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Imagine an intimate table for two on a balcony bridging dual worlds, or the pensive faces and seahorse sentry of a magical gateway to a watery realm. Daniel Merriam's surrealist art reveals a world of wonder, fantastic creatures, and Victorian architecture. Believing his paintings are conduits for his dreams and not just a product of them, he invites viewers to let the art take them on a journey full of adventure and delight. Featuring 12 of Merriam's detailed dreamscapes, this calendar will transport you to a new destination every month.

Louis Comfort Tiffany created a revolutionary aesthetic that brought the beauty of the natural world into the home via his manufacture of opalescent glass. With his pioneering development, artisans no longer achieved details by painting on glass, they now painted with glass, and Tiffany's brilliantly colored glass masterpieces took on stunning three-dimensionality. Having produced windows and blown glass for two decades, near the turn of the 20th century his studios began crafting the now-famous lamps that made Tiffany a household name. Designers such as Clara Driscoll-who won a bronze medal at the Paris World's Fair of 1900 for one of her shade designs-often interpreted Tiffany's aesthetics and his desire to illuminate nature. A dozen designs-nearly all attributed to her-are included in this calendar.The distinctive shades featured here are part of the New'York Historical Society's Dr. Egon Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass.

Ever curious about what lay beyond the horizon, explorers, merchants, and military forces have for centuries relied upon maps to help them describe and navigate our planet. Although historical maps were often skillfully drawn and meticulously plotted, their layout tells only part of the story. Using anecdotal evidence and sometimes scant geographical data for places they themselves may never have seen, cartographers frequently included fanciful or factual drawings to tease the imagination and the intellect-to wit, figureheads symbolizing the wind rose on a world map from Ptolemy's Cosmographia.Explore the world of old with this calendar's 12 antique maps from the British Library's collection of cartographic material.

Bask in the radiance of an amber sunset, sigh over the coziness of seaside cottages, and take in the beauty of the misty mountains with Deborah Phillips's vibrant Scottish landscapes. Following in the footsteps of her father, the well-known Scottish artist Douglas Phillips, Deborah was only 14 when her art was first exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Now her works are featured in galleries throughout Scotland, England, and Ireland. The 12 paintings in this calendar invite you to explore the highlands and lowlands of Scotland every day of the year.

Bicycles have long promised adventure and freedom, progress and hope. Their popularity blossomed in the late 1800s, coinciding with the rise of lithography and lavishly illustrated posters. With stylish typography and eye-catching compositions, artists of the day emphasized the pleasures and practicalities of cycling. Their dynamic posters celebrate the bicycle in advertisements from the likes of Griffon, Decauville, Peugeot, and Triumph. The 12 vintage posters presented in this calendar will capture your imagination and propel you through your year.

Dreaming of hitting the slopes? Visit winter playgrounds the world over with vintage posters offering the next best thing to schussing and gliding. Bold graphics and slogans evoke timeless pleasures, encouraging you to visit sunny Alberta in the Canadian Rockies (A Winter Wonderland!) or to ride the Boston and Maine Snow Train (No Effort, All Fun!). Tourism agencies and railroads alike commissioned posters advertising the thrill of the downhill and the luxuries of the lodge. Whether you seek adrenaline-fueled alpine runs, peaceful powdery vistas, or romantic getaways to charming ski towns, this calendar's 12 posters invite you to vacation destinations all year long.

A Canadian holiday by train meant a luxurious escape for the early 20th-century traveler. By the 1950s, with the surge of automobiles and airplanes, Canadian transit companies set about enticing passengers not only to their trains but also to their steamship lines and lakeside resorts. Artists designed vibrant posters to attract visitors pursuing both business and pleasure. These colorful advertisements often featured speeding locomotives and elegant passenger liners, but they just as often showcased Canada itself-its wild vistas and cultured ports of call, its majestic mountains and wondrous waterways. With this calendar's 12 vintage posters, bring the spirit of adventure home with you to enjoy every month of the year.

Before coast-to-coast highways and affordable airlines, trains were the long-distance transit of choice. Nearly every American town boasted a train station, and the sound of the midnight freight was ubiquitous. Railways were both a practical choice and a relatively attainable luxury, but it was the advertising that made the industry a success. Rail companies hired accomplished artists to create posters depicting enticing scenery and celebrating the romance and comfort of train travel, hoping to lure commuters and vacationers on board. Take the scenic route to days past with this calendar of 12 posters commemorating both the speeding locomotive and its many destinations across the US.

