Books by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Design Blocks/16 Cubes: Block Puzzle
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
It's a simple idea—no instruction manual required. But you'll be astounded seeing amazing designs take shape before your eyes as you move the blocks around in countless ways. Believe it or not, there are more than 2.8 trillion possible arrangements just with each block in the same position relative to the next! If you start changing the order of the blocks, rotating them, or (gasp!) stacking them, the possibilities must number in the gazillions! Clearly you could spend the rest of your life arranging and rearranging the blocks, although we don't really recommend you do that. We do, however, recommend unleashing your creativity with Design Blocks whenever the urge strikes. What superfabulous pattern will you make next?
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What Do You Know About Greek Mythology? Quiz Deck
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards. Size: 3¼ x 4 in.
The ancient Greeks were not the first to invent gods to explain Earth s creation or natural phenomena, but they were the first to fashion them in their own image, only bigger and stronger. Immortal, to be sure, but just as flawed as their human counterparts, Greek gods and goddesses were linked to or personified human emotions and activities among them love, jealousy, truth, wisdom, poetry, music, and war. And illicit dalliances, vengeful wives, and assorted acts of mayhem abounded in their never-ending lives along with your everyday wreaking of storms, earthquakes, and shipwrecks upon hapless humans. Irreverent, entertaining, informative, this 48-card deck of Knowledge Cards will give you a crash course in the convoluted subject of Greek mythology. Get ready for a bumpy ride as you find out how much you really know about the antics of these busy deities. Definitely not for the prudish!
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Edward Gorey - Edward Gorey: 1,000 Piece Puzzle (Pomegranate Artpiece Puzzle)
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle. Puzzle size: 29 x 20 in. Box size: 10 x 13 x 1? in.
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Edie Harper - Crazy Cat Quilt: 100 Piece Puzzle (Pomegranate Artpiece Puzzle)
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Crazy Cat, Crazy Quilt, by Edie Harper (American, 19222010). 100 interlocking pieces in a hinged metal box.
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Charley Harper - The Coral Reef
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The Charley Harper Coral Reef 1000 piece puzzle by Pomegranate features a colorful minimal realist depiction of an active coral reef by artist Charley Harper. Finished puzzle size 20 x 29 in.
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Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Soft cover book with staple binding.
48 pages with 20 images to color
Size: 8½ x 11 in.
Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed.
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$7.95
Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, Pomegranate Communications Inc.
A beautiful new edition of Steadman's 1968 work, now available in paperback.
The force of social satire and fantasy in the original text of Alice in Wonderland is as relevant today as when the book was first published in 1865. In this edition, Ralph Steadman's drawings remain faithful to the book's satirical tone while revealing his own passion for irony.
This version of Carroll's classic tale is a startling departure from the traditional Victorian or Disney approaches. In his introduction, Steadman describes how a fresh illustrative perspective created an original, modern vision. The story acquires new life with his audacious and dynamic illustrations.
The 47 pen-and-ink illustrations are the same as in the critically acclaimed 1968 British edition. Reformatted and meticulously restored, they convey the energy, imagination and power of Steadman's pen and introduce the wit and wisdom of Alice to a new generation of readers.
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Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, Pomegranate Communications Inc.
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.
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Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Lewis Carroll's Alice has been enchanting children for 150 years. Curious Alice, the bossy White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter are among the best-loved, most iconic literary creations of all time. Mabel Lucie Attwell's gentle illustrations and distinctive style have been the nursery staple of generations of children. Her illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1911. As the original Alice publisher, Macmillan is proud to return Mabel Lucie Attwell's Alice in Wonderland to print in a beautiful hardback gift edition, featuring original full-color plates and line artwork.
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Gabriella Denton Folk Art Coloring Book
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Soft cover book with staple binding.
48 pages with 21 images to color
Size: 8½ x 11 in.
Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed.
Published with the Museum of New Mexico.
