Resurrected Relics: Reviving Paul Pfurtscheller’s Charts
Restorations, Process, History Rebecca Tillett Restorations, Process, History Rebecca Tillett

Resurrected Relics: Reviving Paul Pfurtscheller’s Charts

Long before the age of digital imaging, Austrian zoologist and artist Paul Pfurtscheller (1855–1927) created a breathtaking series of zoological wall charts that turned classrooms into miniature cabinets of curiosities. First published in 1902, his works fused scientific precision with artistic elegance, depicting insects, worms, snakes, and other creatures in striking detail. More than a century later, many of these charts survive only through damaged or poorly scanned reproductions—but through careful digital restoration, we’re bringing them back to life one by one.

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Vaults of the Unhinged: Fortunio Liceti’s Book of Monsters
Vaults of the Unhinged Rebecca Tillett Vaults of the Unhinged Rebecca Tillett

Vaults of the Unhinged: Fortunio Liceti’s Book of Monsters

In 1616, Italian physician and philosopher Fortunio Liceti published De monstrorum caussis, natura, et differentiis libri duo (On the Causes, Nature and Differences of Monsters, in Two Books). The first edition was largely text-based, but by the time the second edition appeared in Padua in 1634 (often dated 1633)—published by Paulus Frambottus—the work had transformed into something extraordinary: a quarto volume of over 260 pages, illustrated with a gallery of the grotesque.

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Decomposition
Framed Work, Real Insect Rebecca Tillett Framed Work, Real Insect Rebecca Tillett

Decomposition

I’ll leave you the light from my eyes, baby
when they go dim
All the sounds I couldn’t hear but wished I could
I’ll leave you my mother’s will to live
The softest grass for your bare feet
And my father’s peace with surrender
But not the turmoil, baby

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Despair at Dawn Engraved
Framed Work, Poetry Rebecca Tillett Framed Work, Poetry Rebecca Tillett

Despair at Dawn Engraved

Light arrived without warmth, pressing on my chest
Morning bird song too much like sirens
Traveling away from me
Until the silence absorbs them
And I hear only the weeping echo
from the empty room behind my bones
A lifeless aquarium where a heart once dwelled
Or an endless ocean
I couldn’t bear to cross
To face another day

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Eve Before the Cosmos
Photo Collage Rebecca Tillett Photo Collage Rebecca Tillett

Eve Before the Cosmos

Still the unrepentant tongue. They claim creation was loud, but don’t mention the sweet silence of her becoming. Her inky shadow unraveling and peaking and staining galaxies with the light and dark of being long before God claimed them.

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Framed Art Goals
Framed Work Rebecca Tillett Framed Work Rebecca Tillett

Framed Art Goals

Last year I posted a video stating that only around 25% of the frames we purchased to frame our art for shows were used/vintage. (Roughly 75% were purchased new.) We had a goal to flip those numbers.

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Introducing Luis Ricardo Falero
Photo Collage, Prose, Restorations Rebecca Tillett Photo Collage, Prose, Restorations Rebecca Tillett

Introducing Luis Ricardo Falero

We’re super excited to announce the addition of six restored works by the spellbinding Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero to our Restored Reproductions collection. Known for his masterful blend of mythology, astronomy, and dark fantasy, Falero captured the 19th-century imagination with richly detailed nudes, witches, and celestial beings rendered in luminous, otherworldly settings.

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High Priestess
Photo Collage, Prose Rebecca Tillett Photo Collage, Prose Rebecca Tillett

High Priestess

Hush. The ache before the answer. Hush. Do you feel it? Your ears are like satellites searching for submarines. Single engine planes circling Everest. Challenger Deep is calling. Go. Until you find the keeper of veils and the hollowed truth. Howling the gospel of molecules and wonder at the conquered moon.A moroi is a type of vampire or ghost in Romanian folklore—the origins of the word are unknown but may have come from the old Slavonic word, mora, meaning nightmare.

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Gold Foil Embellished QWN Bees

Gold Foil Embellished QWN Bees

If you’ve seen us at a show anytime in the last yearish, you may have caught a glimpse of one of our striking special edition silver and gold foil embellished QWN Bees in a fancy antique frame (unless it’d already sold, she sells almost every time and we only bring one) but I’ve finally convinced Mike that we should sell limited edition silver and gold foil embellished PRINTS of her. We’re asked at every show.

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Ocho Años y Cinco de Mayo
Art Collage, Personal Rebecca Tillett Art Collage, Personal Rebecca Tillett

Ocho Años y Cinco de Mayo

We got married cinco de mayo at the Denver courthouse (no witnesses needed); a very impromptu decision after discovering the week before that my health insurance at my new job would charge me extra to add him as a “domestic partner” instead of a spouse. (Super romantic!)I couldn’t tell you everything I was feeling in the moments proceeding the birth of my daughter because there were so many: love, awe, fear, humility, joy…

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Despair at Dawn
Art Collage Rebecca Tillett Art Collage Rebecca Tillett

Despair at Dawn

As far back as I can remember, I have struggled intensely with mornings. No matter the state of my mental health—or my life—at any point in time. Even at my (seemingly) overall happiest or most content, my first thought upon waking is: I just want to die. Please take me.

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The Last Judgement
Restorations Rebecca Tillett Restorations Rebecca Tillett

The Last Judgement

In the 1420s and 1430s, when oil and panel painting were still in their infancy, vertical formats were often used for depictions of the Last Judgement, because the narrow framing particularly suited a hierarchical presentation of heaven, earth and hell.

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The Sin and The Confession
Postcards, Postcard Rebecca Tillett Postcards, Postcard Rebecca Tillett

The Sin and The Confession

Two years ago I stumbled on this totally scandalous 1880 painting from Heinrich Lossow. It’s called The Sin. I wasted no time in deciding to turn it into one of our postcards and I thoughtlessly, naively landed on Good Night and Good Fuck as the perfect copy to overlay on this instead of, wait for it—

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