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| Song of the Nile |
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| Artist: | L. Goddard (Rudolph F. Ingerle & L.G. Woolfenden) |
| Date: | 1931 |
| Medium: | Mixed media |
| Dimensions: | Sight Size 19 3/4" X 26 3/4" Framed 22 1/2" X 28" |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Original Use: | Original Published Art for American Art Works Calendar Company |
| Price: | $18,000.00 |
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| Above: Detail |
An exceedingly scarce original Art Deco Egyptian-themed mixed media work by L. Goddard used as a published calendar by The American Art Works Calendar Company, Coshocton Ohio in 1931 as Song of the Nile.
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| Above: Grecian Posed Maiden Detail |
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| Above: Dated 1931 Original Published Calendar print of original painting included in sale |
"L. Goddard" was the pseudonym for a pair of enterprising commercial artists: L.G. Woolfenden, a successful Detroit area commercial photographer, and Rudolphe/ Rudolph Ingerle a Vienna born fine art landscape artist who lived and exhibited, to great fanfare, at museums and galleries in Chicago in the early 20th century.
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| Above: Detail of Frame |
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| Above: The artists signature |
Their collaborative efforts resulted in some of the finest and most spectacular images to come out of the Calendar genre. The pair was known for fantasy-laden, Depression-era escapist themes: exotic Indian Maidens, Gypsies, Salomes, Art Deco Egyptian Beauties and Grecian maidens in vivid and evocotive dreamscapes.
The process of the creation of these works was ingenious:
Woolfenden would photograph models in studio settings and these photos would be sized, cut and applied to a canvas. Then Ingerle would create a scene around the figures using oil paints, adding colored details to the photographic element of the works to blend the mediums into a seamless and believable reproducable canvas. Here is a behind the scenes look at a couple of original studio photographs and their completed calendars as printed by Thomas D. Murphy.
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| Above: Posed photograph of model by Woolfenden |
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| Above: Finished L Goddard print from Thomas D Murphy |
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| Above: Posed studio photograph used by Ingerle to create painted scene |
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| Above: Finished Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company L.Goddard Sample |
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| Above: Largely ignored calendar company requests on verso of photograph for Ingerle |
Original works by this team are exceedingly scarce. The Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company destroyed most of the paintings they based their prints off of to prevent images being stolen and then reused by rival calendar companies.
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| Above: Notation on verso of archived Thos D. Murphy photograph noting that original painting of work was destroyed |
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| Above: Verso notations and print instructions |
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| Above: 1932 Goodrich Silvertowns Service Station calendar with artwork included in sale |
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