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

Rotogravure aiF — 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.

1920: the noble spirit of Edward Gorey descends over a Soviet library

“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.

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.