Felix Vallotton

 Reclining Nude 1914 

Rest 1911

 The White and the Black 1913

Turkish Bath 1907

What a great artist Felix Vallotton was. He was prolific and there are many examples to be found of his work online, however I was only familiar with a couple of his images in books that I have at home. 

Here are a handful of nudes that I found recently when googling his images. His art has a clean, smart sense of design. He had a wonderful feeling for dynamic color and form. 

He even did a portrait of Gertrude Stein. 

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a 

Swiss painter associated with Les Nabis.

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La Chevelure Blonde 1915


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Letterpress Print by Amy Crehore on Sale



Here's a detail of my Shygals' Serenade 3-color limited edition letterpress print. 

Follow this link to view larger image. On sale for a limited time.

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Holes for Breathing

I could not resist blogging this photo of a full face swimming mask from the 1920s.

(Thanks retronaut via Memory of the Netherlands)

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Spring!

Spring in Oregon - photo taken the other day

Detail of my painting- "A Fig Leaf Parasol"  (Amy Crehore 2012)
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Revisiting my L.A. solo show

It was called "Dreamgirls and Ukes". It took place at Thinkspace in L.A. in Feb 2009.

There were 15 paintings and 13 painted ukes. The Hokum Scorchers (Lou Reimuller and I)

 played music at the opening. 

Here's one of my paintings- "Monkey Love Song" (Amy Crehore).

Here's the link to all images-

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The Dancer and the Lily (Lilliput Pocket Omnibus 1930s)

Love these two comparison images from the book Lilliput Pocket Omnibus 1937
Here are some more! 
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1920s Illustrated Children's Covers by Takeo Takei

Covers by Takeo Takei for the illustrated magazine "Children's Land", 1922–33 on
  50 Watts blog 
Follow this link for more! These are amazing. Thanks,Will.

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Look at all those buttons!

This is possibly my favorite Jean-Antoine Watteau painting. The costume of The Pierrot is impeccably painted. His face is amazing. The composition with the figures and donkey gathered around the bottom is just right. 

 Gilles (or Pierrot) and Four Other Characters of the Commedia dell'arte, c. 1718. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Hieronymous Bosch's Painted Butt Music

Love this! A college student in Oklahoma named Amelia transcribed and
recorded the music that Bosch painted on the butt of a sinner guy in hell
(from The Garden of Earthly Delights).
More info: LINK (globalpost)
A few people have told me over the years that my painting style sort of looks like Bosch and
I am getting a huge kick out of this butt story. Plus, it is one of my favorite paintings ever in the history of art.
To this day, Bosch's imaginative art still charms the pants off people. Bosch was so modern and funny.
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Happy Valentines Day!

More painting progress...just a detail of something I am working on shown above. 

I want to wish all of my fans, collectors, blog readers, friends, fellow countrymen and everyone else around the world a fabulous Valentines Day! Stay warm if you are in a deep freeze state.

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Painting progress and a few links

Here's a small detail of my new painting in progress (Amy Crehore 2014)
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and a few links:

1. Jo David's flickr set R.I.P. Leonard Knight, creator of Salvation Mountain. LINK
2. Shirley Temple, genius child entertainer and beautiful person died LINK
3. Leonora Carrington short story White Rabbits LINK
4. Amazing stretchy carvings from paper Ling Hongbo LINK
5. New animation by Allison Schulnik called Eager LINK

Brand New Print Release: Amy Crehore's "Rose Quarry"

Hi everyone! I have new, signed, limited edition prints available on my website of my "Rose Quarry" painting (shown below). Comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by me.
Only 40 prints in the edition.
For more information and to buy follow this link:
New Prints 2014

Image copyright Amy Crehore, all rights reserved
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"The Leads All Gone" performed by the Hokum Scorchers

In 1990, the Hokum Scorchers performed a song called, "The Leads All Gone". It was originally done by Bo Carter (a.k.a. Bo Chatmon) in 1931 as "My Pencil Won't Write No More" and later it was recorded in 1980 by his brother Sam Chatmon on Flying Fish Records as "Pencil Lead Blues".

Lou Reimuller is singing and playing the National guitar and kazoo and I am singing, playing washboard and kazoo.

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Happy New Year- A Spring Song!

I hear birds chirping out there, so I'm posting this animation
from 1931 called Mendelssohn's Spring Song by Cy Young.
I have never been so anxious for spring to come as I am right now.
Happy 2014!


