Most of the calendars I feature on my blog are meant, implicitly or explicitly, for women. These aren’t. Whether it’s Andy Warhol’s date book devoted to cars, or Dale Chihuly abstract work – I don’t think many men will be ashamed to walk around with most of these pop art planners.
Andy Warhol 2011 Hardcover Planner
The Art of Andy Warhol 2011 Hardcover Engagement Calendar, $16.99
Pop artist Andy Warhol is a source of continuing fascination and visual excitement. While he first worked as an illustrator, he grew most famous for appropriating images from popular culture and incorporating them into his paintings and silkscreen prints. Abrams’ 2011 Warhol datebook features more than fifty full-color images from the 1950s through the 1980s. It highlights the artist’s most fabulous and recognizable works of art along with a rich and rare selection of drawings, photographs, illustrations, and quotations.
Published by teNeues
Dale Chihuly 2011 Hardcover Planner
| Dale Chihuly 2011 Hardcover Planner, $16.95 |
More than just a practical way to view your schedule, this calendar features a week-at-a-glance schedule with a different image of Chihuly’s work on each facing page. Perfect as a gift to yourself, the calendar is a beautiful addition to your daily routine. Designed for convenience, the calendar’s hardcover makes a stable writing surface, and the Wire-O binding allows the calendar to open flat. The 2011 Chihuly Desk Calendar includes photography from recent installations at the Franklin Park Conservatory, Ohio and the Desert Botanical Garden, Arizona.
By Portland Press
Charley Harper Postcards 2011 Softcover Planner
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Whether his subject was birds, cats, squirrels, otters, or the wonderful world of bugs, American artist Charley Harper (1922 – 2007) made paintings filled with color, motion, and fun. The twenty-six lively paintings in this postcard calendar, easily detached for mailing, offer a well-rounded selection of Charley Harper’s work– Raccpack, Cool Cardinal, Treed, Twowls, and twenty-two more.
4 3/4″ x 6 ” postcards; 112 pages; Wire-O bound; matte-coated paper suitable for pen and pencil.
Published by Pomegranate
Charley Harper 2011 Hardcover Engagement Planner
| Charley Harper 2011 Hardcover Datebook, $14.99 |
Wildlife artist Charley Harper’s whimsical paintings portraying all kinds of creatures have delighted art and animal lovers for more than six decades. Harper (1922 – 2007), who came by his love of nature as a child in rural West Virginia, developed his unique style while
studying at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Students League of New York.
This bright and buoyant calendar showcases thirty-two of Charley Harper’s colorful animal abstractions, from Arctic Circle and Loonrise to Paradise Pals and Zoo Babies.
Published by Pomegranate
Frank Lloyd Wright Designs Postcards 2011 Softcover date book
Frank Lloyd Wright Designs Postcards 2011 Softcover Engagement Planner, $12.99
Shadows were the brushwork of the ancient architect. Let the modern now work with light. Many of the towers and textile-block facades designed by Frank Lloyd Wright sport handsome shadows, but his work in glass and other translucent materials neatly fits his modernist dictum. “What the people of our country need most,” said Frank Lloyd Wright, “is beauty of environment.” He spent his life filling that need. In an age of breakneck industrialization, Wright drew on technological innovations to create works in glass, metal, and other media that transcended strict functionality.
Sometimes clearly representational, often purely geometric, these designs dance between figuration and abstraction. From magazine covers to altar screens, this calendar presents a selection of twenty-six Wright designs, reproduced on detachable postcards suitable for mailing.
Published by Pomegranate
See also these planners and calendars with Museum level Fine Art.
