From a picture book called Through The Ant Hill by Amelia Brookes illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott Walter Crane, London TownWalter Crane, London TownWalter Crane, London TownWalter Crane, London TownCharles E. Martin aka CEM (1910-1995) The New Yorker cover March 25, 1961The Hall of the Artistic Society ‘Kunst wordt door Arbeid verkregen’ (Art is Acquired through Labor) in Leiden, Paulus Constantijn la Fargue, 1780Constantin Alajalov (1900-1987) Réalités once was highly rated magazine, a la National Geographic galleryThe Third In Line from The Sketchbooks Of Mattias Adolfsson (Sanatorium Publishing 2015)Alwin Schmidt (b.1900) ‘At The Art Museum’Henry Jamyn Brooks – Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy 1888Daniel Brustlein aka Alain (1904-1996), New Yorker cover 1946. This one reminds me of Eloise. Is the woman smoking or is that her tongue? Why is the man behind the curtain mad?Charles Saxon (1920-1988) for a New Yorker cover 1969. This is a viewing room. The magnifying glass on the floor is probably for reading the signature. by Garrett Price (1896-1979) art galleryRichard Taylor (1902-1970) 1946by Arthur Getz (1913-1996) 1958In the Art Gallery (detail) by Robert G. Harris (1911-2007) Cosmopolitan Magazine February 1950Four-color linocut of a Wunderkammer-style local science museum, featuring a mix of shells, fossils, skeletons, and mounted specimens by printmaker Stanley HicksonGarrett Price (1896-1979) 1959 outdoor art festivalThe lighthouse by François Schuiten
Header painting: Leroux Jules Marie Auguste (1871-1954) At The Cluny Museum
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On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