The artwork of Gabriella Denton is full of bright colors and whimsy. She paints scenes of country life, gardens, and her favorite animals, but with a twist. Rather than making realistic pictures, Denton paints critters and people that make us laugh. Have you ever seen anything like her red, spotted elephant, her rooster riding a tricycle, or her wiener dog in a patterned coat with his big pal by his side? You ll have so much fun coloring all these happy, funny pictures.
There are outline drawings of twenty-one Gabriella Denton paintings in this book. Take a look at the pictures printed on the inside front and back covers so you can see the artist s original colors. You might want to imitate them or you might want to go wild with different ones. The last two pages of the book are blank so you can make pictures of your own. Can you draw and color critters that are just as playful as Gabriella Denton s?
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Art Nouveau Coloring Book
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Soft cover book with staple binding. 48 pages with 22 images to color. Size: 8½ x 11 in. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed.
Long before images of pinup girls became popular in the mid-twentieth century, there were the Chérettes of Belle Époque Paris. Named after popular French artist Jules Chéret, who revolutionized the color printing process, these idealized women were displayed in a host of advertising posters throughout the city. Featuring exotic new fonts, bright hues, and sinuous lines, these posters became the subject of intense public fascination. Some critics even claimed them to be superior to the paintings exhibited in art museums. And when collectors began to steal them as quickly as they could be pasted up, a new term was coined: affichomanie, or poster mania.
Why did people think these posters were so interesting? To put it simply, they had never seen anything like them before. And they were fun to look at: bold, colorful, and large. They became a vital element of an art style called Art Nouveau, or New Art, which was highly popular in both Europe and North America from about 1890 to 1914. In its organic elements, Art Nouveau was seen as a reaction to the rapid growth of industrial manufacturing.
This coloring book contains twenty-two line drawings of Art Nouveau posters for you to color. The full-color posters are shown as small pictures on the inside front and back covers. When you color in the line drawings, you can copy the original colors or you can be a trendsetter. We ve left a blank page in the back of the book so you can create your very own sensation. And don t forget to sign your work with a flourish!
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National Audubon Society - White - tailed Tropicbird: 1,000 Piece Puzzle
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
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John James Audubon Birds Coloring Book
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Youll find twenty-two of Audubons bird images in this coloring book. They are shown as small reproductions on the inside front and back covers. When you color in these pictures, you might want to copy his colors, or you might decide to give the birds colors theyve never had before! The last page of this book is blank so that you can draw and color your own bird picture. Maybe it will be of a bird you see in your backyard or on your street. Or maybe youll make up a bird out of your imagination! Will it still have two legs and two wings?
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Birder's Journal
by Pomegranate Communications Inc., John James Aududon
Experienced and novice birders alike will find this journal an indispensable companion. With fascinating informational pages, plenty of space to record observations and cross-reference your sightings to a comprehensive life list, essential birding resources, and much more, it's a treat for anyone who loves birds. Includes approximately 50 full-color reproductions of John James Audubon's bird paintings and quotations by Audubon.
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The Jewish Museum Calendar 2019
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The extraordinary works of art reproduced here communicate the aesthetic values and skill of their creators while revealing different aspects of Jewish culture. Paintings, prints, sculptures, and ceremonial objects all speak as evocatively about the Jewish experience in the world as they do about the unique power of art to both inspire and inform. Spanning nearly two hundred years, these works represent the enormous range of art in the unparalleled collection of the Jewish Museum in New York City.
This calendar covers September 2018 through December 2019 (Elul 5778–Tevet 5780). In addition to its 16 images (one for each month), it includes major and minor Jewish holidays, the weekly Torah readings and candle-lighting times, and the blessings to be recited over the candles.
