PhonoArtwork
Phonograph
Related Art in Museums and Popular Culture
This gallery is a small sampling
of artwork in museums and popular culture which have phonograph
connections. Some pieces were created for specific phonograph
ads by artists such as James Montgomery Flagg, Norman Mills Price,
J. J. Gould, Charles David Williams, Guernsey Moore, Alfred Triedler
and John E. Sheridan.
View the enlarged artwork and respective
details by selecting from the gallery below or by using the PhonoArtwork
Table of Contents.
Illustrations from books have additional
information and context in Phonographia's PhonoLiterature
Library (indicated below as "artwork" for the respective
book's title).
See PhonoAds
for more examples of art used in phonograph advertisements organized
by time periods and phonograph connected themes.
See PhonoPosters
for poster art with phonograph connections.
"Arrangement
with Phonograph, Mask and Shell" by Jan Matulka, c. 1930
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"Interior with Phonograph," Henri Matisse, 1924
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"Arrangement
with Phonograph" by Jan Matulka, 1929
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"Recording Sound," Theodore Roszak, 1932
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"His Master's Voice" by Francis Barraud, 1898
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"The Phonograph" a.k.a. "The Old Couple"
Massani, c.1906
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"Reproducing Speech," C. A. Kettles, Harper's
Weekly, 1878
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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 30, 1878
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Plate Series of Great Science Discoveries. c. 1905
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Walcutt &
Leeds Records, The Phonoscope, November 1896
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Marie
Rôze by Thure de Thulstrup,
1878
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The
Phonogram, August 1902 woodcut
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"A Family
Gathering" by Norman Mill Price
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"Getting
Things Ironed Out with Caruso," Charles Wysocki,
c. 1980
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Paris
Phonograph Shopfront by Lucien Boucher, 1924
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Moscow
Cafe by Boris Mihajlovic Kustodiev, 1916
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"Watching
the Music Come Out," Magnola Phonograph Co., 1917
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Listening
to an Aeolian-Vocalian by J. Henry, 1920 ad
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"Music
Unites the Family," Pathe Glass Slide, c.1922
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Saint
Bernard, Arthur Thiele, c.1920
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"The Phonograph"
by Gabriel Dauchot
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Nipper, The Flatwater
Folk Art Museum, Brownville, NE
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Merry Teens Paper Dolls
cover, 1953
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"Friends
from Across the Lake"
study by Haddon H. Sundblom
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Cover of Decca dealer's
brochure for Decca phonographs, 1955
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Edison in his lab demonstrating
his Phonograph by Peter Jackson, 1966
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"Bye
Bye Blues" by Ronald
Searle 1974
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The
Aristocrats,
©Disney Studios, 1970
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Lithograph
by Alexander Calder, 1976
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Wood-constructed
turntable by Walter Kitundu, 2007
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"The
Lovers," Jacob Lawrence, 1946
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"Rum,
Bum and Wind-up Gramophone" by Philip
Core, 1979
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"Tiny
Tunes Birthday" by Todd
Curtis, 1980
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"A Calabrian Worker’s
Roman Sunday" (Rocco with a Gramophone) by Renato
Guttuso
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Illustration
by Michael E. Sloan 1989
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"Yeah
Yeah
Girls" by Kerry Beary, 2005
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"Recuperando el silencio"
by Edwin Rojas, 2008
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L""Le
Gramophone" by Lucien Philippe Moretti, c. 1990
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Penn
Station in New York City display honoring Edison, 2006
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"Dreams
of Long Ago," lithograph, Norman Rockwell
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"A Funny Story,"
Chatterbox, 1911
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Lithograph
by George Pavis, 1929
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Picturetone
Children's Records, 1948
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"Saluting the Grammy's," Charles Fazzino,
3-D Serigraph, 2004
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"Birds
and Gramophone" by Schlomo Schwartz, c. 1985
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"Music
Hath Charms," George Grosz, 1922
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"The
Menaced Assassin" by René Magritte, 1927
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Teenagers
by Eve, c. 1970's
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Peaches
Records & Tapes, 1974
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Thomas
Alva Edison lithograph for cigar box, c. 1890
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"Sent
to Bed Too Early" Lithograph, Edison ad c. 1908
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Elena
Maria Ospina Mejia
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Illustration
by F. Hardy, 1929 from La Vie Parisienne
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"Imagination
is My Bestest Friend" and "Let Me Play Among
the Stars" by Fabio Napoleoni, c. 2012
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IRENE illustration
by Christoph Nieman for Diablo Magazine, 2008
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"Brian
Wilson's Broken Heart Club" by Pete McKee
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"Pacific
Sheets" by Gannam 1945 for magazine ad
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Bookplate,
Ex Libris, Artist:
V. Jakstas ca. 1980
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"Her
Mistress's Voice" by Grace Slick, giclee,
2000
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Clarabelle
Cow Collector's Card by Walt Disney Productions ©,
c. 1972
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"Music
-- so restful at the close of a busy day." by Hilma
Lehmann, 1922
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"People of Importance" by J.
H. Dowd, 1938
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"Voice from
the Past" by Herb Jones, 1992
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"Sita
Sings the Blues"
by Nina Paley & Stephen
Hersh c. 2002
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"Welcome
to the South Bronx" TATS
CRU Mural 2018
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"Books
Keep Us On Our Toes" 130th Tournament of Roses Parade,
UPS float, January 1, 2019
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Digital jukebox.
