Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art for Friday, September 27th in the 2024 show . . .
shrieking on air as a malevolent fairy stabs the bad luck heroine in the student ballet with his fire-spitting wand and slithers down into the orchestra pit and then down the ophicleide . . . a wafting and out in a meandering cloud over the audience . . . where to land next . . . that's the question.
Kügelgen's Tomb. 1821-22. German. Symbolist school. Caspar David Friedrich, artist (1774-1840). via Facebook.
Artwork from a menu of the Thirteen Club which was founded in New York City in 1882. No further information available. via miamighostchronicles.com.
Decorative bowl with serpent ornament. No date. Italian. Alfredo Ravasco, goldsmith (1873-1958). via themoonboarders.com.
Beware of Well. . . . just beware. 2014 image, located in Canada. via forum.thefreedictionary.com.
The Crimson King, an interior illustration for Stephen King's 2004 novel The Dark Tower VII. American. Michael Whelan, illustrator. Born in 1950. michaelwhelan.com. via amazon.com.
Nightmares. ca. 2018. Polish. Laura Makabresku, photographer. lauramakabresku.com.via tumblr.com.
Artwork for Joseph Apoux's Reveries fantastiques a poux which was edited by René Pincebourde and published in Paris between 1880 and 1910. via dolorosa-reveries.blogspot.com. Many thanks to Sue Burkey who spotted it.
Serpent ring from the Hortus Deliciarum collection. Contemporary. Yellow gold with a 30 carat carved opal. Gucci, maker. Image © Gucci. via lifestyleasia.com and Facebook. Many thanks to Christian De Bor who sent me the link.
A Flight by Night of Bats and Elves. 1885. English. Richard Doyle, maker (1824-1883). via 1st-art-gallery.com.
Chimera guarding the grounds of Massandra Palace, Ukraine. Sculptor not known. via commons.wikimedia.org.
Batman and Robin GIF. via tenor.com.
Bright blue dragon. Fiber art. Contemporary. Russian. Beaded. Alena Litvins, artist. via beadsmagic.com.
Rehearsal, Le Dragon de Calais, marionette that performed in the streets of Calais France in November 2019 with the street theatre company La Machine. via the atlantic.com. Many thanks to BIll Wasserman who found it.
Off the clock. Grim Reaper feeding birds. ca. 2014. American. Acrylic. Travis Chapman, artist. via etsy. Many thanks to Laurie Wolfe who found it.
Alligator souvenir spoons made to promote Florida hotels and tourist attractions. Late 19th-early 20th c. American. Various makers. via the-daily-antique-show.blogspot.com and Facebook. Many thanks to Christian De Bor who found them.
Illustration for an edition of “The Annotated Dracula.” German. Wilfried “Satty” Podriech, artist (1939-1982). via flickriver.com.
Medusa. Silver gilt relief. 1911. Italian. Vincenzo Gemito, artist (1852-1929). via pinterest.com.
Hand of Fate fortune-telling game. 1901. American. McLoughlin Brothers, makers. Collection of the New York Historical Society.
Hand of Fate fortune-telling game. 1901. American. McLoughlin Brothers, makers. Collection of the New York Historical Society.
Master dragon. Contemporary. Greek. Christos Karapanos, artist. amorphisss on deviantart.com. via Pinterest.
Essays in Love/La Recherche”. ca. 2016. Italian. Benedetta Bonichi, artist. Born in 1968. via weirdfictionreiew.com.
Evening bag modeled as a bat with outstretched wings and piercing emerald eyes. No date. Spanish. Emerald, pearl and diamond. Signed Lacloche Frères. via Sotheby's. Many thanks to Christian De Bor who found it.
Der Ring Des Nibelunge, illustration for a 1914 edition of Wagner's “Das Rheingold”. German. Franz Stassen, illustrator (1869-1949). via pinterest.com.
Cover art for a 1979 Penguin Books edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula. British. Andrew Holmes, illustrator. via tumblr.com.
Batwing earrings. French. René Lalique, designer. via pinterest.com.
Photograph. ca. 2013. American. Brittany Markert, photographer. in_rooms on Instagram. via lostateminor.com.
Ring the Bells II. Print. 2017. Norwegian. Tone Dietrichson, artist. Born in 1957. via galleriramfjord.net.
Bowl with a depiction of bats over the ocean. ca. 1700-1800. Qing Dynasy, Chinese. Collection of and photo © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. via hyperallergic.com.
Chat au clair-de-lune. 1900. Swiss/French. Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, artist (1859-1923). via the-athenaeum.org.
Illustration for an edition of G. De Maupassant's work Le Horla, published by Editions Milan. 2020. Italian. Anna and Elena Balbusso, artists. via balbusso.com.
Beetle brooch. Late 19th c. Garnet and diamond. Maker not known. via pinterest.com.
Binding decoration for a 1928 edition of Selected Poems of Swinburne. Irish. Harry Clarke, illustrator (1889-1931). via 50 Watts and flickr.com.
La fée virginale de Lourdes (ii). 2014. Irish. Graphite and pastel on textured paper. Sarah Sheil, artist. via ufo.blogflop.com.
Baroque snake. 2021. Mexican. Paul Fuentes, artist. paulfuentes_design on Instagram. via Instagram.
Bat in the Hat. ca. 2016. American. Paul Groendes, artist. paulgroendes.deviantart.com.
Black cat with fangs and a pumpkin. via Facebook. Many thanks to Mycroft Masada Holmes who found it.
Advertising poster for the 1916 silent film The Green Spider. Russian. Alexandre Volkoff, director. via imdb.com and Facebook.Many thanks to Sue Burkey who found it.
Brooch with a serpent surrounding the central stone. ca. 1900. Gold, silver, amethyst, baroque pearl and enamel. Maker not known. Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Am Rande des Grabes. 1836. German. Pencil and sepia ink. Caspar David Friedrich, artist (1774-1840). Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. via caspardavidfriedrich.org.
Abandoned village school, Finland. Photograph ca. 2015. Photographer not known. via Facebook.
Sofa chair upholstered in material with a crow design. via Crows World on Facebook. Many thanks to Sue Burkey who found it.
“Wisdom. ca. 2016. Made in Vienna, Austria. Pen and gold leaf. Rebecca Yanovskaya, artist. via academyofvisionaryart.com. Many thanks to Trish Dixon who found it.
Bat motif necklace in silver and silver gilt with plique-à-jour enamel and pearls. ca. 1900. French. Attributed to Lucien Janvier. via Facebook.
“The Pond”. 1905. Austrian. Alfred Kubin, printmaker (1877-1959). via redtreetimes.com.
“The Long Range Guns”, illustration for Jugend Magazine, issue 05. German/Indonesian.Julius Ussy Englehard, artist (1883-1964). via animationresources.org.
“The Insect Headed Tombstone”. 1953. American. Photograph. Clarence John Laughlin, photographer. via The Historic New Orleans Collection, THNOC on Facebook.