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Italy: Vintage Travel Posters 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Travel posters—stylish advertisements for tourists—captured a golden age of European travel in the 1920s and 1930s. From Lake Como to the canals of Venice and the cliffs of Capri, Italy beckoned tourists to explore its wonders for a fun-filled vacation or a relaxing retreat. Railroad companies, hotels, and even the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) got into the game, commissioning posters to promote their luxury routes and destinations. With stunning illustrations and typography, renowned artists and anonymous designers created for the world an ideal escape, often positioning the viewer high above their scenic destination. Though little is known about many of these artists today, their works fascinate everyone from casual observers to studied collectors.
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Claude Monet 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) worked tirelessly to capture fleeting moments and sensations on canvas. The brisk seaside air at a Saint-Adresse resort. Sunrise reflected on the rippling Seine. The play of color and light on his beloved lily pond at Giverny. Although his style would change and mature over the course of his long career, Monet’s interest in how we perceive nature is ever present in his paintings. His desire to record his perceptions in the open air, in his own style, led him to reject rigid rules of subject matter, composition, and color. Along with likeminded artist-friends Édouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and others, Monet laid the foundation for impressionism, one of the most influential art movements in recent centuries.
This calendar draws its superb images from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Impressionism 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Acceptance did not come easy for the impressionists. They rejected the strict techniques and conservative themes preferred by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and instead favored plein-air landscapes, domestic scenes, natural light, and unbridled colors and brushstrokes. Their movement became defined by its vivacity and emphasis on ephemeral beauty. This calendar features a dozen works from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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The Reading Woman 2020 Engagement Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Whether routes to escape or paths to enlightenment, the written word can create enticing worlds so absorbing to the reader that other realities fade away. A painting of a woman immersed in reading suggests a story of its own. Are books her means of temporary departure, transporting her to places she may never see but is free to dream of? Is she studiously searching their pages for illumination? Little wonder that the reading woman has appeared in art for hundreds of years. She is a beautiful enigma, an untold tale, and we are left to search the images, pondering their meaning.
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Space: Views from Hubble Telescope 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures breathtaking high-resolution images from distant galaxies and nebulae. On the ground, specialists painstakingly clean and color the black-and-white photographs to help distinguish details our eyes could never perceive. Each of this calendar’s otherworldly images is accompanied by a description of the celestial phenomenon depicted, and this year’s astronomical events are noted.
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The Reading Woman 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Books create enticing worlds before which everyday realities fade away. The reading woman is a beautiful enigma, an untold tale, a fragment of a life momentarily set free from its long, complex story. Each image of a reading woman in this calendar is accompanied by a woman’s words on the subjects of books and reading.
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Tony Fitzpatrick: The Secret Birds 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Collected by everyone from major museums to musicians, gracing festival posters and album covers, Tony Fitzpatrick’s boisterous art has the wide reach so few contemporary artists achieve. This Chicago son—a poet, actor, and all-around creative soul—also has a deep history with birds, his first subjects. When he was young, his grandmother introduced him to their morning chorus, saying, “For a piece of bread, you can hear God sing.” The artist intertwines symbolism, poetry, ephemera, and a love for music and birds in The Secret Birds, a collection of small, avian-inspired drawing collages. His birds pay homage to the cultural greats of our lifetime, to his friends, and to nature’s lyrical beauty.
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Eldzier Cortor 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
As a young man, Eldzier Cortor (American, 1916–2015) worked as an easel painter for the Works Progress Administration, creating scenes of African American social life on the South Side of Chicago. He also helped to found the South Side Community Art Center, a Chicago Historic Landmark. In the 1940s, fellowships allowed him to travel. He first went to the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas to study the Gullah community. Its flourishing culture and preserved heritage, despite a history of slavery, became Cortor’s muse. He focused his artwork on the female figure, saying “the black woman represents the black race.” He continued on to Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti, where he also found examples of West African culture. Around 1950 he moved to New York, where he continued to create paintings of dignified black women for the rest of his days.
