New Year’s Greeting

Painted card sent to art dealer Katharine Kuh from George and Juliet Kepes. More painted cards from the Katherine Kuh papers can be viewed by searching the Beinecke’s Digital Library: Beinecke Digital Library; a record for the Katharine Kuh papers is available on line: YCAL MSS 15 Katharine Kuh Papers.

A Christmas Cantata

 The Ballad of the Brown King, a Christmas Cantata, words by Langston Huges and music by Margaret Bonds

Humility and Innocence

Stacey Grimaldi, The Toilet, London, 1821.

The original issue of a book form that was popular in England and then republished in the United States in the 1820s.
A set of virtues is taught using illustrations of items found on a lady’s dressing table (the “toilet” of the title), each revealed with the lift of a delicate flap. This copy was the property of the author.

[Best white Paint]

[Innocence]

 
[INNOCENCE

“The silence often of pure Innocence,
“Persuades, when speaking fails.”

“Innocence shall make
“False accusation blush, and tyranny
“Tremble at patience.”]

Colvin, Cobweb, Fred & Joey vs. Rip-to-date, Belle, Redlight & Harris

Brochure for appearance of Barnum & Bailey’s show in Paris, 1901-1902,
including chariot races with four horse teams.

How do you take your coffee? (SI style)

from The Situationist Times #2 (1962)

Ancient and Modern

Collage pages from H.D.’s scrapbook combining classical figures with photographs of H.D. and friends. (YCAL MSS 24, Folder 1430)

 

The Ivory Tower

A view out the window of Room 26, 4:28 p.m., December 3, 2007.

The power of the image

 Poster by Asger Jorn (1968)

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