filicinae fern fine art print ernst haeckel mondrian evoking a sense of nostalgia

evoking a sense of nostalgia for the golden age of horse racing

Cartoonist Will Eisner was given the brief of making must-read matter for US fighting folk like the witless Joe Dope

In 1930 he embarked on a trip to the Gold Coast and Nigeria to study patterns on clothing fabrics

and was enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l'Industrie in 1877

their fauna

filicinae fern fine art print ernst haeckel mondrian evoking a sense of nostalgiaThere is something endlessly satisfying about the spiral of an unfurling fern, and this Haeckel plate celebrates it in lush, layered greens. Fronds arc and curl across the sheet, the tightly coiled fiddleheads set against fully opened leaves so that the whole life of the plant seems to play out in a single image. Ernst Haeckel arranged it with the symmetry and density that make his botanical studies so satisfying to look at. The print is part of