“‘The Spirit of ’76,’ also known as ‘Yankee Doodle,’ described as the most inspiring patriotic picture in America, hangs in the Town Fathers’ meeting room in Abbot Hall (in Marblehead, Massachusetts). Painted by A.M. Willard, it was presented to the Town in 1880 by General John Devereux, whose son was the model for the drummer [...]
All the way from Vaasa, Finland comes today’s postcard of a painting by Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905), a founder of the Realist art movement in Finland, and one of the first Finnish artists to become internationally famous, at least in his own time. I believe that this is my first exposure to his work; a website [...]
This Turkish card shows the cover image for the book Son Ülke (“The Last Country”). It’s also a detail of the painting “The Tempest” by Giorgione, painted around 1508. (According to the card, the title of the painting in Turkish is Fırtına, which is the Turkish word for “storm”; not a lot of synonyms in [...]
Here is a card I received today as part of a Postcrossing round-robin. Nordbaer writes: “Many greetings from the West of Germany. I visited your website — it’s great!” And many thanks back to you for making this wonderful contribution to it.
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