map & guide

Edinburgh Art Festival 2011, design by Fraser Muggeridge.

Handsomely hand-drawn map at the designer's website, here.

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edin-bird exhibition

A handmade envelope from my correspondent in Edinburgh.  Inside, postcards from a retrospective of work by Elizabeth Blackadder at the National Galleries of Scotland:

 

Still Life with Gerberas, Moonlight, 2004

Chinese Still Life with Arum Lillies, 1982

Each in a private collection, oil on canvas

122 x 122cm, 100 x 112 cm, respectively 

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conway & witt

The image libraries of the Courtauld Institute, London.  The Conway boxes hold photographs and cuttings primarily of architectural works.  The Witt boxes hold photographs and printed reproductions of paintings, drawings, and other planar images.  

The visual archive before the Internet database.

Candida Höfer, Libraries (Thames & Hudson, 2005)

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