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Back to School Drawings. Students from the 1950s draw the Family at Dinner collection Jim Linderman

Well, the assignment is "My Family at Dinner" and the paper is manilla. I like to think of these drawings as being on the cusp of perspective. Being only an amateur scholar of children's art, I can't evaluate these much, but it appears ta few of the artists might need a bit of attention. C. 1950 Children's drawings from a classroom, ages up to 11 years old. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

I'm Not at the Outsider Art Fair Paris 2019 Edition post Anonymous Drawings of Startled 1950s Women








A surprising group of drawings by an anonymous west coast shut-in at this point known only as Ms. Daisy.  Each is 9" x 12" and there are hundreds. Each drawing has the date created on the reverse and most have a weather report!  (Cloudy today, sunny and hot, smog, etc…)  She lived into her 90s, and while institutionalized drew one every few days from 1952 until tapering off in the 1960s.

I have never had such a large group of work consecutively dated. The artist's work improves a bit over the years, but each retains this rather stark, naive singular look. One note in the reverse indicates "there is a convention on television so we can't watch our programs" leading me to guess these are an assortment of entertainers, soup opera stars and models of the 1950s.  Another note reveals workers are "removing the trees across the road." Only a few are identified by name but many could be identified.

I cannot say if the artist had training, or if the results were produced through practice. There are no duplicates.  Hundreds of 1950s women, each which reflect the times and the persistence of the artist. The overall effect of a dozen lined up is wonderful.

I will scan a few more soon. 

Six anonymous (Ms. Daisy?) Drawings of women 1957 - 1958.  Collection Jim Linderman

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Lingerie Show (with hat) 1959




I don't really know how enthused the fashion editors are, but this is a wonderful pair of snapshots.  I guess one could say a ritual seldom seen?

Anonymous "Lingerie Show" 1959 Collection Jim Linderman

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Confetti on the Floor Salesman Samples for the Basement Retro and Modern at the Same Time!








When I was a lad, one of these was the entire basement floor…I scuffed them up playing ping-pong down there.  Retro madness confetti floors of asbestos from the Matico Company and their line of "Aristoflex" floors.

I am a big fan of paint chips and floor samples.  For one thing, they are the only thing free at your local Home Depot.  They are also fantastic for art projects, and they look great on the shelf.  Unfortunately, you can not get the asbestos ones anymore…but I guess that is a good thing.


Group of Salesman Sample Flooring tiles Matico 1957  Collection Jim Linderman

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Sparks Withington Says Suck on THIS Deluxe Tube Television!


Screw your flat screens, man.  Here is a tube you can enjoy without even turning on what passes for news and entertainment today.  NO wonder they call it part of the designer series.  It has a record changer and a radio as well.  Fake flowers and what seems to be a fake Buddah extra.

It appears Sparton was a Sparks Withingon manufacturer in Jackson, Michigan.  Founded in 1926 as a radio company, they were one of those who spent more on the box than the guts.  Like the reputation Magnavox used to have among audio purists (who, back then, were called "Hi-Fi Guys" and spent their time pouring over Lafayette parts catalogs.  I think Lafayette was absorbed into Radio Shack, who is trying to rebrand as the hip "SHACK" but it won't work.  They'll all close up too.  Who wants to go to "The Shack" when you can sit on your increasingly wide rear and order online?

Anyway, This box rocks.  They produced until around 1956, about when this beauty was made.  It was so good it put them out of business. 

Sparton Three-Way Imperial TV Chassis postcard Collection Jim Linderman.

DELUXE!

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Real Cowgirls Vintage Photographs collection Jim Linderman






Cowgirl Costumes collection, circa 1950 - 1960 Jim Linderman

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The Tawdry Origins of Glamour Photography Proto Porn the Book





During the 1950s, under the ruse of "Art Studies" and "Figure Studies" businessman skirted the law publishing hundreds of digest-sized primitive camera art photographs of nearly nude women. Seldom dated, by somewhat disreputable publishers, the digests featured burlesque dancers and models such as Bettie Page in makeshift studios, and were among the first books to challenge censorship and the conventions of the times as it related to photographs of the female form. The tawdry origins of Glamour Photography! The booklets are today scarce and seldom seen. Dubbed Proto-Porn, over 100 have been collected in book form by the first time by Jim Linderman. Proto-Porn details the publishers and addresses the conflicting notions of art and nudity of the Eisenhower years. Colorful, disreputable and quasi-legal, the books nonetheless pre-date modern-day fashion and nude photography. Tame by any standard today, the books have not been shown in over 50 years, and never before collected in a book.

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Elephant Train !

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It's Dumbo...or Jumbo, or Horton, or Babar...what do I know.  All I can guess is that the train is leaving in FIVE MINUTES and you better get on board.


Original Snapshot 1959  Collection Jim Linderman