COLLEGE SHIFT

The shift dress. The look of the college girl in Delhi, 1958. via American Museum of Natural History

4TH of JULY

Happy Independence Day! I hope you’re wearing your best Lady Liberty gown. Fourth of July, 1918. Tableau on Ellipse: Liberty, Columbia and Dancers via Library of Congress

HONORÉ DESMOND SHARRER

A fireman’s wife, dogs, and boys. Lovely photographs taped to the pages of Honoré’s notebooks and used for reference in her paintings. Archives of American Art presents a tiny exhibition titled, Little Pictures, Big Lives—now on view in D.C. or via Flickr. See all HDS photographs featured in the exhibition here.

DINER JOURNAL

Hello! Diner Journal issue #18: Community, Commune, Cult is out! As it happens a big handful of my FEAST friends were involved in this issue, including DJ Art Director August Heffner and mesmerizing cover design by Dan Funderburgh. I was asked to contribute something relating to C,C,C & fashion. Long Haired Men and Short Haired [...]

VEG DYE

The Katherine Pettit Book of Vegetable Dyes, learn how here. The handwoven, vegetable dyed throw is by Helen Wilmer Stone Viner, made in the 1930s. Katherine Pettit taught her how to dye at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky.

LYNDA BENGLIS

Y E S . Artist Lynda Benglis painting a floor with 40 gallons of bright latex and pigments at the University of Rhode Island. 1969 via LIFE

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