Amateur Folk Art Porky the Pig Mask. Plaster of Paris circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman
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Amateur Folk Art Porky the Pig Mask. Plaster of Paris circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman
A Complicated 6 Figure Antique Whirligig Folk Art
An early 20th century piece, but as it had a rotating circle atop the figures and mechanism while it lived outside, the piece is in pretty good condition. Two sawing men and four hammering men work as the gears turn by the wind. It would require a good deal of repair to be put back in working order, but the effort which went into the making is much evident.
Six Figure Whirligig, early 20th Century. Collection Jim Linderman
Early African-American Beauty Pageant circa 1955? Original transparent Slide Collection Jim Linderman
A decade or more before the chant "Black is Beautiful" some history appears to be happening here.
While the promoters likely wish you didn't know it now, "Rule Number Seven" prevented women of color from participating in the Miss America contest until around 1970! The rule specified contestants had to be of the white race, although much earlier pageants had used them in dance numbers as slaves. During the nascent days of the 1970s women's movent, they had reasons to hate the show they didn't even know. That is, the show did not objectify women equally!
This pageant, on the west coast by an unidentified photographer certainly not only proves how wrong the Atlantic City promoters were, it seems to break serious ground. As I wrote in the book "Secret History of the Black Pinup" it was photographer Howard Morehead who organized the first black beauty pageant in Los Angeles in 1958. This slide could document one even earlier.
In 2002, PBS aired a documentary in The American Experience series reporting Black communities organized their own, and they did. This is a splendid example, and one I believe was not widely reported. Further study? Black Beauty Pageants. The documentary mentions a 1968 pageant, but not this one.
Let's hope some doctoral students pick up on this. Black History Month is on the way.
Collection Jim Linderman
Young Girl Tintype with Pine Tree Painted Backdrop Folk Art Primitive Painting and Portrait
A folk art portrait and painting in one! The book THE PAINTED BACKDROP explores the relationship between folk art limners and early photographic painted backdrops. Available now as a $5.99 Ebook download for iPad HERE
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The Birth of Rock and Roll Number 8 Jazz with Guitar, Trumpet and Clarinet Snapshot
The Birth of Rock and Roll Number 8 in the series.
Original Snapshot circa 1935 collection Jim Linderman Unidentified Musicians
Ventriloquist Hell Snapshot 1961 Collection Jim Linderman (and Free Preview of I'm With Dummy the Book)
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Polaroid Snapshot 1961 collection Jim Linderman
Polaroid Snapshot 1961 collection Jim Linderman
Winter Whirligig Folk Art Man
The fellow who guards my blueberry plants in Summer and Fall is having a BAD Winter.
Working Whirligig in Ice collection Jim Linderman
Success Boulevard Failure Avenue Happiness Lane and the Prosperity Inn Christmas 1937
Success Boulevard Failure Avenue Happiness Lane and the Prosperity Inn Christmas 1937
Christmas Card 1937 Collection Jim Linderman
Boydell Paint Salesman Sample Card
Early (and lovely) "paint chip" sample card for the Boydell Prepared Paint company. Boydell Paints were founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1865. Interestingly, the paints were here distributed by Crawford and Travis Druggists. Drug stores have come full circle...the Walgreen's not far from here tries to carry everything in addition to drugs.
Boydell Brothers Paint Salesman Sample Card. Circa 1900? Collection Jim Linderman
The Birth of Rock and Roll Number Seven in the Dull Tool Dim Bulb Series snapshot collection Jim Linderman
Last Night's Christmas Program in 1914
The Birth of Rock and Roll Number Six in the Dull Tool Dim Bulb Series Collection Jim Linderman
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Will Rogers Tiny House Photograph Collection Jim Linderman
Will Rogers Tiny House!
Will Rogers was born in 1879 and passed away in 1935.
The tiny house is mentioned in a 1942 newspaper article, so it existed then. I've seen another snapshot supposedly from 1939. The house (actually a sign) welcomed visitors to Dog Iron Ranch in Indian Territory Oklahoma. It replicates the house in which Will Rogers was born.
Mr. Rogers was one- fourth Cherokee Native American and his father was a Cherokee Judge. He dropped out of school in the tenth grade, and as a very young man, Will had already traveled to (and worked) in Argentina and South Africa. He was the first civilian to fly from coast to coast.
He was, of course and famously a Democrat, but in 1928 ran a mock campaign for the presidency on the "Anti-Bunk" ticket. He declared himself the winner, and resigned the same day.
The famous "I never met a man I didn't like" was a reference to Leon Trotsky.
While best known for his speaking voice, he made over 30 silent films.