A "Work of art." Apple
Power Mac G4 Cube Brochure ©2001
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The La Victrola
Project - Burning Man, 2016 and 2017
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"PHONOGRAPHIC
" by JAPAN Anime Art, 2021
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"Hillbilly
Maestro" by Mark Fox, c. 2007
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"Let's
Go!" by John Striebel 1923
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"Society
Ladies and the Phonograph" by staff artist of Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 16, 1889
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"Santa
Claus Hides in the Phonograph" by Maud Trube, Chromolithograph
card, 1923
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"A Love Message"
by Guernsey Moore, 1908
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"A pleasure
shared is a pleasure doubled" by Charles D. Williams,
1907
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Lucius W.
Hitchcock, 1907
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John E. Sheridan,
March 1908
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John E. Sheridan, February
1911
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John E. Sheridan,
December 1910
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Adolph Treidler,
1910
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"When
Three is Company by James Montgomery Flagg, 1908
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Victor Ad
adapted from John T. McCutcheon cartoon, 1914
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"One touch of melody
makes the world world kin" by J. J. Gould, 1908
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"At the Christmas
Matinee" by J.J. Gould, 1908
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“Everybody's
Happy when a Phonograph Plays" by J. J. Gould, 1911
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"His
Message"" by James Montgomery Flagg, 1907
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Why the
Rubber Wasn't Played, J. J. Gould, 1908
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Look Under
the Lid by Norman Price, 1921
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"Recco,"
by Joan Cornellà, 2017
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Original
watercolor, unknown artist, 2015
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Rose O'Neill, December
1907
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"First
Recorded Sighting of the Big Nipper," by Sheila O'Hara,
1987
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"Morning
Glory" by Randy Souders, 1981
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Artwork for album cover,
Tony Wright, 1979
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"The
Rivals" by J.J. Gould, 1909
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"The
Wedding March" by Will Bradley, 1908
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Toy Story
"A Record Player" scene, ©Pixar Animation
Studios, 1999
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La Marseillaise, Etienne
Drian, 1915
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"The
Christmas of the Phonograph Records" cover
artwork by James W. Brown, 1966
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Pathé Records,
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, 1932
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"Miss
Columbia Celebrates the Fourth" by Rolf Armstrong,
1919
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"Art
& Max," by David Wiesner, 2010
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"Tea Rex" by
Molly Idle, 2013
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Man,
Woman and Phonograph by Oliver
Herford
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“Das neueste
Couplet” by Edward Cucuel, 1900
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"The Duet,"
by Kelly, Scribner's, 1878
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"The Phonoscope"
cover illustration, 1896
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Interior of the
Kinetographic Theater, by
E. J. Meeker, Century Magazine, 1894
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Lithograph,
Pam Wishbone, 2010
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"Phonograph,"
Andrea Lauren 2018
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Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre's
"Promenade" and a Gramophone by Eduard
Bersudsky
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Nipper
Metal Sculpture, Home Decoration, 1995
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Sonora Model with Louis
XV Deluxe DuBarry Phonograph, 2024
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You must
please your Record Customers by Morton, 1915
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"Boy Wanted"
by James Montgomery Flagg, 1920
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Beka Record,
1915
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Kay's Keepsake
Shop, Kay Lamb Shannon, 2000
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Borden's
Elsie, 1949
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Party Invitation by Castle,
1964
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Arrangement
with Phonograph, Mask and Shell
Artist: Jan Matulka,
c.1930
Media: Oil on
canvas
Location: National
Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.
Description:
This gramophone is a spring-powered disc player (note crank
on right-hand side) with an internal horn and open grill. This
model is typical of table top 78 rpm record players of the 1910's
and 1920's.
Arrangement
with Phonograph
Artist: Jan
Matulka, 1929
Media: Oil
on canvas
Location:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York
"Interior
with Phonograph," Henri Matisse, 1924
Media: Oil
on canvas
Description:
This interior scene is from the Matisse period where he featured
colorful assortments of fabrics and textiles.The wallcoverings,
drapes, rug and tablecover provide a rich setting for the open
horn phonograph partially cut-off in the picture. The record player
is a disc machine and appears to be a wooden horn model.
"Recording Sound," by Theodore
Roszak, 1932
"Theodore
Roszak celebrated the new recording technologies of the 1930s
with this light-hearted painted relief. The horn of the phonograph
resembles the ear of a listener, who hears the music and imagines
the world of the opera, pictured with comical plaster figures
on a tiny stage. Even the turntable, with one mechanical device
resembling a costumed figure, evokes the stage where the performance
occurred. A tiny balloon at the upper right suggests the fantasy
and escape that music can provide. Circles and spirals throughout
the image evoke the motion of sound waves and the grooves of
“sound” cut into the master recording.
Recording Sound
is in many ways a self-portrait. Roszak studied music, but chose
to pursue a career in art. He was making the transition from painting
to sculpture when he created this work, which has elements of
both. Roszak imagined himself as a kind of machine that absorbed
experiences, recreated them, and transmitted them to others, just
as the new recording technology replayed real events for new audiences."
- Exhibition
Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
His
Master's Voice
Artist: Francis
Barraud, 1898
Media: Oil
on canvas, 36" x 28"
Location:
Unknown
Description:
Barraud's terrier named Nipper listening to the Victor Talking
Machine. Painted 3 years after Nipper's death, this painting,
originally sold to the Gramophone Company, became the trademark
of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Edison had an opportunity
to purchase this image (with an Edison machine displayed instead
of a Gramophone) but declined.
Artist:
Massani, c.1906
Media: Oil
on canvas
Location:
Unknown
Description:
Edison used this painting (in this case as an advertising
postcard) in literally hundreds of thousands of Edison Phonograph
advertisements. Massani's painting was titled "The Phonograph"
but is often called "The Old Couple."
For more information
about this painting see Phonographia's "Massani's
"The Phonograph."
