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The Fay Thomas Collection includes family archives relating to the Thomas family. Moses Thomas (1825-1878) was a significant figure in the history of the area now known as the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia. Thomas and Ann and their family lived at "Mayfield", Mernda, Victoria.
Miss Lily Thomas (1871-1946), Thomas and Ann’s fourth daughter lived there all her life. She collected postcards which her family and friends sent her on a very regular basis. It was an easy and enjoyable way to keep in touch. Production of postcards blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lily’s collection encompasses the so-called Golden Age (1890-1915) with many postmarked 1906-1907. Some were sent to other members of the family.
The collection document the natural landscape as well as the built environment—buildings, gardens, parks, and tourist sites. Topographical Postcards showing street scenes and general views from Australian and international locations, some of which are artistic views. Popular postcard manufacturers such as Tuck’s Postcards are included in the collection.
Decorative cards, many embellished with floral motives (as a nod to the receiver Lily?) and embossing. Greeting cards are common for Christmas, New Year, Easter and of course birthdays.
Regular senders can be identified from Kyneton and the Great Ocean Road area, Victoria and there is a siginifant collection from Scotland (but not sent from there).
YPRL hold digital copies of the Papers of the Moses Thomas Family held at State Library Victoria
Copyright for these images is Public domain but a credit to the Fay Thomas Collection and YPRL would be appreciated.
Enquiries: Yarra Plenty Regional Library
An Emperor Penguin at Sea World Gold Coast. this was back in 2013, and when i went again this year, I saw this guy again! you can tell him apart because he'll use his flippers and feet to make a little mound of snow and just flop onto it. he also has a little black freckle on his chest.
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At the Festival of the Redeemer (Festa del Redentore) 1908
Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky (1878 - 1962)
During Olinsky’s 1908–10 stay in Europe he went to France and Italy, touring museums and visiting several art colonies. He found Venice a land of enchanting architecture and light and completed many on-the-spot sketches that demonstrate his youthful experimentation. Alternately painting more sharply focused oils of canals and bridges and then more amorphous subjects such as the clock tower, he delighted in life in the ancient city. He no doubt was aware of Whistler’s various abstract compositions based on his own sojourns in Venice because many of Olinsky’s works from this time are similarly subtle and atmospheric. The “New York Times” reported his arrest by Venetian police who came upon him painting in the Piazza San Marco at night. The spectacles he enjoyed must have remained indelibly etched in his mind long after his departure from Venice, as he painted from memory a striking Venetian nighttime fête while on a visit to Vernon, in Normandy. Other paintings of Venice specifically relate to changing weather conditions that clothe the city in a range of colors from gray to bright blue.
One of the most successful landscapes is “At the Festival of the Redeemer” (Festa del Redentore). The artist has set up his easel on the Zattere, with the pontoon bridge spanning the Giudecca Canal from center right on a sharp diagonal to the left, culminating at the Church of the Redeemer. Assorted gondolas with their passengers linger on the canal. In the foreground two young ladies elegantly attired in pink and blue dresses with matching broad-brimmed straw hats gaze out at the canal and the cortege of state and ecclesiastical officers on their way to the church. The stunning painting demonstrates Olinsky’s deft Impressionistic handling of light as it dances across the watery expanse. The July sun that basks the scene in warmth is almost palpable and the intense blue green mixed with flecks of other colors is arresting.
Andrea Palladio (1508-80) was commissioned by the Venetian Senate to build a grand church on the island of Guidecca was in fulfillment of a vow to be kept on the deliverance of the city from the devastating plague of 1575-76. Palladio imbued his Church of the Redeemer, which was to be his last building in Venice, with a sense of theater. After the Council of Trent, the Church of Rome responded to the growth of Protestant sects with a concerted effort that led to the Counter Reformation. The Latin cross plan was favored over the central plan in an effort to find shapes for a rejuvenated liturgy. Similarly, the almost complete abstention from nonarchitectural ornament and the chaste whiteness of the interior, both characteristics of the Redeemer, were hallmarks of the Palladian style.
