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From the estate of legendary Ziegfeld Follies photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston comes this beautiful portrait of Follies showgirl Barbara Dean. Noted illustrator J. Knowles Hare was commissioned by impresario Flo Ziegfeld to create pastel illustrations of his glorified American girls based upon the the sittings between Johnston and the showgirls.

Ziegfeld Follies Beauty Barbara Dean Portrait

Artist: J. Knowles Hare
Price:  $2,950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, Alfred Cheney Johnston, american, art nouveau, Barbara Dean, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, J. Knowles Hare, portrait, showgirl, Ziegfeld Follies
Added to Gallery: April 27, 2016

From the estate of legendary Ziegfeld Follies photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston comes this portrait of Follies showgirl Naomi Johnston. Noted illustrator J. Knowles Hare was commissioned by impresario Flo Ziegfeld to create pastel illustrations of Ziegfeld's glorified American girls as they were captured by photographer A.C. Johnston, for a variety of display and publicity uses. The finished pastel […]

Naomi Johnson Ziegfeld Follies Portrait

Artist: J. Knowles Hare
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, Alfred Cheney Johnston, american, art nouveau, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, J. Knowles Hare, maiden, Naomi Johnson, portrait, Ziegfeld Follies
Added to Gallery: April 27, 2016

In her most erotically charged, fur clad pose, Marie Prevost is the epitome of the jazz age flapper in this rare early 1920s view. One of Edwin Bower Hesser's classic portraits, this showgirl inspired Hollywood glamour portrait captures a soft-focus and decadent view of the scandal-ridden star, who is now as much remembered for her tragic death as her glorious career. This large-format, double weight, matte finish photograph is an unusual and important look at the cult icon in her prime.

Marie Prevost in Erotic Flapper View

Artist: Edwin Bower Hesser
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, Edwin Bower Hesser, erotic, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, Marie Prevost, portrait, risque, showgirl
Added to Gallery: October 30, 2011

In an unusual blonde hatted view by George Hurrell, Joan Crawford is captured in her most captivating glory by the master of Hollywood photography George Hurrell. In a gentle sepia on a large format double weight semi-gloss paperstock, Hurrell captures the beauty of the young Joan Crawford, with her effortless art deco style, and emboldened flapper sensibility. This is blindstamped by Hurrell lower right, and inkstamped on verso.

Pre-Code Joan Crawford

Artist: George Hurrell
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, George Hurrell, glamour, hollywood, Joan Crawford, platinum blonde, portrait, pre-code
Added to Gallery: March 19, 2011

In a glamorous wide-brimmed hat, Joan Crawford displays the smoldering intense gaze that was to become her trademark in this image by the incomparable George Hurrell. This double weight gallery still is the personality portrait at its finest, on a high end double weight photostock, and never intended for public distribution. A pre-code form of glamorous sophistication the likes of with Hollywood rarely saw.

A Hatted Joan Crawford

Artist: George Hurrell
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, gelatin silver photograph, George Hurrell, glamour, hollywood, Joan Crawford, portrait, pre-code
Added to Gallery: March 19, 2011

In 1917, Theda Bara was the biggest draw for Fox studios, and a movie star whose popularity was surpassed only by Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford. In this photograph by Albert Witzel, hand colored and printed she is seen posed in an early iteration of her Cleopatra headdress, with flowing deep black hair. Inscribed to Tom Mix, the cowboy superstar, who in 1917 had just joined Bara as a headlining performer for Fox studios, this came from Mix's collection.

Theda Bara as Cleopatra

Artist: Albert Witzel
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, Albert Witzel, art deco, Cleopatra, egyptian, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, orientalist, portrait, Theda Bara, Twentieth Century Fox
Added to Gallery: January 11, 2011

A spectacularly alluring, inquisitive and beautiful view of Myrna Loy, captured in her pre-code early career by the master of Hollywood photography George Hurrell. In a gentle sepia on a large format double weight semi-gloss paperstock, Hurrell captures the beauty of the young Myrna Loy, with her effortless art deco style, and emboldened flapper sensibility. This is blindstamped by Hurrell lower right, and inkstamped on verso. This is a hand printed gallery portrait never intended for distribution, and is a moving rare portrait.

Myrna Loy

Artist: George Hurrell
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, gelatin silver photograph, George Hurrell, glamour, hollywood, Myrna Loy, portrait
Added to Gallery: September 12, 2010

Doris Niles was a premiere ballerina and concert dancer, known primarily for her Spanish-inspired pieces, and one of the shining beauties of the New York stage. Her flamboyant continental costume and dramatically posed stance in this portrait by Nikolas Muray, capture the dancer's unique and refined sensibility. Muray, one of the masters of the modern expressive style, chronicled the New York dance world in the art deco jazz age, and his expert eye is on display to fine effect in this seductive view.

Doris Niles

Artist: Nickolas Muray
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, ballerina, dance, Doris Niles, fine art, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, jazz age, new york city, Nikolas Muray, orientalist
Added to Gallery: August 11, 2010

Before her tenure as the reigning queen of Hollywood society, and her long-standing position as mistress of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies was among the most beautiful of Florence Ziegfeld's glorified American girls. Here, she is a delicate princess captured at the height of her beauty by Alfred Cheney Johnston, who had as much a part of creating the Follies reputation as Ziegfeld himself.

Follies Princess Marion Davies

Artist: Alfred Cheney Johnston
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, Alfred Cheney Johnston, american, art deco, flapper, follies, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, jazz age, Marion Davies, showgirl, theater, Ziegfeld Follies
Added to Gallery: August 8, 2010

An exquisitely posed, unusually delicate view of Myrna Loy, by Elmer Fryer, the Hollywood glamour photographer who had perhaps the best sense of modernist style and fashion. This unusual view features Loy in blonde wig in her role as Sophie the dancer in "Bride of the Regiment." An early view of the star, who would come to be known for her sassy wit and hard nosed sexuality in the Nick & Nora Thin Man series.

Myrna Loy in Bride of the Regiment

Artist: Elmer Fryer
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, classical, Elmer Fryer, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, harp, hollywood, Myrna Loy, orientalist, portrait
Added to Gallery: August 8, 2010

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