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With soft colors and saturated ambience, Utagawa Hiroshige's artwork invites you to experience the natural world as he knew it. One of the last great masters of Edo-period ukiyo-e painting and printmaking, Hiroshige created some of his most influential works during the final decade of his life. His works honor the past and the present, the timeless and the ephemeral in landscapes, flowers, and scenes of daily life. Hiroshige's extraordinary woodblock-print series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ranks among the greatest achievements of Japanese art. Issued from 1856 to 1858, these prints express the appearance and spirit of Edo at the culmination of more than 200 years of uninterrupted peace and prosperity.

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.

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 Cycles Peugeot, Premier Cycle Company, and Cycles Gladiator. The 12 vintage posters presented in this calendar will capture your imagination and propel you through your year.

For centuries, explorers, merchants, and military forces have relied on maps to help navigate our planet. Often skillfully drawn and meticulously plotted, these works of art require skill and creativity to produce. Using anecdotal evidence and scant geographical data, cartographers were known for including fanciful drawings to tease the mind and the imagination. Twelve antique maps from the British Librarys' collection of cartographic material invite you to go back in time and explore the world as it used to be.

In both his paintings and his design work, CJ Hurley strives to reclaim the idea that art is a way of life. Using his art as a lens to interpret the world around him, Hurley creates images that evoke peace and abundance as we take in the beauty of nature. With his inspiring landscapes that abound with colors and textures, Hurley exemplifies the raw, unrefined elements that he so admires. Known for incorporating human-made structures into his otherwise wild paintings, he does so in a way that highlights the interwoven relationship between natural and built environments. Bear witness to the lure of the land as you journey through 12 of Hurley's stunning creations in this calendar.

The British Columbia wilderness and the First Nations culture formed the two great themes of Emily Carr's work. Through her landscapes and haunting depictions of totems, she is deservedly considered the premier painter of Canada's Pacific coast. After training in San Francisco and Europe, Carr began her career in Vancouver, producing an impressive body of First Nations images in the year 1912. After a prolonged period of relative inactivity, at the age of 56 she returned to northern British Columbia and began painting the canvases for which she is most noted.

Advice from a crosshatched, glue-pot-toting gent of questionable intent? Yes, please, if the creator of said fellow is Edward Gorey! Gorey's characters regularly find themselves in odd, even disastrous, circumstances. They've seen their fair share of mishaps and are wiser as a result (if they haven't met their unfortunate ends, of course). Now, they're passing along their advice in this calendar's assortment of images from Gorey's Verse Advice. Weaving tales as unsettling as they are hilarious, Gorey paired ominous humor with vaguely Victorian style, whether he was designing stage sets and costumes or writing plays and books. Occasionally, though, he expressed a fondness for the little things in life. In 1993, the New Yorker first ran Gorey's Verse Advice, a series of 12 images printed in a four-page spread. From home improvement to social interaction, the advice in these illustrations is quite quotidian.