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Here's to the centennial of Edward Gorey's birth! Frivolity at the edge of a Moral Swamp, anyone? With this special edition calendar's 12 images unearthed from the Gorey archive, you'll revel in a year's worth of crosshatched inscrutability from the master himself, as well as enjoying a collectible print of the drop curtain he designed for Amphigorey: The Musical. And unlike Neville, of Gashlycrumb Tinies fame (featured in March), you will most certainly not die of ennui as part of an abecedarium, no matter how celebrated that primer might be. A Renaissance man of boundless imagination, Gorey created more than 100 works, designed sets and costumes for theatrical productions, and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film, and animals. Gorey brought to life enigmatic, humorous tales from the laboratory of his mind, leaving his unique stamp on American art and culture.

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From a wintry scene of plein air painting to a game of peek-a-boo by a cozy fireplace, Carl Larsson captures the joys of his lively household with his intimate works of art. After Larsson and his family moved into their country cottage, Lilla Hyttnaes, he found artistic inspiration in visitors, relatives, and the house itself (for which his wife, artist Karin Bergoeoe, did much of the interior design). The idyllic image Larsson presented in his watercolors-particularly his series A Home-became widely popular, influencing Swedish art and design. Brighten your own home with this calendar of 12 paintings from one of Sweden's most beloved artists.

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Bold in color and composition but with a remarkable, sensual sensitivity, Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings stunned critics and the public alike. A pioneer of Modernism, she walked her own path in the art world, making noteworthy and influential progress without sounding any great fanfare of her own. Experimenting with abstraction and color, she created a style that is as original as it is powerful. O'Keeffe lived to be 98 years old and completed over 2,000 works-an oeuvre that has forever left its stamp on American art. Twelve of her striking depictions of flora are showcased in this calendar.

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With soft colors and saturated ambience, Utagawa Hiroshige's artwork invites you to experience the natural world as he knew it. One of the last great masters of Edo-period ukiyo-e painting and printmaking, Hiroshige created some of his most influential works during the final decade of his life. His artwork honors the past and the present, the timeless and the ephemeral in landscapes, flowers, and scenes of daily life. Hiroshige's extraordinary woodblock-print series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ranks among the greatest achievements of Japanese art. Several works from this magnum opus appear among this calendar's 12 images. Issued from 1856 to 1858, these prints express the appearance and spirit of Edo at the culmination of more than 200 years of uninterrupted peace and prosperity.

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William Seltzer Rice found endless inspiration in nature, creating a vast number of watercolors, drawings, photographs, etchings, and block prints. He arrived in Northern California in 1900, the early days of the region's Arts and Crafts movement. Rice taught in several schools, including the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland-a center for the movement. As a medium, block printing suited the Arts and Crafts ethos of making artwork available to a wide audience at modest cost. Being a skilled craftsman as well as an artist, Rice designed, carved, and printed the blocks all himself. Today his masterful artwork can be found in public and private collections worldwide.

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Inspired by aesthetic color palettes, Catherine Marion creates fully immersive, bespoke atmospheres in her designs featuring flowers, foliage, and animals. Her intention is to remind the observer of the rich diversity of natural beauty that can sometimes be overlooked in our busy lives. Take a moment to slow down and smell these intertwined blossoms. The 12 nearly neon patterns and illustrations in this calendar will brighten each month of your year.

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At his Giverny home outside Paris, Claude Monet indulged in his two favorite pastimes: painting and gardening. His translation of dazzling blooms and graceful greeneries to his canvases made him the master of French Impressionism. Photographer and horticultural designer Elizabeth Murray was a part of the team that helped restore the gardens to their full glory in the 1980s. Her firsthand knowledge of the grounds illuminates the 12 vivid photographs and their accompanying descriptions in this calendar.

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Claude Monet worked tirelessly to capture fleeting moments and sensations on canvas. His deep interest in how we perceive nature is ever present in his paintings, which reject rigid rules of subject matter, composition, and color. Monet helped lay the foundation for Impressionism, one of the most influential art movements in recent centuries. Experience 12 of his sen- sory memories via the paintings in this calendar.

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Cat lovers can attest to the unique personalities of their feline pets. B. Kliban took note, and with the publication of Cat in 1975, he pioneered a new genre of humor and established himself as one of America's top cartoonists. Kliban imagined the nuances of each of his fictional Cats down to their perfect party hat or desired desk decor, posing them in the most funny-bone-tickling of circumstances. The 12 delightful images in this calendar will call to mind real-life furry friends while brightening each month of your year.

