200th post

This blog has spun out in some unexpected directions, with many more unidentified (or vernacular) subjects than I thought at the start. 

For some identified sitters, I would suggest the Academy Founders link. I have written or posted a lot — more than a quarter of the entries to date — on Athletic Model Guild subjects; the Broadway link will lead to a variety of posts, as will Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

Unidentified accounts for about 20% of the entries, for what that’s worth. As for the rest, there are dozens of single mentions of sitters (from Adele Astaire to Yves Grangeat), at least some of whom I hope to treat further in the future. 

A deeper dive into John S. Barrington

Bill David

As so often with Barrington, some of these prints look second generation (or more), but then are stamped as if originals. Some of the more distressed are also the more beautiful. 

Andrea Georgiu. This one is stamped Paignton Publishing Co. on the border.

Yves Grangeat

Guy

Vic Haywood 

and Roy Scammell

Manu Leonardis

Tibor Noszkay 

Helmut Riedmeier