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He joined the Halifax Art Society, and developed some skill with pen and ink sketches, and mezzotints. The Halifax Evening Courier published two books of his sketches, Sketches of Old Halifax in 1912 and Ancient Halls in and about Halifax in 1913, and also A Spring-Time Saunter: Round and About Bronte Land by Whiteley Turner in 1913 which he ...
Erté is perhaps most famous for his elegant fashion designs which capture the art deco period in which he worked. One of his earliest successes was designing apparel for the French dancer Gaby Deslys who died in 1920. His delicate figures and sophisticated, glamorous designs are instantly recognisable, and his ideas and art still influence ...
This is a list of sketches of notable people, or of their close relatives, drawn by Marguerite Martyn (American journalist, 1878–1948) and published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Bored Panda decided to jump on the bandwagon and search for the best vintage photos of 1960s fashion in action. It turns out people have been sharing pics of their parents and grandparents from ...
[5] In 1914 he met the eighteen-year-old "beautiful blonde" [5] Fanny Volmers, an employee of the Paquin fashion house, [3] whom he married later and who was the model for many of his works. [4] Icart participated in the First World War as a fighter pilot. During this time he made countless sketches and etchings with patriotic themes.
Other people who appeared in sketches were Calvert DeForest (a.k.a. Larry "Bud" Melman), and scenic designer Kathleen Ankers (reprising her Late Night role of "Peggy, the Foulmouthed Chambermaid"; on CBS, she was the equally censored "Helen, the Ill-tempered Ticket Lady").
Fashion illustration is the art of communicating fashion ideas in a visual form through the use of drawing tools or design-based software programs. It is mainly used by fashion designers to brainstorm their ideas on paper or digitally.
Eastman Johnson's career as an artist began when his father apprenticed him in 1840 to a Boston lithographer. After his father's political patron, the Governor of Maine John Fairfield, entered the US Senate, the senior Johnson was appointed by US President James Polk in the late 1840s as Chief Clerk in the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair of the Navy Department.