High-style vintage travel posters encouraged visits to England's historic landmarks, rolling hills, and tranquil waterways while enjoying the comforts and speed of rail excursions. Artists helped transform the image of travel throughout the United Kingdom, tempting would-be vacationers out of the cities to spend leisure time in such idyllic destinations as Newquay on the Cornish coast and the all-season pleasures of Scarborough. The posters reproduced here are a robust sampling of railway advertising output spanning the 1920s to the 1950s, when both accomplished landscape painters and little-known designers were hired to create these enticing scenes. Grab your ticket to a yearlong holiday visiting England's top destinations with this calendar of 12 vintage travel posters.

Mycological marvels! Whether edible or poisonous, all mushrooms can be appreciated for their astonishing variety of form, texture, and color. Mushrooms can also pack a powerful punch in terms of nutritional and medicinal values, and they are respected for their sustainability and low environmental impact. Experts enthuse about their potential to heal the planet's ills.Artist Alexander Viazmensky calls mushrooms "flowers of the woods." For decades he has specialized in painting life-size mushroom portraits and personality-filled bouquets. He teaches classes in botanical art in Russia and the United States, and his artwork is held in museums and scientific collections around the world. Twelve of Viazmensky's fantastic fungi have been gathered for you within this calendar. Each year features a new, fascinating selection of his watercolor images.

Using mouthwatering texture and a warm, luminous palette, Wayne Thiebaud created the images of cakes, pies, and other delectables that brought him international acclaim (check out Buffet!). But Thiebaud has also applied his formidable talents to a range of other subjects, among them still lifes, figural studies, and, notably, images of place. His "aerial" landscapes are highly realistic yet approach pure abstraction. His cityscapes, which often feature dizzyingly exaggerated hills and multiple or distorted perspectives, affect the viewer like a rollercoaster ride-while forming the elegant, sometimes startling compositions that make Thiebaud's work unique.

Some of Japan's most exquisite art exists in the form of hanging scrolls and folding screens. Japanese scrolls-usually made of silk or paper decorated with ink, gold leaf, and mineral pigments-may feature portraits or scenes from myth, Buddhist texts, everyday life, or the natural world, as in the delightful images reproduced here. Folding screens, usually composed of either two or six panels, feature a similar range of subjects, though they generally do not include religious scenes. Both beautiful and practical, these pieces are well suited to the changeable spaces inside a traditional Japanese home. Twelve elegant scrolls and screens, dating from the 18th to the 20th century, have been selected for this calendar.

Historically, quilts were often created to celebrate special occasions such as weddings and births and as tokens of remembrance for friends and loved ones. Now, they are deeply valued works of art that are sought after for their beautiful compositions, their authenticity, and their sentimental associations. From the commemorative Arnett Leftovers Album Quilt, each block personalized with an embroidered signature, to the colorful Mosaic Soldier's Quilt, intricately hand pieced from wool uniform remnants, the 12 quilts featured in this calendar represent snapshots of life. Experience history from a new perspective with these stunning quilts from the International Quilt Museum. The International Quilt Museum, located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, has the world's largest publicly held quilt collection, dating from the early 1700s to present day and representing more than 60 countries; the superb examples collected here celebrate the cultural and artistic significance of quilts.

The extraordinary works of art reproduced here communicate the aesthetic values and skill of their creators while revealing different aspects of Jewish culture. Paintings, prints, sculptures, and ceremonial objects all speak as evocatively about the Jewish experience in the world as they do about the unique power of art to both inspire and inform. Spanning several centuries, these works represent the enormous range of art in the unparalleled collection of the Jewish Museum in New York City. This calendar covers September 2024 (Av 5784) to December 2025 (Tevet 5786). In addition to its 16 images (one for each month), it includes major and minor Jewish holidays, the weekly Torah readings and candle-lighting times, and the blessings to be recited over the candles.

Bright and spotted with champagne bubbles that effervesce from the earth, Darlene Kulig's artworks are utterly joyful. Kulig refers to her style as semi-abstracted spirited landscape. Her stylized art builds on her experience as a graphic designer, and in each new painting she explores light, rhythm, color, and the life force of her subjects. The 12 images in this calendar reflect her home in Canada and her travels abroad.