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William Blake 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Relatively unknown as an artist during his lifetime, poet, painter, and engraver William Blake “neither wrote nor drew for the many, hardly for work’y-day men at all, rather for children and angels; himself ‘a divine child,’” said Alexander Gilchrist in his Life of William Blake (1863). A visionary since childhood, Blake (British, 1757–1827) held strong beliefs about religion, politics, and art, which he personalized and channeled into poetry and artwork. Although he famously stated, “I will not reason and compare: my business is to create,” he believed that his works—sometimes mystical, often controversial—were understood by the majority. While Blake holds dual significance to his era as writer and artist, today his work—of paramount importance to the Western canon—continues to capture the attention of scholars and laypeople alike.
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Hiroshige 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Utagawa Hiroshige’s best-known woodblock prints were published during a time of transition in his homeland. After centuries of political and cultural seclusion, Japan was nearing the close of its peaceful, prosperous Edo period, and the nation would soon open to the West. In his artwork, Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) preserved his vision of picturesque Edo (now Tokyo) and the idyllic Japanese countryside. His landscapes chronicled the timelessness of changing seasons, the traditional observances of holidays and festivals, and the workaday lives of the nation’s people. Hiroshige’s harmonious fusion of Japan’s
meisho (famous places) tradition with unusual vantage points and striking color palettes proved influential for Western impressionist and postimpressionist artists.
This calendar showcases twelve of Hiroshige’s extraordinary prints in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Butterflies 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Chinese-export watercolors were painted in port cities for sale to Western customers in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, these were mostly souvenirs brought back by merchants and tourists. Afterwards, they became valued as artworks in their own right. The colors used were those common in Chinese painting, but primary colors tended to predominate later in the nineteenth century, particularly because the adoption of pith paper, made from a plant called tong cao (
Tetrapanax papyrifer), allowed the painters to create images in brilliant colors as well as in very fine detail. The images in this calendar were painted by anonymous artists in China, ca. 1830–1871, and have been reproduced from an album in the collection of the Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History.
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The Life of the Buddha 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The artwork in this calendar tells the story of the Buddha from his birth in India as Prince Siddhattha through his Enlightenment and attainment of Nirvana upon his death. The scenes reflect the legends, miracles, and local lore that have come to surround the Buddha over the past 2,500 years. The images are from The Life of the Buddha, two Burmese illustrated folding books in which chronologically consecutive events are often presented side-by-side within the same frames. Created around the turn of the nineteenth century, these manuscripts are in the collection of the British Library.
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Japanese Scrolls & Screens 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Japanese scroll and screen paintings—executed in ink, colors (mineral pigments), and sometimes gold leaf or gold paint on silk or paper—reveal a variety of influences, among them Chinese painting and calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, and Japanese literature. Some scrolls are narrative, recounting their stories when unrolled from right to left. Others are made to be unrolled vertically and hung on the wall, their subjects ranging from portraits to scenes from mythology, scripture, nature, and everyday life. Folding screens, like many other products of the Japanese aesthetic, are both beautiful and practical. Being portable, they can be used in adapting spaces inside a traditional Japanese home. The twelve elegant scrolls and screens reproduced in this calendar date from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. All are from the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art.
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African American Art 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The works by African American artists represented in this calendar display a wide range of subject matter and theme while often speaking directly to the African American experience. After political activist Angela Davis was arrested in 1970, Charles White’s
Love Letter, featured on the cover of this calendar, was used in a letter-writing campaign by her supporters. Portrayals of African American families by well-known artists such as William H. Johnson, Romare Bearden, and Malvin Gray Johnson make strong statements as well. Classical landscapes by Robert S. Duncanson and Edward Mitchell Bannister round out the selection. These twelve works are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is home to more than two thousand works by more than two hundred African American artists.
