New Years

New Years postcard, published by H. H. Hamm Company, of Erie, Pennsylvania, in business 1907-1923, printed in Germany. Illustrator and exact date unknown.  From my collection.

Merry Christmas To You

Christmas postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, offices in New York, and London, England, in business 1866-1960.  Illustrator and exact date unknown. From my collection.

Peace, the Guest

Christmas postcard, illustrator, publisher, and date unknown.  From my collection.

From Jackson and Lee To Charles and Ray

Christmas card designed by Jackson Pollock, American, painter, 1912-1956, and Lee Krasner, American, painter, 1908-1984, sent to Charles Eames, American, artist, industrial designer, 1907-1978, and Ray Eames, American, artist, industrial designer, born Bernice Kaiser, 1912-1988.

Another Christmas Postcard

Christmas postcard published by F. A. Owen Co., in business, 1915-1927.  Illustrator unknown.  From my collection.

Coming Soon

Postcard, exact date unknown, published by F.A. Owen Co., Dansville, New York, in business, 1915-1927, illustrator signed M.H., identity unknown.  From my collection.

Sea Grasses and Blue Sky

Sea Grasses and Blue Sky, 1958,  by Milton Avery, American, 1885-1965, mixed media on paper.

Rose Roland Covarrubias

Portrait of Rose Roland Covarrubias, 1926, by Edward Weston, American, 1886-1958.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Conrad Veidt, German, born Hans Walter Conrad Weidt, 1893-1943, in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920, directed by Robert Wiene, German, 1873-1938.

Given To Me By A Homeless Person On the Streets of Los Angeles

Design for a flying car by Rafael Pena, 2012.  From my collection.

Men Under the Sea

Men Under the Sea book cover, illustrator unknown, copyright 1939, published by Dodd, Mead & Company.  Written by Commander Edward Ellsberg, American, 1891-1983.  From my collection.

Leni Riefenstahl

Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl, 1930, by Lotte Jacobi, born Johanna Alexandra Jacobi,  American, born Germany,  1896-1990.  Leni Riefenstahl, born Helene Bertha Riefenstahl, German, dancer, actress, film director, writer, photographer, 1902-2003.

Radio Broadcast

Radio Broadcast, 1934, by Julia Eckel, American, 1907-1988, oil on canvas.

Hope

Portrait of Barack Obama, 2008, by Shepard Fairey, American, graphic artist, 1970-.  Barack Obama, community organizer, lawyer, United States Senator from Illinois, President of the United States, 1961-.

FDR

Portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1935, drawing tempera and gouache on board, by Herman Perlman, American, 1904-1995.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American,  lawyer, Governor of New York, President of the United States, 1882-1945.

The Broken Plate, The Last Photograph of Abraham Lincoln

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 1865, by Alexander Gardner, American, born Scotland, 1821-1882.  Abraham Lincoln, American, lawyer, President of the United States, 1809-1865.

The Whole Dam Family

The Whole Dam Family Postcard, 1905, illustrator unknown.  From my collection.

The Whole Damm Family

The Whole Damm Family Postcard, 1905, illustrator unknown.  From my collection.

V For Victory, Peace On Earth

World War 2 postcard sent to Sgt. John A. Shaw from Thornton C. Shaw,  mailed from Sandusky, Ohio on April 16, 1945.  From my collection.

The Champions of Al Smith

Al Smith Presidential Campaign Poster, 1928, designer unknown.  Alfred Smith, American, New York State  Assemblyman, New York Governor, Democratic Nominee for President in 1928, 1873-1944.

Composition Collage

Composition Collage, by Edward Burra, English, 1905-1976

Knotty Pine Derby

Advertising card from The Bigfoot Lodge Restaurant, 2012, illustrator unknown.  From my collection.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. map postcard, exact date and illustrator unknown, copyright, H.S. Crocker Co., Inc., San Francisco, CA   From my collection.

La Ville

La Ville: From the Portfolio Electricite, by Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky, photographer, painter, American, 1890-1976.

To Woman

To Woman postcard, 1905, illustrator unknown, published by Ullman, Mfg. Co., American, in business 1905-1915.  From my collection.

Radio Nurse Radio Transmitter

Radio Nurse Radio Transmitter, Bakelite baby monitor, 1937, designed by Isamu Noguchi, American, 1904-1988.

Shoeshine

Shoeshine Stand, cropped version, 1936, by Walker Evans, American, 1903-1975

Calander Girl

Bus Stop #1, 1950, by Art Frahm, pin-up artist and illustrator, American, 1907-1981.  From my collection.

The Final Touch

The Final Touch, a Portrait of Jean Cocteau, 1946, by Philippe Halsman, American, born Russia, now Latvia, 1906-1979.  Jean Cocteau, French, artist, film maker,  1889-1963.

Peugeot, Resistant But Slight

Peugeot advertising poster, 1946, illustrator/designer, Andre Wilquin, French, 1899-2000.

Antietam

Confederate Dead At Antietam, 1862, by Alexander Gardner, 1821-1882, American, born Scotland.

Spectators at the Cabaret

Spectators at the Cabaret, 1911, by Emil Nolde, born Emil Hansen, German, 1867-1952.  Oil on canvas.

Kennedy Space Center

Artist's rendering of the Kennedy Space Center, postcard, 1970s.  Illustrator, Don Mackey,  American,  1915-2006.  From my collection.

Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros, 1515, by Albrecht Durer, Holy Roman Empire, now Germany, 1471-1528.  Woodblock Print.

Isaac

Hurricane Isaac at night, 2012, taken by the Suomi NPP satellite, NASA

Night Bloom

Night Bloom, No. 2, 1962, by Lee Krasner, 1908-1984, American, oil on canvas.

Congressional Bipartisanship

Congressional Bipartisanship, published 1992 in the Los Angeles Times, by Paul Conrad, cartoonist and sculptor, American, 1924-2010.

The Flatiron Building, New York

The Flatiron Building, 1904, photograph by Edward Steichen, born Eduard Jean Steichen, photographer, painter, American, born Luxembourg, 1879-1973.

Man's First Footprint On the Moon

Neil Armstrong's footprint on the Moon, 1969, photograph by Neil Armstrong, American, engineer, test pilot, astronaut, university professor, 1930-2012.

Century Of Progress

Century of Progress, Chicago World's Fair, 1933-1934, postcard, mailed from Chicago, September 17, 1933.  From my collection.

Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot, Russian, feminist punk rock musical collective, 2011-present, photograph by Igor Moukhin, Russian, 1961-.

Mumford Street, Homewood, Pennsylvania

Woman, possibly Barbara Jones, posed with car on Mumford Street, Homewood, Pennsylvania, 1937, by Charles "Teenie" Harris, American, 1908-1998.

Curiosity

Curiosity Descends to the Martian Surface,2012,  taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/NASA

Opportunity

Panoramic Martian Landscape, 2011, taken by Opportunity Mars Rover/NASA.

7th Ave. Local

From the subway portrait series, 1938-1941, by Walker Evans , American, 1903-1975.

The Advance of Socialism

The Advance of Socialism, A Crowd Tramples A Bourgeois, 1920s, by Anton Hansen, Danish, 1891-1960, woodblock print.