hands & smiles
pose
back-then: Swimsuit Competition 1920s strike a pose
New York dancer Miss Gilmore, wanted her portrait painted by the English painter McCutcheon, but not in an ordinary way, so she posed on the roof of a Theatre on […]
flying low & having a think
togetherness
strike a pose
strike a pose!
Here the world class athlete is not holding the pose but the brush. Seattle swimmer Helene Madison (June 19, 1913 – November 27, 1970) may actually be painting the joyful […]
Henri Matisse hard at work in his Villa d’Alesia studio, Paris, June, 1939
Colleen Moore poses for a portrait, by an unknown artist & year pretty as a picture!