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Carl Larsson 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Sweden’s beloved artist Carl Larsson (1853–1919) suffered a childhood of poverty in Stockholm before his artistic talent provided a way out. As a teen he was accepted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, and his studies there eventually landed him work as a commercial illustrator. He lived in Paris for several years before moving a short distance south to the artists’ colony of Grez-sur-Loing. There he met artist Karin Bergöö, who urged him to take up watercolor—the medium for which he would become best known. The two married and moved to rural Sundborn, Sweden, making their home in a riverside cottage called Lilla Hyttnäs.
In Sundborn, Larsson found his artistic voice, documenting his home, family (complete with eight children), friends, and neighbors with obvious delight. Each image in this calendar was published in his turn-of-the-century series A Home.
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Charley Harper 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The paintings of Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007), a lifelong conservationist, have delighted art and animal lovers for more than six decades. With his distinctive use of geometric shapes, patterns, and vivid colors, Harper distilled the essence of each bird, animal, insect, or tree to its most important details—as he said, “Instead of putting everything in, I try to leave everything out. I call it ‘minimal realism.’”
Harper’s paintings and posters have been published by a variety of nature- and conservation-oriented organizations. With his elegant, minimalist method of depicting wildlife, Harper transported viewers into the natural world via lively but self-described “flat” images. His paintings of various ecosystems and, above all, brilliant birds, emphasized hard-edged simplicity. The twelve images in this calendar will brighten every month of the year.
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Inside Chicago 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Resilience and ingenuity define Chicago’s skyline. Out of the 1871 fire came a wave of construction, establishing a city that has often since remained at the forefront of trends in architecture and design. From the smallest hand-carved details to gleaming modern surfaces, more than 130 years of Chicago interiors fill this calendar. Many of the city’s grand structures—by Frank Lloyd Wright; Burnham & Root; Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; and more—are featured, alongside the passion projects of lesser known, but remarkable, designers.
Photographer Eric Allix Rogers earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and is dedicated to visually recording the city’s built environment. Rogers is a resident of Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood and is the Open House Chicago Program Manager at Chicago Architecture Foundation.
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Maurice R. Bebb: Birds & Blooms 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Maurice R. Bebb, a florist’s son, had been in the family business before he took up printmaking, only turning to art after age fifty. A veteran of World War I, an engaged community member in his small town of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and a competitive tennis player, he didn’t begin sketching until an injury to his finger forced change.
Bebb had no formal art training but had long been collecting prints. He joined the renowned Prairie Print Makers, initially producing prints on Christmas cards while running Bebb’s Flowers with his brother. In 1951, he retired from the florist business and devoted himself to printmaking. His drive for making prints—primarily of birds—continued unwaveringly for five decades.
His work is featured in the catalogue raisonné Birds & Beyond: The Prints of Maurice R. Bebb (Pomegranate, 2016).
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William Morris: Arts & Crafts Designs 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Often a mantra for minimalists, William Morris’s golden rule—“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”—stands the test of time as eloquently and, indeed, as beautifully as the English craftsman’s ornate floral designs from more than a century ago. With no restraint in flourish, these patterns for wallpapers and textiles represent unfading turn-of-the-century elegance. Many are still produced today.
The twelve images in this calendar sample decades of design by William Morris (1834–1896) and his team: Trellis, one of his very first wallpaper patterns; Pimpernel, hung in his Kelmscott House dining room; St. James’s, designed for the London royal palace of the same name; and others published by the company he founded.
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Antique Maps 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
For centuries, explorers, merchants, and military forces have relied upon maps to help them describe and navigate our planet. Although historical maps were often skillfully drawn and meticulously plotted, their layout tells only part of the story. Using anecdotal evidence and sometimes scant geographical data for places they themselves may never have seen, cartographers frequently included embellishments to tease the imagination and the intellect—thus a map of the United States doubles as a board game, and Claes Janszoon Visscher’s Holland is drafted in the shape of a lion. Included in this sampling are a dozen antique map reproductions from the British Library’s vast and complex collection of cartographic material.
