fromThe Rocket Book (1912) by Peter Newell (March 5, 1862–January 15, 1924), “an artist endowed with Arthur Rackham’s superb draughtsmanship and Dr. Seuss’s irreverent wit.” These illustrations feel so ahead of their time. You can read the whole book (which is in the public domain) with more information here.
We all remember decorating our teenage bedroom with posters and pages torn from magazines. Maybe you still enjoy collaging, or making a vision board for a hobby. Maybe now, instead of boy bands, you collect antique prints.
I stumbled upon this site, and it struck me that this collection of public domain advertising posters could actually be a simple, sophisticated solution for decorating.
More than 1,600 images of works in the Jewish Museum collection are now available for free high-resolution download! Visit our collection online to explore and share art in the public domain.
zoom in to examine the exquisite detail on this Ukrainian mizrah from 1877 by Israel Dov Rosenbaum. The hi-res image found on our website was inspiration for the background pattern of a portrait in the collection by contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley. As a Jewish ritual object, the papercut points east to the direction of Israel. “Mizrah” is also an acronym composed of the initial letters for the Hebrew phrase “from this side the spirit of life.” This inscription appears in the four corners of the central panel of this papercut, indicating that it functions as a mizrah.
Jewish painter Camille Pissarro was born on this day in 1830. In the summer of 1901, Pissarro captured the urban splendor of the Gothic church of Saint Jacques in Normandy. In this painting on view in Scenes from the Collection, Pissarro uses a high Impressionist technique that blends realism with acute sensitivity to the effects of climate and light. Closely examine the details on this image (and 1600+ more) now available for high-resolution download.
Martini, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm, Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Andreas Friedrich Happe, Gotthilf Heinrich Von Schubert, Johann Andreas Wagner, and Johann Samuel Schröter. Neues Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. Nürnberg: Bey Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe, 1769. Print. Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Digitized by Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library. www.biodiversitylibrary.org
A Bit of Bother is a storybook I wrote and illustrated based on characters from A.A. Milne’s Winnie-The-Pooh, which is now public domain! It’s about sealing with negative emotions. It was read by Sarah Golding. Music is by Evan Schaeffer.
Both A.A. Milne’s Winnie-The-Pooh and Felix Salten’s Bambi, A Life In The Woods are now public domain! So I crossed them over! This story was written and illustrated by me, and read by Sarah Golding. Music is by Evan Schaeffer.
For the first time in twenty years, a bounty of new works are being added to the public domain so that anyone can watch, read, listen to, remix, reuse and share them just like you would a fairy tale character or a Shakespeare play!
I love artists being compensated for their work, but I also love the public domain! So to celebrate, I’m choosing to skip the hundred-years-or-so wait and release some of my own work into the public domain.
Here’s my first Public Domain Drop! All of the characters I created for Frank: The Comic! You can use them however you want, as long as you don’t mention LiveJournal or their mascot.
How many of these am I going to do? I don’t know! It all depends on if interesting things come out of it!
Daredevil Battles Hitler might be my favorite comic cover of the 1940s, and is in my upper echelon for comic covers in general. I mean - just look at that thing! Art by Charles Biro and Bob Wood, says here, though I suppose you could argue AloisandKlara contributed, too. I’d never actually seen the back cover until I put this post together, so was unaware of all the other Lev Gleason Publications heroes shilled there.
To my surprise and relief, this summary says Real American Number One was an actual Native American hero/attorney, not just some white guy who decided to dress up for vigilantism. Can’t vouch for the stories myself, of course, but they’re there to download. No need to feel guilty about getting ‘em, either, as everything Lev Gleason published is now in the public domain.
Pictures ganked from a completed auction on the Heritage Auctions website, cropped/Photoshopped to dispense with the plastic clam-shell the issue now resides in.
