Category Archives: Art

Letter Art: Graphic Design for the Masses, the One-Horse Open Sleigh Stamp

Reveal When I was much younger, I remember going with my grandmother to the Post Office. She took time to examine all the available stamps before choosing ones she liked. I wondered, and probably said, ‘Why bother? They’re just stamps.’ These days I find myself doing the same thing, opting for a moment of beautyContinue reading “Letter Art: Graphic Design for the Masses, the One-Horse Open Sleigh Stamp”

Letter Art, AlphaBooks: X is for Xenophon

“On The Art Of Horsemanship” Xenophon Scripta Minora Loeb Classical Library Translated by E. C. Marchant Harvard University Press 1968 pp 297-363 Xenophon, because what else I’m gonna do for X? ~~~ This Year [W is for Wodehouse] [V is for von Tempski] [U is for USDA] [T is for Tewson] [S is for Severin]Continue reading “Letter Art, AlphaBooks: X is for Xenophon”

Letter Art, AlphaBooks: W is for Wodehouse

Aunts Aren’t Gentleman P.G. Wodehouse Barrie & Jenkins 1974, Penquin 1987 Although horse racing is integral to the plot, horses do not appear in the story. Less a horse book; more an excuse to read Wodehouse. Found in Horse Stories: An Annotated Bibliography of Books for All Ages by Terri A. Wear [Scarecrow 1987]. BoughtContinue reading “Letter Art, AlphaBooks: W is for Wodehouse”

Letter Art, AlphaBooks: U is for USDA

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse U.S. Department of Agriculture Government Printing Office 1903 When this book came out, few cars, no antibiotics. Cars existed, Early American Automobiles: 1903 Models, but horses were still the way most of us got ourselves and our goods from point A to point B. Antibiotics would not beContinue reading “Letter Art, AlphaBooks: U is for USDA”