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Georgia O'Keeffe 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) created a body of work that was uniquely her own. Her subject matter was familiar—flowers, landscapes, buildings—but as she shuttled between objective art (“as objective as I can make it”) and abstraction (“that memory or dream thing”), O’Keeffe found a way of painting that enabled her to transform the objects and sights that transfixed her.
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America by Rail 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
During the first half of the twentieth century, most US towns, large and small, boasted a train station, and the sound of the midnight freight was ubiquitous. Before automobiles became cheap and coast-to-coast highways fast, reliable, and safe, long-distance train travel was both a practical choice and a relatively affordable luxury. Essential to the success of the rail industry was the advertising that brought business and vacation travelers on board. Accomplished artists were hired to create posters depicting enticing scenery and celebrating the romance, comfort, and luxury of train travel. The twelve rail posters featured in this calendar portray speeding locomotives and a variety of grand destinations, including US national landmarks and major cities.
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Van Gogh 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
“Enjoy yourself as much as you can, have as many diversions as you can, and remember that what people demand in art nowadays is something very much alive, with strong colour and great intensity,” Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) once wrote. His letters, often to his brother and benefactor, Theo, trace the ebb and flow of his happiness and art’s role in it, on which he mused regularly. Even when painting was confined to the fields and gardens near the asylum where he lived at the end of his life, he found joy in nature and the adventure of expressing its fluctuations in vivid color.
Each artwork reproduced in this calendar is paired with a passage from Van Gogh’s letters, which he was known to sign “with a handshake.”
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Inuit Art: Cape Dorset 2019 Wall Calendar (English and French Edition)
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
About 1,200 miles north of Toronto, the hamlet of Cape Dorset, Nunavut, is home to a multigenerational community of gifted graphic artists. Their cooperatively owned printmaking studios have been in continuous operation since 1959, producing unique, captivating, and powerful images. Twelve of these remarkable prints adorn this calendar’s pages.
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France: Vintage Travel Posters 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
From quaint mountainside villages to cities perched on the edge of the sea, France has long attracted visitors to experience its bountiful riches. With its generally mild climate, ancient history, and beautiful, varied landscapes, the nation boasts all the raw materials necessary for a first-rate vacation. In the early twentieth century, advances in transportation drew tourists in droves to France, then the center of modern European art and culture. During these boom years, French railroad companies and tourism organizations hired artists to produce stylish posters of scenic highlights, hoping to lure visitors to their little part of paradise. Today, many of those artists have slipped into obscurity, but nostalgic visions of French splendor still go hand in hand with early twentieth-century European tourism. The twelve posters reproduced in this calendar capture the joie de vivre of a trip through the French countryside.
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Mimi Vang Olsen's Cats 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Mimi Vang Olsen’s first cat portrait was of her own cat named Coody. Mimi was twelve years old, Coody was three. Years later the subject was Basil, her Australian terrier, then more cats and two guinea pigs. It is not surprising that Mimi became a professional pet portrait painter, depicting other people’s beloved cats and dogs for their own enjoyment. Today she travels the world, meeting pets in their home environments and gathering impressions and information to create the final oil portraits—just like the ones in this calendar.
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Impressionism 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Rejection of the establishment (the Paris Salon, with its rigid interpretation of fine art) united a group of artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Together, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cassatt, and others became known as the impressionists, for their loose, broken brushstrokes and emphasis on casual moments. Their subject matter was modern, their colors bright, their compositions seemingly candid—a breath of fresh air compared with prevailing standards. Devoid of pomp, impressionist paintings belied the difficulty of their creation. The artists often painted in plein air, pursuing light and its mercilessly fleeting effects.
The twelve works in this calendar survey the finest of the impressionist movement, showcasing the stylistic range of these avant-garde artists.
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A Journey into 365 Days of Black History 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The exemplary individuals featured here have contributed their brilliance to enhance the human experience across a wide range of disciplines, including medicine, journalism, education, social activism, performing arts, business, and athletics. From the sixteenth century to present day, these trailblazers’ accomplishments inspire, inform, and enhearten us all.
