Little girl at the beach

 

Marc Chagall

 

Cow with a Parasol

1946

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall

Venice Carnival 2011

http://www.ombra.net/carnevale-di-venezia/index.php

Japan's radioactive future

Lenin Square today in Pripyat, Ukraine, the

city nearest to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

From Wikipedia:
Certain radioactive elements (such as plutonium-239) in “spent” fuel will remain hazardous to humans and other creatures for hundreds of thousands of years. Other radioisotopes remain hazardous for millions of years. Thus, these wastes must be shielded for centuries and isolated from the living environment for millennia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Swiss painter Luigi Chialiva (1842-1914)

Feeding the Sheep

http://www.askart.com/askart/c/luigi_chialiva/luigi_chialiva.aspx

Happy Monday

Monument Valley, Arizona

 

Russian painter Ivan Olinsky (1878 – 1962)

 Mother With Her Children

http://www.artnet.com/artists/ivan+g.-olinsky/biography-links

The Huntington Botanic Garden

 

 The Huntington estate sits on a hilltop in the San Marino area of Los Angeles.

http://huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=210&linkidentifier=id&itemid=210 

http://huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary_02.aspx?id=56&linkidentifier=id&itemid=56

Rodeo cowgirls 1920

 

"Rodeo cowgirls ca. 1920, wearing bloomers, traditional costumes which were safer and more practical than skirts. Photography by Doubleday, Private collection."

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland

Here's another Scottish Highlands castle — there are so many!
The original castle was built in 1220 as a defense against the Vikings. The outer wall remains, but most of the castle was constructed later. Eilean is the Gaelic word for island, and St. Donan was a martyred Celtic saint. The castle was abandoned for 200 years until it was restored in the early 1900s. It is maintained by a charitable trust and is a popular venue for weddings and film locations.

 

http://www.eileandonancastle.com/visitor-info/history.htm 

The weeping angel

Spring Grove Cemetery

Cincinnati, Ohio

Sheik your kitty

Spanish master Francisco de Goya

Two Old Men Eating Soup

1821-23

Museo del Prado, Madrid

His first job was painting designs for tapestries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya

Modern sculpture

 

I believe these are rocks.

Vintage cigarette advertisement

English illustrator Warwick Goble

There I Could See Winged Wonders Fly

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/goble.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Goble

Harriet's shabby chic hat.

With spring comes wind and rain

I hope this doggie has a date with the groomer.

Vintage ad for Schlitz beer

Old sepia photo 1908

Death by drowning

A fish, by Vicki

From Mrs. Dudley's art class, Florida

A Japanese ink painting

 

Contemporary Egyptian artist Gazbia Sirry

Om Ratiba

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gazbia-Sirry/166759625052 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazbia_Sirry

The Fairmont Chateau

 

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

http://www.fairmont.com/whistler/Photos/

Contemporary Japanese painter Shiori Matsumoto

Soup

 Magic Box

Very little biographic information exists for this artist.

Friday Night Frights

"Darling, I didn't want to tell you, but I put Basil in the ratatouille!"

Friday night party Motown style

GET READY

for The Temptations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temptations

New York photographer Tom Lascell

Bocce Ball Garden

2005

http://www.tomlascell.com/

Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani

 

Woman with Black Tie

1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Modigliani

St. Patrick's Day

These sculptures are part of The Famine Memorial in Dublin, created by the Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie and given to the City.

 http://www.dublindocklands.ie/index.jsp?p=112&n=640

Belgian painter Léon Frédéric

The Four Seasons, Spring

There is a serious lack of information about this artist.

http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/frederic2.html

Ardvreck Castle, Scotland

1590-1737

Ardvreck Castle in the Scottish Highlands was built by the MacLeod clan, and survived turf and religious wars until it mysteriously caught fire during the night and was subsequently abandoned. It was once a larger estate that had buildings, a courtyard, and formal gardens. Legends of ghosts still surround the castle, including a daughter who, betrothed to a rival landowner, jumped over the castle wall and fell to her death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardvreck_Castle

http://www.historicassynt.co.uk/

Portrait of a beautiful woman

I came across this portrait and was mesmerized by the beauty of the subject and the technique of the artist. As a little girl I thought this is what sophisticated women looked like, but as an adult, one finds out it was just an illusion. The artist has captured a Barbie doll on canvas.

 

Angora bunny

Phone booth packing

In 1959 in Durham, South Africa, 25 college students all of a sudden decided to cram themselves into a telephone booth. They set the standard, and their record has never been topped.  

That started a craze of competition between colleges in England, Canada and the United States.

The American record was established in 1959 by students at St. Mary's College of California, above, who stuffed 22 people into a telephone booth.

The fad started and ended in the spring of 1959, ending abruptly at the onset of college examinations. 

http://www.oldetimecooking.co/Fads/stuff_booths.htm 

17th C. Dutch painter Jan Steen

Self-portrait

1670

Steen was an all-around good natured fellow with a big heart and lots of talent. He painted over 800 works, but only 350 or so survive. He was one of the leading painters of the Dutch Golden Age, and was very popular in his day.

http://www.goldenoakinn.com/featured_artist.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Steen 

Photographer Jerome Liebling

http://www.jeromeliebling.com/

Death threats at the office

can positively ruin your day!

Electrical wires, Vietnam

Can you hear me now?

Chinese painting on silk

Bird on a plum tree.

 Artist and period unknown.