"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~Oscar Wilde
Portraits by James Van Der Zee
- Miss Suzie Porter (1915)
- Garveyite Family (1924)
- Dancer (1924)
- Untitled (Little Girl in Chair) (1927)
- Untitled (1930)
- Unidentified Boy (1930)
- A Casual Affair (1932)
- Portrait of a Woman (1932)
- Graduation Day (1939)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982)
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Gyoshū Hayami
Black Peonies, 1934
Gyoshū Hayami (1894-1935) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style, active during the Taishō and Shōwa eras. His real name was Eiichi Maita.
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Scythian Tattoos Appreciation. I
Kurgan II of Pazyryk, Altai. Right upper arm of a Scythian men with tattoos showing animals and hybrid creatures. 5th century BCE.
Original skin (left) and outline (right).
Source: Under the Sign of the Golden Griffin. Royal Tombs of the Scythians (2007).
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