A brief biography accompanies the image of each figure, birthdays of other notable people are presented with the months, and milestones in black history mark the days of the year.
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Lansdowne's Birds 2019 Wall Calendar (English and French Edition)
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
J. Fenwick Lansdowne (Canadian, b. Hong Kong, 1937–2008) was a passionate naturalist whose careful study of birds inspired an extraordinary body of work. His paintings—as meticulous in their details as they are arresting in their sensitive portrayals—reflect the essential nature of each bird he depicted. They are featured in the book J. Fenwick Lansdowne (Pomegranate, 2014).
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Alphonse Mucha 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Under pressure, Alphonse Mucha launched a new graphic form in December 1894. The actress Sarah Bernhardt commissioned a poster for a new play, giving Mucha less than a week to design it, print it, and get it on the street. Not only did he meet his deadline but his poster introduced Art Nouveau to the world. Famous overnight, Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939) signed a five-year contract with Bernhardt to produce her stage and costume designs as well as more posters. He worked prolifically in his self-invented genre, enjoying broad commercial success without ever getting rich. But Mucha dismissed his graphic work as frivolously pretty and unserious in comparison with his “real” artwork, and he denied that his groundbreaking new style had any connection with the Art Nouveau movement.
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Charley Harper 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
With simple geometric shapes, eye-popping color, and a dash of wit, Charley Harper distilled the essence of each creature he painted to its most important details. After formal art studies and years of commercial art experience, Harper (1922–2007) developed the unique “minimal realist” style with which he delighted art and animal lovers for more than six decades.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
In 1896, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish, 1868–1928) set the direction for modern European architecture with his art nouveau–influenced design for The Glasgow School of Art. Commissions for everything from mansions to tearooms followed. Mackintosh remained in Glasgow for two decades, designing buildings, furniture, textiles, and wallpapers. His bold originality was recognized and appreciated on the Continent but went largely unnoticed at home.
In 1914 he and his English-born wife, artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864–1933), left Glasgow for England, where Mackintosh focused on textile design. He also produced—often collaborating with Margaret—a series of floral still-life watercolor compositions. After they moved to France in 1923, Mackintosh devoted himself to landscape painting, producing a series of remarkable studies of French towns and countryside. This calendar presents ten examples from the now-revered Scot’s wide-ranging oeuvre and two by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.
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Molly Hashimoto: Birds 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Molly Hashimoto’s clear-eyed scenes of birds in their natural habitats reflect an easy closeness to nature. In crisp block prints, she nimbly depicts everything from a Sandhill Crane dancing in a wetland to a Steller’s Jay perched amid snow-draped spruce boughs. From her home in the Pacific Northwest, Hashimoto (American, b. 1951) explores wild areas, oases that provide refuge for countless rare species and moments of awakening for millions of human visitors. In addition to her own artistry, Hashimoto is dedicated to connecting people to nature through hands-on art experiences. Camera and sketchbook in hand, she can be found leading aspiring artists out of doors for plein air painting or into a studio for a block-printing or watercolor workshop. She teaches at the North Cascades Institute, the Yellowstone Forever Institute, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, among others.
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Edward Gorey 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Prolific artist and author Edward St. John Gorey (American, 1925–2000) published more than one hundred works, designed sets and costumes for the stage, and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film, and animals. The twelve images in this calendar highlight his intricate crosshatched drawing style as well as his unsettling sense of humor.
