Had a large wander last Sunday while it was sunny and 60º in Brooklyn. Around and about Williamsburg (where these photos were procured) including a stop in East River Park; Kent Ave, under the bridge and through Fort Greene, finally wending our way back to South Slope. Ten miles of walking on the first day that felt like… Continue reading More old photographs
These are some wonderful small cabinet card photos I picked up in Utrecht in a little store specializing in picture post cards and other ephemera. The top image shows the gilt studio information for the photographer– one of the loveliest I've seen. It's on the back of the first photo card, the oval, which is… Continue reading treasures
a girl, overexposed. pencil, ink and gouache on paper. and a Lady. pencil on paper. Slivers of drawings from art nights– more to come. Maybe these will become prints...
These two ladies are from a photo album I bought an an antiques shop in Maryland. The families therein were from Indiana. When you click there is a third– a poor rendition of Ingrid Bergman from Casablanca. (The scene ended too quickly to get it right.)
They were all photographed in studios in Nebraska; I don't know who they were, nor whose ancestors they might be. I acquired the portraits in a boxed lot of paper and photographic miscellany purchased on eBaY. How serious they all look, and what sartorial finery and flare– they were all well-cared for when alive (at… Continue reading more drawings of old photos
e daggar art: THE MUSEUM 