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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 23h

What’s creepy, crawly, and actually super beautiful all over? Insects, that’s who. Aside from being timeless artistic and literary muses (where would Kafka be without the humble cockroach?), insects are some of humanity’s most enduring symbols.

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 1d

Photographer Marcy Palmer's "Burst" is poetic like Poe, cinematic like Stephen King, and elegant like Edvard Munch. This piece is part of her "Unearthing Series", which is about the space between the real and imagined. 20x200.com/products/bur...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 2d

Acclaimed photographer Tod Seelie’s super creepy, eerily gorgeous piece “Dead Tree Lake” was photographed during an exploration of a dam-created lake that now hides the remains of an old church beneath its surface. 20x200.com/collections/...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 3d

We’re all used to seeing orange and black artwork and decorations this time of year, but have you ever stopped to wonder why this classic Halloween color combo is what it is? It’s not by chance--it's rooted in ancient tradition! We hope you dig these orange and black-forward editions with candy:

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 4d

There's no better weaver than the spider! Though famous for his snowflake photography, Wilson A. Bentley’s brief foray into the study of raindrops resulted in some of his most ethereal and magical imagery--with some help, of course, from our eight-legged friends. 20x200.com/products/wil...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 5d

Before abstract art had a name, Hilma af Klint was already painting visions from beyond the veil. A true artistic trailblazer, she wasn't just putting brush to canvas, she was channeling messages from the spirit world. Spoooooooky....and inspirational! 20x200.com/collections/...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 7d

We love mixed media artist and painter Negar Ahkami’s intricate, moving work. “The textures and colors in my work pay tribute to Iran's ceramic traditions and jewel-like aesthetic.", she explains. 20x200.com/products/bac...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 8d

Part of what's so much fun about this time of year is the nostalgia--candy, costumes and gourds aplenty catapult us back to being little. Katie Baum's "Gumball Machine" brings the technicolor memory of it all back. 20x200.com/products/kat...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 9d

It's no secret that we here at 20x200 heart NYC. In yesterday's newlsetter (BTW, have you subscribed yet? The link is in our bio and we promise that you will be delighted), we shared some of our favorite images of the Big Apple: 20x200.com/collections/...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 10d

Roger Ballen, born in New York in 1950, is one of the most important photographic artists of the 21st century–and these two pieces, “Culprit” and “Based on the upside down”--are exemplary of his haunting style. 20x200.com/collections/...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 11d

Photographer Laura Bell’s “Black Cat” is an elegant, poignant representation of fear. In this piece, the cat is barely visible against its background, underscoring the way in which our own concerns can lurk, seen only to us. 20x200.com/products/bla...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 12d

Dark and complex, these four celestial maps illustrate the night sky as it was seen from New York City during the four quarters of the year...in the 1840s. 20x200.com/products/vis...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 13d

It’s every black cat’s favorite month…and this might be your new favorite piece of black cat-centric art. Drawn in 1894 by 19th c. English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, “The Black Cat” served as a sinister companion to Edgar Allen Poe’s story of the same name. 20x200.com/products/aub...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 14d

This piece is eerily stunning, no? Taken on July 29, 1878, “Solar Eclipse” by canonized landscape photographer Carleton Watkins powerfully, elegantly captures the exact moment the moon completely blocked the sun and cast a surreal shadow over the Earth. 20x200.com/products/car...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 15d

Orange you glad this is the color of the season? Besides being the hue of pumpkins both spiced and carved, orange is the color of fall leaves. It also shows up in some of our favorite paintings and photographs--after all, orange art brings warmth and energy into any space.

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 16d

When the great Bill Withers sang "Just caw me when you need a friend" in his song "Lean On Me", he probably wasn't talking about Sakai Hoitsu's iconic piece "Crows in the Moonlight"....but who can say? 20x200.com/products/cro...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 17d

It’s about time to get spooky, collectors! We’ve started seeing decorative gourds and skeletons on the lawn. Whether you're fully in the Halloween spirit or just tiptoeing down into the basement (where all your seasonal decorations are), we’ve goth something for you.

Browse by Mood: Dark + Mysterious

Artwork in this collection might be perfect for people of few words but with a rich inner world. Introspective and dreamy, with a bit of an edge, you’ll be thinking about these editions all day.…

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 19d

It’s harvesting season, and thusly, canning time! “Display of home canned foods” (Vintage Editions) is a stunner of a photograph–though undated, it is likely from the 40s…although how we can really hasn’t changed. 20x200.com/products/dis...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 19d

Golden leaves and a tight pose–the unfurling of a figure amidst the mustard foliage makes for a balletic image of fall’s arrival. Fares Micue’s gorgeous “Abundance is everywhere” reminds us of just that: 20x200.com/products/abu...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 20d

Esther Bubley’s “Saddle Shoes” was captured by the photographer in 1943. Those angular shadows and the way they interact with the lines of the stool itself emphasize the student’s scrunched-up perch atop her seat. 20x200.com/products/est...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 21d

Hay girl, hay! In both Russell Lee’s “Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado” (circa 1940) and Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii’s “Stog Siena” (circa 1905-1915), the fall crop takes center stage.

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 22d

John James Audubon's birds are often depicted in particular seasonal settings, and in “Plate 107: Canada Jay”, crispy turning leaves foil the creatures’ soft plumage. 20x200.com/products/pla...

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 23d

Did you know that on 20x200.com, there’s a whole section dedicated to Nursery Art recommended by our in-house curators? It’s true! Welcome your newborn to your home with engaging shapes and shades, playful patterns, and comforting animal friends. 20x200.com/collections/...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 24d

There’s something that makes the beginning of fall feel homey…we’re staying inside to start craft projects like the paint-by-numbers that inspire artist Trey Speegle's piece “Welcome Home”. 20x200.com/products/wel...

20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · 25d

By 1939, iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange’s photographic style was evolving. In “9:00 a.m. Four Pupils Attend This Day. Baker County, Oregon”, a shy, curious child looks back at her; it’s the perfect capture of the quiet tension between observer and subject. 20x200.com/collections/...