Notes to Myself: Unusual Pictures

Monday, January 14, 2013

Unusual Pictures

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. VII: 1845-1848 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912), pp. 288-289:

Channing proposed that there should be a magnified Dollar, say as big as a barrel-head, made of silver or gold, in each village, and Colonel Shattuck or other priest appointed to take care of it and not let it be stolen; then we should be provided with a local deity, and could bring it baked beans or other offerings and rites, as pleased us.

Cartoon by William Gropper Gustave Doré (1832–1883),
Don Quixote Reading This has been there a loooonnnggggg time. Taken from a series of email photographs.

This has been there a loooonnnggggg time. Taken from a series of email photographs.

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oldpainting:

Charles Burchfield, Rainy Night, 1930 on Flickr.
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(Note: Burchfield, 1893-1967, was an American painter and visionary artist who worked in watercolors to create nature scenes and townscapes. Much of his work hangs in the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York,
He was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, and most of his early work was done in Salem, Ohio, where he lived with his widowed mother. His art also may be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City. — A Thousand Winds)

oldpainting:
Charles Burchfield, Rainy Night, 1930 on Flickr.

(Note: Burchfield, 1893-1967, was an American painter and visionary artist who worked in watercolors to create nature scenes and townscapes. Much of his work hangs in the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York.

He was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, and most of his early work was done in Salem, Ohio, where he lived with his widowed mother. His art also may be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City.