The Venetian senate entrusted the care of the church to the Capuchin Order and vowed to visit annually in perpetuity. A grandiose ritual was initiated and continues to be celebrated each year on the third weekend in July. At one time, the Doge and the senators proceeded over a temporary causeway consisting of gondolas and barges assembled across the Gindecca canal and the ceremony concluded with prayers within the magnificent church’s tribune, especially designed by Palladio for this purpose. The festival remains a colorful reminder of Venice’s golden age and attracts thousands of onlookers who revel in the spectacle of costumes, music, and fireworks.
Olinsky is best known as a leading twentieth-century portrait painter, but he also executed a notable series of landscapes in Venice. His life began in Elizabethgrad in the Ukraine, where his father was a farm manager. The family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York City when Ivan was thirteen.
Olinsky studied at the National Academy of Design from 1893 to 1898 withCharles Yardley Turner and George W. Maynard, among others. He frequented the Metropolitan Museum of Art and enrolled at the Art Students League to study with the artist Bryson Burroughs, who was also a curator at the Metropolitan. Olinsky was selected to assist John LaFarge in 1900 and spent the next seven years traveling with him and working on various murals. During this period he met many of the leading figures of the Gilded Age. As LaFarge’s health declined, his young protégé was called upon to take charge of various commissions and execute LaFarge’s instructions.
By 1908 Olinsky was ready to establish his professional independence and, with his wife and infant daughter, sailed for Europe, where he traveled and painted. He returned to New York in time to serve as a pallbearer at LaFarge’s funeral and then he set up a studio on Washington Square. Beginning in 1911 he became associated with the pioneering modernist gallery of dealer William Macbeth, who also represented many leading Impressionists and Realists known, respectively, as The Ten and the Ashcan School. Olinsky joined an illustrious stable that included John Twachtman, Winslow Homer, Arthur B. Davies, Robert Henri, Childe Hassam, and J. Alden Weir.
In 1917, Macbeth joined with European art dealers Knoedler and Durant-Ruel in organizing an exhibition of twenty-three prominent French and American artists, including Degas, Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Olinsky. Olinsky also showed at the Grand Central Galleries, New York. After moving to a studio at 27 West Sixty-seventh Street, he joined the lively art scene dominated by such friends and teaching colleagues as Gifford Beal, Frank Dumond and Luis Mora. He taught at the National Academy of Design from 1911 to 1962 and at the Art Students League for many years.
Having painted portraits of his parents when he was a sixteen-year old art student, Olinsky continued for the rest of his life to be fascinated by the human face and developed an extraordinary skill in depicting the character of his sitters. His portraits of women in general and of his lovely wife, Genevieve, and daughters Leonore and Tosca, in particular demonstrate his lively style. In his New York studio in fall, winter, and spring and, after 1917, in the stone studio he built in Old Lyme, Connecticut, he worked on two or three canvasses a day, according to the conditions of light. His better-known subjects included artist-friend Isabel Bishop, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, John LaFarge, model Evelyn Nesbit (“the girl in the red velvet swing”), and actress Leatrice Joy.
After Olinsky’s death in 1962, Robert Beverly Hale wrote, “In our present world of speed, violence, and thrashing egos he remained to the very end balanced, gracious, and unpretentious. His kindness and consideration were so innate that his courtesy became a legend…He was indeed the best of artists, and we all loved him.”
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"Acknowledged as the first museum in the world dedicated solely to collecting American art, the NBMAA is renowned for its preeminent collection spanning three centuries of American history. The award-winning Chase Family Building, which opened in 2006 to critical and public acclaim, features 15 spacious galleries which showcase the permanent collection and upwards of 25 special exhibitions a year featuring American masters, emerging artists and private collections. Education and community outreach programs for all ages include docent-led school and adult tours, teacher services, studio classes and vacation programs, Art Happy Hour gallery talks, lectures, symposia, concerts, film, monthly First Friday jazz evenings, quarterly Museum After Dark parties for young professionals, and the annual Juneteenth celebration. Enjoy Café on the Park for a light lunch prepared by “Best Caterer in Connecticut” Jordan Caterers. Visit the Museum Shop for unique gifts. Drop by the “ArtLab” learning gallery with your little ones. Gems not to be missed include Thomas Hart Benton’s murals “The Arts of Life in America,” “The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy, September 11, 2001” by Graydon Parrish,” and Dale Chihuly’s “Blue and Beyond Blue” spectacular chandelier. Called “a destination for art lovers everywhere,” “first-class,” “a full-size, transparent temple of art, mixing New York ambience with Yankee ingenuity and all-American beauty,” the NBMAA is not to be missed."
