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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 7h

Ethel Gabain, 1883-1950 Visite morose, 1914 lithograph, edition of 24 25.4 × 35 cm. 📷Estates of John Copley & Ethel Gabain copleygabain.com #Caturday 🐈‍⬛

A black and white lithograph of a woman in early-20th-c dress with a long skirt, volumious coat and feathered hat, seated on a sofa looking glum. Behind her, in front of the room's closed door, is a black cat with its tail raised.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Laura Knight, 1877-1970 Pearl Johnson oil on canvas, 1926 Johnson was either (according to differing accounts) a nurse or a secretary at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, who was active in the civil rights movement. Knight met and painted her on a trip to the U.S. #FacesOnFriday 🎨 #BritishArt

Portrait painting of the head and shoulders of a Black woman in a sleeveless blue garment. She has short hair, wears dangling lozenge-shaped earrings, holds her right hand on her chest over her heart and looks serenely at the viewer.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950) La Dame aux Bagues, 1918 lithograph on tissue paper, signed 31.7 x 26 cm.; edition of 24 📷Goldmark Gallery, now offering it for sale #WindowsOnWednesday 🎨 #Lithography

Lithograph of a woman wearing furs, rings and a fez-like hat with a veil, seated at a table with clasped hands in front of a large darkened window half-covered by a curtain.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, #botd 1571. Medusa, c.1598; Uffizi Gallery, Florence #TondoTuesday [I just made that up.] #Mood 🎨

A severed head, grimacing in open-mouthed horror, with blood pouring from its neck and a mass of writhing snakes as hair. Caravaggio's Medusa, c. 1598, Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.

Françoise Sagan in an leopard coat, posing with her Jaguar, Paris, 1963; 📷Thomas D. McAVOY (1905-1966)

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've never heard that song & I don't wanna. So there. I'm listening to this instead. Bud Powell - #botd 1924 - plays the bird tune, 1952. 🎶🎹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2gf...

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Ornithology (Remastered 1998/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

YouTube video by Bud Powell - Topic

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looking into the Hercules Room in the Villa Farnese, Caprarola (built 1559-73). 📷 by me, 2017 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #Italy #Lazio

View through a tall doorway into a room with frescos and an arched relief panel depicting a cityscape with a river that flows under a bridge and into a basin set in a rough grotto-like stone structure and flanked by cherubs.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

John Koch, American, 1909-1978 Still Life with Fruit and Cat oil on canvas 25 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. Sold at Bonham's, 2023 #Caturday 🎨🐈‍⬛

Painting of a tabby cat reclining on a white tablecloth beside a plate of fruit (grapes, pears, peaches, plums, limes, apples, bananas) and a paper or burlap bag with more fruit spilling out of it. A decanter and glass are on the table in the background.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An unusually tender passage from Julian Maclaren-Ross's otherwise hard-boiled 1947 novel Of Love and Hunger, about a man trying to sell vacuum cleaners, get off with a friend's wife, and also write a bit in a seaside town on the eve of WWII. 📚 #BritishWriters #Fitzrovia #FictionFriday #BookSky

She laughed, but not so naturally as usual. Her laugh sounded a little forced. She'd no make-up on at all, with her skin pale and clear, her lips normally pink and her eyes only a little shadowed, she looked so different from the Sukie in my dream that I couldn't imagine making love to her or even wanting to. But then in the dream I hadn't made love to her. I had been in love with her. There's a big difference.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For #ThingThursday [even though nobody except me seems to be doing it anymore.] 💎 #Vintage My mother's 1930s/1940s rhinestone evening bracelet, about 4 cm. (1-3/4 in.) wide; no manufacturer's mark.

Photo of a wide, heavy, intricate rhinestone bracelet from the 1930-40s.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ray Charles was (also!) #botd 1930 🎶🎹🎤 There are so many great tracks from the Atlantic years; this one was on the first Charles album I ever heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2tu...

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You Be My Baby

YouTube video by Ray Charles - Topic

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Koch (1909–1978) The Bridge, c.1950 oil on canvas 62 x 52 cm. Legion of Honor, San Francisco #WindowsOnWednesday 🎨 #AmericanArt

A painting of a woman or child wearing a yellow shirt, asleep in a bed with white sheets and a ochre coverlet, pulled back. Through a doorway behind the sleeping figure is a woman lifting a sheet or tabecloth with both arms, and behind her is a window with a view of a bridge.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning. 🎶🎷 John Coltrane was #botd 1926 "Say It," by Loesser & McHugh, 1940 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRh0...