A genuine hero. Wiki is HERE
Snapshot circa 1939 of the tiny Will Rogers house welcomes visitors to his hometown. Collection Jim Linderman.
The Birth of Rock and Roll number five in the Dull Tool Dim Bulb Series. Collection Jim Linderman
The High and Ho of Weegee Bernard Bailey High Magazine and Ho Magazine from Periodical House Publish Weegee's Poison Portraits
Bailey did have the good taste to either hire, or purchase, a considerable amount of Weegee's more experimental work. Distortions and treatments. They are titled "Poison Portraits" and Weegee's Weirdies" and they are that..
"In 1980 Weegee's widow, Wilma Wilcox, Sidney Kaplan, Aaron Rose and Larry Silver formed The Weegee Portfolio Incorporated to create an exclusive collection of photographic prints made from Weegee’s original negatives. As a bequest, Wilma Wilcox donated the entire Weegee archive - 16,000 photographs and 7,000 negatives to the International Center of Photography in New York. This 1993 gift became the source for several exhibitions and books include "Weegee's World" edited Miles Barth (1997) and "Unknown Weegee" edited by Cynthia Young (2006). The first and largest exhibition was the 329-image "Weegee's World: Life, Death and the Human Drama," brought forth in 1997. It was followed in 2002 by "Weegee's Trick Photography," a show of distorted or otherwise caricatured images, and four years later by "Unknown Weegee," a survey that emphasized his more benign, post-tabloid photographs. In 2012 ICP opened another Weegee exhibition titled, "Murder is my Business". Also in 2012, exhibition called "Weegee: The Naked City" opened at Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow"
Bailey's narrow magazines are bound well and not easily mashed onto my scanner…but let's take a look at some obscurities by Arthur Felig. Weegee's Weirdies is listed in the bibliography of his works HERE, but Weegee's Poison Portraits seems not to be, so here you go.
Bernard Bailey, editor and art director of High and Ho is a bit more obscure, but like many folks working in the golden age of smut, came from the comic book environment. I'll say it again...Kefauver was right. He was an artist who worked for both DC comics and Atlas, which eventually became Marvel. His bio is HERE.
Not much has been published about his connection with High and Ho. Interestingly, High turned into a normal sized magazine after the tall experiment, but it didn't last much longer. Both magazines are chock-full of now prominent artists, photographers and models. Bernard had good taste, if not business sense.
Photography Books by the author include The Birth of Rock and Roll, Take Me to the Water and In Situ American Folk Art in Place.
Photographs by Weegee / INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Somewhat Anatomically Correct Man on a String Folk Art Carving Articulated Limberjack
Somewhat Anatomically Correct Man on a String Folk Art Carving circa 1930
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The Birth of Rock and Roll Number 4 from Dull Tool Dim Bulb
Untitled Original Color Slide circa 1950 collection Jim Linderman
BIG Antique Folk Art Sculpture Articulated Figure of a Ballerina Puppet Collection Jim Linderman
Collection Jim Linderman
Al Mohler Rustic Painter of Slabs of Wood
Did you ever wonder the story behind those paintings on slices of wood which are essential for a rustic cabin in the woods? Brother to the saw paintings, and sister to the slate paintings for sale in Jackson Square, New Orleans? Here's the guy! It's AL MOHLER and his wooden slab paintings!
If you follow this blog (gosh…6 years now) you know I love to elevate the lesser to the greater. So let's look at the king of the knotty pine painters! He picked an unusual medium, but he used it half-a century and created a serious body of work.
A Minnesota master, like most folk art painters Al painted on anything, but the most familiar are the oval shaped pieces of pine. He would paint animals for the most part. The bigger the better, and the Al Mohler tribute site mentions a painting of a bear on a slab 39 inches across! THAT is a big slice of tree. He did small ones too, and the little one here shows the reverse. Look for the authentic Al Mohler studio stamp. His career lasted over 50 years.
There is a creepy, right wing evangelist named Albert Mohler spreading ignorant venom around the south currently…needless to say that ain't the guy. I am going to guess the Al Mohler we are interested in here was a wonderful man who loved everyone and brought considerable joy into the world with his paintings.
Mohler sold his paintings from the little studio with the big sign shown in my photo above! I am hoping the photo is worth more than his paintings, but I doubt it. They are collected, and it seems every one on ebay sells.
The go to guy for Al Mohler paintings is Kirk Schnitker who runs the Al Mohler Art site from which I took the lovely logo here. He will do appraisals, may from time to time have work for sale and is documenting the work. Check out his site HERE.
Original photograph of Al Mohler and his studio Collection Jim Linderman
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