Sunday Safari - All the Pretty Horses

Romuald Socha, 1974

Waldemar Swierzy, 1969

Eileen Mayo, The children's circus book, thanks to The Visual Telling of Stories 

Witold Janowski

Erté

Brian Wildsmith, illustration from Circus, thanks to Tiny Tim

Art Seiden, Circus Animals, 1958

Vladimir Lebedev

Celestino Piatti, The Nok family circus, thanks to Vintage kids' Books My Kid Loves

Kira Kotliar

Otto Dix, Kinderalbum

Tadeusz Jodlowski

Marek Mosinski, 1968

Jan Mloddozeniec 

Herbert Leupin

Lesley Barnes


Merry Christmas Everyone!

Mad Men & Crazy Critters - The Cat's Pajamas

 Ted Bethune, 1963, thanks to Bob Caruthers

Cats are such good looking, funny and familiar animals.

So it's no wonder that most, if not all, the best commercial artists

have used cats to promote anything from shoes and fabrics

to home appliances and spark plugs!

Herbert Leupin, Enkalon

Donald Brun, Zwicky, 1953

Lucian Zabel, ca.1912

Tadeusz Gronowski, Radion, 1926

Two Puss in Boots posters, thanks to the Picasa Vintage Poster album by Pignouf

René Gruau, 1961

Dutch poster for Philips Tv, 1951, thanks to paul.malon

Hanns Lohrer, 1955, thanks to Mid–Centuria

Jacques Auriac

Jean Colin, 1950s

Two posters by Walter Grieder and a 1960 cover illustration of a mailing piece for Sanforized products

 by Irving Miller/Bernard Vincent, thanks to mid-century collector extraordinaire Sandi Vincent

Sunday Safari - Crocodiles' Smiles

Roger Duvoisin cover for The Crocodile in the Tree, thanks to Emma's blog

André François cover for Crocodile tears

 thanks to Moonflygirl's huge Vintage Children's Book Illustrations flickr set

 Robert Barry, illustration from Just Pepper, 1958,

 thanks to Rilla Alexander's beautiful Books I love flickr collection

Viktor Pivoravov, thanks to A Journey Round my Skull

 

Lane Smith

Herbert Leupin

Simona Mulazzani

 Meg Hunt

Marcello Minale, illustration from Creatures great and small 

thanks to Hazel Terry's great Classics of Childrens Illustration flickr set

John Alcorn,,illustration from La petite famille 

thanks to art.crazed's lovely Badly behaved flickr set

Sebastiano Ranchetti, Black Croc

Pablo Amargo, spread from El rIo que se secaba los jueves 

Pierre Pinsard, illustration from Petites contes negres pour les enfants des blancs, 1929