The Phonograph "Reproducing
Speech" from a sketch by C. A. Kettels, Harper's
Weekly, March 1878 (PM-1824)
Frank Leslies' Illustrated
Newspaper, March 30, 1878
Description: Wood
engraving originally from Frank Leslies' Illustrated Newspaper,
March 30, 1878. Image also used in FRANK LESLIE’S BOYS AND
GIRLS WEEKLY Illustrated Journal (New York), dated June
15, 1878. Featured in this issue is the article “WHAT IS THE
PHONOGRAPH?” containing the wood engraving (left): “PROFESSOR
EDISON EXHIBITING THE PHONOGRAPH TO VISITORS, AT HIS LABORATORY,
MENLO PARK” (7” X 9 1/2”).
The article reads,
“The simple piece of mechanism known as the phonograph, invented
by the now celebrated American, Thomas A. Edison, of Menlo Park,
N.J., must be regards as one of the most astonishing triumphs
of the human mind over matter...In mechanism the phonograph
is simplicity itself. It consists of a cylinder of brass, mounted
on a horizontal axis, supported by two bearers, and revolved
either by hand, clock-work or steam power...The groove between
the threads of the cylinder surface are intended to govern the
trace of the needle or point attached to the vibrator when passing
over the revolving surface. The vibrator is a small annular
frame of wood, over the orifice of which is placed a thin plate
of tin type...”
Graphic of Pathe Phonograph
- Plate Series of Great Science Discoveries. c. 1905 (FP1041)
Walcutt & Leeds Records,
The PhonoScope November 1896
Engraving
(hand-colored) of operatic star Marie Rôze
recording on an Edison tinfoil Phonograph from Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper, April 20, 1878 - illustrated by Thure
de Thulstrup (PM-1804)
Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 20, 1878, p. 111.
Man, Woman and Phonograph
by Oliver Herford from the Cabinet
of American illustration (Library of Congress).
"To the Discerning One who
appreciates a Good Thing, we commend our merchandise. A Phonograph
in the home gives pleasure & enjoyment. Much content and peace
of mind are thus attainable by a person musically inclined."
The National Phonograph Company
trade magazine, The Phonogram, August 1902 woodcut
A Family Gathering
by Norman Mill Price (American, 1877-1951)
Medium: gouache on board,
25 x 28 in. (63.5 x 71.1 cm.) Used in 1910 Victor Talking Machine
Co., Henneberry Company advertisement (courtesy artnet)
"Just as real, just
as enjoyable, in your own home" 1912
Getting
T"Getting
Things Ironed Out with Caruso," by Charles Wysocki, c. 1990
Media:
Oil on canvas
Location:
Unknown
Description:
This turn-of-the-century domestic scene depicts a contented cat
and dog listening to a phonograph while the woman of the house does
the ironing.
Paris
Phonograph Shopfront
Artist:
LUCIEN BOUCHER, 1925
Media: Lithograph
Description:
Original lithograph from Boucher's series illustrating Paris shopfronts.
They were gathered together as the album Boutiques in 1925
for prose poems by Mac Orlan. Printed and published in a total of
520 copies by Marcel Seheur, all on Arches paper. Sheet size: 225
x 185 mm ; Image size: 105 x
105 mm. (PM-0545)
Artist:
Boris Mihajlovic Kustodiev, 1916
Media: Oil
Location: © Bridgeman
Art Library / Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Little Maggie in a Magnola Talking
Machine Advertisement, The Talking Machine World, January
1917
"I have enjoyed hours and
hours of delightful music" advertisement art by J. Henry
for Aeolian-Vocalian, 1920
"Music Unites the Family,"
Glass Advertising Magic Lantern Slide, Pathé c. 1922
(FP0609)
"Beautiful songs knit
hearts together and make the home happier."
Saint
Bernard
Artist:
Arthur Thiele, c.1925
Location:
Image from postcard
"The Phonograph" by
Gabriel Dauchot
Lithograph 21.3" x 14.8"
Nipper, The Flatwater Folk Art
Museum, Brownville, NE
Merry Teens Saalfield Paper Dolls
cover, 1953 (courtesy Kathleen
Taylor)
Friends from Across the Lake
study by Haddon H. Sundblom
Oil on canvas, Painting 26 x 23.5
x 1.5 inches - private collection (Courtesy
MutualArt)
Cover of Decca dealer's brochure
for Decca phonographs, 1955 (PM-1955)
Edison in his lab demonstrating
his phonograph, watercolor by Peter Jackson 12" x 15",
1966
Edison demonstrating
his phonograph. Published in Treasure, a British educational
magazine for young children, August 20, 1966.
"Bye
Bye Blues," Ronald Searle 1974
Media:
Lithograph
Artist:
©Disney Studios, 1970
Artist:
Alexander Calder, 1976
Media: Color
lithograph on paper
Description:
Alexander Calder's signature is written inside the stylistic spiraling
grooves of a record
Artist:
Walter Kitundu
Media:
Wood-constructed turntable
Location:
Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA 2007
Description:
This wood-constructed turntable relies on earthquakes for power.
Displayed in the "Beats Per Minute" exhibition at the
Museum of Craft and Folk Art.
"The
Lovers," Jacob Lawrence, 1946
Media: Oil
Location: Unknown
Description:
Romance is a common theme for the phonograph in its role of providing
"mood music."
"Rum, Bum and Wind-up
Gramophone" by Philip Core, 1979
Media: Painting, 145 x 175 cms
Postcard ©Philip Core from
the book Philip Core: Paintings 1975-85 (PM-1402)
"Tiny Tunes Birthday,"
by Todd Curtis, 1980
©Todd Curtis, Paper Moon
Graphics (PM-1403)
"A Calabrian Worker’s Roman
Sunday (Rocco with a Gramophone)" by Renato Guttuso, 1960-1961,
The
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Illustration by Michael E. Sloan for book
review of The Sound of My Voice by Ron Butlin, December
31, 1989
"Yeah
Yeah Girls" by Kerry Beary, 2005
Media:
Acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20" (PM-1817)
AArtist:
Kerry Beary, 2004
Media:
Acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"
Artist:
Kerry Beary, 2006
Media: Acrylic
on canvas, 12" x 12"
Description
from the artist: My inspiration comes from a myriad of things.
