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A Tent in the Rockies, 1916. John Singer Sargent. Watercolor.

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Recumbent Calf from Uruk

Made of limestone and lapis-lazuli, this small model of a recumbent calf may have been a votive object, intended as an offering to Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and war. 

Uruk, c. 3300-2900 BCE.

Vorderasiatische Museum, Berlin.

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“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen.“

~ Raymond Chandler

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Wind in the Branches - Inari Krohn , 2022.

Finnish , b. 1945 -

Aquatint , 25 x 18.5 cm. Ed. 5/10

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Jack London

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Buttercups View - Sarah Ross-Thompson

British , b. 1965 -

Collagraph , 15 x 15 cm. Ed. of 30.

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Benjamin J Young (American, b.1990) "One Last Walk with Izzy," 2024 Watercolor

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Marinette Cueco, Herbier – Arum Italicum – Jardin du Pouget, undated, herbarium, 22.5 x 22.5 cm

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish), 1865 - 1931

"Spring Night" (1914)

Oil on canvas, 115.5 x 115.6 cm

Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway

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1947-1963: Everyday life in Alginet, a town in the Valencian Country.

All these photos were taken by Ismael Latorre Mendoza and are part of his archive available online.

Workers, 1947.

Orange pickers, 1948.

Going to get water from the fountain, 1949. Before running water was available in houses, going to the public fountain to fetch water was part of the domestic labour that women did every day.

Washing clothes in the wash basin, 1950.

Laying the sweet potatoes, 1951.

The photographer Laura Canet Lozano organizing photos in the studio, 1956.

Women playing basketball, 1958.

Work, 1959.

Workers sorting tomatoes in the Alginet cooperative, 1963.

Lastly, this one is not from Alginet but the nearby town Picassent, but it’s part of the same archive.

Onion pickers near Torre d’Espioca. Picassent, 1947. Here they have stopped working and are posing for the photo, but picking onions is a very harsh job, physically demanding because onions (like potatoes) grow at ground level, meaning that the workers have to work with their backs bent or on their knees.

Once again, if someone tries to convince you that women historically haven’t worked outside of doing domestic labour at home, they’re wrong and probably trying to sell you something.

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Pruning - Doug Brega , 1980.

American , b. 1948 -

Oil on board , 27 1/2 x 21 in.

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James McIntosh Patrick - The Tay Bridge from My Studio Window (1948)

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1915,Hawaiian Islands. Jack London (1876-1916) and and his wife, Bessie Maddern London.

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Detail from JMW Turner. Sunrise with sea monsters

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Annie Soudain b.1949 UK

'Startled' 2016

Linocut print 40 x 38 cm