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William Henry Dorsey (October 23, 1837 – January 9, 1923) was an American bibliophile, artist, scrapbooker, numismatist, social historian and collector of Black history and art. He was most noted for the 388 scrapbooks he compiled of newspaper and magazine clippings chronicling Black life in his hometown of Philadelphia and across the country ...
His work was included in Ports of Entry, a retrospective of art and written works by Burroughs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1996. Over the years he has had various exhibitions at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans , Louisiana, and most recently at Kolok Gallery in North Adams, MA and from December 12, 2009, through January 23 ...
A vintage scrapbook. Scrapbooking is a method of preserving, presenting, and arranging personal and family history in the form of a book, box, or card. Typical memorabilia include photographs, printed media, and artwork. Scrapbook albums are often decorated and frequently contain extensive journal entries or written descriptions. Scrapbooking ...
Digital scrapbooking is the term for the creation of a new 2D artwork by re-combining various graphic elements. It is a form of scrapbooking that is done using a personal computer, digital or scanned photos and computer graphics software. It is a relatively new form of the traditional print scrapbooking.
A hand-coloured daguerreotype by J. Garnier, c. 1850. Hand-colouring (or hand-coloring) refers to any method of manually adding colour to a monochrome photograph, generally either to heighten the realism of the image or for artistic purposes. [1] Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting.
Hiroshima, also known as ANT 79, is a painting by the French painter Yves Klein, created in 1961. Through the use of both anthropometry and monochromy, the work pays tribute to the victims of Hiroshima, affected by the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945, by the United States. The painting refers to the imprints of the burned bodies on the ...
A Palekh jewelry box depicting a scene from the fairy tale Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf. Russian lacquer art developed from the art of icon painting, which came to an end with the collapse of Imperial Russia. The icon painters, who previously had been employed by supplying not only churches but people's homes, needed a way ...
Jim Warren (born November 24, 1949, in Long Beach, California) is an American artist best known for book cover illustrations and surrealistic fantasy art. [1] [self-published source] He has worked in surrealistic fantasy since about 1969. He has collaborated on paintings with marine life artist Wyland, [2] and artist Michael Godard. Warren ...