#Sofa (American)

[marejadilla]

Mark Beck, "The Deniable Truth", 2015, oil on canvas. B.1942,  Las Cruces, New Mexico, active/lives in California.

[vintagehomecollection]

In this comfortable old farmhouse living room, an antique grocery store bin, with its original display shelves filled with jars or dried food of various types, creates a fascinating focal point. An old pine chest serves as a coffee table for a pair of tuxedo loveseats.

The Good Housekeeping Complete Guide to Traditional American Decorating, 1982

[clarabowlover]

Betty Brosmer (1950's)

[peaceinthestorm]

Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952, American) ~ Nude on a Sofa, 1933

[Source: Christie's]

[art-portraits]

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Artist: Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929)

Date: 1916

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum, commissioned this portrait in 1916 from Robert Henri, leader of the urban realist painters who had shocked the New York art world barely a decade earlier with their images of ordinary people and commonplace city life. By 1916, Mrs. Whitney, a professional sculptor, had founded the Whitney Studio in Greenwich Village, a lively center for the support and exhibition of new American art. When Henri’s portrait was finished, Mrs. Whitney’s husband, Harry Payne Whitney, refused to allow her to hang it in their opulent Fifth Avenue town house. He didn’t want his friends to see a picture of his wife, as he put it, "in pants." Mrs. Whitney’s attire and self-possessed demeanor were highly unusual for a well-bred woman of her day. In this painting, Henri transformed the traditional genre of a recumbent female—usually a nude courtesan or the goddess Venus—into a portrait of the quintessential "modern" woman. The portrait hung in Whitney’s West 8th Street studio, which in 1931 became the first home of the Whitney Museum.

[huariqueje]

Sondra on Sofa   -   Jack Beal, 1968.

American, 1931-2013

Oil on canvas ,  66 x 78 in.     167.6 x 198.1 cm.

[oldschool-lolita-archive]

I feel like the only person in the world who thinks the antique bouquet print is hideous LMAO sad bc I love classic and I love old school and I wanted to be hyped for this

You aren’t the only person at all- though i’m curious if you like other old school metamorphose classic releases? Oldschool classic is perhaps the sub-genre with the most diversity of silhouette and appearance.

You might be the kind of classic lolita that prefers sleeker, elegant Victorian Maiden style coords for example.

The truth is that antique bouquet is ugly. It looks like peeling ancient wallpaper that has gone yellow in parts from nicotine stains. But a lot of old school releases are also objectively hideous and frumpy and outdated. People like that about them! It gives it charm and even a feeling of nostalgia. You might have heard people in the community affectionately refer to similar florals and gobelins as “grandma’s sofa” prints.

Personally, I like it but I won’t be buying it nor do I have any antique bouquet print in my wishlist. The blue would fit in best with my wardrobe out of them all if I had to choose?

But yeah. It’s okay not to be hyped about it. It’s just good progress that brands are listening to customers and reviving old favourites. Success in this release will mean we are more likely to see other old school releases~

[germanpostwarmodern]

Sofa (c. 1975) designed for his own penthouse by Paul Rudolph

[diadotcom]

the best thing about my sereshaw afl au is that i don’t have to research american shit because now Everyone Is Australian and i now don’t have to become accustomed social differences

[asmileworthahundredlies]

I'll drink what you think and I'm high… ♫

[linguenuvolose]

Recent youtube interests:

urban planning

history (especially early human evolution and the first civilisations and communities)

geography

[marejadilla]

Aaron Nagel, "Evergreen", 2020, oil on acm*.  Born 1980 in San Francisco, California.

*(ACM) Aluminum Composite Material.

[vintagehomecollection]

In this informal living room one traditional stencil pattern is used across the floor and another forms a border, eliminating the need for rugs. A camelback sofa, a comb-backed Windsor, and Boston rocking chairs surround the simple table. Staffordshire figures and salt-glaze jugs decorate the mantel.

The Good Housekeeping Complete Guide to Traditional American Decorating, 1982

[artschoolglasses]

Sofa, unknown maker, American, 1805-10

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art

[peaceinthestorm]

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916, American) ~ A Modern Magdalen, 1888

[Source: artvee.com]

[art-portraits]

James Joyce

Artist: Robert M. Barnes (American, 1934 - )

Date: 1958

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Biography

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.