Love is everywhere! In celebration of St. Valentine’s Day, here is a selection of some of the love themes we’ve experienced in our travels over the last couple of years.
The cover photo is Norwegian musician Aurora, whose artistic messages often sing the praises of love.
One of the world’s most famous advertising campaigns, an installation in the New York State Capitol Complex.
From the Lyndale Park Rose Garden in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Robert Indiana LOVE sculpture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Nora,” he said huskily, by Andrew Loomis, an illustration for a story in Ladies Home Journal in 1940. From the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Del.
Nothing says romance like a Pez breath mint! From the Pez Museum in Orange, Conn.
Fixing the Bicycle Wheel, 1969, Viktor A. Tsvetkov, at the Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, Minn.
A Valentine’s card from the Mustard Museum in Wisconsin.
A Valentine’s card from the Museum of Early Television in Ohio.
Covington (or is that Loving-ton), Kentucky.
Perhaps the most iconic romance novel of all time, a first edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice on exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library. (NOTE: Jennifer objects to labeling Pride and Prejudice as a “romance novel”).
Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown, an illustration for Shakespeare’s enduring romantic tragedy. On view at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Del.
Unconditional Surrender by J. Seward Johnson in Carmel, Indiana.
A Kiss for You! From the Hershey Museum, Hershey, Penn.
What’s more romantic than Montreal’s Christmas markets in December?
Untitled by Keith Haring, commissioned for the Live Aid benefit concert, 1985.
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