Adventures in the Arts and Sciences

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“Vienna Moderne”, R. Tropsch. 1901.

CHOUBRAC, Alfred. Esclarmonde, Opéra Romanesque en 4 actes de Jules Massenet, 1889 by Halloween HJB Via Flickr: Massenet opera based on the medieval chivalric tale Parthénopéus de Blois, written in the middle of the 12th century by Denis Pyramus.

Artist: Edward Penfield

WARREN DAVIS (1865 - 1928)

Franklin Booth produced 16 watercolor illustrations for Flying Islands of the Night.

Folies Bergere / La Loie Fuller, 1893. Jules Chéret. Original lithograph.

Paul Berthon (Franch, 1872-1909) • Poster for the revue L'ermitage • 1897 • Color lithograph • Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Benjamin Edwin Minns (1863-1937) - Woman by the Harbour, 1916; Manly from Mossan Heights, 1930, watercolour

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Santiago Rusiñol - Roadside in Autumn (1888)

Dig this badarse 1908 sheet music cover, featuring a gun-toting Gibson Girl. The tune itself is a music hall-type number sung by a lady whose beau is a cat burglar (the refrain implores us, if we see a stranger crawling up the side of our house late at night, “DON’T SHOOT: Ask him in for tea, it may be my boy Bill”). Amusing as the song is though, I can’t help but feel that it’s outshined by Edgar Keller’s incredibly evocative cover art.

He continues, "In Gist of Art Sloan wrote of the subject of this very handsome portrait, 'Her visiting card was edged in heavy black and bore the single word 'woe.' She had a witty, quick intelligence and I believe she liked to do the unexpected, especially during the years she lived in Greenwich Village. A happy memory - here's luck to her.' The joke, of course, was that when questioned about her card, she would reply, 'Woe is me!'" (source)