Postcard from a craft market in Hakuba, Japan, with thanks to Lyle Andrews.
Bridge
Mother & Child
“Amid all this seeming babel of baas as they streamed over the hills every mother and child recognized each other’s voice. In case a tired lamb, half asleep in the smothering dust, should fail to answer, its mother would come running back to the spot whence its last response was heard, and refused to be comforted until she found it, the one of a thousand, though to our eyes and ears all seemed alike.”
— John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)
A Vision
From “Kenneth and the Carp” in The Magic World (1912) by E. Nesbit, illustrated by H.R. Millar and Spencer Pryse.
Water Tower
Elaine
“Elaine” (1874) by Toby Edward Rosenthal; there is a wonderful article about the painting at the Art Institute of Chicago’s website.
The Bungalow Guests
From “The Bungalow Guests” by William Ely Hill, Chicago Tribune, reprinted in The (Syracuse) Post-Standard, July 20, 1930
Life at Gurs
Early artistamps were created by German artist and political prisoner Karl Schwesig in 1941, depicting life at Gurs, an internment camp in Vichy France. Schwesig drew them in colored ink on the blank perforated margins of an actual stamp sheet. The commemorative sheet shown above was prepared from the original images by James Warren Felter for the International Artistamp Exhibition at the Davidson Galleries in Seattle, December 1989.
A Pleasure
