—Theda Bara (b. Theodosia Burr Goodman 1885 – 1955)
Dutch painter, Utrecht school (b. 1597/98, d. 1671)
“Young Girl Holding a Letter”
Oil on panel, 56 x 45 cm
“Minuet”
Photogravure on Japanese paper
1910
Luxembourg
1944
© Lee Miller Archives England 2015. All Rights Reserved
Pond Lily-Lampe | Pont Lily-lamp
New York, 1900, execution around 1910
Favrile glass, Bronze
57 cm
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
© Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
― Mary Pickford, (b. Gladys Louise Smith 1892 – 1979)
“Woman in Blue Reading a Letter”
1663-64
Oil on canvas, 46,6 x 39,1 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Lee Miller in Hitler’s Bathtub, Munich, Germany
1945
© Lee Miller Archives England 2015. All Rights Reserved
Haarkamm | Hair comb
1898-1899
Horn, gold, enamel
15.5 cm
Designmuseum Danmark, Kopenhagen
Photo: Pernille Klemp
—Audrey Hepburn (b. Audrey Kathleen Ruston, 1929 – 1993)
“Woman Writing a Letter”
1655
oil on wood
38 x 29 cm
SS Guard in Canal, Dachau, Germany
1945
© Lee Miller Archives England 2015. All Rights Reserved
Given Audrey Hepburn’s birthname, I was positive I remembered the Heemstra name, so I looked it up. Yep: her mother was the Heemstra. Audrey rebelled against her parents. While that may not be surprising given the cliche about child rebellion, this gives some more information about the extent of that rebellion: http://www.biography.com/news/audrey-hepburn-facts-biography
T-birds, Audrey Hepburn, Lee Miller photos, Hedy Lamar, and plenty of paintings with women and letters. You’ve done it again, Robert!
I love the T-bird design (although I am not old enough to remember their debut, for I was a child of ’61). The dagmar-ish bumpers (might Dagmar be a subject of a future Friday Photos edition?). The fins on the ’57 (kudos to Bill for noticing). The ’56 also introduced the portal-style window and the external spare tire mounting. The spare moved back into the trunk on the ’57. The ’57 also featured a different front bumper which “split around” (or maybe “dipped below”) the grille.
The “Red and Blue Chair” is aesthetically appealing, but looks (as pkoning noted) terribly uncomfortable (i.e. — great form design, poor functionality).
I wonder what happened to the SS Guard from Dachau… but I can guess!
I like your footwear photo, but I must confess I miss the saddle shoes.
Maayan Ariel has a delightful smile in this photo. Plus she appears to be a “dog person” so she’s obviously destined for great things!
Have a wonderful Sabbath, my friend.
The Tiffany lamp is a lesson in design and functionality — a treasure.
Beautiful pictures Robert. And beautiful quotes. A small correction – Annette’s T-Bird is a 1957 – note the fins (compared to Clark Gable’s or Sinatra’s).
You and I are the same age; I remember then that T-Bird hit the market what an impact that had.
My mother had a friend who lived in the hills somewhere – we came to visit her and she showed us her new yellow 56 T Bird. (the 56 looked like the 55 in most things – but the chief difference is the vent on the side – after ’55 they noticed that engine tended to cook the legs of the inhabitants)
“Want a ride?” she asked us… Even at 6 years old I was a burgeoning gearhead.
To this day I can remember the 3 of us, me sitting on the transmission hump, cruising down Sunset Blvd at night with the lights in that T-Bird. That was cool.
What a memory.
What quotes. Particularly from Audrey. Can’t imagine what anyone would object to about her – I have heard nothing but nice things remembered – but we all have had transgressions against others – some minor and some major.
It has only been lately that I have come to realize that for many of us it is harder to forgive ourselves for things we have done to others than to forgive others for things they have done to us.
Bill:
Thanks so much for correcting the Funicello Thunderbird year. I can always count on your sharp eye.
She was probably enjoying her new-found lucre from being a Mouseketeer Robert 🙂
Those 2 pictures from WW2 – particularly the one of the boy from Louxembourg – sure nailed the times.
Maayan Ariel is sure photogenic!
My wife and I were discussing T-birds as we scrolled through the photos. She said she had a 55 with a “porthole” and the continental spare tire mount. You pointed out that it was the 56 so another correction. I had a girlfriend with a 57 and she was trying to one up me.
Nice collection, as always.
That Rietveld chair took me back to my youth. My father built a replica of that chair (same color scheme). It was incredibly uncomfortable. For the most part it sat around the house looking like an art object; I don’t think it was used as a chair for more than an hour per year, if that.
That sculptor’s name is odd. It looks Icelandic except for the suffix. Google turns up an article in the Icelandic Wikipedia that (I think) says her original name was Jónína Sæmundsdóttir — which follows the standard Icelandic patronymic form.
The Rietveld chair is definitely not for sitting.
Thanks for that Theda Bara, picture, Robert. Someday I’ll finish my next novel about her!
I adore that Frank Eugene “Minuet.” There’s a wonderfully intriguing spookiness about it: who is she? What is she doing? What’s going on? You want to reach out and touch her shoulder, but are afraid of what could happen.
Looking forward to your next Bara book.
I also love the Eugene photo. Apparently it’s printed on tissue-thin paper which gives it a very specific texture that adds to its mystery.
Darnit Robert,
You’ve got me hooked. Every Friday I feel like the dog in the commercial………Baaacon, gimmeee, gimmee, gimmee, bacon!!!!
Bacon, on a kosher blog?:-)
Glad you enjoy the photos as much as we enjoy searching for and posting them.
“Bacon, on a kosher blog?:-)”
Well I forgot about that one. I must be forgiven as I am still working on the tail wagging thing (It’s not that easy to do).
Ok the commercial jingle would be lost, but you *could* say BEEF FRY! Gimme da BEEF FRY.
Seriously, beef fry is really tasty, and cooking scrambled eggs in the same pan after frying some up is a special lunch/dinner treat! I also put some in my hamin/cholent instead of schmaltz.
(I found duck fry today, its going in my extra special burger recipe to use up the hamburger buns before Pesach).
Love these photos. Maayan has a puppy!! They both look very happy with life!