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April 2006
04/24/2006
Girlie
Magazines
This is an interesting collection of Six different 1940s era Girlie
Magazines.

Titter - A Gal And A Girdle

Eyeful - Bewitching Beauties
Sandro
Botticelli
The Wikipedia is starting to get a larger collection of art images as
evidenced by this Sandro Botticelli entry. I was especially impressed
with this scan of the Birth of Venus, which is one of my favorite paintings.

Birth of Venus
Rembrandt 400
On July 15 2006 Rembrandt will turn 400. The Rijksmuseum celebrates this
event with a online exhibition of Rembrandt's artwork. More Rembrandt images
are available
here.

The Jewish Bride (1667)
Tomer Hanuka

eBay China
Sarah Beetson
I like her unique colorful printing style.

Abbie
The Philippine Comics Art Museum
(PCL)

Pilipino Komiks (1950)
Anne Horst
A larger collection of her work is available
here.

Spring
Amy Crehore - New
Monkey Love Prints
These are limited prints, which sell for $200 a piece. How about a
freebie, Amy? ;-)

The Nibbler
Yuko Shimizu "Letters of
Desire - Alphabet Book Project" (Neurastenia)

Virgin in Vinyl (2003)
04/17/2006
Jeff Schaller
This guy is good. I really like his selection of subject matter, colors and
captions.

Razzle (2005)
Lee Sandstead Gallery
This is a collection of photographs of major artworks from several museums.

Falling Leaves, Allegory of Autumn
by Hugues Merle (1872)
Image of the whole painting
James Gurney
These are almost kitschy, but I'm a sucker for dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Care
Claude's Daily Snap
I found this interesting photo blog via my weblog. Nice picture's!

Face to Face
Ali Rahamad (RaShOmoN)

Puteri Gunong Ledang 2 (2005)
Peace
Art Cambodia Gallery
(Bibi's)
Swords into plowshares.

Elephant by Ou Vanndy
Gorilla Cover
Gallery
(PCL)

The Apes of Wrath?
04/10/2006
Shaw
Brothers Posters
This site is little slow, but the Shaw Brothers posters are well worth the
wait.

Madam White Snake

Beautiful Vixen

Curse of Evil
Gilberto Aceves Navarro
Called the maestro, because of his 29 years of teaching other artists,
Gilberto is very prolific artist. His imaginative works range from the
sublime (below) to his
bizarre
doll sculpture paintings.

A Naked Amarillita (1996)
Vintage Chinese Calendar Cards (Geisha)
These are charming in a weird Maoist sort of way.

Safeguarding Our Islands (1977)
Tanja Szekessy (Neurastenia)
This is a very talented illustrator. Her work seem to glow. Gilda, this is
your best find of the year so far!

DasMagazin
Kun-Sung Chung
I like these.

Fashion Illustration
Chinese Beauties
This is an interesting collection cigarettes cards.

Chinese Beauty
British Portrait Miniatures
Before there was photography, people used to carry around these hand painted
miniatures to remind them of their loved ones.

Woman in Masque Costume
by Isaac Oliver (1609)
Nicaraguan Murals (Plep)
I liked the "primitivist" collection best.

"Primitivist" Mural
Lilya Corneli (RaShOmoN)
I like her textures and subject matter.

For You
Laura Levine
(PCL)
Great colors and a sense of humor.

Private School Rat Race
Robots (MF)
These are cool.

RMP
04/03/2006
Cowgirls
Yeehaw!!!!

K.
O. Munson
North Carolinians and
the Great War: Propaganda Posters
This is an interesting collection of high quality scans of WWI propaganda
posters.

Treat 'Em Rough
by August William Hutaf (1914-18)
Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
This posters are also quite interesting from the the NYPL.

Glory to Victorious Red Army Soldier! (1920)
Akira Wakui
(Glubibulga)
Her paintings are very whimsical and colorful. Great stuff!

Garbage Head #19
Rothschild - Birds of Laysan (BD)
"Walter Rothschild. The Avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands with
a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possession. London:
R.H. Porter, 1893-1900."

Himatione fraithii, Rothsch
Thomas Frontini (Neurastenia)

Daughter of Industry Series (2005)
"Victims of the Vortex" exhibit
A small but interesting collection.

Moon of Battle
March 2006
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