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

Heinrich Caesar Berann, the painter who made maps mindblowing. One map took him a decade to paint.
The mystery of The Unidentified Artist Formerly Known As William Etty. Is he actually Quiller Orchardson? Examine their nudes carefully & decide for yourself.
Augustus Leopold Egg’s 1858 “Past & Present” triptych. A melodramatic, moralizing Victorian masterpiece made to illustrate the dire consequences of adultery.
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

“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.
The bird whisperer Louis Agassiz Fuertes, who killed the birds he loved & the rare fruits of his final bloody jaunt to Abyssinia.
Anna Boberg. Painting icy mountains under the midnight sun.
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

Heinrich Caesar Berann, the painter who made maps mindblowing. One map took him a decade to paint.
Inadvertent genius. The Historic American Buildings Survey randomly document Deer Lodge, Madison, Powell, Ravalli, Cascade and Park Counties in Montana.
Inadvertent genius. The Historic American Buildings Survey do their thing in the sleepy Virgin Islands c. 1950.

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Helmer Osslund, The Autumn Man.

Heinrich Caesar Berann, the painter who made maps mindblowing. One map took him a decade to paint.

The mystery of The Unidentified Artist Formerly Known As William Etty. Is he actually Quiller Orchardson? Examine their nudes carefully & decide for yourself.

Augustus Leopold Egg’s 1858 “Past & Present” triptych. A melodramatic, moralizing Victorian masterpiece made to illustrate the dire consequences of adultery.

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.

Inadvertent genius. The Historic American Buildings Survey randomly document Deer Lodge, Madison, Powell, Ravalli, Cascade and Park Counties in Montana.

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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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