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Claude Monet 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
In 1874, Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) exhibited his painting
Impression: Sunrise at a group show in Paris. Art critic Louis Leroy responded with scorn, labeling Monet and others in the group as “Impressionnistes.” This sarcastic term would thereafter be linked to a deeply influential movement in art history, and Monet would be recognized as a master of impressionism. All images featured here are from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Japanese Decorative Designs 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The decorative designs featured here are timeless examples of Japanese artistry. Although little is known of their creators or the actual dates of their creation, such designs reflect Japanese artists’ historically deep appreciation of beauty in art and nature and have influenced tastes in everything from textiles to paper goods, furniture to fine art. Europe and North America have long been enamored of Japanese design and aesthetics, particularly since Japan opened its political and economic borders in 1868, providing the impetus for an unprecedented exchange of arts and culture with the West.
The twelve textile designs selected for this calendar reside in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which include more than 13,000 textiles and costumes from traditions around the world.
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B. Kliban: CatCalendar 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The Cats of B. Kliban (American, 1935–1990) have been delighting fans since the publication of Cat in 1975. And why not? The free-spirited Cat and companions live in a world of adventure—shopping for clothes, stalking the Easter bunny, skiing through the forest—that real cats can only dream about.
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Space: Views from the Hubble Telescope 2019 Wall Calendar
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
The Hubble Space Telescope, named after Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953), a pioneer of modern astronomy, has captured awe-inspiring images of nearby galaxies and deep space since its launch in 1990. From its orbit above Earth, the telescope has probed the cosmos, peering deep into time the farther it searches and allowing greater understanding of what lies beyond our atmosphere. Hubble has recorded more than one million observations, making it one of the most productive scientific instruments ever built. On the ground, specialists meticulously clean and color the black-and-white photographs to help distinguish detail we could never perceive at such a distance.
Each of this calendar’s twelve images is accompanied by a description of the celestial phenomenon depicted. Important dates in the history of space exploration, as well as this year’s eclipses and major meteor showers, are noted throughout.
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Arts & Crafts Block Prints: W. S. Rice 2019 Wall Calendar
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Block print artist William Seltzer Rice (1873–1963) created images that were in harmony with the aesthetics of the Craftsman style. A watercolorist, teacher, and avid outdoorsman, Rice found enduring inspiration in nature—from sweeping vistas to single blossoms. He believed in the ideal of making original artwork available to a wide audience at modest cost, and Rice designed, carved, and printed all of his blocks himself. His active and prolific career extended to the age of ninety. This calendar’s block prints reflect Rice’s love of the outdoors and his observations as a naturalist. More of his works, including watercolors and additional prints, can be found in the book William S. Rice: Art & Life (Pomegranate, 2013).
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Chicago Coloring Book
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Soft cover book with staple binding. 48 pages with 20 images to color. Size: 8½ x 11 in. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed.
During the 1920s and 1930s, the Chicago Transit Authority hired many talented graphic artists to create posters featuring parks, beaches, museums, universities, and other interesting locations inside and outside the Chicago city limits. These posters encouraged people to use public transit called the elevated lines or L to travel to these destinations. The posters rarely depicted the L itself; instead they displayed colorful and exciting images of buildings, cultural events, and outdoor activities.
Full-color reproductions of twenty of these posters are printed on the inside front and back covers of this coloring book, and line drawings based on the posters are included so that you can color them in. When you fill in the drawings, you might want to copy the original colors, or you might choose your own color combinations. We ve left the last three pages of the book blank so that you can create pictures of your own. Can you draw and color your favorite museum, park, or building?
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Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893: 500 Piece Puzzle
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
500 piece puzzle with exquisite detail and color, depicting the historical site of the 1893 Expo.
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Paul Heussenstamm Mandala Fruit Tree 500-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Aa964
by Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Artist and teacher Paul Heussenstamm’s vibrant sacred art often features his signature motif, the mandala, a mystical symbol many see as a doorway to the soul. Heussenstamm (American, b. 1949) believes that soul patterns are manifested in mandalas, which have played a role in Eastern spiritual development for centuries and are widely favored as meditational focal points.Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, our interlocking jigsaw puzzles combine superb color reproduction, stunning and unusual images, and sturdy construction to delight generations of novice and veteran puzzleworkers.
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