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The NBMAA collection represents the major artists and movements of American art. Today it numbers about 8,274 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photographs, including the Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection, which features important works by illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, and Maxfield Parrish.
Among collection highlights are colonial and federal portraits, with examples by John Smibert, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and the Peale family. The Hudson River School features landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church. Still life painters range from Raphaelle Peale, Severin Roesen, William Harnett, John Peto, John Haberle, and John La Farge. American genre painting is represented by John Quidor, William Sidney Mount, and Lilly Martin Spencer. Post-Civil War examples include works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George de Forest Brush, and William Paxton, and 19 plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum. American Impressionists include Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and Childe Hassam, the last represented by eleven oils. Later Impressionist paintings include those by Ernest Lawson, Frederck Frieseke, Louis Ritman, Robert Miller, and Maurice Prendergast.
Other strengths of the twentieth-century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson, and Ralston Crawford; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter’s celebrated five-panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).
Works by the American Abstract Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, and Milton Avery) give twentieth-century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism by artists Kay Sage and George Tooker; Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray), Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo-Realism (Robert Cottingham). Examples of twentieth-century sculpture include Harriet Frishmuth, Paul Manship, Isamu Noguchi, George Segal, and Stephen DeStaebler. We continue to acquire contemporary works by notable artists, in order to best represent the dynamic and evolving narrative of American art.
I always relate to dogs. Lax personal hygiene and a tendency to howl at the moon, but loyal as hell.
They are OK, too.
It’s my parents’ dog, a labradoodle bitch called Millie. She’s a great dog, although a little timid. Don’t let anyone tell you labradoodle’s don’t shed – she leaves a cloud of fur dust in her wake.
Picture taken in a ditch around a farmer’s field in the Derbyshire village of Stanley, in the English Midlands.
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The Problems relating to the Management & Excavations of the Archaeological Ruins of Herculaneum / Pompeii as reported in Foreign Press (1904-2002). Prof. A. de Franciscis (SAP), Pompeii Ruins Threatened, The N.Y. Times, Jan 19, 1969, XX51. [1/3].
These photos make up a set of photos relating to my mom and dad. There are some real old photos at the start, but they then jump to around 5 years ago, ending not too long ago. My mom passed in 2010, and my dad just a short while ago. We didn't have a lot of candids of my mom from this period, she got sick very suddenly. There are quite a few more of my dad during his last years in Calgary - we were more careful to take better photos. Larry and I took dad on a cruise for his 85th birthday, and that was a great opportunity to capture dad in images. I think this set does portray the last few years with mom and dad.
March 19, 2014. Boston, MA.
Kick Butts Day 2014. Representatives from the Department of Public Health (DPH) today joined more than 250 young people from across the Commonwealth at the State House for the national observance of Kick Butts Day, recognizing the contributions of teenagers in smoking cessation and prevention efforts.
The young people participating in today’s event are part of DPH’s youth movement, The 84, which represents the 84 percent of young people in Massachusetts who don’t smoke.
High school students involved in The 84 have been educating their communities and their local lawmakers about issues relating to tobacco and, working with local health boards and other programs; have promoted effective tobacco prevention strategies in their communities. Members of The 84 Movement have been vital in fighting the way tobacco industry markets its products to youth.
© 2014 Marilyn Humphries
March 19, 2014. Boston, MA.
Kick Butts Day 2014. Representatives from the Department of Public Health (DPH) today joined more than 250 young people from across the Commonwealth at the State House for the national observance of Kick Butts Day, recognizing the contributions of teenagers in smoking cessation and prevention efforts.
The young people participating in today’s event are part of DPH’s youth movement, The 84, which represents the 84 percent of young people in Massachusetts who don’t smoke.
