Archive for the ‘Chess’ Category
Chess Problem
Posted in Art, Chess, Postcards on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Chess in Budapest
Posted in Art, Chess, Postcards on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Raoul Jose Capablanca, Cuban chess player, by Sándor Badacsonyi, born in Budapest, 1949. The artist has been quoted, in translation, “I am considered to be a surrealist or romantic surrealist by critics. I used to be an active chess player – winner of the Hungarian Team Championship twice, one individual victory — and I drew [...]
Snow Chess
Posted in Art, Chess, Postcards on June 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Snowmen play chess in this wonderful 1991 piece by Wim Finck. In response to my query, he writes from Belgium, “I made this drawing about 20 years ago commissioned by Mr. Daniël De Mol. It was originally meant for a postcard, but he used it also as a Christmas greeting card. The basic-idea of the [...]
Tito Plays Chess
Posted in Chess, Photography, War on May 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In July of 1944, Life magazine photographer John Phillips spent a day in the cave of guerrilla leader Josep Broz a.k.a. “Tito,” the leader of one resistance group that was battling Nazi Germany in Yugoslavia. During the day and evening, Tito played chess with his top military aide, Arsa Yovanovich, who is off-camera in this [...]
Knight Takes Pawn
Posted in Art, Chess on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As seen by John Allen St. John, with thanks again to the incredible Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog.
Merry Christmas
Posted in Art, Chess, Christmas on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Who knew cats played chess on Christmas?
Today’s Relaxed People
Posted in Advertising, Art, Chess on October 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An ad for Pepsi in 1957 showing us just how a grandmaster dresses
Chess by Lamplight
Posted in Art, Chess on September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An illustration for General Electric (love the lamp) by Charles Edward Chambers. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1883, Chambers was known for his advertising work, especially 45 billboards for Chesterfield cigarettes and a portrait of Mozart for Steinway pianos, and illustrations for books by Pearl S. Buck, Louis Bromfield, Faith Baldwin and W. Somerset Maugham.
The Bright Side of War
Posted in Art, Chess, Postal History, Postcards, War on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Brynolf “Bruno” Wennerberg (1866-1950) was a Swedish-born painter and illustrator. In 1898, he settled in Munich and worked at the magazines Lustige Blätter, Meggendorfer Blätter and Simplicissimus. In 1915, in the early days of the first World War, he designed a series of more than 20 propaganda postcards for Simplicissimus, showing how soldiers and sailors [...]
Checkmate by Hedgehog
Posted in Art, Chess on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I already have you mated,” says the little hedgehog. Mecki the Hedgehog was introduced in 1949 as an advertising mascot for the radio magazine Hör Zu. In 1951, the Steiff-company first marketed Mecki as a puppet. Postcard printed in Munich.
