#Edna Reindel

[mightyflamethrower]

Edna Reindel (American, 1 894-1990)

The Welders at Lockheed Working on the Intake Duct of the P-38 [

#Edna Reindel #art

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #edna reindel #1930s #house & garden #floral

[womblegrinch]

Edna Reindel (1894-1980) - Farm on Martha’s Vineyard

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1931.

20 x 24 inches, 50.8 x 61 cm. Estimate: US$5,000-7,000.

Sold Christie’s, New York, 20 Nov 2018 for US$25,000 incl B.P.

#Edna Reindel #Martha's Vineyard #Massachusetts

[aunti-christ-ine]

#Caturday #vintage #cat #Edna Reindel

[smithsonian]

Cats didn’t need the internet to achieve feline fame. 

Our @archivesofamericanart has a new exhibition, “Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art,” which explores how cats are represented in rare documents like sketches and drawings, letters, and photographs from the 19th century through the early 2000s.

We decided to let the cat out of the bag...er, box with this collage postcard sent from fiber artist Lenore Tawney to filmmaker Maryette Charlton. Tawney’s postcards often featured intricate layers of found media and handwritten notes. Animals, especially cats, were a frequent motif.

While we think the whole exhibition is purrfect (we couldn’t help it), here are some of our favorite pieces from the archives:

Georges Mathieu, a French painter, embellished this oversize letter to painter Hedda Sterne. It’s among the cat-themed correspondence from Mathieu that are in Sterne’s papers.

Cats often make ideal studio companions. They serve as sympathetic critics and elegant muses. 

In this photo, Pozy the cat watches muralist Edna Reindel work in her California studio. (Pozy is also the subject of the wall mural behind them.)

Photos of artists in their studios enhance our understanding of their stories and their working processes.

Reginald Gammon was known for his evocative portraits of prominent African Americans (and not cats) but in the mid-1960s he illustrated a children’s book that chronicles the friendship between a boy and a bespectacled cat.

Thousands of sketches in the Archives of American Art offer insight into artists’ creative processes. A 1948 sketchbook of watercolor studies by muralist and children’s book illustrator Emily Barto highlights the distinct personalities of several felines—here’s one taking a cat nap.

#BeforeInternetCats is on view through Oct. 29 in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery (the first floor of the National Portrait Gallery). You can also paw your way through the exhibition online. 

#Before Internet Cats #Archives of American Art #American art #Smithsonian #archives #from the archives #cats #cats of the internet #cats of tumblr #artists #American artists #Maryette Charlton #Georges Mathieu #Hedda Sterne #Edna Reindel #Reginald Gammon #Emily Barto #internet cats #cats in art

[books0977]

7 Must Die. James Warner Bellah. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1938. First edition. Original dust jacket by Edna Reindel.

Hard-boiled mystery novel set in Hawaii and on a schooner on the South Seas. Characters include "a former concert star, a selfish adventuress, an enigmatic doctor, a self-made man of the South Seas, two young people very much in love, and an assorted gang of crooks and seamen."

#7 Must Die #James Warner Bellah #first edition #original dust jacket #Edna Reindel

[pwlanier]

Edna Reindel

(American, 1894-1990)

Evocation

1945

oil on masonite

signed Edna Reindel and dated (lower left)

24 ½ x 20 ¼ inches.

Hindman

[oncanvas]

Farm on Martha's Vineyard, Edna Reindel, 1931

Oil on canvas 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)

#art #painting #edna reindal #modern art #women artists #female artists #1930s #oil #american #american regionalism #landscape

[spinmeround]

Edna Reindel Painting. LIFE 1937

[archivesofamericanart]

We dedicate this Caturday to Pozy the cat. 

During the 1930s, Edna Reindel (1894–1990) was well known for her still lifes and murals. In this photograph, Pozy the cat watches Reindel work in her California studio. Pozy is also the subject of the wall mural behind them. 

 This photograph is currently on view in our exhibit 'Before Internet Cats' http://s.si.edu/2o7sJWN

#BeforeInternetCats #FelineFinds #PozytheCat #Cats #CatsofTumblr #ArtistStudios

[danismm]

Edna Reindel Paintings. LIFE 1937

#edna reindel #art #painting #life magazine #vintage magazine #1930s