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Dynamic composition and strong color form a common thread in the diverse, career-spanning works of midcentury American artist Richard Diebenkorn. One of the most influential artists during the decades after World War II, his work encompassed three major artistic evolutions: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and early Berkeley periods of Abstract Expressionism (1947-1955); the Berkeley figurative/representational period (1955-1966); and the Ocean Park (1967-1988) and Healdsburg (1988-1992) series of abstractions. The 12 paintings in this calendar were created during the Ocean Park years.

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While layers of metal leaf lend a literal shimmer, Joan Metcalf's oil paintings shine with a beauty and elegance all their own. Throughout the year, Metcalf finds inspiration in the gorgeous landscapes of the Pacific Northwest to create dynamic, large-scale scenes- from the dazzle of dogwoods to the glow of lunar energy. Bring the wonder of the changing seasons into your home with 12 of Metcalf's paintings, artfully arranged in this calendar.

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Schooled in French Impressionism and filled with national pride, a small community of artists came together in 1920 to form the Group of Seven, whose objective was to produce distinctly Canadian imagery. The impetus for this association was Lawren S. Harris, who firmly believed in the need for a national art movement. Harris painted the Canadian landscape with enthusiasm, capturing the majesty of its wilderness and its inherent spirituality. Featured here are 12 of his captivating images.

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The British Columbia wilderness and the First Nations culture formed the two great themes of Emily Carr's work. Through her landscapes and haunting depictions of totems, she is deservedly considered the premier painter of Canada's Pacific coast. After training in San Francisco and Europe, Carr began her career in Vancouver, producing an impressive body of First Nations images in the year 1912. After a prolonged period of relative inactivity, at the age of 56 she returned to northern British Columbia and began painting the canvases for which she is most noted.

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An artist both of her time and well ahead of it, Hilma af Klint was a rare original. Years before such Modernist pioneers as Piet Mondrian and Vasily Kandinsky dipped their brushes into abstraction, af Klint was breaking ground with colorful, energetic compositions that veered away from the figurative. Influenced by her experiences with spiritualism, she attempted to reconcile art, science, and religious pluralism through her brilliant paintings. In her lifetime she primarily exhibited her more conventional artwork and ultimately determined that the world wasn't ready for her abstract magnum opus, The Paintings for the Temple. She decreed in her will that her work not be shown for 20 years after her death. Now celebrated, the 12 remarkable temple pieces on display in this calendar were selected from one of af Klint's most imaginative and productive periods of experimentation. Explore the power of originality!

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Advice from a crosshatched, glue-pot-toting gent of questionable intent? Yes, please, if the creator of said fellow is Edward Gorey! Gorey's characters regularly find themselves in odd, even disastrous, circumstances. They've seen their fair share of mishaps and are wiser as a result (if they haven't met their unfortunate ends, of course). Now, they're passing along their advice in this calendar's assortment of images from Gorey's Verse Advice. Weaving tales as unsettling as they are hilarious, Gorey paired ominous humor with vaguely Victorian style, whether he was designing stage sets and costumes or writing plays and books. Occasionally, though, he expressed a fondness for the little things in life. In 1993, the New Yorker first ran Gorey's Verse Advice, a series of 12 images printed in a four-page spread. From home improvement to social interaction, the advice in these illustrations is quite quotidian.

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Some of Japan's most exquisite art exists in the form of hanging scrolls and folding screens. Japanese scrolls-usually made of silk or paper decorated with ink, gold leaf, and mineral pigments-may feature portraits or scenes from myth, Buddhist texts, everyday life, or the natural world, as in the delightful images reproduced here. Folding screens, usually composed of either two or six panels, feature a similar range of subjects, though they generally do not include religious scenes. Both beautiful and practical, these pieces are well suited to the changeable spaces inside a traditional Japanese home. Twelve elegant scrolls and screens, dating from the 18th to the 20th century, have been selected for this calendar.

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Treat yourself to one of the world's oldest sensory indulgences-tea! For millennia, the Camellia sinensis plant (the source of all tea) has been at the heart of cultures and culinary traditions, ecologies and economies. Globally, it is the most popular beverage, after water, and its consumption is on the rise. Still a beloved component of many time-honored practices-from the Japanese tea ceremony to the Moroccan custom for welcoming guests-this powerhouse beverage is increasingly studied for its beneficial health aspects and welcomed as part of changing taste trends. Matcha latte, anyone? Or how about an iced bubble tea? The options are endless. Find inspiration in this calendar's 12 lovely photographs and their accompanying tea lore. On your own or in good company, enjoy the refreshing tastes and aromas of tea.

