Sunset Magazine Cover, Year 1900

This is my favorite Sunset Magazine Cover. So beautiful! It is from the year 1900. The magazine was first published in 1898.

Thanks, Internet Weekly

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The Bee-Keepers 1568 by Pieter Bruegel The Elder

The Bee-Keepers 1568 by Pieter Bruegel, Berlin (click to enlarge)

This surreal image is for Mark Frauenfelder who writes about backyard beekeeping in his new book "Made By Hand". Yesterday, I bought a huge book of drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Ludwig Munz, Phaidon Publishers, 1961). It is absolutely fascinating.

This is one of the drawings.

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Josef Frank on Google

Josef Frank, an Austrian/Swedish architect, engineer and textile designer was born today. Google is celebrating and I am applauding. Here's a

LINK

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Decorated bike and rider

Decorated bike plus queen bee
Originally uploaded by lovedaylemon

Reminds me of the vintage Rose Parade postcards
(Portland) with floats of roses.
Excellent bike decoration and bee costume!

Myriam Eykens' Figures

Tenderly- Terra Cotta

I like these sculptures by Belgian artist Myriam Eykens:

LINK and LINK and LINK

(Thanks, artinconnu flickr set)

Harvey Pekar Died Today

Maybe you saw this film of Harvey Pekar's life (with an unforgettable performance by Paul Giamatti) or maybe you read his autobiographical comic book: "American Splendor". His stories were illustrated by many artists including R. Crumb.

Rest in peace, Harvey. Wikipedia link.

Ukulele Dreamgirl Painting in Brooklyn, July 16th

"Hokum Hallelujah" by Amy Crehore 2009 (oil on linen 12" x 18")

This is the piece I sent to Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NY) for the group show at the new 99% Gallery. I am hoping that people in the NYC area will make it out to the opening.

There's a mini preview of the show on Juxtapoz.com (looks good).

It opens on July 16th, 2010 from 7-10 pm.

Location: 99 North 10th

Brooklyn, NY 11211

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