Category:Tea Leaf Art
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The image of a female fortune teller reading tea leaves has, since the 19th century, been a subject of gallery art, popular commercial art, and cartooning. One prominent 19th and 20th century painter who produced many variations on this theme was Harry Roseland. If you like art, you may enjoy my essay on Roseland's art and the Cuban spirit known as La Madama -- it covers several typyes of African American divination in addition to cup reading. While you're here, take a look at some of the vintage tea room postcards, tea room match book covers, tea room menus, and related tea room ephemera we have come across in our own research on the subject of fortune telling by tea cups. | The image of a female fortune teller reading tea leaves has, since the 19th century, been a subject of gallery art, popular commercial art, and cartooning. One prominent 19th and 20th century painter who produced many variations on this theme was Harry Roseland. If you like art, you may enjoy my essay on Roseland's art and the Cuban spirit known as La Madama -- it covers several typyes of African American divination in addition to cup reading. While you're here, take a look at some of the vintage tea room postcards, tea room match book covers, tea room menus, and related tea room ephemera we have come across in our own research on the subject of fortune telling by tea cups. | ||
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* [http://mystictearoom.com/lamadama.html Harry Roseland, The Black Fortune Teller, Mammy, and La Madama] | * [http://mystictearoom.com/lamadama.html Harry Roseland, The Black Fortune Teller, Mammy, and La Madama] | ||
Revision as of 23:15, 30 October 2020
The image of a female fortune teller reading tea leaves has, since the 19th century, been a subject of gallery art, popular commercial art, and cartooning. One prominent 19th and 20th century painter who produced many variations on this theme was Harry Roseland. If you like art, you may enjoy my essay on Roseland's art and the Cuban spirit known as La Madama -- it covers several typyes of African American divination in addition to cup reading. While you're here, take a look at some of the vintage tea room postcards, tea room match book covers, tea room menus, and related tea room ephemera we have come across in our own research on the subject of fortune telling by tea cups.
- Tea Leaf Symbols in Art
- Tea Leaf Reading in Art
- Harry Roseland, The Black Fortune Teller, Mammy, and La Madama
Pages in category "Tea Leaf Art"
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