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About 1,200 miles north of Toronto, the hamlet of Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, is home to a multigenerational community of Inuit graphic artists. Their cooperatively owned printmaking studios have been in continual operation since 1959, producing unique, captivating, and powerful images. Twelve of these remarkable prints adorn this calendar's pages.

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Bicycles have long promised adventure and freedom, progress and hope. Their popularity blossomed in the late 1800s, coinciding with the rise of lithography and lavishly illustrated posters. With stylish typography and eye-catching compositions, artists of the day emphasized the pleasures and practicalities of cycling. Their dynamic posters celebrate the bicycle in advertisements from the likes of Cycles Peugeot, Premier Cycle Company, and Cycles Gladiator. The 12 vintage posters presented in this calendar will capture your imagination and propel you through your year.

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German Renaissance artist Albrecht Duerer is held up as perhaps the most significant artist of his time, particularly for his printmaking. The son of a Nuremberg goldsmith, Duerer was introduced early to the tools in his father's trade. When he was eventually allowed to train as an artist, Duerer apprenticed to a local publisher before traveling throughout Europe, where he encountered artists who greatly influenced his work. Over the next few decades, he created woodcuts and engravings that revolutionized printmaking as a form of fine art. This collection of 12 woodcut prints from the collections of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art depict a range of subjects including the Last Supper, the Virgin Mary, and celestial intervention.

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Inspired by space exploration and the earthly delights of gardens and music, Alma Thomas created brilliant abstractions that place her among the most innovative American painters of the 20th century. Breaking from realism in the 1950s, she moved through abstraction and into expressionism before finding a niche in a mosaic compositional style and reveling in color theory. With vibrant works such as Starry Night and the Astronauts and Color Etude (or Spring Bouquet), Thomas improvised with light, color, rhythm, and an aerial perspective that interpreted her world in a new way. After over 40 years in education, Thomas retired and focused on her art, eventually becoming the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. With dazzling paintings like the 12 collected in this calendar, Thomas left her mark upon the history of Modern art.

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The delightfully frightful Addams Family has tickled the dark side of the public's funny bone for nearly 90 years. With the creation of Morticia, Gomez, Uncle Fester, and the whole quirky gang, Charles Addams put a satirical spin on the ideal family. His eccentric characters have become icons of popular culture, from cartoon strips in The New Yorker to television series, feature films, a Broadway musical, and much more. Thanks to this calendar's 12 cartoons, you'll revel in Addams' deadpan wit all year long.

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Imagine an intimate table for two on a balcony bridging dual worlds, or the pensive faces and seahorse sentry of a magical gateway to a watery realm. Daniel Merriam's surrealist art reveals a world of wonder, fantastic creatures, and Victorian architecture. Believing his paintings are conduits for his dreams and not just a product of them, he invites viewers to let the art take them on a journey full of adventure and delight. Featuring 12 of Merriam's detailed dreamscapes, this calendar will transport you to a new destination every month.

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Using mouthwatering texture and a warm, luminous palette, Wayne Thiebaud created the images of cakes, pies, and other delectables that brought him international acclaim (check out Buffet!). But Thiebaud has also applied his formidable talents to a range of other subjects, among them still lifes, figural studies, and, notably, images of place. His aerial landscapes are highly realistic yet approach pure abstraction. His cityscapes, which often feature dizzyingly exaggerated hills and multiple or distorted perspectives, affect the viewer like a rollercoaster ride-while forming the elegant, sometimes startling compositions that make Thiebaud's work unique.

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Contemplative and curious, the bears in Robert Bissell's universe are playful meditations on the inner lives of those creatures and, by extension, of human creatures. Whether immersed in the serenity of a redwood forest or entranced by a cloud of swirling butterflies, the bears draw us in and invite us to see ourselves, once again, as part of nature, our spirits interconnected in this multidimensional world. Bissell grew up on a farm in the English countryside, surrounded by animals and panoramic landscapes. Through his early career as a photographer and creative director, he gained insight into the human condition before turning to fine art full-time: To me it is critical my work promotes an integral understanding of our world, helps raise consciousness and transforms people's lives. Let Bissell's zoomorphic bears guide you through the year with this calendar featuring 12 peaceful paintings.

