Netherlandish Proverbs (detail) — Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Ocean Waves — Katsushika Hokusai

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The Three Marys — Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Two Reclining Figures — Egon Schiele

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Netherlandish Proverbs (detail) — Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Zebra and Parachute — Christopher Wood

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Job — Francis Gruber

Job 1944 by Francis Gruber 1912-1948

A Fight — Adriaen van Ostade

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Boy Reading — Vilho Lampi

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The Hare and the Flower — Barry Moser

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Barry Moser’s illustration for Lynne Reid Banks’s “The Hare and the Flower.” From The Magic Hare, Avon, 1994.

Noah Forgotten — F. Scott Hess

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A dozen cats

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Balthus
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Nathaniel Currier
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Gerrit Dou
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Tsuguharu Foujita
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Ohara Koson
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Pablo Picasso
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Bada Shenren
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Theophile Steinlen
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Walasse Ting
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Ōide Tōkō
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Felix Vallotton
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Suzanne Valodon

 

Skeletons in a Cave — Caspar David Friedrich

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Three Books

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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. First edition mass market paperback from Ace Books, 1969. The marvelous Klimtish cover is by Leo & Diane Dillon. I wrote about the novel here.

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The Order of the Day by Marcio Souza. English translation by Thomas Colchie. First edition mass market trade paperback by Bard/Avon, 1986. No illustrator credited.

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Neuromancer by William Gibson. 1988 mass market trade paperback by Ace Books. Cover art by Richard Berry. A friend foisted this on me; I never gave it back, which was wrong. I don’t think I can overstate how important this book (and the following two in the so-called “Sprawl Trilogy”) were to me in the late nineties. In fact, Gibson was one of the first things I wrote about on this blog. (Don’t click on that link; the early days of this blog were Bad).

After Many Days — Thomas Hart Benton

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Netherlandish Proverbs (detail) — Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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