Tiny Museum: Aquirax Uno

 
Wow, wow, wow. I’m so glad that I stumbled across obscure Japanese artist/illustrator Aquirax Uno through another random great find, the blog Cat Party .  
Aquirax Uno is best known for his 1950s-1970s work, but it seems is hardly known at all outside of Japan, given the measly Wikipedia article and (english language) google search [...]

Tiny Museum: Rene Gruau

 

 
Since I purchased “100 Years of Fashion Illustration” (highly recommended, I’ll posting pictures of its pages soon, when my computer is fully functioning), I’ve been pouring over Rene Gruau’s illustrations.  His illustrations are super classy, but without the stiffness of other vintage fashion illustrators.  They really remind me of Toulouse-Latrec, one of my favorite artists. [...]

(tiny museum): George Barbier

I came across french illustrator George Barbier when I was shopping for art prints; and loved this image of the two skiers so much, I saved his name in my mind and looked him up later, hoping that print was a tiny piece of a larger magical world he had painted in that same style. [...]

Tiny museum, tiny gallery.

(*Note: While trying to find this picture I stumbled across a strange site that lists the art pieces shown in this scene of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, offering a virtual version of the same tour through the Art Institute of Chicago that Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron took.)
 
I like to imagine I have my own museum [...]