I collect mid-century, Danish modern, 50's and 60's art, furniture,
accessories, and fabrics. My husband and I purchased a modern home
in sub-tropical Louisiana, built in 1953, and have been filling
it with all things retro, vintage, Tiki, and fabulous! My paintings
contain elements from my home, especially the lamps, patterns, and
furnishings. My models are a blast from the past: photographs of
my mother, who was a 50's and 60's fashion hair and makeup diva,
advertisements, and of course the glamour of Hollywood and all those
wonderful television shows! Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, Bewitched,
I Dream of Jeannie and so on. The clothes, the hair, the accessories,
the decor; these old things are new again and here to stay. We have
been collecting and acquiring these items for many years from many
places: New York City, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Southern California,
and right here in the Deep South!
"Recuperando el silencio,"
by Edwin Rojas, 2008 (Figurative, Surrealist) (private collection)
L"Le
Gramophone," Lucien Philippe Moretti, c. 1985
Limited
Edition Lithograph, 26" x 21" (PM-0554)
Description:
Lucien P. Moretti was a people-watcher, said to never be without
his drawing pad. Moretti captured interesting characters and faces,
and in this lithograph ot multiple vignettes he features a young
girl listening to a gramophone.
Penn
Station in New York City had this display on view in 2006 celebrating
New Jersey's contribution to culture and civilization. Sponsored
by the City of Newark, NJ, an artistic interpretation of Edison's
early Phonograph is seen here with another Edison contribution,
moving pictures, to the right.
D"Dreams
of Long Ago," Norman Rockwell
Media:
Lithograph with pencil signature from edition of 200 (PM-1805)
Description:
The model for this Saturday Evening Post cover of August
13, 1927 was James Van Brunt. Posed next to a Victor Talking Machine
he held a Victor record titled, 'Dreams of Long Ago.'
"This
record was recorded by Enrico Caruso, an Italian tenor whom Rockwell
had met during his work at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1912.
The lyrics include "shadows are falling and I sit alone/My heart
recalling Memories when you were my own. Van Brunt's pose and expression
in this piece suggest a wistful nostalgia for a time passed."
The Norman Rockwell Museum
"A
Funny Story," published by "Chatterbox," 1911
Media:
Print, 7 1/4" x 5 1/2" (PM-0793)
Artist:
George Pavis, 1929
Published
by Fantasio (?)
Media:
Lithograph
Picturetone Records packaging
for 6 Folk Dances, Unbreakable Children's Records, 1948 (FP1404)
"Saluting
the Grammy's," by Charles Fazzino, 2004
Media:
3-D Serigraph, 15" x 17.5" (limited edition)
Bird"Birds
and Gramophone" by Schlomo Schwartz, c. 1985
Media:
Mixed media, watercolor, chalk and gouache, 19 1/2" x 27"
(PM-0611)
Description:
Shlomo Schwartz was born in Bukovina, 1934, imigrated to Israel
in 1948. He studied art with Aharon Avni, and continued studies
at the Avni Institute of Art and Sculpture under the direction of
Moshe Mokadi, his persomal instructors were Marcel Janco, Stematzky,
Streichman and others.
Die
M"Music
Hath Charms," George Grosz, 1922
Media:
Monochrome Lithograph 7'' x 9.5" (PM-1209)
Description: This
piece was illustrated by popular German artist George Grosz (1893-1959)
was known for his irreverent caricatures of life in Berlin during
the 1920s. Before he emigrated to the United States in the early
1930s he was a member of both the Dada movement and a verist of
the New Objectivity group in Weimar Republic of Germany. While in
the US, he ventured away from caricatures, preferring instead to
focus on landscapes and watercolors.
"The
Menaced Assassin," by Rene Magritte, 1927
Media:
Oil, canvas, 195.2 x 150.4 cm
Location:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Description: "The
Menaced Assassin" is a 1927 oil on canvas painting by Belgian
surrealist artist René Magritte. The main subject of the painting,
a blood-smeared nude woman, is seen lying on a couch. The assassin
of the painting's title, a well-dressed man, stands ready to leave,
his coat and hat on a chair next to his bag. He is however delayed
by the sound of music, and in an unhurriedly relaxed manner, listens
to a gramophone. In the meantime, two men armed with club and net
wait in the foyer to ensnare him, as three more men also watch from
over the balcony. (Information
from en.wikipedia.org)
Teenagers in the style
of Margaret Keane Big Eyes
Artist: Eve
c. 1970's (PM-0643)
Peaches Records & Tapes first
opened in 1974 on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles as a music and
entertainment retailer. "They were known for huge reproductions
of the album covers of the latest releases on the side of its buildings
and for selling records from wooden crates with the chain's colorful
fruit-crate style logo on the side". Wikipedia
Peaches filed for bankruptcy in 1981.
Thomas Alva Edison lithograph
for cigar box, c. 1890 (PM-1153)
"Sent to Bed Too
Early," Edison lithograph advertisement c.1908
Size: 37 x 28 (30 x 20.25
visible)
Sold by Wm
Morford Auctions 2011
Artist:
Elena Maria Ospina Mejia
Location:
Unknown
Description: Elena
Maria Ospina Mejia is a painter, illustrator and cartoonist from
Columbia. This image was found on the European
Cartoon gallery website.
Artist:
F. Hardy
Media:
Illustration on paper
Description: This
illustration by F. Hardy is from the French magazine La Vie Parisienne.
