Category: Artworks

Bold lines and a limited palette give this school-era artwork an immediacy that still feels charged today. A youthful figure strains upward along a steep diagonal beam, while the handwritten caption “Un héroe español” frames the gesture as both personal and patriotic. The composition reads like a poster in miniature—part drawing, part declaration—suggesting how easily…

Penciled at the top with “Dibujo 1º,” this small sheet carries the directness of a child’s first attempt, yet it holds a great deal of history. Two simplified figures stand apart on a wide, mostly empty page, their bright crayon colors—yellow, red, blue, and black—doing the work of making people present. The open space around…

Whimsy arrives in the form of a bright, storybook-style birthday greeting where two playful kittens tumble through a garden scene. A tipped straw hat spills out little daisies, while a looping red ribbon curls across the grass like the start of a party game. Above it all, the hand-lettered title “A ‘Purr’fect Birthday” sets a…

Bright and playful, the artwork celebrates a “Happy Birthday Three-Year-Old” with a giant golden number 3 curling across a soft pink background. Three teddy bears turn the numeral into a stage: one reads a little card near the top, another blows a party horn while clutching blue flowers, and a third strums a small pink…

Victorian Christmas cards could be wonderfully unhinged, and this one dives straight into the era’s love of absurd, anthropomorphic animal art. A startled cook is caught in the middle of a kitchen melee as a bird and a hulking, feathered creature seem to wrangle an upright slab of meat with a face—part food, part character—staggering…

Victorian Christmas cards had a talent for turning holiday cheer into something delightfully strange, and this one leans hard into the era’s love of visual jokes. A well-dressed figure is swallowed almost whole by an outsized cabbage-like vegetable, complete with a jaunty hat and gloved hands raised high to display a “Wishing you a Merry…

Three distorted heads float across a warm, paper-toned ground, rendered in quick, searching strokes that feel halfway between caricature and anatomy lesson. Each profile pushes the same grimacing mouth and heavy-lidded eye into a new angle, as if the artist is testing how far expression can be bent before it breaks. The sparse composition leaves…

Plate LXVII reads like a lesson frozen on paper, pairing clinical precision with the quiet drama of early surgical practice. The sheet presents multiple figures—hands, instruments, and cross-sectional anatomy—arranged to guide the viewer through lithotomy, the removal of a bladder stone, described here as a bilateral and vesico-rectal operation. Fine lettered labels and figure numbers…

A quick, intimate note—“Warren Chappell to Isabel Bishop, 1982”—arrives here not as typed correspondence but as a lively page of hand-drawn conversation. Loose ink lines and soft watercolor washes frame a small scene: a tired, bundled figure slumps beside a large cylindrical form, the sketchy contours suggesting weight, cold, and the drag of daily effort.…

A playful line of watercolor wine glasses marches across the top of this 1940s note, guiding the reader from “not” to “out” with a single arrow and a wink. Set beneath that little painted joke, the typed return address reads “40-41 221st Street, Bayside, N.Y.,” anchoring the piece in a specific everyday world while the…