920s, having studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League, Soyer painted scenes of life on New York's east side. His portrayals of derelicts, working people, and the unemployed around Union Square during the Depression reveal more of a poignant vision of the human condition than the art of social protest popular with many of his contemporaries. Throughout his life Soyer painted people—his friends, himself, studio models—with an unerring eye for intimacy and mood.’

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Thomson-TheLandAndTheBook/pages/431-nazareth/

Today Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern district if what is now called Israel. Bible scholars also consider Nazareth to have been the likeliest birthplace of Jesus.

Maybe another #duotone or maybe pure brown #lithograph (there’s some black in there, though)

#GIMP made quick work of this one, printed on smoother calendered paper in 1894.

#biblicalScenes #fobo #vintagePhotograph #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #vintagePhotography #palestine

Jurjen Ravenhorst – Blauw licht

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"Secession XIV, Beethoven," Alfred Roller, 1902.

Roller (1864-1935) was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer, who was (very obviously) a founding member of the Vienna Secession, which gave us the Art Nouveau style.

Roller was very active early in his career as a graphic designer, as we have here in this lithograph, advertising the 14th Vienna Secession exhibition that celebrated Beethoven. This is classic Vienna Secession...the stylized figure, the embrace of two dimensions, the collage-like treatment of different parts of the image, as simple areas of pattern. It's genuinely lovely and makes me sentimental for advertising like this.

Roller would later go on to design sets for operas conducted by his friend, the composer Gustav Mahler. He ended up becoming the chief designer of the Vienna State Opera.

From the Leopold Museum, Vienna.

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