Posted in Fine Arts Library on Apr 20th, 2017 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Size matters! was the motto that Wilhelm Moser and David Culby took quite seriously when creating The Manipulator in Dusseldorf in the 1980s. This art magazine is an impressive 70 cm long by 50 cm wide and marks the […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Feb 9th, 2017 Comments Off on Remember Cootie Catchers?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Will you live in a mansion, drive a Ferrari, get your dream job, have two kids and marry your hot 12-year old crush? Or will your fate be to have a rusty pickup truck, work a minimum wage […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Jan 13th, 2017 Comments Off on Artistry of Linocuts
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. This lovely artist book Geheimzinnige Personen : omtrent de flarden des levenswas was created by a Dutch artist, Margit Willems. It loosely translates to Mysterious Persons: on the scraps of life and features 23 linocuts with text […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Dec 1st, 2016 Comments Off on Mad Dog’s i
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Today’s post features an artist named Richard Stine and his book Smile in a Mad Dog’s i. Stine self-published this first edition in 1974 with 4000 copies. Inspired by the receipt books that newsboys used to […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Jun 30th, 2016 Comments Off on Poster Swank
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. For some 40 years, Poster Auctions International has been holding auctions at Rennert’s Gallery in New York City for their collection of rare vintage posters. This collection spans art noveau, art deco, and modern pieces of […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Apr 21st, 2016 Comments Off on “The Physical Impossibilities of Death in the Mind of Someone Living”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Damien Hirst is a world-renowned (and criticized) English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector, said to be the wealthiest living artist from the United Kingdom. In his I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Jul 30th, 2015 Comments Off on Indian subcontinent in 60 engravings or less….
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Frans Balthazar Solvyns was born in Antwerp in 1760 and for the early part of his career was a marine painter capturing the likenesses of ships, ports, and harbor views on canvas. He departed for Calcutta […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Mar 5th, 2015 Comments Off on Would Don Draper have done enamel sign advertising?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. If you have been reading this blog consistently then you probably know that we never quite know what we might come across as we unpack a box from this collection. A case in point would be this […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Feb 12th, 2015 Comments Off on A Collection of Skulls
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Ludovic Burel’s book Page_Sucker_Numero_Un_Skull.JPG is a collection of pictures of skulls. From humorous pictures like skulls on socks and action figures to scientific photographs, this book shows every kind of skull imaginable. Although there is no text written […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Sep 4th, 2014 Comments Off on British pop art
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Gerald Laing was an artist that was part of the British Pop movement in the 1960s and remains one of the most well-known today. His work in this period was typically a painting of a reproduced image often a […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Feb 11th, 2014 Comments Off on Not suitable for snuggling
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. These oddities, from fancy drawn, May surely raise the question, Will DARWIN say- by Chance they’re formed, Or ‘Natural Selection?’ Edward William Cooke originally published Grotesque Animals : invented, drawn, and described in 1872, this version […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library, Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2014 Comments Off on The “Glo” of Advertising
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Day-Glo Designer’s Guide offers insights into the way that Day-Glo colors have been used in both art and advertising. Although Day-Glo is common today, the process wasn’t discovered until 1934 by Robert and Joseph Spitzer. While […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Oct 11th, 2013 Comments Off on It’s a dog’s life
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Stephen Huneck was not only an American author but a carving artist, painter, and furniture maker. Originally from Sudbury, Massachusetts he began working in wood when he lived in Rochester, Vermont. He was ostensibly discovered when an […]
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