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After nearly a century of looking both inward and outward, Richard Mayhew creates what he calls mindscapes, the essence of places remembered or imagined. His brilliant paintings allude to an invented consciousness, a spirituality and connection to the land, inherited from his Native American and African American ancestors. The artist himself was immersed in the Civil Rights struggle and is a lauded member of the National Academy of Art, but he resists depicting overt themes of ethnicity or culture. Saturated with color and illusion, Mayhew's works evoke both the earthly and the transcendental. Twelve of his luminous paintings are on display in this calendar.

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After the fall of China's last imperial dynasty, Chao Shao-an sought to revitalize Chinese art and refresh the artistic connections with nature. Drawing inspiration from the West, he became a leader in his homeland's Modernist art movement while continuing to honor his ancient Chinese heritage. With fluid brushwork, vibrant colors, inventive compositions, and loose, expressive style, Chao Shao-an creates exquisite flower, bird, animal, and insect paintings that are grounded in the symbolism of his culture. Twelve of these masterful paintings are featured in this calendar for your enjoyment all year round.

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An admiration for the outdoors and the beauty of his homeland led British artist James Brunt to his signature style of meticulously arranged mandalas and other land art forms. The delicate placement of each stone, twig, or leaf is an immaculate balance of levity and gravity, a precious installment created with found objects and natural materials. Imagine the delight of stumbling upon one while on a hike or during a day at the beach! Replicating the geometric with the natural, his creations remind us of the temporal reality of our time on Earth. As the year passes, ponder the peaceful macrocosms of each of these 12 ephemeral art pieces washing away in the tide or blowing apart with the wind.

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Edward Hopper built his paintings around light. Filled with quiet and solitude, his paintings are often warmed by the sun: I like long shadows and early and late sunlight. I am . . . trying to paint sunlight without eliminating the form under it, if I can. In this collection, the light that so fascinated the artist bathes New England land and sea as it enters indoor spaces with geometric intensity. Hopper spent nearly every summer of his prolific career in New England. However, he was born and raised in Nyack, New York, studied painting at the New York School of Art, and wintered in Greenwich Village. The outcome of this dual residency is a body of work rich in rural landscapes and seascapes, as well as studies of city life. Twelve of Hopper's superb paintings, featuring both rural and urban scenes, are presented in this calendar.

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Alphonse Mucha's iconic linework gained popularity in Paris toward the end of the 19th century and to this day remains some of the most recognizable work from this time period. Producing lithographs advertising everything from champagne to theatre productions, Mucha and his portraiture of glamorous women draped in flowing gowns and pastel florals helped to define the Art Nouveau movement. He wrote of his work, I was happy to be involved in an art for the people and not for private drawing rooms. It was inexpensive, accessible to the general public, and it found a home in poor families as well as in more affluent circles. Sixteen of Mucha's decorative prints are reproduced in this calendar. Double images themed to the equinox and solstice grace each changing season.

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Tom Thomson loved the rough country of northern Ontario. His exploratory artistic style and his appreciation of the wilderness helped shape the style of the Group of Seven, though his untimely death prevented him from exhibiting with the Group. Thomson created hundreds of small oil paintings while supporting himself as a guide and forest ranger in Algonquin Park. Many of Thomson's oil sketches were executed in only a few hours, but they remain masterpieces of Canadian art.

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Inspired first by aesthetic color palettes, Catherine Marion creates fully immersive, bespoke atmospheres in her flowers, foliage, and animal-centric patterns. Her intention is to remind the observer of the rich diversity of natural beauty that can sometimes be overlooked in our busy lives. Take a moment to slow down and smell these intertwined flowers. The 12 nearly neon creations in this calendar will brighten each month of your year.

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With soft colors and saturated ambience, Utagawa Hiroshige's artwork invites you to experience the natural world as he knew it. One of the last great masters of Edo-period ukiyo-e painting and printmaking, Hiroshige created some of his most influential works during the final decade of his life. His works honor the past and the present, the timeless and the ephemeral in landscapes, flowers, and scenes of daily life. Hiroshige's extraordinary woodblock-print series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ranks among the greatest achievements of Japanese art. Issued from 1856 to 1858, these prints express the appearance and spirit of Edo at the culmination of more than 200 years of uninterrupted peace and prosperity.

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Mackintosh tea room wall decorations adorn these cards, complete with traditional tea room recipes offered on the back of each.

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Charley Harper's The Desert was originally featured on a poster commissioned by the US National Park Service. The painting includes an abundance and variety of flora and fauna, from the gila woodpecker (center) to the white-throated woodrat hiding beneath it. Nocturnal creatures blend into the darkness, but their eyes glow, ever alert! Harper made paintings filled with color, motion, and fun-as exemplified by this 1,000-piece puzzle.

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