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.

 

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.

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

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)

 

"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!

 

 

 

 

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

For more Beka art see PhonoAds' Beka Record Illustrations.

 

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.

 

 

Iconic Wurlitzer Model 850 with Peacock front and 5¢, 10¢ and 25¢ coin mechanism, Wurlitzer Mfg. Chicago Il., c.1942.

 

 

Wonderful Wurlitzer Art Deco Model with three coin slots for 5¢, 10¢ and 25¢, Wurlitzer Mfg. Chicago Il., c.1942.

The New Yorker, May 28, 1955 School Room Ballet Performance with portable phonograph.

 

 

 

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

The New Yorker May 1952,

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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