Food & Marketing in the 1940s

Yesterday we drove up to the Amish market in Pennsylvania to buy some plants for our garden. It looked so much like the City Market in downtown Indianapolis; where my mother took me, when I was a toddler. Although the 1940s grocery store above was similar to our supermarkets today, the City Market was a place unto itself.















Images from Life Magazine


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Paintings of Berthe Morisot 1841-1895 by Édouard Manet 1832–1883

1868 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) The Balcony.  Berthe Morisot, seated. Standing is the violinist Fanny Claus, with the painter Antonin Guillemet, who exhibited at the 1869 Paris Salon.


Berthe Morisot became the sister-in-law of her friend & colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugene.

1868 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Detail from the painting The Balcony

1868-69  Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) with a Muff

1869 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895)

1870 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883)  Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895)

1870 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) with a pink shoe

1872 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) con ramillete de violetas

1872 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) con un abanico (Same pink shoe?)

1872-3 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) on a divan

1873 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895)

1874 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) t à l’éventail

1874 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) with Hat, in mourning

Bertha Morisot, 1875

Color in the garden by Henri Matisse & Tara Dillard

One of my favorite blogs is Tara Dillard Garden and Home. I never fail to learn something or to smile, when I read her "tough love" approach to gardening. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) anticipated Tara's use of color on furniture & iron in her garden in his paintings.

Tara's use of color


Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Young Women in the Garden, 1919.


From Tara's home garden








Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Moraccan Garden

Haseley Court, Oxfordshire

A weird garden gate by Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin 1848-1903

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The Gate

At Home with Stanley Spencer 1891-1959

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Love Letters

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Adjusting the Collar

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959)  The Chest of Drawers 1936

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Dusting the Shelves 1936

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda and I at Pond Street

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda with Bluebells 1955

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959)

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) On the Landing Looking at a Drawing

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Hilda Welcomed 1953

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Choosing a Petticoat 1936

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Neighbors 1936

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Village Gossips 1939-40

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) The Dustbin 1956

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Silent Prayer

 Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Going to Bed