~Virgilio Tojetti

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Tojetti, who was born in Rome, studied with his father,
the painter Domenico Tojetti, and in Paris with Gérôme
and Bouguereau. In 1870 he immigrated to America
and spent much of the rest of his life living and
working in San Francisco and New York City.
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He exhibited with the Boston Art Club,
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
National Academy
of Design, and the Brooklyn Art Association.
His work is found in a number of museum and
private collections, including the de Young Museum
in San Francisco. Tojetti painted murals for the
New York City residence of financier Charles T. Yerkes,
also for the Savoy Hotel, and Flagler College
(formerly the Ponce De Leon Hotel) in St. Augustine, Florida. 
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Virgilio Tojetti (1851 – 1901)
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~Alan Lee

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~Halloween

Pumpkin Eater by Scott Gustafson 

Enjoy your Halloween!!!

~Michael Whelan

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~Evelyn Taylor

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~Lynn Lupetti

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Lynn Lupetti is a native Californian,
born in Alameda on October 7, 1938
to Harry and Frances Holmes.
She has one sibling, an older sister Beverly
of Cottage Grove Oregon.
Lynn was raised in San Carlos, a town located on
the peninsula to the south of San Francisco.
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~Cyril Chelushkin

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Cyril Chelushkin was born in 1968,
Cyril is a Russian fantasy illustrator.

Links to his art can be found here.
A few more pictures can be found here.
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~Poem

O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
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O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms!
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
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I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.

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I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
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I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look’d at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
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I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.
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She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
“I love thee true.”
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She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept, and sigh’d fill sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
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And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream’d—Ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dream’d
On the cold hill’s side.
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I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!”
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I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.
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And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
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by John Keats (1795-1821)
Art by J.W. Waterhouse

~William John Hennessy

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William John Hennessy (1839 – 1917)
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~Ernest Aris

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Ernest A. Aris (1882–1963)
Self portrait

by William Worcester Churchill (1858 – 1926)

Enjoy your Weekend!

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by Randolph Caldecott
'A Frog he would a woo-ing go'
19th Century
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~Ernest Aris

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Ernest Aris was born in Islington, London on 22 April 1882
and died at his home in Hornsey, North London
on 14 April 1963.
He moved to Bradford where he attended the
Technical College and School of Art, and earned his
diploma in 1900 under the tutorship
of Charles Stephenson.
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~David Michael Bowers

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David Bowers, born 1956 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
and graduated from art school in Pittsburgh in 1979. 
He began working as a staff artist at
various studios in Pittsburgh. 
Two years later, David began teaching at the Art Institute
of Pittsburgh where he lectured for ten years. 
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~Michael J. Deas

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James Dean by Michael J. Deas
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     Dance like nobody's Watching
Love like you've never been hurt
Sing like nobody's Listening
Live like it's heaven on Earth

by Mark Twain
Art unknown by me

~Sharon Sprung

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Sharon Sprung (1953)
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