After nearly a century of looking both inward and outward, Richard Mayhew creates what he calls "mindscapes," the essence of places remembered or imagined. His brilliant paintings allude to an "invented consciousness," a spirituality and connection to the land, inherited from his Native American and African American ancestors. The artist himself was immersed in the Civil Rights struggle and is a lauded member of the National Academy of Art, but he resists depicting overt themes of ethnicity or culture. Saturated with color and illusion, Mayhew's works evoke both the earthly and the transcendental. Twelve of his luminous paintings are on display in this calendar.

Romare Bearden imbued his work with a humanism that transcends time and place. Bearden, one of the 20th century's preeminent artists, painted with passion for the people, issues, and ideas that shaped the world. He depicted a variety of places and themes, among them the vibrant landscapes of the Caribbean and the lives of Black Americans-from rural towns to bustling cities, from intimate homeplaces to packed jazz clubs. The 12 images in this calendar showcase the broad range of his work and reflect the creative ferment of his era, through a career spanning 55 years.

Mark Rothko, a titan among modern painters, said that the subject matter of his paintings was the extremes of human emotion. His extraordinary achievement was the communication of tragedy and elation through forms reduced to starkest simplicity-oftentimes a pair of rectangles.Born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia), the artist emigrated to the United States at the age of 10. After a series of artistic metamorphoses, he established himself as a leader among New York's artistic avant-garde in the late 1940s, in that moment when the devastation of a global war shunted creative impulses into radically new directions. Rothko died in 1970 at the age of 66.The National Gallery of Art is the largest public repository of Rothko's works, with 1,100 works on paper and paintings on canvas and panel.

Herbs and spices have caused wars, saved lives, and deodorized the world's smelliest spaces. Herbs are even to thank for Columbus's initial visit to America; one of the missions of the voyage was a search for new trade routes to make European access to rare herbs and spices more convenient. Highly valued for their uses in cooking, medicine, and for aides in preservation, each herb image in this calendar is accompanied by interesting herb fact or figure. Enjoy the spice of life all 12 months of the year.

There is something arresting and exhilarating about the intimate connection between women and literature-an observation that has long captured the interest of artists throughout history. Whether reading letters from friends and loved ones, reviewing the daily news, or devouring the newest novel, the image of the reading woman has been a source of inspiration for many. Regardless of where or when they were created, these portraits are united by a common subject: women dedicating their time to the written word. This calendar features 12 scenes of women enjoying a variety of texts, accompanied by quotes from women about the importance and bliss of reading.

Christopher Marley's biophilic art showcases the awe-inspiring life-forms that make up Earth, highlighting the innate beauty of biodiversity. Combining a passion for entomology with a keen eye for design, Marley's kaleidoscopic works range from bug mandalas to striking arrays of specimens from a single genus. By working with institutions and organizations dedicated to animal husbandry, he is given access to organisms that die of natural and incidental causes, ensuring that creatures are never killed for his art. Twelve of Marley's stunning arrangements can be found in this calendar.

Contemplative and curious, the bears in Robert Bissell's universe are playful meditations on the inner lives of those creatures and, by extension, of human creatures. Whether immersed in the serenity of a redwood forest or entranced by a cloud of swirling butterflies, the bears draw us in and invite us to see ourselves, once again, as part of nature, our spirits interconnected in this multidimensional world. Bissell grew up on a farm in the English countryside, surrounded by animals and panoramic landscapes. Through his early career as a photographer and creative director, he gained insight into the human condition before turning to fine art full-time: "To me it is critical my work promotes an integral understanding of our world, helps raise consciousness and transforms people's lives." Let Bissell's zoomorphic bears guide you through the year with this calendar featuring 12 peaceful paintings.

Animals and plants go Midcentury Modern in Charley Harper's clever conservationist paintings. Inspired by backyard biodiversity and the wonders of nature preserves, Harper portrayed wildlife with heart and humor, in flat colors and simple lines. His depictions of various ecosystems and, above all, brilliant birds, showcased his trademark style of Minimal Realism. The 12 paintings here are as popular now as the day they were made, and they continue Harper's legacy as an artist whose work was a quiet catalyst for environmental action.