East Coast Frolics

Thanks to Paul Malon for letting me share these delightful posters

 I just discovered in his wonderful vintage poster set on flickr.

The series of six ads was created by Frank Newbould

in 1933 for the Londor and North Eastern Railway.

Mad Men and Crazy Critters - Wool & Yarn

 Vintage Japanese ad, 1950, 
thanks to a wonderful post on 50 Watts

 Nicco Carlo, 1925

Alois Carigiet, 1937-39

 Marcello Dudovich


Willi Weiss, 1952

 Hans Aeschbach, 1955

Vintage Japanese poster

Italian ad for mothproofed wool, 1946 

 Raymond Savignac, 1952

 Vintage Japanese ad, 1950, 
thanks to another wonderful post at 50 Watts!

Kenji Itoh, 1954

 Gene Federico & Naiad Einsel

Rivers & Ponds

Jan Kudláček, Holčička a déšt, 1974, thanks to Arthur van Kruining

At long last, today it rained. It wasn't much, surely not enough for our scorched fields and forests,

 but just enough to lift our spirits and make everything cooler, fresher and greener. 

And Animalarium celebrates the day with a very watery post!

Feodor Rojankovsky, Ploof the wild duck, 1935,

via The Visual Telling of Stories

Dahlov Ipcar, Brown cow farm, 1959

Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Alenushka's tales, 1986 via HannaRivka

T. Chursinovoy, Askania amazing country, thanks to polny_shkaf

Leo and Diane Dillon, The Secret River

Brian Wildsmith, The Little Wood Duck, 1972

Nikita Charushin, Let the birds sing, 1985, thanks to Book Graphics 

Anna Pugh, Mill pond

Harriet Russell, Kensington gardens 

Uemura Atsushi 

 Leo Lionni, Fish is fish, 1970, via Curio Books

Marie Mahler

Japan Style

Ikko Tanaka, 1978

First of all, a very heartfelt thanks to all the readers who have been moved

by our little Emma's illness to comment, write letters and make donations, 

it's incredibly comforting to receive such wonderful expressions 

of warmth and affection! Hopefully I'll manage to somehow 

thank all of you individually in the near future...

Ikko Tanaka

Those who have been following Animalarium for a while are surely

aware of my fondness of Japanese art and design. To make up for

 the deplorable absence of Japanese artworks in recent months,

I have assembled a little hors d'oeuvre of highly stylized and refined 

posters from the crème de la crème of Japanese graphic design.

Bon Appétit! 

Yusaku Kamekura award 1999-2010, thanks to Gurafiku

Ken Miki

Shigeo Fukuda

Ryohei Kojima, thanks to Grain Edit

Hisami Kunitake, from Graphis 1969-70, thanks to Sandi Vincent

Ryohei Kojima

Kazumasa Nagai, 1991, thanks to I Desire Vintage Posters

Kiyoshi Awazu, 1984

Kenya Hara, 2005

Ukichi Matsomoto, from Graphis 1967-68, 

thanks again to the very stylish Sandi Vincent

Toshihiro Watanabe

Les Oiseaux Nouveaux

Flying on the wings of a brand new century

Theo van Hoytema, 1893

Otto Eckmann, 1896

Jugend Magazine, 1897

Walter Klemm

Camille Martin, late 1890s

Manuel Orazi, 1900, thanks to Peacock's Garden

Bruno Paul, 1901

Marcel Behmer, illustration for Die Insel, 1901

Book cover by B. Löffler, 1903

Edward Penfield, 1904

Anatoly Arapov, 1905

Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald, 1905

Karol Frycz, rolling papers ad, 1905

Galileo Chini tile, 1906

Hungarian postcard, 1910

For more turn of the century birds, you can visit the posts

Centenary Birds, Seasons of the Peacock and L'Animal dans la Décoration