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Tag Archives: Portraits
1919: Buffer Girls
William Rothenstein: Buffer Girls (1919) “Buffer girls” were women workers in the Sheffield metal industries who polished cutlery and silverware.
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Factories, Great Britain, Labor, Painting, Portraits, William Rothenstein, Women
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1898: Self-Portrait with Demons
James Ensor: Poster for the Salon: Self-Portrait with Demons (1898) (source)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Belgium, Demons, James Ensor, Portraits, Printmaking
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1965: Portrait with Horns
Tom Morris: Portrait of Billy Eckstine (1965) (source) Billy Eckstine was a jazz singer and bandleader of the swing era; listen to his 1951 hit “I Apologize” here.
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Billy Eckstine, Demons, Drawing, Music, Portraits, Tom Morris, USA
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1642: An Undignified Pursuit
In 1642, the Italian diplomat Cardinal Jules Mazarin succeded Cardinal Richelieu as the Chief Minister to the King of France. Following the Thirty Years’ War, he played a major role in developing the notion of Westphalian sovereignty, the principle of … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, France, International Law, Italy, Jules Mazarin, Painting, Pierre Mignard, Poltical Science, Portraits
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1943: Nurse Hamaguchi
Ansel Adams: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi (1943) From Adams’s photographs of Japanese-American internment at Manzanar (here).
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Tagged 20th Century, Ansel Adams, Art, Asian-Americans, Photography, Portraits, Prisons, USA, Women, WWII
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1934: Striker
Virginia Matthews, secretary of the Philadelphia branch of the United Textile Workers of America (1934) (source)
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Tagged 20th Century, Labor, Photography, Portraits, Strikes, Unions, Women
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1901: Max’s Monkeys
Gabriel von Max: Abelard and Heloise (after 1900). Max and his wife lived with as many as 14 monkeys. Here are some more examples of his work:
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Austria, Gabriel von Max, Monkeys, Painting, Portraits
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1891: The Song
Thomas Wilmer Dewing: The Song (1891) More:
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Music, Painting, Portraits, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, USA
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2014: A Moroccan Man (1913)
Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop stages his self-portraits as historical photographs—complete with “original” dates. The photo above, for example, is titled A Moroccan man (1913); the one to the left is Dom Nicolau (Circa. 1830–1860). Both are from his 2014 … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 21st Century, Africa, Angola, Art, Colonialism, Dom Nicolau, History, Morocco, Omar Victor Diop, Photography, Portraits, Portugal, Senegal, Soccer
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1865: John Wilkes Booth Shot Me!
In a letter published in the April 1910 issue of The Journal of Psychical Research, a woman named Ella Hughes recalled a childhood connection to John Wilkes Booth and a strange dream of her mother’s at the time of Lincoln’s … Continue reading
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