From a van Gogh letter
Admire as much as you can, most people don’t admire enough.
Henry Dreyfuss ice cream
An ice-cream label.
Valentine’s Day
A heart, c. 1884.
Thornton Dial (1928–2016)
Elaine and I found our way to Dial’s art in 2011, when we went to Indianapolis Museum of Art just to spend an afternoon and spent it looking at “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial” and little else.
Blue and red
From my daughter’s childhood: a painting of a watercolor palette.
Repurposeful art deco
Ruth Gerth’s 1931 “Glow Lamp.”
Art Store
Art Store, by the artist Barry Fellman, recreates the now-defunct Pearl Paint flasgship store
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Pencil sculpture found.
Missing pencil sculpture
Missing from the campus of Purdue University.
Robert Walser, Looking at Pictures
Walser writes about paintings (by his brother Karl, Fragonard, Watteau, Van Gogh, Cezanne, and others) as if no one had ever thought to do so before.
Eve’s Eve
The dreaded Halloween Pumpkin Eater, by my dad.
Rain (artist’s conception)
From a 1965 children’s book.
Art and supplies
Oscar’s Portrait explores the relationship between art and supplies.
Art Brut in New York
From The New York Times: “Talk about the shock of the new.”
Still life with coffee and laundry
Old ads on brick: America’s Cup Coffee, White Front Auto Laundry.
Review: Bill Griffith’s Invisible Ink
We are born with the dead, trailing clouds, or dragging chains, of familial inheritance.
September 11
Art by Thornton Dial.
The Armory Show
The Art Institute of Chicago has online a virtual trek through the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, the exhibition known as th...
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When we put together two large feltboards with my dad‘s artwork, we were puzzled by this item, made from a bread clip.
The Three Graces
Walking in nature.
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Another Pluto comic.
“Pluto in His Cups”
From George Bodmer’s Oscar’s Day.
Alex Katz, focusing
He knows how to.
Lucky Lulu
A label for Lucky Lulu Frozen Perfume, as seen at the Chicago Cultural Center.
A day at the museums
DuSable, Art Institute, Chicago Cultural Center, Art Institute.
Cartoon plagiarism
“How bad are you at editing that you couldn’t notice your ‘cartoonist’ has been wildly swinging from one style to another, like Tarzan on Red Bull?”
Amieux-Freres sardines
“Our motto is like our name: Always the best.”
Tobias Frere-Jones on cigar-box edging
“Everything is collected by somebody, and I’m grateful for that. Ephemera, the fragile snapshots of everyday design, would be lost without collectors.”
George Bodmer at 1,000
A thousand cartoons.
Accidental bird
Post-its and eraser crumbs.