Burton Silverman Sails Into Forever

Nautical and/or stamp enthusiasts may be interested to know about the new Sailboat stamped "Forever" rate postcards that set sail from Oyster Bay, NY last month. The printed stamp on the card is from a Burton Silverman painting depicting a sailboat moored off Long Island Sound. The Manhattan artist says his original oil painting was based on a photograph he took over a Memorial Day weekend in 1967. Only around 20 works out of 40,000 suggestions are chosen for Forever stamps each year.

Four For Fall

1940 corrected reprint of 1937 edition I picked up at the flea market

Folk Mid Brown Canvas Overcoat from Coggles

Hercules!

Local art.

Check This Out: A Collection A Day

I ran across the following via Cloudal Partners, one of my daily internet stops:  Artist Lisa Congdon (whose brilliant work can be purchased here) has tackled the challenge of posting a picture of a personal collection (either real or drawn) every day this year.  I think this is brilliant and I can't wait to see what it yields visually. Her mid-century matchbooks (below) really caught my eye.