The 1929 image depicts a sultry smoking lady playing a record on
the gramophone.
"Imagination
is My Bestest Friend" by Fabio Napoleoni, ca. 2012
Limited
Edition Giclee on Paper, 10" x 14" (Original
Oil, 18" x 24")
Let
me p"Let
Me Play Among the Stars" by Fabio Napoleoni, 2013
Limited
Edition Giclee on Paper, 10" x 14" (PM-1477)
IRENE illustration by Christoph Nieman
for Diablo Magazine article "Going
on Record" by Justin Goldman, July 2008 (1)
Brian Wilson's Broken
Heart Club
From Pete McKee's ©Great
Moments in Music collection and courtesy of Pete McKee
"His nemesis struck
for the last time." Print
available for purchase at Shop
McKee
Design for Love
From Pete McKee's "Thud
Crackle Pop"© collection and courtesy of Pete McKee
Print
available for purchase at Shop
McKee
Watch
Episode 1 - Pete McKee Art History Video for more details about
Pete McKee and his art.
"Pacific
Sheets," by Gannam, 1945 (PM-0898)
Description: This magazine ad from
1945 features a young woman enjoying her record player, telephone
and lush bed sheets. The next generation of teens would replace
these 78's and have a stack of 45 rpms playing music in their bedrooms.
Ex
Libris Bookplates
Media:
Mixed media, watercolor, chalk and gouache
Description:
Ex Libris Bookplates, 8.0 x 6.0 cm (PM-1202, PM-1203, PM-1204)
Description:
Ex Libris Bookplate by RK, 1962, 2" x 3"
"Her
Mistress's Voice" by Grace Slick
Limited
Edition Giclee, 2000 (PM-0635)
Description: "Lampooning
both R.C.A and Maxell tape, the girl is blown away” - Grace
Slick
CClarabelle
Cow, Walt Disney Productions ©
Media:
Card stock 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" (PM-0349)
Description: This
image is from a Walt Disney Vintage Card issued in Sweden in the
early 1970s.
"Music
- so restful at the close of a busy day." by Hilma Lehmann (PM-0547)
Watercolor,
1922
Description: Sonora's
trademark was a bell with the slogan "Clear as a Bell."
This sketch was for a Sonora advertisement for a trolley car sign.
Artist:
J. H. Dowd
Black
and white print from book of children's drawings, "People of
Importance," illustrated by J. H. Dowd, 1938
5 1/2"
x 8 3/4" (PM-0842)
Description: J.H.
Dowd is said to have captured "simply and beautifully the characteristic
actions and ever changing moods of children," as illustrated
in this pencil drawing print.
"Voice from the Past"
by Herb Jones, 1992
Egg tempera painting
of gramophone on a sand dune brought to the beach. 13
3/4" x 9 1/4" edition of 1500 prints (PM-0849)
Sita
Sings the Blues, c. 2003
Artist: Nina Paley &
Stephen Hersh
South
Bronx TATS CRU Mural 2018
Welcome to the South
Bronx. East 134th Street and mural by TATS CRU with record player.
Credit: Devin Yalkin
for The New York Times
The UPS Store, Inc. float, winner
of the 130th Tournament of Roses Parade Sweepstakes Award,
Pasadena, CA, January 1, 2019 (Courtesy
AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker)
Another angle of the
UPS Store, Inc. float with gramophone leading the way - Courtesy of
Pasadena Star-News
For additional phonograph
related floats visit Phonographia's Phonograph
Floats
Digital jukebox. A "Work
of art."
Apple Power Mac G4 Cube
Brochure ©2001 Apple Computer Inc. (PM-1340)
The La Victrola Project
- Burning Man, 2016 and 2017 - See website
for more details
From a distance, La Victrola’s
35-foot high horn has a distinctive physical signature. A closer
look reveals panels of perforated steel with hand-riveted sheet
metal ornaments. Two tons of graceful curved steel ribbing allow
this beautiful structure to float on its massive single arm. Nestled
deep in its horn, a small speaker crackles away with a long lost
song. Its Art Nouveau details and subtle lighting help transport
viewers to a distant time and place. At the Burning Man Arts festival
in 2016 and 2017, La Victrola produced interactive cabaret shows
nightly featuring burlesque, jazz, blues, bellydancing and a 40
person orchestra. Information courtesy the La
Victrola Project.
Necomi Illustration Works
"PHONOGRAPHIC ", Necomi Illustration Works, JAPAN Anime Art, 2021
"Hillbilly Maestro"
by Mark Fox, ca. 2007
12" x 12" Acrylic
on wood (PM-1878)
"Let's Go"
by John Striebel, 1923
Chicago Sunday Tribune
cover art of woman with record (PM-1813)
"Society Ladies
and the Phonograph" by staff artist of Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper, February 16, 1889
"Society Ladies
and the Phonograph -- Scene at the St. Valentine's Market New
York City"
Hand-colored woodcut
print (PM-0764)
"Santa Claus Hides
in the Phonograph" by Maud Trube, chromolithograph card, 1923
Insert card for Little
Tots' Nursery Tunes, No. 5 The Christmas Book, Regal Record Company,
NY (PM-1304D)
"A Love Message"
by Guernsey Moore, 1908
Advertisement used by
Edison in February and March 1908
This image with a flowered horn was
used for an Edison "artistic eight-color hanger." Most
magazine ads, however, featured a black morninglory horn. The flowered
red horn was not offered by Edison at the time when Moore painted
this picture. This discrepancy was noted by some of Edison's dealers
who complained about Edison advertising something that Edison wasn't
actually selling.
