Sunday Safari - Return of the Buffalo

Lisa Congdon

 Heimir Björgúlfsson

Craig Cosak

Corinne Reid, Wounded knee

Sandra Dieckmann

Becca Stadtlander

Mark Weaver

Feodor Rojankovsky

Meg Hunt

Amy Ruppel

Leandro Castelao

Stephen Alcorn

Suzanne Proulx

Philippe Baudelocque

Sunday Safari - Couch Surfing

 Tom Vroman, Alexander, 1964, thanks to art.crazed

Susann Stoebe

BM Mikhailov, illustration from Reluctant film stars, 1987

from polny_shkaf's amazing vintage children's book collection

 Morris Hirshfield, Angora cat, 1937, thanks to Arthur van Kruining

 Clement Hurd, Little Dog, Dreaming, 1967, thanks to my vintage book collection

Natsuo Ikegami

Mark Ulriksen

Juliane Carole Wenzl

Darla Jackson, They were plotting...

Sweet Mess, Nest Down 

Amber Alexander, Byron

Silvia Bautista, Zorro

Domenico Gnoli

WIldLifePrints, Squirreled Away

Steinlen's Cats

Most of my readers are likely already familiar with the Art Nouveau poster art 

of Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. In particular, the above ad for the Cabaret 

Le Chat Noir has become one of the most ubiquitous icons of the Belle Époque.

 

Together with his daughter Colette, cats were Steinlen's favorite models.

He clearly observed and studied them with an inextinguishable passion, 

both at rest and in action.

Steinlen's Paris home became known as "Cat's Corner". His love of felines found expression

 not only in numerous commercial posters, but in many other artistic media including 

sculpture, painting, drawing, wall painting, editorial illustration and cartooning.

 In 1898 Steinlen published the wonderful Des Chats, Images sans paroles, a large folio of 26 plates

featuring humorous cartoon sequences of playful cats getting into all sorts of trouble.

The drawings had originally been published in the newspaper Le Chat Noir. 

According to this article, they possibly show the first use of the blurring of limbs 

to portray motion in visual art, years ahead of Balla and Duchamp.

I would love to be able to see the rest of the plates...

Unfortunately, surviving copies of Des Chats are valued at over $1000!

Does anyone know if a reprint is available?

Flowers & Feathers

Nathalie Lete, La chouette orange

More folk inspiration to bring a touch of Spring 

into these barren Winter days

Julie Paschkis

 Neue Werbung cover and Bulgarian stamps by Stefan Kanchev

Evi Tihemets, Birds in folklore, thanks to vaula

Anja Jane, Ornamental Garden

Madhubani painting

Poster by Alfons van Heusden

Pierre Belvès, Découpages, 1947, thanks to Agence eureka

 The Shoo-Fly Pie, 1944, thanks to Jasper Armstrong

Milada Marešová, 1953

Nina van de Goor

 Jennifer Judd-McGee

Sukie