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Saturday, July 20, 2024

Peter Arno's Side-Show for August 1936

Cartoonist Peter Arno is at it again. Here is his "Side-Show" feature published in College Humor's August 1936 issue. Is Arno a good boy or a bad boy? You decide.

"But, Miss Grimble, that was only a suggestion!"
Peter Arno
College Humor, August 1936, p. 18

"Darling, try to understand! You're not playing—you're part of the pot!"
"Go get it, boys!
Peter Arno
College Humor, August 1936, p. 19

Readers, of course, were treated to this as a full two-page Arno spread:

Note: What's the next step? You could forward images of original Peter Arno art to your devoted blogger. That was only a suggestion.

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

Heinrich Kley: The Towers of Munich Frauenkirche

An original watercolor by Heinrich Kley (1863-1945?) depicts the towers of the Munich Frauenkirche. The German seller of this piece, Kunkel Fine Art, dates the work to 1910.

Heinrich Kley
AbeBooks listing accessed March 17, 2024

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30545601073&searchurl=kn%3DHeinrich%2BKley%26sortby%3D1&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image2

English translation

Price in Euros

There's a more contemporary view of the church posted on Wikipedia. The photograph was taken in 2006 by David Iliff from the Peterskirche tower, no doubt Kley's own vantage point.

Photo by David Iliff. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenkirche,_Munich#/media/File:Frauenkirche_Munich_-_View_from_Peterskirche_Tower2.jpg

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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Cape Cod 2021: Harwich Port

What better way to spend an afternoon in the Cape than to take a walk through town? That's what I did on August 11 in Harwich Port. I figured I might as well take a few photographs along the way to remember how the neighborhood looked.

Pilgrim Congregational Church

Scout

Hot Stove Saloon

A narrow strip of public beach at the end of Sea Street

You better believe it.

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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Donegal Town

Our travels took us to Donegal Town around nightfall on July 12. The town is situated on the River Eske in County Donegal, Ireland.

Clar Church or St. Agatha's Church (Roman Catholic)

River Eske

Low tide

A helpful reminder for American tourists at the Diamond, the town center

My nightly dose of clarity served up in the Market House Restaurant

Church of Ireland, Donegal Parish

The Olde Castle Bar and Restaurant

Donegal Castle

The Olde Castle Bar and Red Hugh's Restaurant, right next to Donegal Castle

The Diamond with obelisk commemorating the Four Masters

The pharmacy is gone but the mosaic remains.

The River Eske, later

Say, that boat looks familiar...

Rising tide

Attempted Bloggery's quick links:

Ireland

Castles

Churches

Guinness

Attempted Bloggery's index, always at high tide

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

An Hour in Westport, County Mayo

Now in County Mayo, we stopped for lunch in the town of Westport. Street parking was permitted for one hour only, and that's how long we stayed.

The Carrowbeg River

Mall along the Carrowbeg River

St. Mary's Church (Roman Catholic)

The back of St. Mary's

Holy Trinity Church (Anglican)

We had lunch at the Wyatt Hotel, left

St. Patrick

The Octagon

The clock tower

On the way to Donegal Town, we made a pit stop in Tubbercurry, the most interesting town name of the week.

Attempted Bloggery's quick links:

Ireland

Boston

Cape Cod

Walt Disney World

Attempted Bloggery's well-traveled index

Save the clock tower!

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Sunday, July 26, 2015

The First United Methodist Church and the Orb of Chatham

In 1935, a mysterious black orb was seen and independently reported by five isolated witnesses, each of whom later disappeared. The mysterious event is the subject of Bob Staake's picture book The Orb of Chatham (2005). The First United Methodist Church is familiar to all Chatham's visitors. In Mr. Staake's superb book illustration, the orb can be seen floating eerily above the moonlit church.

The First United Methodist Church, Chatham, Massachusetts

Bob Staake, illustration from The Orb of Chatham (2005)

http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/bob-staake/

The Orb of Chatham

Note: Check out the official website for Bob Staake's The Orb of Chatham. See if you can solve the mystery...

What do you know? The blog posts here about Bob Staake are starting to add up.

Ah, summer! See more posts about my vacation in Cape Cod.

Bob Staake's website is bobstaake.com. I don't get it.

Do you like to read blog posts about children's books? Can you guess why I asked?

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Monday, May 12, 2014

Constantin Alajálov: Morgnaga

Morgnaga is near Gardone Riviera in Italy, to the north of Brescia on Lake Garda. The town church bears a distinctive bell tower. It was rendered by Hans Thoma in 1897.

Hans Thoma, Morgnaga near Gardone, mixed media on paper, 1897

http://www.myartprints.co.uk/a/thoma-hans/hthomamorgnaganeargardone.html

http://www.akg-images.co.uk/archive/H.Thoma-/-Morgnaga-near-Gardone-2UMDHUQR9CA1.html

A 2008 photograph shows the church's appearance relatively unchanged aside from some temporary scaffolding.

1 Dicembre 2008 alle 00:02

Chiesa di Morgnaga

http://rete.comuni-italiani.it/foto/2008/48765

Constantin Alajálov painted the church at Morgnaga in 1948. The building appears undamaged from the Second World War. A prominent wall extending from the foundation of the church is not evident in the later photograph, although it could be obscured by overgrowth.

The original artwork is apparently in color. This work may not have been published, but it was exhibited at the Parrish Museum of Southampton. The gouache sold at auction in 1999 for $700.