The dancer Aniéka Yan · 1920s

Role portrait of the dancer Aniéka Yan. Published in Cinéa magazine, May 1921

**Henri Manuel ~** Dancer Anika Yan. Portrait of the dancer Anika Yan (Aniéka Yan), 1926 | src getty images

Vintage bathers

**J. Mandel ~** Jolie Baigneuse. French vintage postcard. Alfred Noyer stamp, numbered 405. | src eBay

Bather / swimmer training for the Olympic games in the lake in the Arboretum park, Los Angeles, 1932

General Picture News. January 5th, 1932 | src Drouot ~ Photographies de Presse

Drtikol · Composition w circle

**František Drtikol** (1883 – 1961) ~ Untitled [Female nude with circular and triangular structures], 1924. Gelatin silver print. | src Christie’s

**František Drtikol** (1883 – 1961) ~ Composition # 14, 1925. Stamp of Bromografia Podebrady. | src The Baruch foundation

French postcards · 1920s

French vintage postcard, 1920s | src eBay via Flickr

Tanzstudie · Mario von Bucovich

**Mario von Bucovich ~** «Tanzstudie». Luly von Meyern-Hohenberg. Die schöne Frau Nr. 2, 1926 | src ÖNB

«Tanzstudie». Luly von Meyern-Hohenberg. Atelier : Karl Schenker / Aufnahme : Mario von Bucovich

Bulgarian Ballads · 1921

Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Traianov, 1921; illustrator / engraver : Sirak Skitnik | detail from book cover

Bŭlgarski baladi / Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik. Book front cover | src modernism.scas.bg

Maika by Sirak Skitnik. Third illustration from the cycle Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921

Maika / Mourning mothers. From: Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik. | book scan from Alba

If you wish to learn more or read more about Sirak Skitnik and Bulgarian Modernism or Native Art, you may want to dig further here:

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Modernism and the National Idea in Bulgaria @ sledva.nbu.bg (in English)

The whole batch of illustrations from the book are available to be viewed (but in very poor resolution) at the NYPL

Сирак Скитник / Sirak Skitnik ~ Maika / Mourning mothers, 1920-1921
According to Irina Genova, there are three versions of this same composition

**Sirak Skitnik ~** (Opustoshenie / Devastation, 1920-1921
From : Bŭlgarski baladi / Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator / engraver : Sirak Skitnik

**Sirak Skitnik ~** Zaklinania / Incantation, 1920-1921
Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik (Zaklinania / Incantation). Book scan from Alba

Visual dialogue · Tornadoes

Tornado near Jasper, Minnesota, July 8, 1927 taken by 15 year old Lucille Handberg | src Billy Parrot Collection (view on Fb)

Two theories: the second tornado snapshot (on the bottom) had a Canedy’s Camera Shop 1927 date stamp on the verso. Canedy’s was in South Dakota and sold local souvenir snapshots (Bad Lands, Black Hills, etc…) between the 1920s – 1940s. It is also probable that when 15-year old Lucille Handberg took this photo her neighbor, who was an engineer, recognized its importance and sent copies to scientists around the country and these could be two of those. text adapted from source : Billy Parrot

Tornado near Jasper, Minnesota, July 8, 1927 taken by 15 year old Lucille Handberg

The images above this line are most probably scanned from newspapers of the time, we were not able to find the original source. The second image is from The Gallery of Natural Phenomena, where you can read more about the circumstances in which the photo was shot. [x]

Only the image below can be reached on the Library of Congress.

AWE-INSPIRING – This unusual photo of a South Dakota “twister” was made by Miss by Lucille Handberg at the risk of her life.
Published in New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.), August 6, 1928, page 14 | src Library of Congress

The classic photograph of a tornado taken near Jasper, Minnesota, on July 8, 1927 (Lucille Handberg) – Scan

Controversy arises : Jasper tornado of 1927 is, according to South Dakota Public Broadcasting (based on information from Siouxland Heritage Museums), the Sioux Falls tornado of 1932…

… view two images below.

The Deadly Sioux Falls Tornado of 1932. Siouxland Heritage Museums | src images of the Past

The Deadly Sioux Falls Tornado of 1932. Siouxland Heritage Museums | src South Dakota Public Broadcasting

Image of the *famous tornado* used on the cover of book ‘The Breath of God’ by Swami Chetanananda [作者] (1988) | src amazon

Image from the cover of book ‘The Breath of God’ by Swami Chetanananda, retrieved from internet archive

Cover of book ‘The Breath of God’ by Swami Chetanananda, retrieved from internet archive

Cover of *Tinderbox*, the seventh album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 21 April, 1986

Cover design of the album *Stormbringer* by Deep Purple (1974)

Cover of *Bitches Brew*, a studio double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released on 30 March, 1970

A Gothic visual dialogue

Film still from The Sorrows of Satan (D.W. Griffith, 1926), starring Adolphe Menjou, Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez and Lya de Putti
The screenplay was based on the Victorian gothic novel by Marie Corelli (1895)

Watch the film on YouTube ~ link to this scene : here

Nevertheless, our favorite scene takes place a few minutes before during the night in Geoffrey’s ominous mansion. Geoffrey’s wife, an exotic Russian princess in exile (Lya de Putti) confess Prince Lucio that she married Geoffrey only to be near him (Satan). Geoffrey awakens and creeps down the stairs to find his wife throwing herself at Lucio’s feet. It’s a suspenseful sequence with shadowy shots of the mansion that looks menacing. Link to scene

Read the novel on Project Gutenberg : The Sorrows of Satan or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire, A Romance : eBook