![]() In late 1931, Louise and her husband, Bert Wilder, also an artist and sculptor, suffered the fate of many artists during the depression. “The Daily Times, A Clean Newsy Newspaper For the Home”, Beaver, PA. Being deaf I have learned to work without interruption.” My deafness has given me more chance more than most artists have for this concentration. One such article in The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) in December 1928, quotes her, “Artists, in addition to imagination and technical skill, need extreme concentration on their work. Following an article about her, as a deaf artist, in Time Magazine in September 1928, a number of articles about Louise were published in newspapers across the United States. She lost her hearing when she was a young girl. The artist who rendered this Pan version was a well-known sculptor of children from the sidewalks of New York during the 1920s, Louise Hibbard Wilder. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Kenneth Grahame’s Wind In The Willows. This was during a time when “there was an astonishing resurgence of interest in the Pan motif.” Patricia Merivale, author of Pan the Goat-God: His Myth in Modern Times, Harvard University Press, 1969, lists works, from the 1890s to 1926, of poetry, novels, children’s books where Pan is part of the narrative, not the least of those being J.M. These particular bookends are probably from the 1920s. Pan was a proper Greek God of nature, shepherds, fertility, sexuality and music, satyrs were similar in looks and activities, but less than Gods, and fauns were later Roman versions, eventually combining them into a single entity. These are ugly, libidinous creatures when grown. It is a juvenile Pan, satyr or faun – part human, part goat. This bookend figure is a child, but It has the hairy hoofed legs of a goat, tall pointed ears, a small tail, the beginnings of horns on its forehead and it is playing two flutes. Inscribed with the name of the listed artist Louise Wilder (1898-?), twentieth century, foundry unknown. With a little searching one can find bookends of knights that bear the signature or mark of a known artist or sculptor such as Gregory Seymour Allen or John J. Bookends of knights were fashioned in many types of metal, as well as other materials such as clay. The long-lived popularity of knights in the media: literature, movies and Sunday comics (remember Prince Valiant) is reflected in the large number of decorative bookends of knights to be found in antique and vintage markets. People knew that knights had fought in the Holy Land during the crusades. There was King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the search for the Holy Grail. Everyone must have known about knights then, as they do today. Later on, the movies of the 1920s and 30s made knights a popular theme. ![]() Even Mark Twain employed a knight as the central character in A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT. ![]() Like today’s digitally-based adventure stories where knights and medieval times are often featured, the adventure literature of the late 1800s and early 1900s were rampant with tales of gallant knights. They were prized as reflections of the Arts and Crafts ethos popularized by William Morris and Elbert Hubbard and for their romantic adventures. Knights in armor were a popular subject for bookends in the early twentieth century. So the luxurious Art Deco style faced pressure from the modern design movements in other countries and from the changes that were taking place in society like World War I & II, the 1930 Crash and the Depression Through the evolution of Art Deco design we can witness how the world was changing…Īrtdecoshopping.Sir Galahad. From the early French designers in 1909 creating exclusive and expensive designs for a wealthy clientele into the Modern era with functional designs like household equipment and cheaper furniture made with tubular steel, it al ended up as Art Deco. ![]() A lot of elements of the style lingered well into the 1940s and 1950s. Today, the subscription is covering a complex of trends in the decorative arts, in general roughly between 19. Art Deco is derived from the Parisian Exposition in 1925 or Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes. The term “ART DECO” only came into popular usage during the late sixties.
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