STORMY WEATHER . . . in art

an NC Wyeth book illustration
      
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 Adolf Bohm       see full size

     
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 a John Rogers Cox illustration,  1940s       see full size
        
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a 1959 illustration

        
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a stormy color design for a Disney animation

         

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"Activity comforted, industrious, uninterrupted, it's provided that the violence from the heavens are not raging about our work"    a Maurits Cornelis Escher illustration  

     
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a Don Weller children's book illustration       see full size

     
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Henry Rousseau art,  1891       see full size

     
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a 1960s "Metal Men" comic book:  Mercury,  Lead,  Iron, Gold,  Tin and Platinum

     
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a Gerhard Marcks woodcut

     
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a Disney animation concept sketch,  1940       see full size

     
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 1893 Japan ornament       see full size

    
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1921

    
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an Al Parker illustration

      
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"Let's postpone it - this is a hell of a day to get married!"
a 1940s Jaro Fabry magazine cartoon

     
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a Don Freeman children's book illustration, 1967

       
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 a Franklin Booth illustration, 1910s?       see full size
     
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a Mary Blair color design,  for Disney       see full size
     
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a Gerardo Dottori painting       see full size
     
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"The glorious days of July"  an 1861 cartoon
     
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"The Day it Rained Forever"  a Franco Grignani book cover,  1969
     
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1886:  "Observer within a Whirlwind,  experiencing the Sensation of a Vertical Movement."
     
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William S. Phillips art       see full size
    
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1916 buggy storm-aprons with celluloid windows
     
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a Milton Glaser book cover for "The Tempest"
   
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a Ralph Avery watercolor       see full size
       
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a Fritz Eichenberg illustration
     
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a William Harnden Foster illustration, 1910
     
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"November"  by Alphonse Mucha, 1899
             

StormyWeather 1      StormyWeather 2      StormyWeather 3

DIRECTIONS pictured in art

let's follow directions

     

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a Chris van Allsburg illustration

     

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a Perry Barlow illustration,  1938

     

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Art Werger,  2002       see full size

     

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at the 1964 New York World's Fair

     

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a 1901 map of Canada, now quite different       see full size

     

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"Caution ... Worst Case Scenario Ahead"   a Henry Martin cartoon

     

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James Montgomery Flagg       see full size

     

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"Full inside,  Sir,  but plenty of room on the top"   1847 transit

     

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animated credits from the 1960s comedy film 'The Great Race'

     

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an Eric Fraser Illustration       see full size

     

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a 1960s Bill Campbell package illustration for 'Weird-Ohs' plastic

assembly toy models       see full size

      

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"Lost"    a Phil May cartoon       see full size

     

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a century ago,  the pointing hand symbol was commonly used in signage and advertising

     

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individual musicians follow the conductor to act as one orchestra 

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"Looks like we can't expect to find much in that direction."

a Gahan Wilson cartoon       see full size

     

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"Prismatic Compass"   understand or die,  in 1904 

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a Grant Haffner painting       see full size

     

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a Fred Barnard illustration for a Charles Dickens book       see full size

     

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"Push"    a 1954 trash receptacle from a

restaurant supply catalog
    

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 Andy Warhol       see full size
    

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"A manually controlled electric signal, San Francisco"     1925 USA
       

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"You are 10,000 miles from the nearest telephone"    Ken Reid,  1970s
    

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an Allen Kass illustration for a UK car advertisement       see full size
    

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1885 Africa       see full size
     

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this old amber glass lens lighthouse guided ships

    

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a 1973 Lynd Ward illustration       see full size
    

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"Bad Times ... Good Times"       see full size
    

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a London policeman by Ronald Searle
    

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"Oh no!  My best friend and my best friend's wife!"       see full size

 an E.C. Vey cartoon for National Lampoon Magazine