Friday 22 January 2016

Swedish Film Posters – part 2

Not much to say about these, they are what it says on the tin – Swedish Film Posters. What they are though is vintage posters dating between 1913 and 1958. These are mainly Hollywood films that already been released in America and the posters are re-interpretations for the Swedish market.

This is part 2 of a 3-part series on Swedish Film Posters:


1931 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1931 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1931 Frankenstein

1931 Tarnished Lady

1931 The Easiest Way

1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1932 Blonde Venus

1932 Shanghai Express

1932 The Mummy Awakes

1932 The Passionate Plumber

1932 Trouble in Paradise

1933 Bureau of Missing Persons

1933 Welcome Danger

1933 Speak Easily

1933 The Crime of the Century

1934 Champs of the Champs-Élysées

1934 Death Takes a Holiday

1934 Glamour

1934 Now I'll Tell ( When New York Sleeps )

1934 One Night of Love

1934 Stamboul Quest

1934 The Black Cat

1934 The Dragon Murder Case

1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream

Wednesday 20 January 2016

Swedish Film Posters – part 1

Not much to say about these, they are what it says on the tin – Swedish Film Posters. What they are though is vintage posters dating between 1913 and 1958. These are mainly Hollywood films that already been released in America and the posters are re-interpretations for the Swedish market.

This is part 1 of a 3-part series on Swedish Film Posters:


1913 Traffic in Souls

1915 Shanghaied

1916 Betty of Greystone

1917 Baby Mine

1917 Cleopatra

1917 Sapho

1918 Bound in Morocco

1918 MysteryWoman

1919 The Pinch Hitter

1920 Billions

1920 Flying Pat

1920 The Woman Who Fell from the Skies

1923 The Covered Wagon

1924 Greed

1926 A Social Celebrity

1927 Metropolis

1927 The Silver Slave

1928 Laugh, Clown Laugh

1929 The Sky Hawk

1929 Woman in the Moon

1929 Words and Music

1930 Anna Christie

1930 Hit the Deck

1930 Whoopee!

1931 Dance Fools Dance

Monday 18 January 2016

Audubon: Birds of America part 7

John James Audubon c1850

John James Audubon (1785 - 1851) is perhaps the most renowned wildlife artist in America, universally acknowledged by both art and natural history museums. He was born in 1875 in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti).

From his father's Pennsylvania estate, Audubon made the first bird-ringing experiments. After failing in various business ventures, he concentrated on drawing and studying birds, which took him from Florida to Labrador. His extraordinary four-volume The Birds of America, first published in London in 1827, was a 12-year enterprise that exponentially increased the knowledge of American ornithological and natural history.


The images featured in this series are mainly hand-coloured etchings and aquatints, with a few original watercolours here and there. (You can click on individual images to enlarge them).



This is part 7 of a 7-part series on Audubon's Birds of America:


Scaup Duck

Scolopaceus Courlan

Semi-palmated Sandpiper

Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Sharp-tailed Grous ( Grouse )

Shoveller Duck

Slender-billed Guillemot

Small Green-Crested Flycatcher

Snow Bunting

Snow Goose

Snowy Heron or White Egret

Snowy Owl

Song Sparrow

Spotted Sandpiper

Summer Red Bird

Swainson's Warbler

Swallow-tailed Hawk

Tengmalm's Owl

Three-Toed Woodpecker

Towhee Bunting 
chalk, pencil, watercolour and ink on paper 23.8 x 28.3 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Townsend's Sandpiper

Townsend's Warbler, Arctic Blue Bird and Western Blue Bird

Tropic Bird

Trumpeter Swan

Trumpeter Swan

Turkey Buzzard

Violet-green Cormorant and Townsend's Cormorant

Virginia Rail watercolour original

Virginian Partridge

Washington Sea Eagle 
oil on canvas 116.8 x 84.5 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Western Duck

White and Brown Ibis

White Heron

White-headed Eagle

White-headed Eagle

White-Legged Oyster-Catcher and Slender-Billed Oyster-Catcher

Wild Turkey

Wild Turkey

Yellow Red-poll Warbler

Yellow Shank

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-breasted Chat

Yellow-Crowned Heron