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Andrew Wyeth
Dodge Ridge, 1947
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Tagged #Gene Tierney #Belle Starr #1941 #1940s #vintage #portrait #black and white #celebs #old hollywood #film #publicity still #photography #beauty Posted on 18 February, 2013Reblogged from donadrake
Ziegfeld Girl (1941) - “You Stepped Out of a Dream”
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Tagged #Andrew Wyeth #Christina’s world #art #painting #art history #1948 #1940s #20th century Posted on 3 February, 2013Reblogged from fcksofcknhgh
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Christina’s world by Andrew Wyeth (1948)
Tempera on Plaster, 82 x 121 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York
This painting is definitely one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century. It captures Christina Olson, a girl suffering from palsy who was a neighbor of the author in Maine. In the painting, she is slowly struggling to get to the house in the distance through the field. Wyeth made a comment about this piece and explained that he wanted to capture her extraordinary fight for life, which many people would regard as hopeless.
This painting is extremely detailed - every single hair and single blade of grass is painted separately. Wyeth struggled to capture the whole field for several months, and this struggle is believed to be the reflection of the effort the protagonist of the whole happening on the field is making.
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Tagged #Gaston Bussière #Gaston Bussiere #Nymph #nymphs #1941 #1940s #art #painting #art history #mythology Posted on 12 January, 2013Reblogged from locationandmovement-deactivated Source Flickr / hauksven
Hedy Lamarr candids ca. 1943
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Tagged #1944 #Teenagers necking in a movie theater #Nina Leen #1940s #vintage #portrait #photography #couple #movie theater #blakc and white Posted on 8 January, 2013Reblogged from vermeers Source onlyoldphotography
William Powell and Hedy Lamarr in Crossroads (1942)
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