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Helmer Osslund (Swedish, 1866-1938) - Norrland landscape with birch trees.
Source: uppsalaauktion.se
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Evgenia Arbugaeva, Nat Geo Image Collection - Dikson, Rusia
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The Southern reader, or Child's first reading book : a collection of easy and instructive lessons adapted to the capacities of young children - 1859 - via Internet Archive
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Volcanic clouds. Out-of-doors. v. 2. 1932.
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Zodiacal light seen from the Mexican savannah. Atlante Astronomico. 1890.
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Adventure ahead - down this tropical moonlight trail
Postmark date: February 19, 1952
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She sought other lands, strange faces, forgetfulness, the unfamiliar, the fantasy and the fairy tale.
Anaïs Nin
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Das Tierreich - Ernst Bade - 1896 - via Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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Henri Rousseau, Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo, 1908.
A self-taught artist and retired customs inspector, Henri Rousseau was admired by Pablo Picasso and other avant-garde artists for his originality and the naïve purity of his vision.
Having never ventured outside France, Rousseau derived his jungle scenes from reading travel books and visiting the Paris botanical garden. He placed this imaginary scene of a tiger attacking a buffalo within a fantastic jungle environment in which botanical accuracy was of little importance (note the bananas growing upside down). Here, sharply outlined hothouse plants are enlarged to fearsome proportions.
Rousseau was working on this painting while imprisoned for fraud in December 1907. Officials granted him an early release to finish it for exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants, where this major composition, one of the artist's largest and most important, appeared in March 1908.
Image and text from The Cleveland Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which features more than 28,000 high-quality open access images.
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Antonio Ligabue (Italian, 1899 –1965)
Forest with pheasants and parrot, 1952-1962
Oil on canvas, 131x181 cm