The Arctophile

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1371 and a very happy #thicktrunktuesday

Visited the Rose Wylie exhibition at the RA yesterday, and was enraptured. The work is what this world of AI needs: handmade, painted from memory with thick textured oil paint, full of mistakes glued and painted over. Rose gets the work done. Her aim isn't realism or perfection.

Irena Blühová (March 2, 1904-November 30, 1991) was a political activist and one of the first Slovak women photographers.
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Jolanda by Irena Blühová, 1933 / Gelatin silver print / 11″x15″ / The Museum of Avant-garde www.ma-g.org

#BOTD 1906
Lovyss Bradley in Fayette County, Iowa. Actress, known for Man of Conflict (1953), Outrage (1950),The Untouchables (1959) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).

Tamara Toumanova - BOTD

Ballerina and actress Tamara Toumanova was born on 2 March 1919.

I had a note of her as well, Torn Curtain (1966)

YouTube video by Cathy Sample 3 The Temperature of Us #296

youtu.be/fh6UYeJ83Ss

Queen of Blood!

Hi Catherine! Yes, spring has definitely sprung.

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1370 Fingers crossed for Monday.

#NowWatching Jericho Ridge (D:William Gilbey, 2023)
"Will Gilbey‘s directorial debut doesn’t stray far from John Carpenter’s template of a contemporised siege western, but hits every beat of this taut chamber piece with economic precision."

#NowWatching Those Who Wish Me Dead (D:Taylor Sheridan, 2021)
"..the men who do these things are bad, and they won't win.It makes the violence feel even more gratuitous, because it’s all so empty and pointless;these events take place in a story we don’t care about, and in a world no one recognises."

#BOTD 1905
Doris Hare in Bargoed, Monmouthshire. Actress, known for Here Come the Huggers (1948),The League of Gentlemen (1960), On the Buses (1969), The Avengers (1961) and Second Best (1994). Stage debut aged three in a portable theatre operated by her parents in Bargoed, South Wales.

#BOTD 1892
Mercedes de Acosta: American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is famed for her many affairs with celebrated Hollywood personalities.
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#BOTD 1888
Eliot Stannard: English screenwriter and director. Remembered for the eight screenplays written for Alfred Hitchcock, at Gainsborough and then at British International Pictures, from his directorial debut The Pleasure Garden (1926) to his penultimate silent picture The Manxman (1929).

#BOTD 1882
Ida Moore: American film and television actress.
Known for Johnny Belinda (1948), The Egg and I (1947) and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950).

This image shows English author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) holding her pet rabbit, who inspired her famous character, Peter Rabbit.

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits! Happy first of the month from Beatrix Potter.

#NowWatching Man Push Cart (D/W/P: Ramin Bahrani, 2005)
"There's a reason De Sica's Bicycle Thieves is one of the most stirring and affecting Film works in the history of the medium. Bahrani knows why, and here, and after, demonstrates that those lessons are eternal."

Margaret Atwood
#Caturday

Stephen Spender - BOTD
#Caturday

Art as Healing Art as Healing by Edward Adamson The birth of art therapy in the UK can be traced back to the 1946 opening of Edward Adamson’s studio in Netherne Hospital. In Art as Therapy, Adamson reflects on the e...

For the 1st time, Art as Healing is available online from Bethlem Museum of the Mind.
It centres Edward Adamson’s voice rather than the individuals compelled to live at Netherne hospital but it’s still fascinating with great photos of the work they created
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#BOTD 1865
Arthur William Symons: British poet, critic, translator, magazine editor and the first English champion of the French Symbolist poets.
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#BOTD 1886
Almeda Fowler in Florence, Alabama. Actress, known for Party Girl (1930), The Man with the Electric Voice (1934), House of Connelly (1934) and Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946)

Thanks Catherine , you too! No dry days until next week.

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1369

#BOTD 1922
Margaret Leighton: English actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, her film appearances included Anthony Asquith's The Winslow Boy (1948) her first credited film role, Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn (1949), Powell and Pressburger's The Elusive Pimpernel (1949)...

#BOTD 1905
Sunday Wilshin: British actress and radio producer; She replaced George Orwell as the BBC’s specialist on India and was responsible for output during the run-up to Independence and Partition Known for Alfred Hitchcock's Champagne (1928),Michael and Mary (1931), Marry Me (1932)...

#BOTD 1906
Edith Madeleine Carroll: English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and '40s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress. Worked with Hitchcock on The 39 Steps (1935) and Secret Agent (1936)

#BOTD 1876
Amy Veness: English film actress. Played the role of Grandma Huggett in The Huggetts Trilogy and was sometimes credited as Amy Van Ness. Veness was born Amy Clarice Beart in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Please Help Emily (1917) Hobson's Choice (1931), Windbag The Sailor (1936)...