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Starting the Week off with Barbara Lynn

Yes! An all-time favorite!

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Some End of the Year Links for You!

A very old photo of a younger me

1. Johnny Depp to play Banjo uke in George Formby role LINK 
2. The Junky's Christmas, William Borrough's Claymation 1991 LINK
3. The Iceberg, a story by Zelda Fitzgerald when she was a teen 1918 LINK
4. James Brown Mystery of Black ad: LINK
5. Video of Francoise Gilot who still paints everyday at 92: LINK
6. Boingboing has a new movie available for download: LINK
7. Napoleon blowing bubbles! 1813 LINK 
8. The Hokum Scorchers on soundcloud, recordings from early 90s: LINK

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My Tree

Wishing everyone a very happy holiday!

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Happy Winter Solstice

 

"A Moonlit Ride" painting, oil on linen, 12" x 10" ©Amy Crehore

 

This painting has now been sold to a very special collector in California.

It was first shown in NYC at Last Rites Gallery, Jan. 2011.

 

Happy Winter Solstice!

 

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Progress on new paintings (Crehore)

Working on a couple of new ones in the studio. Here's my progress so far.

CLICK photo to Enlarge

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Kickstarter Project of the Day- "The Magazine" book project

 

Oil on wood by Amy Crehore 2013 14" x 18 3/8"

With about 50 hours to go, you can help fund the book project on kickstarter for "The Magazine".

Here is the proposed book cover design and my final art created especially for this project (bottom). The art itself is offered as a fine art print. Follow the links for more info-

In fact, today kickstarter made it their "Project of the Day" — Turning the first year of The Magazine into a book: http://t.co/NXIeoiq2a2— Kickstarter @kickstarter

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"Temperance or Prohibition?", Illustrations by Winsor McCay 1929

J. J. Sedelmaier writes about this interesting find in an L.A. used book store.

Here's the LINK

 

I have blogged about Winsor McCay before. He is a favorite of mine.

LINKS



R Crumb Therapy

 

 

Hey friends, here's a great interview with R Crumb

LINK

 

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New! Book cover painting (by Crehore) for The Magazine's Book Project on Kickstarter

 

Just finished this painting- 14" x 18 3/8" oil on wood ©www.amycrehore.com. This was painted as a book cover for a printed book of select stories from The Magazine's first year. A mock-up version appears currently on kickstarter, but this is my final version of the painting. This is a fund raiser for the proposed book. They are also offering an almost full-size limited edition print of this as part of their fundraiser on kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/the-magazine-the-book-year-one

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The Richard Balzer Collection

I spent the morning looking at these!

Dick Balzar collects antique magic lanterns, peepshows, shadows, transparencies, thaumatropes, phenakistascopes and other optical toys.

Go to his websites to see his collection of fantastic toys in action and to read the history.

You won't be sorry. So beautiful!

 

http://dickbalzer.tumblr.com/

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A Few Costumes

 From 1906 Femina magazine

 From 16th century carnival (above and below)

See more at Public Domain Review LINK



Two Balthus Shows in NYC

BALTHUS

Untitled, c. 1999–2000

Color Polaroid

4 x 4 inches (10.2 x 10.2 cm)

© Harumi Klossowska de Rola

 

Beautiful polaroids (late studies) by Balthus at Gagosian Gallery

and a new Balthus show at the Met for those lucky enough to be in NYC.

Judith Thurman writes for The New Yorker blog about meeting Balthus in Rome 40 years ago and also posing for his wife (who was also a painter). Interesting! LINK

I love the paintings and drawings of Balthus, as you know if you read this blog.

P.S. Picasso owned a Balthus painting

 

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Links for Picasso's Birthday (not about Picasso)

Above: "Douleur" painted in 1895 by Antoon van Welie

 

Happy Birthday Picasso!

1. New exhibition by Neo Rauch: LINK
2. Italian Man Builds Theme Park by Hand: LINK 
3. 1887 Nude Descending Staircase: LINK
4. Great Joni M. documentary: LINK
5. Watch Tarkovsky films free: LINK
6. Sad Boyfriends Modeling Etsy Creations by Girlfriends: LINK
7. The Most Fascinating Humans of New York: LINK 
8. Kim Deitch interview podcast on Boingboing: LINK 
9. Peter Bagge's Woman Rebel, The Margaret Sanger Story: review LINK
10. The Magazine will have some stories featured on Boingboing.