postcards from Lausanne

Richard Greaves (1952)

La Cabane à sucre, vers 1985, Beauce, Quebec

Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve (1863-1934)
L'eternelle infidèle, entre 1927 et 1928
While I was away, I was lucky enough to visit the Collection de L'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. Incredible.

Related posts here and here and here

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I'll be back in a week or two.

Thanks for visiting.

John Pangnark

John Pangnark, carved stone (and antler), 1967-1969

from Eskimo Point/Arviat, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1982

and Sculpture of the Inuit by George Swinton, McClelland and Stewart Inc., Toronto, (revised 3rd edition) 1999, (originally published as Sculpture of the Eskimo, 1972).

John Pangnark (Arviat, Nunavut) 1920-1980

more here

and previously

The Stars

The Stars: A New Way To See Them by H.A.Rey, Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, 1952 (1962--Enlarged World-Wide Edition)

Leonard Weisgard (details)

Leonard Weisgard illustration details from Red Light, Green Light (1944), The Little Island (1946), The Night Before Christmas (1949), The Important Book (1949)

m. and u.m.

A couple of years ago, my 7 year old nephew spent the afternoon at my studio. While he was there, I cut shapes out of hardboard with a jigsaw and he painted them. At his request, we made a car, a man, a gun, and two skulls. He let me keep this one.

The Boy Who Had Wings

binding illustration from The Boy Who Had Wings by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Helga Aichinger, Crowell, NY, 1974

Amos, In Search of the Miraculous

Amos & Boris by William Steig, 1971

Bas Jan Ader: In Search Of The Miraculous by Jan Verwoert, Afterall Books, 2006

Bas Jan Ader by Brad Spence, University of California Irvine, 2000

Émile Cohl

Le Retapeur de Cervelles (Brains Repaired) by Émile Cohl, France, 1911

from The International Encyclopedia of Film, edited by R. Manvell & L. Jacobs, Crown, NY, 1972