Lawrence ALMA-TADEMA The Vintage Festival 1871

Ernst Haeckel - Plate from Arabische Korallen - 1876 - via Internet Archive

Unknown - Lu Jianjun

Seven Samurai (1954), dir. Akira Kurosawa

Briton Riviere  - Una and the Lion (from Spenser’s Faerie Queene) - 1880

Soviet propaganda poster featuring a Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of the Boy Scouts) sewing his shirt (1954). Artwork by S. Datskevich.

John Weguelin, The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat, 1886

Vermillion (Illustrator - Roger Dean)

Ludwig von Hofmann - Largo (Sunset). 1898

“Beautiful Tibetan girl at Litang Horse Festival wears fur robes and her family’s treasured jewelry. She wears an turquoise and amber headdress, gorgeous gold and coral earrings, three strands of coral & dzi beads, and on her hands solid 24k gold bracelets and rings on every finger.” Source

Natalia Vodianova / W Magazine May 2002 by Carter Smith.

From 1971, a powerfully succinct letter from Nancy Spero to Lucy Lippard; two highly influential women whose paths crossed numerous times; Spero as a feminist artist, Lippard as a feminist art critic, historian and curator.

Louise Brooks

…an ode to 1970s skater girls.