No branch can bear fruit on its own.Tumblr (3.0; @nobranch)http://nobranch.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ee453d988087bb8dde4d1bf66e87fc61/tumblr_mizndfuOdS1qjgbw3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span">MEN IN THE CITIES - MEN TRAPPED IN ICE</span></p> <p class="work-data">1980</p> <p class="work-data">Charcoal and graphite on paper</p>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/44296623126http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/44296623126Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:36:51 -0500The heavenly bodies floating in the firmament are all connected, by gravitational forces that link...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/43989853662http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/43989853662Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:58:47 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/06b07b05f2ce90ad8aa34c9b4effa4da/tumblr_mij8lg3KSk1qjgbw3o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Romaine Brooks</p> <p>Self Portrait<br/> 1923<br/> Oil on Canvas</p>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/43578627806http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/43578627806Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:56:04 -0500The half century from 1880 to 1930 was a springtime of bricolage and do-it-yourselfery in France,...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/42768476345http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/42768476345Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:26:59 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9cf8aeb6359bd792ceeaeda74ac839fc/tumblr_mhcvdvHqQg1qjgbw3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/99027df9daf5eac8a45cd6af91f700da/tumblr_mhcvdvHqQg1qjgbw3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/54a595ff8952a2b020acd64b0db3f041/tumblr_mhcvdvHqQg1qjgbw3o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b8ad49bd92b5be153597c41b249fd43/tumblr_mhcvdvHqQg1qjgbw3o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://www.tamaranataliemadden.com/" title="Tamara Natalie Madden">Tamara Natalie Madden</a>, a Jamaican born painter whose project is to ‘represent regular folk as the nobility they intrinsically are’. <span class="Apple-style-span">Her work reminds me of some of my favorite Klimt paintings, and of course I can’t help lo</span><span class="Apple-style-span">v</span><span class="Apple-style-span">ing the blues. (Apparently she does draw on Klimt’s golden period, as well as images of royalty from Egypt and West Africa.)</span></p>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/41728253315http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/41728253315Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:51:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/102394cd27ff82ec59fc1ee413d9d8f8/tumblr_mh3i3aDAHg1qjgbw3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cutest surprise ever. ‘We heart books’ and a hand painted hobbit hole…definitely helps me feel better.</p>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/41297485692http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/41297485692Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:25:58 -0500Moraine Lake Yosemite National Park July 17, 1922 A placid lake, rimmed with a rich evergreen...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/39081356889http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/39081356889Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:27:48 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qvM43IBnF5Y?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>By the way, the school I go to….?</p> <p>An Aerial View (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvM43IBnF5Y&feature=share">GordonCollege</a>)</p>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37595736480http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37595736480Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:58:00 -0500Found a two-volume encyclopedia of Homosexuality in the reference room yesterday. There were so many...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37593412234http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37593412234Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:28:00 -0500Watchman, tell us of the night,what its signs of promise are.Traveler, o&#8217;er yon...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37591985852http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37591985852Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:09:47 -0500&#8216;The Christian faith is not primarily about human doing; the gospel is not reducible to the...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37574756896http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37574756896Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:35:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b80405334882df8484d7eae10d428d65/tumblr_menesvh9io1qjgbw3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/987eb686071871056ba39f43a2c049dd/tumblr_menesvh9io1qjgbw3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d11044d9ad314b99f37a1b496c300d56/tumblr_menesvh9io1qjgbw3o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Thinking about the Bronx and all the color and the kids and the hot hot heat.</p> <p><em>Taken in New York, July 2012.</em></p>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37391071285http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37391071285Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:49:00 -0500disposable cameraI think knowing how to name beauty could be a very important thing. Not only for makers of art, but...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37390866854http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37390866854Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:43:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc5oqtLE8W1r8bc3no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/post/33909494429/cutting-for-stone-by-abraham-verghese-borrow-i">unypl</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>“Cutting for Stone,” by Abraham Verghese</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/cutting-for-stone-a-novel/oclc/229027345&referer=brief_results">Borrow</a><strong> I</strong> <a href="http://amzn.to/TCQTih">Read</a></p> </blockquote>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37266353642http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37266353642Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:52:01 -0500“Indeed, an essential function of genuine beauty, as emphasized by Plato, is that it gives man...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37061226709http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/37061226709Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:51:41 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7qy08P7e91qe31lco1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7qy08P7e91qe31lco2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7qy08P7e91qe31lco3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7qy08P7e91qe31lco4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.cytwombly.info/">Cy Twombly</a> - <em>The Blackboard Paintings,</em> 1966-1970</p> </blockquote>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36902933154http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36902933154Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:07:33 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me7fh3F4Qy1rl7dcxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>The Terrace, Saint-Tropez </span><span>by Henri Matisse, 1904</span></p> </blockquote>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36850489756http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36850489756Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:05:41 -0500Eating roasted chestnuts and sweet potato out of the hand. A lovely idea, isn&#8217;t it. A little...http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36738091999http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36738091999Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:30:38 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me20tenKsS1rky23to1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Amrita Sher Gil</p> <p>Hill Women</p> <p>Oil on Canvas</p> <p>1935</p>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36626128516http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36626128516Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:16:54 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcsky0TEQB1rvbn81o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36521824710http://nobranch.tumblr.com/post/36521824710Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:53:32 -0500