High school students involved in The 84 have been educating their communities and their local lawmakers about issues relating to tobacco and, working with local health boards and other programs; have promoted effective tobacco prevention strategies in their communities. Members of The 84 Movement have been vital in fighting the way tobacco industry markets its products to youth.
© 2014 Marilyn Humphries
March 19, 2014. Boston, MA.
Kick Butts Day 2014. Representatives from the Department of Public Health (DPH) today joined more than 250 young people from across the Commonwealth at the State House for the national observance of Kick Butts Day, recognizing the contributions of teenagers in smoking cessation and prevention efforts.
The young people participating in today’s event are part of DPH’s youth movement, The 84, which represents the 84 percent of young people in Massachusetts who don’t smoke.
High school students involved in The 84 have been educating their communities and their local lawmakers about issues relating to tobacco and, working with local health boards and other programs; have promoted effective tobacco prevention strategies in their communities. Members of The 84 Movement have been vital in fighting the way tobacco industry markets its products to youth.
© 2014 Marilyn Humphries
Healing from love failure is a journey that requires strength and self-compassion. Discover a collection of love failure images and helpful tips to overcome heartbreak and embrace resilience. You are not alone, and brighter days lie ahead.
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Postcard
The Fay Thomas Collection includes family archives relating to the Thomas family. Moses Thomas (1825-1878) was a significant figure in the history of the area now known as the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia. Thomas and Ann and their family lived at "Mayfield", Mernda, Victoria.
Miss Lily Thomas (1871-1946), Thomas and Ann’s fourth daughter lived there all her life. She collected postcards which her family and friends sent her on a very regular basis. It was an easy and enjoyable way to keep in touch. Production of postcards blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lily’s collection encompasses the so-called Golden Age (1890-1915) with many postmarked 1906-1907. Some were sent to other members of the family.
The collection document the natural landscape as well as the built environment—buildings, gardens, parks, and tourist sites. Topographical Postcards showing street scenes and general views from Australian and international locations, some of which are artistic views. Popular postcard manufacturers such as Tuck’s Postcards are included in the collection.
Decorative cards, many embellished with floral motives (as a nod to the receiver Lily?) and embossing. Greeting cards are common for Christmas, New Year, Easter and of course birthdays.
Regular senders can be identified from Kyneton and the Great Ocean Road area, Victoria and there is a siginifant collection from Scotland (but not sent from there).
YPRL hold digital copies of the Papers of the Moses Thomas Family held at State Library Victoria
Copyright for these images is Public domain but a credit to the Fay Thomas Collection and YPRL would be appreciated.
Enquiries: Yarra Plenty Regional Library
Brasília (DF), 11/03/2025 - Relator do Orçamento 2025, senador Angelo Coronel após reunião com deputados e seandores na Comissão mista de orçamento. Foto: Lula Marques/Agência Brasil
Postcard from postcard album
The Fay Thomas Collection includes family archives relating to the Thomas family. Moses Thomas (1825-1878) was a significant figure in the history of the area now known as the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia. Moses and Ann and their family lived at "Mayfield", Mernda, near Whittlesea, Victoria.
YPRL hold digital copies of the Papers of the Moses Thomas Family held at State Library Victoria
Copyright for these images is Public domain but a credit to the Fay Thomas Collection and YPRL would be appreciated.
Enquiries: Yarra Plenty Regional Library
Postcard
The Fay Thomas Collection includes family archives relating to the Thomas family. Moses Thomas (1825-1878) was a significant figure in the history of the area now known as the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia. Thomas and Ann and their family lived at "Mayfield", Mernda, Victoria.
Miss Lily Thomas (1871-1946), Thomas and Ann’s fourth daughter lived there all her life. She collected postcards which her family and friends sent her on a very regular basis. It was an easy and enjoyable way to keep in touch. Production of postcards blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lily’s collection encompasses the so-called Golden Age (1890-1915) with many postmarked 1906-1907. Some were sent to other members of the family.
The collection document the natural landscape as well as the built environment—buildings, gardens, parks, and tourist sites. Topographical Postcards showing street scenes and general views from Australian and international locations, some of which are artistic views. Popular postcard manufacturers such as Tuck’s Postcards are included in the collection.
