Full disclosure — there is no ghost train in Roanoke, Virginia … at least as far as I am aware. In our Propaganda Era, I am loathe to start even a harmless urban legend. (Santa Claus is quite real, however.)
Christmas card, Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1899. Commercial color lithograph.
The artist here is a little tough to nail down. Most websites attribute it to Alfons Mucha, but a few attribute it to German graphic designer Joseph Rudolf Witzel.
Indian ink on cardboard.
What’s most striking to me about Moser’s turn-of-the-century art is how often it can resemble an especially cool 1960’s album cover.
Color lithograph.
A dear friend introduced me just yesterday to the art of “Nausicaa.” If I understand correctly, it was a French illustrated interpretation of the character’s story from Homer’s “Odyssey.”
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 