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Say It (Over And Over Again)

YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"And, of course, there was a certain kind of person, one of the worst kinds of person, who seemed to live with a voice continually telling them how great they were, and who felt victimized because their perfection was not universally acknowledged." - Sigrid Nunez, Greensleeves.* #SundaySentence 📚

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Milton Gendel & Mr. Katz at 61 Washington Square, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1944. 📷Gendel Family Archive #Caturday 🐈‍⬛

Black and white photo of a young man reclining on a sofa with closed eyes, holding a tabby cat. Books, a filing cabinet and a desk in the background.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A terra-cotta head, Palazzo Bolognini Amorini Salina (1517...all the way to 1602), via Santo Stefano, Bologna. One of a series of capricci busts, most from the Renaissance, some from the 19th century. The date of this one is unknown (at least to me). 📷by me, 2017 #FacesOnFriday #Bologna #Italy

The head of a young, bearded man in a helmet, protruding from a stone or plaster tondo above a red-brick colonnade of round arches.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, #botd 1905, sings "My! My!" by Frank Loesser & Jimmy McHugh, 1940 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5y6...

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1940 Eddie “Rochester” Anderson - My! My!

YouTube video by The78Prof

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"K as in knife, A as in aardvark...P as in pneumonia..." Note: only those of a "certain age" (who can remember public pay phones) will really get this sketch. ☎️ #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKn www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfLa...

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Nichols and May - Telephone Company Information Operators

YouTube video by pianopappy

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hubert Robert, 1733-1808 Vue de la cellule du baron de Besenval à la prison du Châtelet oil on canvas, 1789/90 Musée du Louvre, Paris #WindowsOnWednesday #FrenchPainting #18thCentury🎨

Painting of the open, but barred window of an aristocrat's 18th-c. prison cell with a partial view of the Seine. A dog is curled up on its deep sill beside a loosely folded shirt (?) and a small bowl. A plate and a document case (?) sit on the tile floor and there is a cane chair to the right beneath a framed document.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This #O'Hagan on #Lee on #Brookner piece makes me even more eager, if possible, to read the book under review.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

True Action Painting: "When you hear the bell, pick up your palette & come out painting!" Utter insanity from Peter Cook, Dudley Moore & Peter Sellers. [Warning: it's a ten-minute clip so you'll need to be a fan of all three.] #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJocular 🎨📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKZ...

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Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers "Boxer-Cum-Painter" Sketch from Not Only But Also

YouTube video by Andrew Peel

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mel Tormé #botd 1925 🎶 (I remember buying this album at A&A records - or maybe it was Sam's - for $3 way back when I was a totally out-of-step-with-the-times teenager.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cq9...

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I Like to Recognize the Tune (2012 - Remaster)

YouTube video by Mel Tormé - Topic

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wanda Landowska, (1879-1959) 📷Herbert Gehr, 1949 🎶🐈‍⬛ #Caturday

Musician Wanda Landowska holding up her cat and smiling at it.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Milton Gendel, 1918-2018 Goddess and Pomegranate, Villa Borghese, Rome, 1984 (from "Just Passing Through," Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022)

Black & white photo of the hand of a statue holding a pomegranate.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Elsa Schiaparelli #botd 1890 Portrait by Irving Penn, gelatin silver print, 1948; Black gloves, black suede & red snakeskin, winter 1936/37 Both: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Black and white full-length photo portrait by Irving Penn of Schiaparelli wearing a black coat, ankle boots, hat and gloves, posed in a corner with one arm upraised, 1948.

Black suede gloves with red snakeskin fingernails, by Schiaparelli, 1936/37.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Elora Gorge *sous la pluie* with three intrepid kayakers. (Viewed from the warm, dry & very good Elora Mill restaurant.) 📷 by me, September 2, 2026 🍁 #Ontario 🍁 #WindowsOnWednesday

View from above of a river in the rain, with three kayaks, green, blue and yellow, navigating the current.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A tiny, positive sign for print on paper (if not for booksellers): On the subway yesterday, I saw two people reading real books in my immediate vicinity. One, a young woman, was deep in a hardcover library book; the other, a middle-aged woman, had what looked like a vintage mass-market paperback. 📚

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What are 2 examples of perfect casting?

Vittorio di Sica and Pierino Bilancioni in the card-game scene in L'Oro di Napoli, 1954. (Di Sica also directed, so he cast himself.)

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mosaic inlay fragment with the eye and upper gills of a fish mosaic glass, ground thin; c. 100 BC-100 AD 3.5 x 3.2 cm. Alexandria, Egypt Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto #MosaicMonday 🏺

Small fragment of an Alexandrian glass mosaic depicting a fish's head, in yellow, green, brown & red, with a glittering black eye.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Crawley turned his two younger children loose day after day in the Palais-Royal gardens, because he thought it would keep them amused, but they were not brought up to spend a whole afternoon sitting on iron chairs. Mavis Gallant, The Statues Taken Down, The New Yorker, 2 Oct '65 #SundaySentence 📚

Colour photo of a long gravel allée between two rows of trees in the gardens of the Palais Royale, Paris. Photo by Pat Hartley.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One (1) last one (1) for Integers Week: Jasper Johns Small Numbers in Color, 1959 encaustic on wood 10 3/16 x 7 3/16 inches Collection of the artist 📷Craig Starr Gallery, NY #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIntegers🎨 #AmericanArt

