Woman at the Café — Antonio Donghi

(And Yet Another) Moby-Dick (Book Acquired, 4.18.2014)

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So I bought yet another copy of Moby-Dick, despite the many several editions already in our home.

I’d looked for an edition of the Barry Moser illustrated M-D for years—casually, in used book shops—but after a few (ahem) glasses of chardonnay, I bought one for next to nothing on eBay.

Moser’s etchings are superb, of course, and they most often illustrate the technical, scientific, or historical aspects of the novel. Great stuff.

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Interior — William Rothenstein

Bridgeman; (c) Museums Sheffield; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation

Departure of the Prodigal Son — Alberto Savinio

Mark Twain, Walmart Greeter

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From Mike Mitchell’s Just Like Us series.

May Prinsep — George Frederick Watts

Three Mermaids — Hans Thoma

George R. Binks: The Tragic Story of Jar Jar’s Father — Tony Millionaire

So moving. Read the whole story.

 

The Second of May, 1808: The Charge of the Mamelukes — Francisco Goya

Window to Nature (Ligachevo, May) — Konstantin Yuon

Communication with the Infinite — Ferdinand Hodler

May Party — Maurice Prendergast

Woman in an Interior, Reading — Thomas Pollock Anshutz

Maturity — Konrad Klapheck

Untitled (Kacper and Anka) — Wilhelm Sasnal

Anna Akhmatova — Amedeo Modigliani

Book Transforming Itself into a Nude Woman — Salvador Dali