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We Heart Art
We ♥ art and design. From amulets to valentines, the heart in art.
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Heart Motif, Textile Design
Child's Chair
Heart with Attached Chain and Pin
Untitled (Heart, Lightning Bolt, Chilies)
Necklace
Playing Card Motif, Textile Design
Brooch
Vase
Quartz (var. amethyst)
La View Satirique, Allegorique, et Didactique
Locket in the form of a heart
I Love NY
Inkwell stand and lid
Heart Cone Chair
Necklace
The Court of Hearts (set design for Alice-in-Wonderland)
Queen of Hearts (costume design for Alice-in-Wonderland)
Powder compact
Nickolas Muray
Amulet in the form of a heart vessel
Heart Motifs, Textile Design
Stamp
Kessler...In Spiel der Mode
Lipstick case
Herman Miller Summer Picnic, July 25, 1987
Pendant
Chair
Untitled (Heart)
Box
Untitled (Hart/Heart)
Pendant
Love Poem--Poem by Michael Hannon
Pendant
"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point. All other things--to reign, to hoard, to build--are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages."--Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
“Oh! Frenchy”
Happy Valentine's Day
Bobby Sherman Lunch Box
King of Hearts (costume design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915
“Au Revoir, but Not Good-Bye (Soldier Boy)”
Niagara Falls 1969
Heart Attacks
Valentine
card,valentine
card,valentine
card,valentine
Beaded Heart
Amulet, of "heart-vase" form; (ab)
1997 Love Issue: 32c Swans single
1997 Love Issue: 55c Swans single
Red Heart, Beige Circle
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