{"id":62752,"date":"2024-01-04T02:04:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=62752"},"modified":"2024-01-04T06:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T06:04:24","slug":"new-in-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/new-in-the-public-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"New in the public domain"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my previous survey of what’s in the public domain as of 1st January, I noted Charles R. Knight<\/a>, a fine prehistoric artist, whose works are now in the public domain as of 1st January 2024. I had the impression he was a dinosaur artist. He was, and Google Images very firmly gives the impression he was a dinosaur artist. But he was also an artist of prehistoric man, which brings his work into the realm of potential sources for later fantasy art styles. I note for instance his 336-page book Prehistoric Man: The Great Adventurer<\/em> (1949) is billed as “The saga of man’s beginnings in word and pictures”, by which the Stone Age is meant and apparently depicted in 25 plates. <\/p>\n

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This is not on Archive.org, and all they have is his Life through the ages<\/a><\/em> in B&W pencil-work, which covers the earliest ocean life through to the cave bears of the Stone Age. In the book one will also find some deliciously malign looking shellfish…<\/p>\n

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The depiction of some of his early prehistoric hunters, obviously not very popular today (but accessible via a museum site), reminds me of the style of Frazetta…<\/p>\n

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Earlier work reminds me of the Brothers Hildebrant.<\/p>\n

Turns out he was also the artist who did some of the astronomical hallway murals for New York City’s major Hayden Planetarium<\/a>, which Lovecraft enjoyed late in his life.<\/p>\n

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Also now in the public domain, and which I was unaware of before, the early American children’s storybook Millions of cats<\/a><\/em> (1928). Interestingly it shares some features with Lovecraft’s tales of Ulthar’s cats… namely the old cotter and his wife, and the encounter with a massed army of ‘cats’.<\/p>\n

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One wonders if Lovecraft ever saw it? The dating is right, and he must at least have seen reviews in the 1928 magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my previous survey of what’s in the public domain as of 1st January, I noted Charles R. Knight, a …<\/p>\n

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