signs

New York 13, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1969 (catalogue text by Lucy R. Lippard)

Conventions for Abstract Thoughts

Portrait of Charles Burchfield, date unknown / 1917 Conventions for Abstract Thoughts, handmade album of drawings created ca. 1955 / The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal AND Aimless Abstraction (Hypnotic Intensity) from Conventions for Abstract Thoughts, china marker on paper, 1917 / The Insect Chorus, watercolour with ink, graphite, and crayon on paper, 1917 / exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Modern Art, 1930 / The Night Wind, watercolour, gouache, and pencil on paper, 1918 / handmade album of studies for Sun and Rocks, after 1950 / Midsummer in the Woods, watercolour, charcoal , and chalk on joined paper, 1950-59

from Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, curated by Robert Gober, Hammer Museum/DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2009 (here)

Thanks to S.Hughes for the loan/education.

divining by the cup/leaves forming into emblems

Tea-cup Fortune Telling: The Signs Illustrated and Simply Explained  by Minetta, W. Foulsham & Co., London, 1961 (cover here)

wand(a)

from Magic Wanda's Dynamite Magic Book by Chip Lovitt, photographs by Peter Vadnai, Scholastic Books, 1976

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(inside cover with burn hole) 10,000 Dreams Interpreted Or What's in a Dream by Gustavus Hindman Miller, Hubbard Press, 1931

Figure 40-44

spread from Mathematical Puzzles and Pastimes by Aaron Bakst, D. Van Norstrand, NY, 1954

eyeless sight

Design for the new Soviet dowsing rod.

from Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander & Lyn Schroeder, Bantam Books, 1971

occult sale

found at a recent garage sale, along with this.

hands

The Complete Book of Palmistry by Joyce Wilson, Bantam Books, 1971 (1982)