First look inside....

Below are images of The Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, a private museum of hunting and nature in the heart of Paris. Check out more here but good luck translating! The museum was amazing, incredible, one of the best sights in Paris! No flash allowed inside, so I tried my best with my not so great camera. The design and display of everything was incredible. Definitely a must when in Paris. More to come!

The entire museum, starting with the courtyard is a great mix of old and new.

Leur Chien, an exhibition of photographs by Antoine Schneck, portrays approx. 60 dogs belonging to France’s leading figures. The photographer chose a type of representation traditionally reserved for portraits of humans to better express the psychology of the animal.

These owls and feathers covered the entire ceiling of a small jewel box room.

JAPAN x KIDDIES

above images, Milk Japon Magazine (via TRICO FIELD)

above images, TRICO FIELD SP/SU 10 Styles

Color, Texture, Prints: Egon Schiele

Summer Serape

Sara and I use our serapes as picnic blankets...and for spring party decor. Not on the couch though anymore-too scratchy!

all images: Jalouse

Cool Guys: Bowties & Fringe

we see bowties, fringe, suits worn with moccasins, and a school cap.

talk 'bout mixing it up...

Wester Crew, 1902.

image via NOAA

Artists Chillin

Drank DuMond teaching, ca. 1927

Old American Art Club 1900

Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Henrietta Cozens with Violet Oakley as a group refering to themselves as the The Red Roses, ca. 1901

Arthur Dow and Henry Kenyon, ca. 1890

Artists in costume in the Sherwood Studio Building], 1889

Artists' party with John Singer Sargent and others, ca. 1890

Frank Duveneck, in his studio, with Frank Dengler and H.F. Farny, 1874

Henry K. Brown, Henry Peters Gray and Asher B. Durand, ca. 1850

Theodore Robinson, ca. 1872

Some more illustrations

some pics I took at an exhibit a little while back...

Ledger Drawings

Henderson Ledger Artist A, Medicine Vision, 1882.

Julian Scott Ledger Artist A, Women Wearing War Paraphenalia in Victory Dance, 1880.

Julian Scott Ledger Artist B, Twelve High Ranking Kiowa Men, 1880.

Old White Woman Ledger Artist, Indian, Horse, Pelts, and Rifles, 1870-1885.

Short Bull, Short Bull Confronting Pawnees, 1890's

I have always loved the Native American exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Above images are a few Ledger Drawings from the collection of Charles and Valerie Diker.

Rosa Bonheur

French animal painter or animalière Rosa Bonheur 1822-1899

Bonheur was born in Bordeaux, Gironde, the oldest in a family of artists. Her father Raimond Bonheur (friends with Francisco Goya who was living in Bordeaux in exile) was a landscape and portrait painter. In 1828, at the age of six Rosa moved to Paris with her mother and brothers. As was traditional in the art schools of the period, Bonheur began her artistic training by copying images from drawing books. As her training progressed she began to make studies of domesticated animals from life, to include horses, sheep, cows, goats, rabbits and other animals in the pastures on the perimeter of Paris. At age fourteen she began to copy from paintings at the Louvre. She also studied animal anatomy and osteology and by performing dissections of animals at the the National Veterinary Institute in Paris.

Rosa is perhaps most famous today because she was known for wearing men's clothing and living with women. Her work and artistic talent has now become somewhat secondary in importance to her manner of dress, her choice of companions and her penchant for smoking cigarettes.