» Children http://nothing-is-new.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:05:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TOM MARTHA BUNNY http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/12/18/tom-martha-bunny/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/12/18/tom-martha-bunny/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:55:09 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=8256

I nearly tumbled over when I saw these illustrations today. Bunnies are my spirit animal, mountains are my spirit terrain, and everything else pictured are some of my favorite things—winter time, wool mittens, rainbows, teepees, vessels, cabbage, rivers, home.

Under the pseudonym Tom Seidmann-Freud—often shortened to just “Tom”—Sigmund Freud’s eccentric niece Martha illustrated a series of wonderful children’s books in the early twentieth century. She killed herself in 1930 (age 37 or 38), a year after her husband killed himself. This grim ending is not reflected in her dream-like, often whimsical work.

Buch Der Hasengeschichten (The Book of Rabbit Stories, 1924)
see more Tom illustrations via 50watts


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Seasame Street True Blue Miracle, 1978. Christmas trees, singing songs, subway rides—keepin’ it real!

via John Gambino

 

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Pinky bunny meets Mexican wrestler meets Fang. So good!
Halloween, or Day of the Dead ideas for mask making.
California Arts Council Workshop, Self-Help Graphic Arts program in L.A., 1982.

via OAC

 

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Lion rugs & little girls. Judy Kepes in her nursery, 1949.
Daughter to designers, Juliet and Gyorgy.
See more pics of their wild Cape Cod nursery via LIFE.

 

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Spencer, Rosalyn & Sophie Depas. 227 Cumberland St., Fort Greene, Brooklyn. May 19, 1978. Sophie has a loom in her room! Turns out Spencer Depas wrote a book titled Macrame, Weaving, and Tapestry: Art in Fiber—coolest ’70s Brooklyn dad ever!

By-the-by: Brooklyn apt. sublet available Aug 31 – Sept 10 (Labor Day week) It’s my sweet one bedroom railroad in Williamsburg, near the Lorimer stop on the L. Convenient to everything. 15 min subway ride to Union Sq. Coffee shop across the street. email me: hello.nisn@gmail.com Affordable.

via Nooney Collection at NYPL (see more Brooklyn Apartments)

 

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Camp MacJannet began in 1925 as a summer camp for American and French children on the shores of Lake Annecy. It was styled after American sleep away camps, never seen before in Europe. American families touring Europe would drop their young ones off at Camp MacJannet while they continued on their vacation. During the war the camp dissolved and was turned over to the Quakers for safe keeping and used as a refugee camp. In 1946 the camp reopened and brought together again young French and Americans (many of them war orphans).

Pics above are from 1962. Idyllic young summer land.

via Tufts

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