Decorative cards, many embellished with floral motives (as a nod to the receiver Lily?) and embossing. Greeting cards are common for Christmas, New Year, Easter and of course birthdays.
Regular senders can be identified from Kyneton and the Great Ocean Road area, Victoria and there is a siginifant collection from Scotland (but not sent from there).
YPRL hold digital copies of the Papers of the Moses Thomas Family held at State Library Victoria
Copyright for these images is Public domain but a credit to the Fay Thomas Collection and YPRL would be appreciated.
Enquiries: Yarra Plenty Regional Library
Image from 'Papers relating to the Island of Nantucket, with documents relating to the original settlement of that island, Martha's Vineyard, and other islands adjacent, known as Dukes County, while under the Colony of New York. Compiled from official records, etc. F.P', 001742300
Author: HOUGH, Franklin Benjamin.
Page: 15
Year: 1856
Place: Albany
Publisher:
Following the link above will take you to the British Library's integrated catalogue. You will be able to download a PDF of the book this image is taken from, as well as view the pages up close with the 'itemViewer'. Click on the 'related items' to search for the electronic version of this work.
Postcard
The Fay Thomas Collection includes family archives relating to the Thomas family. Moses Thomas (1825-1878) was a significant figure in the history of the area now known as the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia. Thomas and Ann and their family lived at "Mayfield", Mernda, Victoria.
Miss Lily Thomas (1871-1946), Thomas and Ann’s fourth daughter lived there all her life. She collected postcards which her family and friends sent her on a very regular basis. It was an easy and enjoyable way to keep in touch. Production of postcards blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lily’s collection encompasses the so-called Golden Age (1890-1915) with many postmarked 1906-1907. Some were sent to other members of the family.
The collection document the natural landscape as well as the built environment—buildings, gardens, parks, and tourist sites. Topographical Postcards showing street scenes and general views from Australian and international locations, some of which are artistic views. Popular postcard manufacturers such as Tuck’s Postcards are included in the collection.
Decorative cards, many embellished with floral motives (as a nod to the receiver Lily?) and embossing. Greeting cards are common for Christmas, New Year, Easter and of course birthdays.
Regular senders can be identified from Kyneton and the Great Ocean Road area, Victoria and there is a siginifant collection from Scotland (but not sent from there).
YPRL hold digital copies of the Papers of the Moses Thomas Family held at State Library Victoria
Copyright for these images is Public domain but a credit to the Fay Thomas Collection and YPRL would be appreciated.
Enquiries: Yarra Plenty Regional Library
Lord Krishna is very special to children and they can relate their naughtiness to the incidents of Bal Krishna. So Janmashtami is a very special festival too and they love to hear tales of the Makhan Chor.
The children of Preprimary had a special program to mark the event. Classes 2 and 3 celebrated Janmashtami through special programs during their assemblies. They sang songs in praise of Lord Krishna and presented a skit portraying Lord Krishna and Narad Muni with ‘Polluted Earth’ as the theme. They merged Janmashtami with the message ‘How can we save Mother Earth?’. The program was a very well presented one which all the children enjoyed.
Hasan Nowarah relating the attack on the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli forces who killed 19 innocent people.
This relates to my window installation, I researched other artists that use repeated shapes in sculpture. I particularly looked at the work of Carl Andre and Donald Judd (see next image), but this also links to Brancusi's "Cup" 1917, which denied the function.
This relates to my theme of gender equality because both girls and boys are provided the same food and drinks at games. For example at both genders meets or games there is water available and food you can buy.
Image from 'Rambles in Europe ... With historical facts relating to Scotch-American families, gathered in Scotland and the North of Ireland ... Illustrated', 002557311
Author: MORRISON, Leonard Allison.
Page: 279
Year: 1888
Place: Boston, Mass
Publisher: Cupples, Upham & Co.
Following the link above will take you to the British Library's integrated catalogue. You will be able to download a PDF of the book this image is taken from, as well as view the pages up close with the 'itemViewer'. Click on the 'related items' to search for the electronic version of this work.
Open the page in the British Library's itemViewer (page: 000279)