[Picture: Aspen Ridge, linocut by Angie Coleman (Image from The New Leaf Gallery).]
October 18, 2024
Autumn Magic
October 14, 2024
Working
[Picture: The Workers, wood block print by Leopoldo Méndez, 1932 (Image from The Loeb Museum at Vassar);
Little views of my rubber block prints A Tree Made of Night, Autumn Fairy (Oaky Nutkin), and Penguin of Peace, by AEGNydam.]
October 4, 2024
Views of Space
[Pictures: Spacial Orbits, relief print by Clara MacGowan, 1936 (Image from Art Institute Chicago);
The night that changes not, illustration by W.B. MacDougall from Songs of Love and Death by Margaret Armour, 1896 (Image from British Library Flickr);
The Earth in Space, wood engraving from Chambers’s Alternative Geography Readers, 1898 (Image from British Library Flickr);
Looking Into Space, wood block print by Werner Drewes, 1934 (Image from Drewes Fine Art).]
September 30, 2024
Words of the Month - Plain Sailing (Part I)
[Pictures: Frontispiece of General and Rare Memorials Pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation by John Dee, hand colored woodcut, 1577 (Image from Christie’s);
Dutch Clipper Ship, wood block print on postcard by anonymous artist, 1947 (Image from The Magic Postcard Store);
Ship Bonetta Salem Departing from Leghorn, woodcut by John Held, Jr., first half 20th c. (Image from Princeton University Art Museum).]
September 25, 2024
Windows
[Pictures: Charleston Window, wood engraving by Charles W. Smith, 20th c (perhaps 1920s?) (Image from Newfields);
Springtime Window, color reduction woodcut by Dave Morgan, 2021 (Image from The New Leaf Gallery);
Man at a Window, woodcut by Benvenuto M. Disertori, before 1968 (Image from Davis Museum at Wellesley College);
Nightshade in the Sunlight, rubber block print by AEGNydam, 2007 (Image from AEGN, now sold out);
Window at Yealand Conyers, rubber block print by AEGNydam, 1998 (Image from NydamPrints);
Small Glass Bottles, rubber block reduction print by AEGNydam, 2017 (Image from NydamPrints).]
September 21, 2024
Unique Named Dragons
[Pictures: Procession of the Graoully, engraving(?) from Dembour et Gangel, 1840/1852 (Image from limédia galeries);
La Gargouille de Rouen, engraving by Guillaume Cabasson, 1885 (Image from New York Public Library);
St-Romain with the Gargouille, stained glass at the church of Saint-Romain in Wy-dit-Joli-Village, neo-Gothic (Image from Wikimedia Commons);
Saint-Véran and the Coulobre, sculpture - can’t find any info about artist or date (Image from The Wyrm’s Lair);
La Grand’Goule, wooden sculpture by Jean Gargot, 1677 (Image from Alienor.org);
Biscione, coat of arms of the House of Visconti on the Archbishop’s Palace, Milan, mid-14th c. (Image from Wikimedia Commons);
Tarantasio?, sculpture on facade of Duomo di Milano, by Carlo Pellicani, early 19th c. (Image from Yes Milano).]
September 16, 2024
Magical Musical Monsters
[Pictures: Karyōbinga, color wood block print by Hokusai, ca. 1820-33 (Image from The Met);
Emblema. LXVI, wood block print from Emblematum Tyrocinia by Matthäus Holtzwart, 1581 (Image from Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum);
Siranis, illumination from The Wonders of Creation by Qazvini, early 15th century (Image from Smithsonian Freer Gallery);
Siranis, illumination from The Wonders of Creation by Qazwini,1280 (Image from Bavarian State Library).]
September 11, 2024
Of Smokers and Gardens
[Pictures: Paisaje con Pájaro, woodcut by Cesar T. Miranda, 1964;
Fumador en la Ventana, woodcut by Miranda, 1964;
Jardín Púrpura, woodcut by Miranda, 1964 (All images from Rhode Island School of Design).]
September 6, 2024
Sexton's Kind
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
[Picture: Wood engraving from Compendium Maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazza, 1608 (Image from Wikimedia Commons);
Excerpt from Her Kind by Anne Sexton, from To Bedlam and Part Way Back, 1960 (from Poetry Foundation).]