The Edison Phonograph
Monthly, March 1908
"A pleasure shared
is a pleasure doubled" by Charles D. Williams, June 1907 (PM-1903)
"When Three is
Company" by James Montgomery Flagg, January 1908 (4.5"
x 6.5") (PM-2108)
Lucius W. Hitchcock,
September 1907 (PM-1904)
John E. Sheridan, March
1908 (PM-0862)
"One touch of
melody makes the whole world kin" by J. J. Gould, Colliers,
1908
"Why the Rubber
Wasn't Played" by J. J. Gould , 1908
J. J. Gould, 1908 (PM-2076)
John E. Sheridan, December
1910
John E. Sheridan, February
1911
Painting for Victor
ad adapted from the Chicago Tribune cartoon of John T. McCutcheon,
1914 (PM-1968)
"Something to enjoy
in the evening, at home, without effort." Adolph Treidler, 1910
(PM-0808)
"Phonograph"
by Andrea Lauren, 2014 (PM-0866)
Original watercolor,
unknown artist, 2015 (PM-0521)
Print by Tony Wright
for album cover, 1978 (PM-0520)
"Morning Glory"
print by Randy Souders, 1981 (PM-0524)
“Das neueste Couplet”
woodcut print after watercolor by Edward Cucuel, 1900 published
by Moderne Kunst (PM-0766)
Lithograph, Pam Wishbone,
2010 (PM-0865)
Nipper Metal Sculpture
Sculpture is handcrafted
of cut steel, brushed brass and hand painted finish 38" x 17" x
8" and weighs 12 lbs. Consumer home decoration (sold by J.C. Penny
et al. in 1995 for $275.00). (FP0199)
"Look Under the
Lid," by Norman Price for the Victor Talking Machine Co.,1921
(PM-2023)
"Recco,"
by Joan Cornellà, 2017 (PM-0632)
Edison Phonograph Christmas
Ad by Rose Oneill, December 1907
"The Rivals"
by J. J. Gould, 1909
"The Wedding March"
by Will Bradley, 1908
Film image from Toy
Story 2, ©Pixar Animation Studios, 1999
"La Marseillaise" by Etienne
Drian in Gazette du bon ton: Arts, modes & frivolités.
Paris: Lucien Vogel, Summer 1915. (Fashionably dressed woman "listening
to the Marseillaise," En Guerre, French Illustrators and
World War I by Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein, University
of Chicago Library, 2014, p. 102)
"Record Player" by Paul
Allan Burns, ca. 1960s ©Rose
Valley Art. Paul Callan Vincent Burns (1910 - 1990) is known
for magazine illustrations and fine art portrait painting.
Cover artwork by James W. Brown for
"The Christmas of the Phonograph Records" by Mari Sandoz,
University of Nebraska Press - Lincoln Copyright © 1966 by the Estate
of Mari Sandoz
"The Christmas of the Phonograph
Records" is on
the bookshelf
of Phonographia's PhonoLiterature Library where more information
about this book and Mari Sandoz's "Recollection" about
the phonograph and its records can be found.
Advertising poster
for Pathé Records, Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, 1932
"Miss Columbia Celebrates the
Fourth" - The Ladies' Home Journal, July, 1919 artwork
by Rolf Armstrong (PM-0864)
"Art & Max
" by David Wiesner, Clarion
Books - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston New York ©2010
"Art & Max'
" is on the bookshelf
of Phonographia's PhonoLiterature Library where more information
about this book can be found.
"Tea Rex" by
Molly Idle Published by Penguin Young Readers Group, ©Viking 2013
"Tea Rex" is on the bookshelf
of Phonographia's PhonoLiterature Library where more information
about this book can be found.
Edison ad by J.J. Gould,
Success Magazine, May 1911
Today's
Housewife
for December, 1919 - The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company
In Vol. 1, No. 1 of the new journal
"The Phonoscope" in November, 1896 the editor asked
the following question: "There Is an optical Illusion in
our title "Phonoscope" on the cover. Can any of our readers point
It out?"
"The Duet,"
by Kelly, Scribner's, November, 1878 - Edison making a duet
recording on his tin-foil Phonograph.
Scribner's, November,
1878, p. 97
Interior of the Kinetographic
Theater by E. J. Meeker, Century Magazine, June 1894, p.
207.
Picture and text copyright
Antonia and W. K. L. Dickson, 1894.
The Bar Room Scene (1894) directed by
W. K. L. Dickson "Showing the wind-up of a political discussion. Dramatis
personae: A Democrat, a Republican, a Bar Maid, and a Policeman."
IMDB
Ibid.
"I believe in coming
years...that grand opera can be given at the Metropolitan Opera
House at New York without any material change from the original,
and with artists and musicians long since dead." -- Edison's
letter on page 1 of article "Edison's Invention of the Kineto-Phonograph"
by Antonia and W. K. L. Dickson in Century
Magazine,
June 1894, p. 206.
"You must please
your Record Customers" by Morton. Lyon & Healy Victor
Distributors ad in The
Talking Machine World, April 1915.
Sonora model with Louis
XV Deluxe DuBarry Phonograph, 1924 Sonora Phonograph
Company, Inc. Catalogue, New York (Form 423-354 Printed in U.S.A.)
Judge Magazine
cover "Boy Wanted" by James Montgomery Flagg, March 6,
1920
Beka Record - The Best
Disc in the World, The
Talking Machine World, December
15, 1908
Party Invitation by
Castle cards, Los Angeles, 1964
Elsie dancing in Borden's
ad, Life, 1949 (PM-2140)
Kay's Keepsake Shop,
Kay Lamb Shannon, Litho published by Scafa Art, NY, 2000
This lithograph includes
an open horn Victor Talking Machine and other nostalgic pieces and
potential consumer collectibles in a shop in 2000. Other notable
popular culture items besides the phonograph are Raggedy Ann in
an antique high-chair, Dr. Pepper, NuGrape and Coca-cola soda memorabilia,
an 1890's mantle clock, an ornate kerosene table lamp, children's
alphabet wooden blocks, a Pillsbury Doughboy cookie jar, a toy train,
period clothes and furniture. Any of these objects could trigger
an association, a memory or a purchase.
