In the New Year … May your cupboards be full … May your accounts rise in value … May you not have to work too hard … Happy New Year from Smithsonian Libraries.
Category: Art and Design
Wondering what to don for that fabulous New Year’s eve bash you are attending this evening?
Maybe some suggestions from the Libraries’ Galaxy of Images fashion collections might help … Chinchilla … I don’t think so. Maybe faux fur? You have to admit she looks awfully stylish changing that light bulb. You’ll definitely turn heads in that shiny chapeau. Just be sure whatever you choose is suitable for dancing. Happy New Year!
These wonderful children’s book illustrations make one yearn for snow. They were done by the artist Karl Mühlmeister, about whom very little seems to be known. He is believed to have been born in Hamburg in 1876, and died around 1942-45, location unknown. These simple print illustrations have a charm all their own.
The first Noël, like many pop-up and movable books, was created to celebrate the holiday season.
In the 1950s-1960s, Vojtěch Kubašta, an Austrian-born paper engineer and illustrator working in
Czechoslovakia, created a series of pop-up adventure and fantasy stories combining bold folk art style imagery, distinctive colors, and innovative cut and folded paper styles. Some of his large-scale constructions of this period include Marco Polo (1962), The tournament (1950s), and Ricky the Rabbit (1961).
As long as you avoid wiping your eyes with the leaves or serving them up in a salad, it should be possible to enjoy these colorful poinsettia plants in your home.