IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THERE WAITING

Art & Design
Art & Design
Left to settle and improve with age.

Shaffrons.
1950s Tibet in hand-tinted technicolor & old school black and white. Courtesy of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army propaganda dept.
“Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,” 1844, by the East London architect, artist & original tomb raider, Frederick Catherwood.
Obscurity
Obscurity

Frank Eugene, son of a German baker & a beer hall singer and his signature “unphotographic photography.”
Niles Spencer the Precisionist. A lost figure on the fringe of a fringe art movement.
They don’t get more obscure or rare than L. Lu Vonago of Krasnoyarsk, a small town in the Russian Republic of Khakassia. His entire known output consists of just 23 pictures. He shot 2 hotel fires and one monomictic Lake resort in the early 1900s.
Nature
Nature

Colour plates from “Gems and precious stones of North America” (1890) & “History of the gems found in North Carolina” (1907) by George Frederick Kunz, (1856-1932).
Sex, science & sumptuous flowers in Dr. Robert John Thornton’s 1807 epic, A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus: The Temple of Flora.
“The hungry lion throws itself on the antelope, devours him. . . Birds of prey have each torn a strip of flesh from the poor animal that is shedding a tear! The sun sets.” Henri Rousseau.
Crime
Crime
Extremely previous offences.

John Martin’s sister was murdered by a neighbour, one brother was a “perfectly cracked” eccentric philosopher/inventor & the other an insane religious firestarter. Perhaps it’s no surprise John became the ultimate harbinger of The Apocolypse.
Outraged. The 1896 murder of Helen Thomson. Markinch, Fife, Scotland.
Achille Lemot learns the exact price of a mistress in 1870s Paris.
Mystery
Mystery
Because if we knew everything things wouldn’t be quite as interesting.

The mystery of The Unidentified Artist Formerly Known As William Etty. Is he actually Quiller Orchardson? Examine their nudes carefully & decide for yourself.
The world’s first abstract painter was a Swedish mystic guided by spirits. Hilda af Klint wanted her work kept secret until 20 years after her death.
Romancing Ruins. Bartholomeous Breenburgh and his strange vision of Rome.
Travel
Travel

1950s Tibet in hand-tinted technicolor & old school black and white. Courtesy of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army propaganda dept.
“Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,” 1844, by the East London architect, artist & original tomb raider, Frederick Catherwood.
Treacherous rapids and remote shamanic Siberian tribes. Photography from the Russian explorer I.G. Ivanov’s 1913 Land Management Expeditions into the remote Gornaia Shoria mountain region.

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Helmer Osslund, The Autumn Man.

Shaffrons.

1950s Tibet in hand-tinted technicolor & old school black and white. Courtesy of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army propaganda dept.

“Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,” 1844, by the East London architect, artist & original tomb raider, Frederick Catherwood.

Colour plates from 1820s India, “Views in the Himalaya Mountains,” by James Baillie Fraser.

“The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times – illustrated by borders, initial letters, and alphabets”, 1860. 6th – 16th Century letterforms by the British architect Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt.

Art & Design Travel

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Helmer Osslund, The Autumn Man.

Waterfall, Porjus (1915)

Helmer Osslund

Helmer Osslund (Sweden, 1866-1938)

Brooding Skies, Helmer Osslund.

Höst vid Torneträsk

Höstmotiv från Torneträsk med lapporten

Lapporten i höstfärger”

Lake Kallsjön, Jämtland 1907

Autumn, (1907), Helmer Osslund.

Autumn, Nordingrå , Helmer Osslund.

Landscape, Helmer Osslund

Autumnal Mood Jämtland (1899)

Landscape from The North of Sweden

Clouds over Lapporten

Winter landscape with roundpole fence and red cabin,

Helmer osslund, Summer landscape from Norrland

Spring in a Northern Landscape

Osslund, Helmer; 1866–1938. “Ein Sommerabend bei Kallsjön” (Sommarafton vid Kallsjön), 1907.

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1950s Tibet in hand-tinted technicolor & old school black and white. Courtesy of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army propaganda dept.

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“Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,” 1844, by the East London architect, artist & original tomb raider, Frederick Catherwood.

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