REFERENCE
MATERIAL
The Edison Phonograph
Monthly proudly noted in their December 1907 issue that the
illustrations now appearing in Edison "magazine advertisements
are reproductions from a series of sketches drawn especially for
us by a number of leading artists of the country. They are the most
expensive illustrations that have ever been made for talking machine
advertising and are, in our opinion, the most artistic."
The Edison Phonograph
Monthly, December 1907
Advertisement used in
magazines by Edison in June
and July 1907 by Charles D. Williams
Advertisement in August
1907 by J. J. Gould.
Advertisement in September
1907 by Lucius W. Hitchcock.
Advertisement in October
1907 by Forrest Halsey
Advertisement in November
1907 by James Montgomery Flagg
Advertisement in December
1907 by Rose Cecil Oneill Latham Wilson
Advertisement in January
1908 by James Montgomery Flagg
Advertisement in February
1908 by Guernsey Moore
Advertisement in March
1908 by John E. Sheridan
Advertisement in April
1908 by Will Bradley
Advertisement in May
1908 by J. J. Gould
Advertisement in August
1908 by J. J. Gould
Advertisement in November
1908 by J. J. Gould
Advertisement in February
1911 by John E. Sheridan
Advertisement in August
1911 by John E. Sheridan
Advertisement in May
1911 by J. J. Gould
"A pleasure shared
is a pleasure doubled" by Charles D. Williams, June 1907 (The
Edison Phonograph Monthly)
J. J. Gould, August
1907 magazine advertisement
Lucius W. Hitchcock,
September 1907 magazine advertisement
Forrest Halsey, October
1907 magazine advertisement
"His Message,"
James Montgomery Flagg, November
1907
Rose Cecil Oneill Latham
Wilson, McClure's, December 1907
Advertisement in January
1908 by James Montgomery Flagg
Advertisement in February
1908 by Guernsey Moore
"A man's voice anyhow"
Edison ad by J. J. Gould, August 1908
Advertisement in March
1908 by John E. Sheridan
Advertisement in April
1908 by Will Bradley
Advertisement in May
1908 by J. J. Gould
Advertisement in August
1908 by John Newton Hewitt
"The Rivals"
by J. J. Gould, March 1909
Advertisement in December
1910 by John E. Sheridan (PM-952A & PM-952B)
Advertisement in February
1911 by John E. Sheridan (PM-0951)
Edison advertisement
by J.J. Gould, Success Magazine, May 1911
Advertisement in August
1911 by John E. Sheridan (Edison Phonograph Monthly)
Advertisement in November
1911 by John E. Sheridan (PM-0952)
"In 1999, Keizo
Kitajima photographed the apartment in Chicago where, unknown to
others, the outsider artist Henry Darger created fantasy worlds
only revealed near his death." (Credit - Keizo Kitajima
and Yukiko Koide Presents, Tokyo) New
York Times
This photograph of Darger's
apartment where he created his art and literature includes a six-degrees
of separation 1920's phonograph, perhaps once providing music to
the room or maybe only an artifact with some other connection...or
not.
PhonoArtwork Table
of Contents (by title)
Apple
Digital jukebox - a "Work of art."
Apple Power Mac G4 Cube
Brochure ©2001
The
Aristocrats, ©Disney Studios, 1970
"Arrangement
with Phonograph," Jan
Matulka, 1929
"Arrangement
with Phonograph, Mask and Shell," Jan Matulka, c. 1930
"Art
& Max," by David Wiesner, 2010
Artwork
for album cover, Tony Wright, 1979
"At
the Christmas Matinee" by J.J. Gould, 1908
Beka
Record, 1908
"Birds
and Gramophone," Schlomo Schwartz, c. 1985
"Books
Keep Us On Our Toes" 130th Tournament
of Roses Parade, UPS float, January 1, 2019
"Boy
Wanted" by James Montgomery Flagg, 1920
"Brian
Wilson's Broken Heart Club," Pete McKee
"Bye
Bye Blues," Ronald Searle, 1974
"A
Calabrian Worker’s Roman Sunday" (Rocco with a Gramophone)
by Renato Guttuso
Clarabelle
Cow, Walt Disney Productions ©,
c. 1972
"The
Christmas of the Phonograph Records," by James W. Brown,
1966
“Das
neueste Couplet,” Edward Cucuel, 1900
Dancing
on the Beach Lithograph, George Pavis,
1929
Decca
dealer's brochure for Decca phonographs, 1955
"Did
you ever make a Phonograph record?"
