martin johnson heade ... a special talent for humidity !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Johnson_Heade

https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ad/original/DT9511.jpg

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11053

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11052

eleanor vere boyle ... improbably popular victorian illustrator ... improbable because of ???

https://www.rct.uk/collection/913387/the-virgin-mary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Vere_Boyle

unusual burial at lechlade in the uk might contain the remains of a shaman ...

artistic impression ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/archaeology-anicent-british-chieftain-shaman-burial-ritual-a9480321.html

do not go gentle ... allen jones would have been 81 when he put these on show in new york in 2018

colin gill ... and an impulse purchase in the bookshop at the sir john soane museum ...

i bought this book six or seven years ago as a present for the loved one

the subject suggested interesting possibilities

i'd never seen, as far as i can recall, any painting by colin gill

i'm impressed by his war paintings

and i like the book's cover painting, "allegory", very much














to categorize paintings as "decorative" shouldn't be to trivialize the artist or the picture, innit

after all, i've said before that i think artists have a duty to bear witness to beauty

just the other day, i found this interview with paul liss, the man who successfully bid for "allegory" at auction ... and then had to borrow some cash to pay for it

https://gildedbirds.com/2017/04/24/paul-liss/

trains, at night ...