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Old-timey armies, and for that matter modern ones as well if you consider civilian contractors, almost always had a cloud of non-combatants that traveled with them. Cantinières were women attached to an army to provide canteen services. Camp followers were people, generally women and their children, who would informally travel with an army. They provided a variety of services: cooking, laundry, nursing, selling goods, and companionship, both unpaid and paid.
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We spend ~1/3 of our life in a bed sleeping or... uh... otherwise engaged. These are paintings of beds: some regular beds, some sick beds, some death beds, some made beds, some unmade. Enjoy.
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Bohumil Kubišta (1884-1918) was a Czech painter. He was first influenced by Expressionism, and later by Cubism. He studied color theory and geometry in artistic layout. He was very influential in the development of Czech modern art. He died young from the Spanish Flu.
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Rudolph Belarski (1900 - 1983) was an American artist who specialized in pulp magazine art. At a young age he quit school and went to work in coal mines. During that time, he taught himself art via correspondence courses. Eventually he began painting covers for various magazines. He did crime, sci-fi and adventure covers. Late in his life he became an instructor for correspondence schools, completing the circle so to speak.
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Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916) was a British realist painter. As well as portraits, he is best remembered for his paintings of domestic scenes, with both the well-off and the poor as subjects. He worked in oils and watercolor.
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Summer is upon us, and with it comes heat and the need to cool off. One of the age-old methods to do that is the handheld paper or bamboo fan. They work well and can be either plain or decorated (this post is not about their decorations; a topic for another day). Aside from cooling, wielded in the right young lady's hands they can also be an effective tool for flirtation. Due to the prevalence of AC, they are far more common in the east than the west.
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Karl Hagemeister (1848-1933) was a German landscape artist. In the 1880s he spent time in Paris where he absorbed impressionistic influences. The play of light and form became more pronounced in his work, and he developed a richer and vibrant color palette. He was well known and regarded in his day. The German hyper-inflation after WWI financially ruined him and he retreated to a more private and eventually less productive phase before his death.
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These some of the works of Léon Lhermitte (18844-1925) a French artist who worked in pastels. He primarily created rural scenes. He was well known in his day and Vincent van Gogh was an admirer of his artwork.
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On this 4th of July weekend, we have a small sampling of paintings of the Statue of Liberty. It was a gift from the people of France and is a monument to freedom and democracy. It is also a symbol of the promise of American opportunity to the immigrants entering via New York harbor.
My grandparents all immigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century. They must have seen it, and I'm sure it moved them, but they never mentioned it. They did mention Ellis Island, but to them it was all just a transition from the Old World they had left behind for their new home in the States. The future called.