A small, multicoloured painting depicting 110 numbers, 0-9, within a grid of rectangular boxes, 10 horizontal x 11 vertical.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Mr Corman, I'm ready for my closeup." At the black cat audition for the Roger Corman anthology movie Tales of Terror, 1961. 📷Ralph Crane (1913-1988) for LIFE magazine 🐈‍⬛🎬 🕶️ #Caturday

Photo of a black cat wearing sunglasses, being held on someone's lap.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Rex Whistler (1905-1944) Girl's Head beside a Skull, circa 1934 oil on board 20.2 x 24.2 cm. signed 'Rex Whistler' (lower right), signed again and inscribed 'Rex Whistler 20 Fitzroy St W1' (on the reverse) Sold at Christie's, 2001 #FacesOnFriday 🎨 #BritishArt #Mood

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Telegrafi 1927" A communications building in Stile Liberty, Trapani, Sicily 📷 by me, June 2009 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIntegers #Sicily #StileLiberty

A beige stucco Stile Liberty building in Trapani, Sicily, with a white stylized relief of swirling wings and other abtract motifs. The words "Telegrafi 1927" are in relief beneath a pointed arch and between two square towers with transmitters (?).

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Margaret Thomas, 1916-2016 Window on the Mound oil on board 49.5 x74.5 cm Sold in 2023 by Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh #WindowsOnWednesday 🎨 #BritishArt

An oil painting, in muted blues, greens and pinks, of an interior with a wide, three-part window overlooking a cityscape with a spire.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Vittorio Gassman #botd 1922 📷a still from Il Sorpasso, 1962 (director Dino Risi; cinematographer Alfio Contini)

Black and white still from a film (Il Sorpasso, 1962) showing a handsome, dark-haired man (Vittorio Gassman) in a white polo shirt, holding a cigarette and smiling.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Goldenrod is back, and it's yellower than ever. 📷by me, August 30, 2026 #WeedScrolling 🌿

Photo of goldenrod in bloom, Toronto, 2026.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Post your getaway vehicle. (I'll let Sturges drive.)

Preston Sturges in a suit and hat at the wheel of a small convertible. Photo by Bob Landry, 1940s(?)

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

How wonderful to read Helen Simpson again! I own a couple of her earlier collections, and just searched her name for more the other day, it (then) seemed in vain. 📚

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Being with Denis was like finding oneself in the cast of an 'intimate review' or a lavish Hollywood musical, unprepared for the performance but secure because the star would carry one." Francis Wyndham, The Other Garden; The Complete Fiction, NYR Books, 1992 📷 Brian Duffy, 1964 #SundaySentence 📚

Cover of the book The Complete Fiction, Francis Wyndham (NYRB) illustrated with detail of High Steppers (1938/9) by Walter Sickert.

Black & white photo (Duffy, 1964) of a man (Francis Wyndham) in a dark suit and tie, wearing black-rimmed glasses and holding a cigarette, looking at the camera with an amused expression.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Joyce Wieland, 1930-1998 Notice Board, 1961 oil on masonite 122.5 x 122 cm. Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeart 🎨🍁💜

A semi-abstract painting with various red, orange purple, grey and brown shapes, including a heart, on a variegated blue ground. The upper section of the canvas is black with a blue ovoid shape at the left.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The current foofaraw over a book that crusty old types like me would simply call a "roman à clef" makes me think (as I so often do) of Dawn Powell. 📚 [And also of Madeleine de Scudéry, 1607-1701, who is credited with inventing the term.] From DP's Diaries (edited by Tim Page), March 11, 1956:

March 11: I have been denying for years any basis in A Time To Be Born
for the general idea that it is Clare Luce. I swear it is based on five or six girls, some known personally and some by talk, and often I changed the facts to avoid libel with resulting character a real person evidently and libelously Luce-ian. I insist it was a composite (or compost) but then I find a memo from 1939 - "Why not do novel on Clare Luce?" Who can I believe - me or myself? (Steerforth Press, 1995)

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Preston Sturges, #botd 1898 📷Bob Landry

Black and white photo of a man (director & writer Preston Sturges) in a suit, wearing a hat, riding a motorbike on what looks like a movie lot, with the high wall of a building and parked cars behind him.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Brassai (Gyula Halász), 1899-1984 Cat Circus Performing in the Street, 1930 gelatin silver print MoMA, New York #Caturday

Black and white photo of a crowd watching a cat poised on a stool set on a plank, preparing to jump to another stool, as a man gestures at it with a baton.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Paul Gauguin Hina and Fatu tamanu wood, c.1892 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 📷by me, August 27, 2026 #FacesOnFriday 🎨

Small carved-wood sculpture by Gauguin of two goddesses embracing, with foliage between them. It is displayed in a plexiglas case, through which the blue wall of a gallery and some gallery-goers can be seen.

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