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Edward Gorey

Modernism: a week before the Armistice, she experiences an intimation of the Edward Gorey body

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New York Times, November 4, 1917, rotogravure section (section 5), page 6. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn78004456/1917-11-04/ed-1/?sp=6&r=-0.796,0,2.592,1.337,0. Restored in Photoshop.
August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 jonathanmorse
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1920: the noble spirit of Edward Gorey descends over a Soviet library

nypl.digitalcollections.510d47da-401e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.wP“Reading is one of the obligations of a man.”

Russian Revolutionary Era Propaganda Posters, Harold M. Fleming Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-401e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Artist: S. Ivanov. Published 1920. Photoshopped.

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May 21, 2017February 13, 2018 jonathanmorse
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The idea of texture: homage to Edward Gorey


Source: “Curtis Gillette.” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006000900/. Photoshopped.

November 21, 2015May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
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