John E. Sheridan, 1911
"Dreams
of Long Ago," Norman Rockwell, 1927
"The
Duet," by Kelly, 1878
Edison
Display at Penn Station in New York City,
2006
Edison
in his lab demonstrating his Phonograph, Peter Jackson, 1966
Edison
"Operator" lithograph for cigar box,
c. 1890
The
Edison Phonograph as Christmas Present,
Rose O'Neill, 1907
Elephant
watercolor, unknown artist, 2015
Elsie
dancing in Borden's ad, 1949
“Everybody's
Happy when a Phonograph Plays" by J. J. Gould, 1911
EX
LIBRIS bookplate, V. Jakstas, c. 1980
"First
Recorded Sighting of the Big Nipper," Sheila O'Hara, 1987
"For
it's always fair weather when good fellows get together,"
John E. Sheridan, March 1908
"A
Family Gathering," Norman Mill Price, 1910
The
foxes tail plays a record, Pam Wishbone,
2010
Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,
March 30, 1878
"Friends
from Across the Lake" study by Haddon
H. Sundblom
"A
Funny Story," Chatterbox, 1911
"Getting
Things Ironed Out with Caruso," Charles Wysocki, c. 1980
"Le
Gramophone," Lucien Philippe Moretti, c. 1990
Heart
for Phonograph Diaphragm/Stylus, Elena
Maria Ospina Mejia
"Her
Mistress's Voice," Grace Slick, 2000
"Hillbilly
Maestro," Mark Fox, c. 2007
"His
Master's Voice," Francis Barraud, 1898
"His
Message," James Montgomery Flagg, 1907
Illustration
for The Sound of My Voice, Michael E. Sloan, 1989
Illustration
of man and phonograph in the pub, The Phonogram, 1902
Illustration
of Pathe phonograph and family on plate from series of Great
Science Discoveries, c. 1905
"Imagination
is My Bestest Friend" and "Let Me Play Among the Stars,"
Fabio Napoleoni, c. 2012
"Interior
of the Kinetographic Theater" by E. J. Meeker, Century
Magazine, 1894
"Interior
with Phonograph," Henri Matisse, 1924
IRENE
illustration, Christoph Nieman, 2008
Kay's
Keepsake Shop, Kay Lamb Shannon, 2000
"Let's
Go!" John Striebel, 1923
Listening
to an Aeolian-Vocalian, J. Henry, 1920
Lithograph
with stylistic record grooves, Alexander Calder, 1976
"Look
Under the Lid," Norman Price, 1921
"A
Love Message," Guernsey Moore, 1908
"The
Lovers," Jacob Lawrence, 1946
Man,
Woman and Phonograph, Oliver Herford
Marie
Rôze
by Thure de Thulstrup, 1878
La
Marseillaise, Etienne Drian, 1915
"The
Menaced Assassin," René Magritte, 1927
Merry
Teens Paper Dolls cover, 1953
"Miss
Columbia Celebrates the Fourth" by Rolf Armstrong, 1919
"Morning
Glory," Randy Souders, 1981
Moscow
Cafe, Boris Mihajlovic Kustodiev, 1916
"Music
Hath Charms," George Grosz, 1922
"Music
-- so restful at the close of a busy day," Hilma Lehmann,
1922
"Music
Unites the Family," Pathe Glass Slide, c.1922
Nipper,
The Flatwater Folk Art Museum, Brownville, NE
Nipper
Metal Sculpture, Home Decoration, 1995
"One
touch of melody makes the world world kin," J. J. Gould,
1908
"Pacific
Sheets," Gannam, 1945
Paris
Phonograph Shopfront, Lucien Boucher, 1924
Pathé
Records, Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, 1932
Party
Invitation by Castle cards, 1964
Peaches
Records & Tapes, 1974
"People
of Importance," J. H. Dowd, 1938
"Phonograph,"
Andrea Lauren 2018
"The
Phonograph," Gabriel Dauchot
"The
Phonograph" (a.k.a. "The Old Couple"), Massani,
c.1906
"PHONOGRAPHIC,
JAPAN Anime Art, 2021
"The
Phonoscope" cover illustration,
1896
Picturetone
Children's Records, 1948
"A
pleasure shared is a pleasure doubled," Charles D. Williams,
1907
"Recco,"
Joan Cornellà, 2017
"Recording
Sound," Theodore Roszak, 1932
"Record
Player" by Paul Allan Burns, ca. 1960s
"Recuperando
el silencio" by Edwin Rojas, 2008
"Reproducing
Speech," C. A. Kettles, Harper's Weekly, 1878
"The
Rivals," J.J. Gould, 1909
"Rum,
Bum and Wind-up Gramophone," Philip Core, 1979
Saint
Bernard, Arthur Thiele, c.1920
"Saluting
the Grammy's," Charles Fazzino, 3-D Serigraph, 2004
"Santa
Claus Hides in the Phonograph," Maud Trube, 1923
"Sent
to Bed Too Early" lithograph, Edison ad c. 1908
Sharmanka
Kinetic Theatre's "Promenade" and a Gramophone by
Eduard Bersudsky
"Sita
Sings the Blues,"
Nina Paley & Stephen Hersh c. 2002
"Society
Ladies and the Phonograph," staff artist of Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper, 1889
"Something
to enjoy in the evening..." Adolph Treidler, 1910
Sonora
Model with Louis XV Deluxe DuBarry Phonograph, 2024
Sophisticated
woman with phonograph, F. Hardy, 1929
"Tea
Rex", Molly Idle, 2013
Teenagers
in the style of Margaret Keane
Big Eyes, Eve, c. 1970's
"Tiny
Tunes Birthday," Todd Curtis, 1980
"This
year make your Christmas instrument an Edison Phonograph",
John E. Sheridan, 1910
Toy
Story 2 "a record player" scene, ©Pixar Animation
Studios, 1999
"An
Unfailing Source of Real Entertainment," Lucius
W. Hitchcock, 1907
Victor
Ad adapted from John T. McCutcheon cartoon,
1914
The
La Victrola Project, Burning Man artists, 2016 and 2017
"Voice
from the Past" by Herb Jones, 1992
Walcutt
& Leeds Records illustration, The
Phonoscope, November 1896
"Watching
the Music Come Out," Magnola Phonograph Co., 1917
"The
Wedding March," Will Bradley, 1908
"Welcome
to the South Bronx," TATS
CRU Mural, 2018
"When
Three is Company" by James Montgomery Flagg, 1907
"Why
the Rubber Wasn't Played" by J. J. Gould, 1908
Wood-constructed
turntable, Walter Kitundu, 2007
"Yeah
Yeah Girls," Kerry Beary, 2005
You
must please your Record Customers by Morton, 1915
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